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because its a way to manufacture relatability for celebrity-commodities
"oh look, hot things hurt them, just like me" ????
really??????
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you know what else hurts them? bullets and assault and thorough denigration, just like every-fuckin-body else
it is incomprehensible to me that this is a thing
how do celebrities feel about paper cuts?!?! check out my new YouTube show to find out
people don't watch celebrities for intellectual reasons as your comment would seem to expect. Its for the spectacle / parasocial relations / interpassivity. To marx, the substitution of actual social life with the commodity. As such, the value of the commodity is the illusion of realness, and yes seeing them in pain does enhance this via our brains wiring toward empathy.
being autistic, other people do often watch things for reasons that make little sense to me, it's true
The idea is that as the guest becomes more distracted by the spiciness they become more authentic because they're too distracted to put up their masks