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This Is For You was derived from the curiosity Sarah had about how people close to her age dealt with social media fame.
Young Hollywood fame has been studied and commented on extensively. Hollywood stars have written books and spoken in dozens of interviews about how their childhood and adolescent fame created an environment of pressure and unhappiness as they grew up.
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TikTok fame is turning out to be a little different. In each episode, each interviewee talks about how they started making videos for their own enjoyment, and it turned into something bigger.
A trend Sarah noticed after researching and interviewing was that social media content creators have complete control over the amount of time they spend on their content, how much they interact with their fans, and the exact type of content they create.
INTERESTING READS
Famous For Fifteen Minutes: IP and Internet Social Networking
An excellent article that talks about how social media has made fame extremely accessible.
The Psychology of Social Networking
This article gives great insight on how how social media affects developmental needs in young people.
From “Overnight Fame” to “Being Worth Teaching.”
An interesting journal article that touches on the negative aspects of over-night social media fame.
Fame: The Hijacking of Reality
An honest autobiography by Justine Bateman about how Hollywood fame affected her development.