Bashed at first sight: the experiences and coping strategies of reality-TV stars confronted with celebrity bashing

Ouvrein, Gaëlle; Hallam, Lara; Backer, Charlotte De; Vandebosch, Heidi

doi:10.1080/19392397.2019.1637269

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“…repetition criterion; Williamson, 2010). These celebrities indicated that they feel powerless in front of the massive online audience who are not forgiving toward them and the tabloid media that is constantly preying on new rumors (Gies, 2011;Ouvrein et al, 2021;cf. power imbalance).…”

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“…Online celebrity bashing is a common practice on social media (Eronen, 2014;Ouvrein et al, 2021). Research indicates that many of these bashing cases take the form of publicly shaming (female) celebrities by writing or sharing negative content about their appearances (Ayuningtyas & Kariko, 2018;Eronen, 2014;Mitra, 2020;Ouvrein et al, 2021;Qamar et al, 2020). Indeed, recent evidence indicates that it only takes a few seconds to find an online comment calling a female celebrity too fat, too ugly, or too slutty (Eronen, 2014;Felmlee et al, 2018Felmlee et al, , 2020.…”

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“…We define the concept here as an online practice of public shaming or critiquing in which a celebrity is criticized on his/her appearance (physical or sexual; Gam et al, 2020). Similar to public-shaming cases of ordinary people, these comments might hurt celebrities (Ayuningtyas & Kariko, 2018;Gam et al, 2020) and, in some cases, hinder their private and professional development and functioning (McMahon et al, 2022;Ouvrein et al, 2021). One difference, though, is that many adolescents are exposed to these public cases of celebrity appearance-shaming, as they massively follow their idols online and use features such as liking, sharing, and retweeting to contribute to spreading celebrity-bashing (Felmlee et al, 2018(Felmlee et al, , 2020Giles & Maltby, 2004).…”

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Celebrity appearance-shaming: Innocent bashing forms or reconfirming gender norms? A study into the explanations of adolescents’ celebrity appearance-shaming intentions

Ouvrein

2023

Cyberpsychology

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Celebrities regularly become victims of online body- and slut-shaming. This study refers to these practices as appearance-shaming and investigates potential explanations for adolescents’ intentions to participate in this behavior by means of an extended version of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Apart from the three paths of attitudes toward the practice, subjective norms about the practice, and perceived behavioral control to participate in it, we added sexism as a potential variable to explain celebrity appearance-shaming. Through this addition, we were better able to capture the role of cultural background variables, something that was not included in the traditional elements of the TPB but appeared to be important for explaining normative behaviors. Based on a survey study of 248 adolescents (N = 248), we concluded that the TPB is a good theoretical framework for explaining intentions toward celebrity appearance-shaming. More specifically, having more accepting attitudes toward celebrity bashing, more supportive descriptive norms about celebrity bashing, and higher perceived behavioral control were associated with higher intentions. Moreover, sexism had a strong positive relationship with the intention to celebrity appearance-shaming. Participating in celebrity appearance-shaming might, in that way, be an indicator of strong traditional sexist beliefs and might contribute to keeping them alive among adolescents.

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Celebrity appearance-shaming: Innocent bashing forms or reconfirming gender norms? A study into the explanations of adolescents’ celebrity appearance-shaming intentions

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2023

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“…Anonymous bulletin boards are rife with incoherent hate speech and abuse (Martin et al, 2013 ; Santana, 2014 ). Online Schadenfreude manifests as the cyberbullying of celebrities (Ouvrein et al, 2021 ) and politicians (Akhtar & Morrison, 2019 ), whereas Gluckschmerz manifests as Facebook Envy (Wallace et al, 2017 ). As both Schadenfreude and Gluckschmerz are potential contributors to online incivility (Kim, 2020 ; Microsoft, 2021 ; Santana, 2014 ), the present paper sought methods to understand differences in levels of online support for high‐profile individuals (Van Dijk et al, 2012 ).…”

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High achievers, Schadenfreude and Gluckschmerz in New Zealanders and Chinese

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The willingness to support (or denigrate) high‐profile individuals online was examined across cultures using the Tall Poppy Scale. A sample of 106 Chinese and 164 New Zealand Europeans answered an online questionnaire addressing their preference for high achievers to be rewarded or fail. Participants were asked whether they would vote to support reality TV contestants, and offered further information (about success or failure) on a debrief page. The Favour Reward scale predicted willingness to vote and support others. The Favour Fall subscale tended to predict time spent viewing achievement‐related information on a debrief page. The Chinese sample did not prefer reward of high achievers, instead favoring their fall, but spent less time per click on the debrief page, suggesting they disliked recognizing individual achievement.

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