What’s the minimum level of fame needed to avoid being publicly shamed? I mean, lately I see a lot of artists doing questionable or downright bad/illegal things, and yet they still have a horde of fans defending them tooth and nail. So it makes me wonder, how many fans do you really need to have that level of security? To know you have a fanbase that will always be there no matter what? Maybe 10 fans aren’t enough, or even 500… what’s the minimum?
What’s the minimum amount of fame to be famous?
Getting “cancelled” just means the celebrity got less popular.
If they cross the threshold and go back to “not famous” and can’t work at the same level in their field, then that wasn’t the minimum amount of fame.
If they become less popular but still “famous” enough to earn money in their profession, then they had enough fame…
It’s less amount the amount of fans but the amount of Stans that will never stop being fans. It’s two different things, and usually comes up when artists/performers have young fans without fully developed brains.
Exactly, it’s only cancelled if they’ve been made commercially nonviable - and in a corporate/political landscape that is openly fascistic, that is a much blurrier line. Like when Ben Kissel got taken off Last Podcast, he has been pretty much fully cancelled. Full stop, career over. I just wish it was always so cut and dried.