Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.) — Microcelebrity Around the Globe: Approaches to Cultures of Internet Fame
39 published claims from this book.
- A celebrity’s popularity can determine whether a platform survives
- A corporation created and operates a fake Instagram influencer to sell brands.
- A following around 10,000 unlocked access to closed influencer circles
- A globally-marketed app flattens local music markets into Western playlists
- A musical genre’s distribution infrastructure shapes whether it stays hyperlocal or goes global
- A shirtless-beach-photo genre functions as a national gendered brand
- A Thai university offered free tuition to influencers willing to promote it
- A viral venting post can transform a user into an intentional activist microcelebrity
- A woman’s online fame ended in honor murder by her own brother
- An influencer industry standardized amateur microcelebrity into marketable tropes.
- Attention operates as an addictive wealth of increasing returns
- Blogshop owners coined euphemistic terms like preloved to revalue used clothing
- Broadcasting an unmarried girl’s bedroom violated Pakistani television taboos
- Chinese real-name registration spawned platform-verified ‘Big V’ opinion celebrities
- Early founders of online fame research helped create a confusing field
- English tracks dominate partly because bilingual kids follow English-speaking celebrity musers
- Ephemeral stories let influencers sustain audience attention cheaply
- Facebook replaced flowing multiple selves with a single mandatory real identity
- Fake influencers’ manufactured existential crises borrow sci-fi android tropes as a marketing strategy.
- Influencers’ online personae are exaggerated selves, not inventions
- Logistics-driven parcel pickups organically grew into early fan meetups
- Only the film industry holds an invisible license to commodify Pakistani female bodies
- Pakistani actresses hid stigmatized origins behind Hindu stage names to survive moral scrutiny
- Papi Jiang’s fame rests on perceived independence from management
- Peer microcelebrity status creates group leadership in offline recording sessions
- Performing sexual availability can multiply rather than restrict celebrity reach
- Platform rules recondition authenticity, sociality, and acceptance into branded terms
- Recognition-seeking predates Instagram; what changed is the public digital-real-estate version
- Religious clerics function as television celebrities in Pakistani media
- Scholarly networks create echo chambers that sideline marginal knowledge
- Selling sex can be reframed through purity iconography to escape prostitute stigma
- Small wanghong can value craft over fame and wealth
- Social network platforms are engineered to brand everyday users for advertisers
- Teen girls’ professed privacy concerns actually mask reputational face-management
- Three measured factors, reach, networks, and endorsement, distinguish influencers from microcelebrities
- Users delete videos once backing songs fall out of trend
- Virtual influencers force microcelebrity to be redefined as practice rather than identity.
- YouTube search algorithms force beauty vloggers to change how they speak.
- YouTube’s auto-captioning serves 10 Northern languages, excluding billions of speakers