Feeling pretty damn smug about my ideological opposition to RPF today.
I can't begin speak to what celebrity is like, but I certainly know what it's like to be under the combined scrutiny of thousands of people on the internet, and that alone is enough to drive you out of your mind. It doesn't matter that it's happening behind a screen.
Being a celebrity is that times a thousand. Hudson isn't having some stray comment he made picked apart or being scolded for a bad take. He's having his relationship actively strained by people who can't separate fantasy and reality.
His career, as well as Connor's, are being actively threatened by the insistence they be branded together, which is bullshit. Connor is an intensely gifted actor with an ability to play an insane range of characters. Hudson is destined to be a summer blockbuster darling.
They don't deserve to be stuck doing low budget romance until their 40's because a bunch of parasocial Penelopes can't recognize them as distinct individuals.
Gen Z can say what they will about Millennials, but 20 years ago, our hornyposting was hidden in the darkest corners of Yahoo Groups. Or, occasionally, a Geocitiess/Angelfire page. We flew our freak flags at half mast until we were in friendly waters. We embraced that we were going to be horny and problematic online, but did so in a respectful manner.
Like goddamn, calling Connor Storrie Mrs. Hudson Williams in a very public IG post was INSANE. We will not be putting one of these men in the other's shadow for the sake of a ship.
