why do you keep begging rich people to care!!!
on asking celebs and influencers to give "a statement"
hi. quick housekeeping before we begin:
from now on, bitch, i’m booked and conversations with bitchelle are merging into one single newsletter. not because i’m famous. not because i have a million readers (though wouldn’t that be cute?). but because, to me, books and pop culture go hand in hand. so we’re doing it all here. books. news. beauty. the whole damn thing. thank you in advance for supporting this change!
every time there’s a headline—even a whisper of conflict or crisis—there you are. in the comments. in the DMs. in the quote tweets. begging your favorite celebrity to speak up. to post. to take a stand. to “make a statement.”
babes… why? what do you think they’re going to say?
these are people who haven’t read a news article since 2016. they are not tapped in. they are not educated on foreign policy. they are not staying up at night watching press conferences or reading historical timelines.
(neither am i, as a matter of fact.)
they’re in a mansion in calabasas choosing between green juice or tequila. they do not care. they don’t have to.
this isn’t a call-out to celebrities. it’s a call-out to you. the delusion of thinking someone whose full-time job is filming get-ready-with-me videos from a gifted PR bathroom is going to offer a nuanced stance on global conflict. please.
you want a perfect example? daphne from white lotus, saying she and her husband don’t watch the news anymore because it’s just too depressing. that’s it. that’s most of hollywood. and yet we’re still refreshing instagram stories to see if our fave pop star posted a black square or a flag or a barely-legible paragraph in notes app font.
they’re not here to educate you. they’re here to sell you lip gloss.
do you think taylor swift is thinking about the iranian strikes on israel?
do you think alix earle is losing sleep over immigration policy?
do you think kylie jenner is about to show up at the protests in downtown LA?
nooooo baby. they’re getting lymphatic drainage and reposting birthday tributes.
these people are not reading the news. they’re not reading history books. they’re barely reading captions. they live in a curated world where the biggest stress is a bad lighting setup for their skincare tutorial.
and yet you keep begging for “a statement.” a vague, both-sides-flavored nothing-burger of a post meant to pacify people for five seconds. it’s exhausting. it’s embarrassing. and it proves how deep the parasocial delusion runs.
celebrities are not activists. they’re not political analysts. they’re not your moral compass. they are entertainers with teams of publicists whose job is to protect the brand—not to align with your beliefs.
and the sooner we accept that, the sooner we can stop expecting meaningful discourse from people who haven’t faced a real-world consequence in over a decade.
they’re not going to care. they were never supposed to.
personally, i think asking celebs to give their opinions on geopolitical matters makes you sound uneducated. goodbye! see u soon for a book rec 😉