Celebrity’s

Pandemics are not fun. That’s just a simple fact. Being in isolation can be boring, lonely, and down right stressful. That being said though, everyone responds to isolation differently. Within this piece of writing, I’d like to share with you how celebrities are taking the news. Be warned, these reactions are so predictable that a book written Fourteen years ago gets them spot on. This book being World War Z.

The celebrity that are referenced in the book are never expressly stated by name (for legal reasons) but are hinted at, “You don’t mind if I don’t mention any names, ’kay? Some of these people are still alive, or their estates are still active, and…can you believe, they’re still threatening to sue.” All of these celebrity’s are held up in a giant, walled off mansion with enough provisions to last them a lifetime. Instead of laying low and coasting through the apocalypse, they decided to put themselves on live television, “every room in the house was wired for a simultaneous webcast that went out all over the world 24/7.” On top of this flaunting of their wealth, they created some very disingenuous content by forcing tears while hering and watch people suffer, “l had less respect for the ones who tried to fake some tears than I did for the little spoiled whore who called the rollerblading guy a “dumbass.”

Celebrity’s in our own world don’t seem to be doing much better. Throughout the Covid 19 induced isolation, many celebrity’s have been making tone def and ineffectual gestures of solidarity such as singing imagination with captions such as “we’re all in this together” while simultaneously showing the heavy class devide between them and the majority of the country. Unlike the ending to the celebrity storyline in World War Z, in witch the mansion gets stormed by regular people, the celebritys of today have instead become the victims of heavy memeing.

Works Cited

Hermione Granger Hermione Granger, et al. “Celebrities Have Never Been More Annoying: People Are Roasting Their Quarantine Content With Memes (27 Pics).” Bored Panda, 1 Dec. 1969, www.boredpanda.com/funny-corona-memes-mocking-celebrities/.

Lustig, Hanna. “24 Times Celebrities Have Been Completely Unrelatable during Quarantine.” Insider, Insider, 24 Apr. 2020, www.insider.com/celebrities-quarantine-social-media-distancing-have-been-completely-unrelatable-in-2020-4.

World War Z. Turtleback Books, 2013.