Is it possible to not know who a famous person is?

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• forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes. And there’s also famous people you have never heard of.

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• leadore@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Of course

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  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Like what else is there to say lol

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• Klear@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who the fuck is The Weekend?

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• Todd_cross@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have heard of The Weekend. I have no idea who they are, what they’re famous for, what they look like, if they’re a person or a group, or anything about them. I also legitimately have no idea if you’re meant to pronounce the ‘e’ in Grande, people have told me, I just don’t care enough to remember.

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• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ariana Grande or The Weekend

  Uhhh… the first one’s a pop singer I’ve still never heard a single song by, and the 2nd one’s how we spend our SAT & SUN’s?

  Heh, am I close?

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just use your first answer for both of them, and you’ve nailed it!

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    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lol… that’s too much. Pretty soon we’ll be able to construct ordinary sentences out of nothing but pop stars & rappers names, I guess.

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At some point in your life, you didn’t know who any famous people were.

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• Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m sure my parents don’t know who either of them are.

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• nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Weekend are?

  Like Saturday and Sunday?

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• bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Famous where? I bet you don’t know famous people that are only famous in their country.

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  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Enrique Inglesiás?

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    • bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The son of Julio. What?

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know Ariana Grande and The Weekend are singers.

  But if you printed out 9 pictures of a vaguely hispanic woman singer, and 1 picture of her, I would have a 1 in 10 chance I point her out.

  Same thing with The Weekend.

  And I’m sure you could name 20 names, 10 of them famous people, 10 are random names from the phone book. I would have zero confidence in knowing rather than guessing, who the famous people are.

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  • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This comment is outrageously funny to me. Because Ariana grande is not Hispanic in the slightest. Like, she’s so white she would stand out in the middle of a group of even vaguely Hispanic women like a sore thumb. But it just adds to the comedy.

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    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How is her last name so Spanish then?

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• Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You went with Ariana Grande and The Weekend as your example?

  There’s a lot more famous people out there.

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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who?

  What?

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• Stormy@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I couldn’t pull those 2 out of a line up.

  If my life depended on it, I would say The weekend dates a Kardashian and Grande is from nickelodeon.

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• markz@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Those are people and not the last part of a week and a font?

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  • vext01@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Grande Condensed Italic

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• farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have no idea who “The Weekend” is.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Like totally

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• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Of course.

  Not everyone consumers mainstream media.

  I hadn’t heard of the weekend until a couple of months ago and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

  Also m.xkcd.com/1053/

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• vext01@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes. We just have different priorities.

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• tmyakal@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tig Notaro used to have a show where celebrities would come on, she would interview them, and at the end she had to guess who they were. So, yes, even famous people who live in LA don’t necessarily know who other famous people are.

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• Shamber@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Absolutely, and there no shame in that whatsoever, our world is currently full of people who are famous for being famous, a singer/rapper for every citizen, everyone is a dj, or an influencer, even politicians and faceless droops, you know who you know and the rest are just background noise

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• LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Damn are y’all actually falling for such obvious bait

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• dragontology@retrofed.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know who The Weeknd is (and how to spell his name — it always irks me that it’s missing a letter, but it makes his name more memorable, because it makes one think about how it’s different). I’m not familiar with his music.

  There are people in the world who don’t know who a lot of famous people are. Consider someone in Europe who knows quite a bit about association football (called soccer in the US, but they just call it football). In the US, you might know David Beckham was a soccer (sorry, *football*) player. You might even know what team (sorry, *squad*) he was on, but you might not know too many more. Someone in Europe might be able to name ten footballers off the top of their head, maybe tell you what position they play and who they play for.

  American music and movies are pretty much known everywhere, but it’s also kind of regional. I’ve moved around a lot, and I’ve met people who swear up and down they never heard of bands I grew up listening to. They’re objectively famous, they sold many millions of albums, they were on MTV, but it’s possible to have just missed them. Same with movies and games.

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  • Watermark710@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I only know who The Weeknd is because Cœur de Pirate did a cover of his song “Wicked Games”. It’s fucking hilarious to hear a French Canadian woman play the piano while singing “Let me see that ass, look at all this cash”. I’ve never heard the original version, and I don’t plan to.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s pretty much the entire concept behind a Funny or Die show with Tig Notaro

  deadline.com/…/funny-or-die-under-a-rock-with-tig…

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• zxqwas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Very much possible. I have seen the names you mention but I’ve got no idea what either are famous for.

  If I had to guess I’d say porn star and binge drinking.

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• HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This thread is the first time I became aware that there exists a person called The Weekend.

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  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He did that one song blinding lights

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• MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes.

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