In the wise words of Grand Master Yoda from Star Wars, “Do or do not. There is no try.” Okay, this has never made any sense, even after so many years. It’s sage advice. Anyway, we’re here because of the annoying amount of entitled famous people, regardless of whether they’re royalty, influencers, sports stars, or legit celebrities, who believe they should be exempt from criticism in the media. This also applies to their supporters who think criticism shouldn’t exist.
Anyone who has followed Project Fangirl for a while knows that we’re outspoken regarding famous rogue people. We call out a particular pair of royals all the time. We’ve also called out influencers for their rowdy behaviour. The same goes for celebrities, which we should be doing more of. Anyway, onto the main reason we’re here.
We’ve said it before, this whole “I’m famous, so I should be exempt” doesn’t escape people’s notice the way the rich think it does. They believe us regular folk are uneducated and dense. Sorry to break it to you, but we’re not. Most of us believe in facts.
When Influencers Think They’re Exempt From Flipping Off The Media
n the early days of Project Fangirl, we reported on the College Admissions Scandal, which saw many wealthy parents get arrested for paying Ivy League colleges to get their privileged children in by having their SAT scores changed or by having them fake sporting scholarship qualifications.
The poster child of the scandal was Olivia Jade, the daughter of actress Lori Loughlin. She and her older sister, Isabella, were caught up in the whole situation when it was discovered their mother and father, Mossimo Giannulli, the founder of the Mossimo fashion label, had paid half a million dollars to get them into USC.
While Bella was caught up in it, her sister became public enemy number one. Students at USC spoke up. As did students from other Ivy League schools who had to work hard. Olivia kept putting her foot in it by posting this photo:
Yeah, she deleted the photo, but it was long enough for the media to pick up on it.
Since the scandal, Olivia has returned to social media and her YouTube channel, where she lost followers. However, it wasn’t enough for her reputation to be destroyed. Unfortunately, though, we don’t believe her rep has recovered from Operation: Varsity Blues, as her estimated salary is much lower than it was.
When she spoke out on the Red Table Talk, Adrienne Banfield-Norris wasn’t happy that a caucasian girl was using black women to get back in the good graces of the public.
Olivia said she understood why Adrienne felt the way she did. But, in a nutshell, she believed that she was entitled not to be criticised because of her social media following and that her parents were famous, hence being exempt.
Sure, Let’s Blame Social Media For Our Shortcomings
Oh, yes. The Sussexes. Harry and Meghan Markle. Notice we didn’t call H a ‘Prince’ as he does not deserve to be referred to. Anyway, these two are well-known for their apparent dislike of social media. However, they have had burner or secret accounts. We know that Harry had a personal Facebook account and an Instagram account while he was dating Meghan.
We know this because the couple’s mouthpiece, Omid Scobie, put the information in the hagiography, Finding Freedom. Also, Meghan was revealed to have ghostwritten the book, as it was discovered officially in the court. The back page says that Scobie and Carolyn Durand spoke with the couple indirectly, despite the Sussexes claiming otherwise. Here’s the proof:
Note the above image. It’s a screenshot from the Apple ebook edition of Finding Freedom which Twitter user Baroness Bruck posted in September 2020. We found it in a Google Image search. The highlighted part is what has had people scratching their heads. It clearly says “… and, when appropriate, the couple themselves.” That indicates that they were spoken to about the book. Meghan had to admit to when she was backed into a corner during the court hearing about the “private” letter to her father.
So, the Sussexes love blaming social media for just about everything. We mentioned in a post a little while back that Harry was psychic if he predicted the January 6th, 2021 insurrections. He claimed to have emailed the then-CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. How could he have known this when he hates social media and isn’t on it? He believes he is exempt from criticism of his views because of “who he is.” Also, there’s a reason hashtags trend.
I’m A Sports Icon In My Home Country, So That I Can Lie To Get Into Another
Australia is facing backlash from Serbia after they kicked tennis star Novak Djokovic out of the country for lying on his visa application. This goes hand in hand with him being unvaccinated. While it is not our job to tell people to get the vax as it is a personal choice, the issue a load of people have with the Djokovic situation is how he lied so that he could defend his Australian Open title. Of course, there will be some pissed-off people who support him who aren’t his family. This is one of those incidents of whether celebrities should be exempt from quarantine or not.
However, how would they like it if a regular person went to their country and refused to follow their rules? It’s double standards at its finest. There is another example of this. When the virus ran crazily around the world before the vaccines came out, the Queensland government got in hot water with the general public because they were allowing sportspeople and their families into the state but not everyday people who had dying relatives and friends.
The sportspeople were allowed into the state because they were giving the government money by playing their chosen sport. If it were pre-COVID, no one would care. However, this shows how much the government, regardless of state or territory, cares only for money and not the citizens living within them. Without us ordinary people, they wouldn’t be getting money in the first place.
