if you look at the pictures of me and jimin it's we're identical
no it's true it's true celebrity worship syndrome is defined as an obsessive addictive
disorder where an individual becomes overly involved and interested with the details of the
personal life of a celebrity mark d griffiths phd and author of celebrity worship syndrome
a brief psychological overview according to the article any public figure can be subject
to such obsession but it is usually relegated to actors on tv and film and pop stars and this
documentary seeks to explore the disorder at its very extremes the term celebrity warship
syndrome was first coined by lynn mccutchen and her research colleagues in the early 2000s
of course examples of the type of behavior that would constitute such a disorder have been alive
and well in hollywood forever in the form of stalking and harassment one could even argue
that certain outlets of the media who certainly have far more important things to cover could be
collectively stricken with the disease and have it be disguised by the phrase entertainment news
how else would one describe such an obsession with people who just happen to be famous
now allow me to psychoanalyze myself this whole channel is about my infallible ability to recite
pop culture facts based on my latent knowledge of the subject matter this juxtaposed with my
curiosity as a developing filmmaker would make me seem quite obsessed with each new upload
so what are the symptoms and where would i fall the continuum of celebrity worship goes as follows
entertainment social intense personal and borderline pathological people stricken
with this disease often have low self-image and are prone to higher levels of illness
stress anxiety depression and dissociation and fantasy proneness now luckily i don't really
see myself with these symptoms but where am i on the continuum entertainment social suggests that
one may enjoy entertainment on a purely social level and may not be that obsessive whatsoever
and i'm sure this youtube channel falls into that would you be able to tell just by looking at a fan
if they had it luckily unlike the psychology of fame there is no anonymity in the intentional or
unintentional invitation to psychoanalyze people via their actions alone there are clearly people
who have a more personal hold on their favorite stars than others let's explore let's look at just
chic her whole personality has been informed by ariana grande down to voice mannerisms and
of course her look this false persona is clearly indicative of something that seems more than just
like when comedians or any other type of artist intentionally impersonate or appropriate the
imagery of a star to pay homage there's something very delusional about her clear misunderstandings
or possibly even denial that we can all see who she wants to be could a striking resemblance be
just that at least tick-tock star paige nieman admits that she purposely looks like ariana and
is not hiding her amazingly uncanny resemblance to start by asking are you sure that you're not
ariana grande yeah you're positive yes when did you first realize that you could sort of
transfelf to be ari because this i mean this is amazing i like started like doing it like for fun
and then now it's like kind of just something i do regularly when you say regularly how many times a
week almost every day i like ariana grande ayana grande ariana grande ariana grande ariana grande
ariana grande ariana grande is aware of you which is amazing she actually tweeted i want to read it
to you i just wonder why the cat voice slash dialogue i am sure she is the sweetest sweet
sweetheart for real but it's definitely bizarre seeing people blend the two worlds what did you
feel like when you saw that tweet acknowledging your tik-tok videos i was so shocked like that
she noticed me she's like really nice and i kind of thought it was cool she noticed me yeah
did she slide into the dms yeah what did she say she said i'm flattered she just wanted to
let me know that i'm beautiful in my own way and i said thank you some people who may not
be able to just affect their natural likeness to the celebrities that they admire will spend
thousands of dollars on plastic surgery to look like them meet adam daniel the man donna of
celebrity worship syndrome all the money that's been given to me in my life to look like madonna
bogan is a vocation for adam daniel the 31 year old is one of the most committed madonna
impersonators in the world and has spent seventy five thousand dollars on surgery to look more like
his idol she's such a powerful character she's such an iconic character she's a [ __ ] she's a
queen she's an image of perfection but as well as the financial cost his success has come between
him and his mother i have tried numerous times to get him to stop performing stop living for
the applause find a real job adam's decisions are obstructed by his addiction to madonna
for so many reasons i can't stand madonna it's war with her and i madonna you can go screw yourself
however he is not the only one several people dress up as an impersonate music legends and
always have for decades but few have gone as far as to reconstruct their faces at least
daniel looks somewhat similar to madonna ollie london however absolutely failed at imitating
k-pop star jimin and his unique look he spent well over a hundred thousand dollars just to
look like kristen wiig what a shame psychiatrist john maltby conducted a study of 3 000 people in
the uk and revealed in a bbc interview that only around 1 display obsessive tendencies
the 10 percent who tended to be neurotic tense and moody displayed an intense interest in celebrities
14 said they would make a special effort to read about or engage with other people to talk about
their favorite celebrity the other 75 percent did not take any interest in celebrities lives i was
not one of those three thousand but would i sit down and talk about marilyn monroe madonna michael
jackson or any other major players of pop culture whose grand strokes of fame inspired this channel
yes but within the context of pop culture and in a journalistic way am i neurotic what creative
isn't am i moody if you saw how many takes i did at my last documentary you would be moody for me
let me book a zoom appointment with a shrink just to be safe what happens when obsessiveness gets
dangerous too close and too real what happens when a famous person's life goes from a fairy
tale to the bodyguard to the point where not even their own bodyguards can really protect
them from being single white female here's new york apartment just last april but now he is
back in a courtroom facing very similar charges this morning pop superstar taylor swift is
trying to shake off a feeling she knows all too well after an alleged stalker was arrested for
breaking into her manhattan apartment for the third time in less than two years private house
the alarm going off about five minutes police say roger alvarado climbed a ladder and used a brick
to break through the second floor patio door of her new york city home around 2 20 thursday
morning and then attempted to remove property from inside the 23 year old appearing in court
overnight charged with stalking burglary felony criminal contempt for violating the
order of protection criminal mischief and two counts of possession of burglary tools
alvarado was arrested after breaking into the same apartment last april taking a shower and napping
in a bed he was sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to complete a mental health program
two months earlier he was arrested after busting the front door of the residents with a shovel
we know that fame is a dangerous game even still someone wants to be the object of that
obsessive type of adoration known as celebrity and when fame kills in my next documentary i'll
be discussing hollywood's most famous celebrity murders docu subscribe to join the universe
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