What’s your celebrity gossip pet peeve?

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People who stumble upon this sub and comment “who cares??” I feel like the name of this sub is a pretty accurate self-description so if you aren’t interested in celebrity gossip you should be pretty aware that it’s not the sub for you.

And most of those commenters constantly post in sports and video games subs… like are my interests less valid than yours because they’re female-coded?

When people take blind items as fact

Calling every weird relationship PR 🤣

Also, unpopular opinions which are very popular

When people have decided to hate a celebrity - often for a legitimate cause - but then goose up and exaggerate all of the reasons why. If your reasons are legit, then you don't need to fudge the truth about every detail to make them sound worse.

I hate when people quote some arbitrary unsubstantiated rumor as though it's a fact.

Also I think it's gross when people speculate about which celebrities are closeted.

This one is soooo small but when fans ask “why do all interviewers always ask this celeb the same questions???” Well tbh babes most people don’t read/watch every single interview with a celeb like you do lmao so normal people are only gonna hear this answer once or twice during this press run.

When this subreddit particularly posts female celebrities pictures with no other caption than “Thoughts,” clearly posted with the intention of negatively commenting on their physical appearances — physical appearances that are usually the byproduct of poor health issues.

That you have to be “Team X” or “Team Y” and you can possibly find two people to both be good or both be terrible, one always has to be good and the other bad.

Oh it’s definitely when people do not read past the headline. Like if you’re gonna make a comment on the situation, read the article bcuz you know headlines are misleading asl!

I absolutely am okay with criticism and calling out people who have done horrible things, especially if they are continuing that behavior.

However, I feel like sometimes a little nuance is warranted? People can grow and change, and not every apology is fake. Idk. I feel like if we cut out every friend who’s ever done something wrong, we would have no friends left. Idk. As someone with OCD that focuses on morality, I guess this sub just makes me anxious sometimes, haha. But maybe that’s more of a me problem.

But don’t misinterpret this either- I am not referring to anyone specific. And while I do hope that people like Chris Brown, for example, may change, some actions are too much to ever get your platform back.

Expecting others to immediately pick a side in any celeb conflict or immediately jump on the bandwagon of guilty/not guilty when someone has been accused of something:

1. Sometimes people didn't actually do/say the thing someone accuses them of and your burden of proof might be different than mine and that's okay when the evidence isn't obvious

2. Not everyone is habitually online and up to date with the very latest about someone or is a casual fan and so doesn't know about a development from an hour ago

3. Some people just don't care or need time to process what is happening or think it's none of their business if it's something private (like cheating or a personal fight) or something that doesn't affect others.

Fans branding a relationship PR especially if they don’t like the the couple.

People assuming Backgrid=planned pap walk.

It’s a catalogue for paparazzi pics. Some probably are planned but the majority are just paparazzi stalking celebs as usual. Especially when the celebs aren’t camera ready.

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People who comment like they actually know the person “Ed would NEVER do that”, “Taylor LOVES her fans”, “Kim HATES it when people xxx”

A lot of people act like they’d have been freedom fighters, abolitionists, suffragettes going against the norm. The truth is most of us (and it’s on display here very often) would be apart of a mob of outrage. A lot of y’alls parents vote for rapists and racists and you have yet to call them out but you wanna be mad online about a celebrity in the same situation as you.

That bisexuality and pansexuality exist and it’s entirely possible for a man to BE ONE OF THESE THINGS. I’m so sick of every man being accused of being in the closet when there are any rumors about his sexuality. Sure, some are. Of course. But it’s possible for men to date all sorts of genders at all sorts of points in their lives. Grow up.

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The quickness to historical revisionism when they decide they dislike someone. It's like whenever they hate someone that person has suddenly always been awful and has never done anything good or kind or respectable as well as conveniently forgetting/misconstruing past events to fit whatever narrative they're running with.

Also istg stop calling every female celebrity a mean girl it's so annoying and juvenile especially coming from a majority 25+ year old user base.

People who refuse to accept that a celebrity improved, whether that being refusing to acknowledge what a celebrity is doing now and just holding them to their skill level before or just trying to rewrite history that a celebrity was always at the same level of talent that they are now.

An example of the first type is how a lot of people still discredit Robert Pattinson as an actor because of Twilight but his acting has improved tremendously and people don't even watch his more current , especially smaller films and just hold him to this Twilight acting skills.

For the second type, the people who refuse to acknowledge that Bella Hadid did not have a good walk when she first started. So many people get defensive whenever people mention her as a nepo model and mention her walk now and act like she always walked like this, refusing to acknowledge that she was not good at one point and got by because of nepotism but then worked hard and improved.

I hate that someone is either all good or all bad. Or there has to be a hero and a villain. People are too complex to be relegated to the boring old trope of good vs evil.

I also find it annoying when people can’t acknowledge that someone is attractive because said person is an asshole. I totally understand that mean people don’t look as good when you find out they’re mean, but it doesn’t mean they aren’t physically attractive at all.

I say this as someone who has been guilty of both of my own complaints in the past. It’s easy to get petty and sucked into that way of thinking.

“Idk if I trust tmz as a source”

Like them or not, they have the sources and connections.

there are some celebrities (mindy kaling, january jones, i'm sure i'm forgetting some) who have never revealed who is the father of their child(ren) and i think it's gross when people speculate. celebrities are allowed privacy, including their children.

plus, you can get pregnant from sexual assault, or from an abusive ex. i could see not wanting to reveal the father's info if that's the case.

People who watch every single thing someone they dislike has ever done (interviews, podcasts, social posts, media etc) years back just to find tidbits to 'prove' they are 'bad.' Even celebrities I dislike, I hate seeing people do this with them. If it's more than two years ago just let it go. People change.

For this sub specifically, I can't stand it when someone makes an obvious joke or innocuous comment and people jump on it with their "to be fair..." or "well actually..."

It's becomes really annoying

Lumping everything in in one go. For example the post about matt healy. There was a list of like 15 things, maybe 9 of them were really really bad stuff that needed addressing, however there was other things that were unimportant and irrelevant

It being okay to talk shit about people's looks just because you don't like them as a person. If they're such a bad person, certainly you have much to complain about them with without bringing their appearance into it. Many decent people will have similar physical qualities to someone you dislike, and they don't deserve to hear that someone with a similar face to theirs is "ugly".

People dissecting a relationship or photos like they’re crime scene detectives. I’m down for some fun speculation, but Jesus Christ people let’s chill on the magnifying glass usage.

I hate it when celebs are accused of plastic surgery when the feature in question looks exactly the same as it always has. Kathryn Hahn was rumoured to have gotten a nose job in 2022, but I see literally no difference in present day.

I really do not like Tom Cruise. However, I will happily admit he has done some great films: Magnolia, Collateral, Tropic Thunder and especially Born on the Fourth of July. He was excellent in all of them. I wish he had concentrated more on those type of films rather than the endless MI films, etc. (He was also horribly miscast as Reacher.)

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some people need to take reading comprehension classes bc I swear the amount of idiots I’ve seen in this thread (and in social media as a whole) amazes me to this day

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when celebs get shit on for having a niche personality, i feel like if a celebrity has an actual personality and sense of humor they’re called annoying but if they’re shy/introverted they’re bland and boring.

this happens a lot with younger celebrities in this sub, maybe it’s because of a generational gap but younger people tend to have a more “in your face/sarcastic/ironic/satire” sense of humor and that’s okay but it’s really annoying when people go out of their way to act as if they’re saying it with their chest when someone is clearly joking.

like the Zara Larson / Beyoncé thing that a lot of people took at face value when she was joking.

The comments have not loaded yet and I’m sure someone else have said it. But. Calling out female celebrities for working with abusive & ill-behaving men but not a peep for their male costars/collaborators. Or at least they are not held accountable or whatever to the same degree as women.

Like who else worked with David O Russell for Amsterdam? I’m not touching that movie with a pole from 20 ft away but I only saw Taylor, Margot, Anya being discussed with about disappointment. This is just one thing and maybe it’s just me missing out on the discussion about the men (for whom the bar is. Can be walked over) but this is almost always the case.

People acting like it's a personal betrayal that a celebrity lost weight and can no longer act as their "fat" icon.

I couldn't believe how much anger was directed at Mindy Kaling for losing, literally, a few pounds. And the assumption that it was deceitful somehow because she must have lost the weight via Ozempic. (Not necessarily, but if she did, that's her personal medical choice to make.)

I really dislike how much credit people have been giving blind items. Most of the time they sound so far fetched but people will take it as fact, especially on tiktok. Deuxmoi is not the bible

It's okay to attack the appearance when you don't like the celebrity I guess. There's like millions of people with the same features, maybe even your friends or relatives, but hey.

“You don’t like her because you’re jealous”

I mean sure but no? It’s not their talent I get mad at it’s their behavior 😹 like I wish I was good at singing/acting/modeling/etc or “pretty” yes but because I’m not I can’t criticize someone’s unrelated behavior? No matter how talented or attractive someone is does not make them exempt from criticism.

YouTube gossip channels that are heavily biased like Empressive (Her whole switch up on Megan Thee Stallion was really disgusting), UnWinewithTasha K and Lovely Ti. A lot of the times they'll have a ton of misinformation and not a credible source in sight.

I get really frustrated that when some people are critiquing or insulting someone who is a bad person and has done terrible things that make them deserving of being criticized and insulted- the people criticizing often turn to things like physical appearance, the way a person dresses, or just other stigmatizing things like saying they look like an addict or something -rather than solely focusing on the behavior that makes that person shitty. I just find it an unfair thing to do, cause so many good people who don't do those shitty things, may look like that, like dressing like that, or could be struggling with addiction for example- and those things don't make people moral failures. Hurting others is what makes people moral failures, not having small hands or some shit like that.

The way we judge celebrities for their past. Furthermore how we judge the past from a 2020s perspective. Context people, context!!!!

Weaponising a celb’s mental illness, especially if they are open about their mental illness.

Or, ignoring a celebrities mental illness and not understanding mental illnesses are complex and not black and white.

I see it a lot with discussions around Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez.

Also, while I’m at it, diagnosing a celebrity with a mental illness, like what was happening in the Feuxmoi sub the other day with Taylor Swift due to her song ‘You’re Losing Me’, saying she has personality disorders.

Like, sthap.

These comments also only seem to happen when it’s a woman celebrity. And it’s also super harmful to those who actually suffer from complex mental illnesses as it further stigmatises that mental illness.

It’s harmful. It’s not cool. Let’s not do it.

I think mine is gossip websites and forums that pretend they aren't - or where people get on their high horse if you criticize someone.

Pop forums can be really bad for this I think. If it's a fan page fair enough but if it's meant to be a general discussion thread then opinions like "I don't like this" or "this release cycle is messy" or "the song is good but the artist is really problematic in X way" totally belong there. The topic is the artist or the release, not 'what we like about this artist'!

I don’t think someone is unforgivable for cheating so i disagree with a lot of takes on certain couples.

• Pretty much any time people use the word "nepo". It's gotten so played out and the term has been stretched to the point where it doesn't mean anything.

• Whenever people accuse a celebrity -- usually a man -- of "queer baiting" because their style or appearance doesn't fit into some rigid gender stereotype.

• Speculations about people's sexual orientation or gender identity, which are, again, almost always based on weird retrograde stereotypes and rumors.

Hating on Nepo Babies in the entertainment industry.

First, acting like it's weird or lazy to go into the same field as your parent, which just shows how young the people saying this are. Visit any med school and you'll find plenty of students with a parent that was a doctor, nurse, or other healthcare worker. Same for any profession.

Second, acting like it's unfair that they get an "easy in" to the entertainment industry - this I can understand, even agree with most of the time, but there is a limit. Lena Dunham may be obnoxious, she may have had a lot of celebrity friends because of her NY private school upbringing, but please explain to me how her mom being a painter got her a show on HBO at 25. That she wrote for 4 seasons. She can do the work, is my point - does it really matter that she got the job "unfairly"? A woman that looks like her would never be cast as anything other than the "funny friend" if she just played by the rules.

Third, expanding the definition of Nepo Baby from "parent with a lot of clout in the entertainment industry" to "anyone ever employed in the arts / anyone with wealthy parents". Yes, a lot of British actors are upper class or even nobility - so what? Isn't the entertainment industry the best place for those people? Especially compared to other prestigious fields they might enter, like business or politics? All I'm saying is in the parallel universe where we DON'T guilt trip Nepo Babies for being born with money we are currently enjoying another season of the Celebrity Apprentice while Hillary Clinton finishes her second term.

Fourth, everyone who criticizes Nepo Babies has at least one that they give a pass for no good reason. Drew Barrymore is the ultimate Hollywood Nepo Baby, but somehow that label never sticks to her.

The children of celebrities have their own challenges - being associated with their parents' mistakes, having their looks criticized from birth, having every childhood mistake make the news, peers using them for money or to meet their parents, just generally being surveilled their whole lives. And it's a little silly to complain about unfairness in an industry where being beautiful is still the most important quality.

Criticizing nepotism is fine, criticizing specific Nepo Babies for specific actions or statements is fine, but popping up to comment "Nepo Baby" at the beginning of every discussion about a celebrity is just dumb.

pretty sure this happens more outside of subs like this, but when someone talks about a certain celebrity by name and someone else replies "who?"

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 how the fuck do you not know who RIHANNA is??? and even if you didn't know the celebrity (you do, cut the shit) their name is RIGHT THERE and you are on a device that has access to google !! use it !!!

The “he always plays the same role” thing irritates me so so much. Theres different levels of acting, some people don’t want to do the whole ‘become another person’ thing. Doesn’t mean they cant act, just means they know what they want and what they excel in and want to stick to that. Not every actor wants to get an Oscar or crank it out like Daniel Day-Lewis.

speculation over sexuality gets really toxic and lame pretty much immediately.

Wanting to know their sexuality. I get it we all or most of us have celebrity crushes and want to know their sexual preference however it’s not like we can ever date them and it’s their private knowledge that they should share if they feel comfortable in their personal life or the media. Examples of this is Kit Connor and Jenna Ortega, Kit was outed by the media when he shouldn’t have been and there is lots of gossip around the media that Jenna is Lesbian and I think it’s wrong to gossip about this because they might not feel comfortable. It’s okay to have a crush on a celebrity but it’s not okay to harass them about their sexuality

Stans getting mad about uncomfortable things about their faves. In general it is a problem with most subs on reddit

People commenting “ who cares “ on an article . If you don’t care , you’d just scroll past .

Also , the constant “ the Kardashians have no talent and are just famous for being famous .” That’s like 85 % of celebrities today but they’re always the ones brought up . They have a large brand , are models and whatever else they have going on . Sure , they’re plastic as hell physically and talk like robots but they do have businesses too .

Azealia Banks. That’s all.

Replying to a request for tea with trade headlines. Actor being cast in a movie that was reported on last week is not tea, you are not a scooper lol

Immediately assuming the worst, being super cynical and victim blamey when celebs are robbed etc. This happened to both Kim K and Dorit of RHOBH and they were dragged through the mud being called attention wh*res doing it for PR straight off the jump. I’m not saying that no celebs has ever faked a crime (see Jussie Smollet) but giving people the benefit of the doubt and remembering that they are human goes a long way! Empathy is in low supply these days I swear smh.

Lack of nuance

Hating on a celebrity just because they "stole" vocals even though it's been an industry thing for decades that many of their faves do. But worse is they fail to acknowledge their other achievements.

Excesive naïveté, wishful thinking about celebrities "feelings" in order to try and make sense of their actions, falling for PR stunts.

They're doing business babes, all of them. The 25 paragraph insta post talking about ✨feelings✨ is just a way of embellishing corporate decisions or a smoke screen for less palatable stuff.

I hate it when people dog pile on figures like Megan markle or Britney like you know you don’t personally know this person, right? It’s fun to speculate but the situations are probably more complicated than just so and so is a bitch or crazy or whatever negative thing we like to pin on our fellow women.

I've been wanting to say that too OP. The instant a celebrity does something bad, some people want to pretend they never had any talent. It's like some people want to feel superior for never liking any art made by ' problematic' people.

Any Ariana grande post, they are such hypocrites on it. I absolutely hate reading anything about her on here because it’s filled with negativity about her face, or her hair, or her body. They stay pressed from ms Ari and it’s quite pathetic. No other celeb do they rip to shreds well actually this sub has issues with every person.

I went much further back than I care to admit to figure out what post you’re talking about 😂. Can you tell me?

Good acting is subjective, tho

OP we Madonna fans be like: hold my beer..

Perez Hilton as a whole.

Used to read his site daily first when it started.

He just likes to talk shit so I don't trust anything he says now.