Although nowadays we have the recent technologies that allow people to become stars in a second, these technologies can destroy the reputation of famous people and impact them adversely. Some people might think that it is easy to become influential and famous today due to the emergence of social media and the fast spread of information. Nevertheless, it is essential to emphasize that bloggers’ and media persons’ success is superficial and does not reflect what they have done to become famous and how long it took. Looking at someone popular on YouTube and in The Voice, people do not consider the time and effort a person puts into getting attention and catapult to “stars” because of the rapid speed of changes and new trends evolving.
“Struggles” that famous artists faced previously, such as suffering from mental illness, depression, and drug addiction, exist nowadays and did not disappear, but they also have evolved with time. I would disagree that today’s artists, entertainers, and writers have fewer struggles than other public figures in the past had. For instance, we still observe that famous people suffer from drug addiction or are involved in gang violence and become victims of this way of life, such as rappers Mac Miller, Lil Peep, XXXTentacion.
Moreover, with the appearance of online platforms, famous people faced struggles that are transformed and influential. For example, cyberbullying, online abuse, backlashes are among significant problems that artists, such as Selena Gomez, Ed Sheeran, Demi Lovato, confronted. Sometimes, this online bullying has led to mental issues of celebrities and the commitment of suicides. Thus, it is a controversial statement that nowadays, famous people have only a few struggles; instead, these struggles changed and became different but did not vanish.