Allyson Post
March 2nd, 2011
Hannah Stephenson
English 110.01
Perez Hilton is a blog diva who is known to not be afraid of writing whatever is on his mind on his recently popular website, perezhilton.com. According to Benoit Denizet-Lewis, an author who contributes to the periodical The Advocate, the website “reaches 14 million readers each month (mostly women in their twenties) and is the 131st most popular website in America”. Perez Hilton intentionally portrays himself as a rude and critical person on his website by using passionate yet hateful tones and claiming himself as being bitchy. Perez Hilton thrives on the most current news on celebrities, and battles with other social media to be the first person to expose an exciting story on a celebrity. Solely being focused on fame will hurt Hilton in the future.
Perez Hilton is a successful blog diva because he is comfortable with speaking his mind publicly, without holding back. Society, nowadays, likes to focus on the bad, unflattering news about a celebrity like divorces, fights, and provocative pictures that were not meant to be taken. Perez Hilton likes to focus on the unflattering news because he knows that doing so would bring a bigger audience to his website. However, in order to be the first to release new information or photos, he needs to think about the repercussions of what could happen after posting and blogging about it. A diminishing audience could be a result of being selfish when it comes to negatively blogging about a celebrity.
When Michael Jackson was rushed to the hospital, the day he ended up passing away, Perez Hilton posted on his blog that it was all a publicity stunt. Little did he know that Michael Jackson was, in fact, dying. This egocentric blog that Perez wrote infuriated most of Perez’s audience, because a lot of people in society were fans of Jackson. This controversy led to Perez losing a good portion of his audience because of his lack of concern and incorrect information that he posted on his website. If Perez Hilton had been worrying less about causing controversy, he would have avoided losing many of his readers.
One controversy that Perez Hilton has recently caused is one between himself and Miley Cyrus. Perez Hilton got a hold of an offensive picture of Cyrus and posted it on his website calling her rude names such as slut. Of course, Hilton being selfish and only worrying about what could make him more famous, did not think about the consequences of putting up a revealing picture of a minor on the internet. So not only did he create controversy between himself and Cyrus, he also got in trouble with the law because he posted a revealing picture of a minor. Hilton was only worried about being the first person to leak this picture rather than thinking about the consequences. Once he learned about the charges that could be given to him, he was quick to delete the photo.
Hilton gets away with too much on his social media website. He should have been punished for leaking a revealing picture of a minor because he selfishly posted it to gain an audience. Perez Hilton got away with not being charged for this crime because he is a celebrity. Celebrities get away with crimes easier than the rest of society because of they high pedestals that they are on. Perez should have been charged with child pornography because he in fact posted a partly naked picture of Cyrus, which is illegal. Perez shows his bitchiness by not even apologizing for posting the picture.
In order to be able to have a successful website that attracts an audience, he needs to start thinking about what he is going to write before he writes it. Doing this would help him avoid losing readers, because some of his comments about others may offend a reader. Perez also needs to start thinking about the consequences of the news that he puts up on his website. This will keep him from getting into legal trouble, as well as losing an audience because of how self-centered he is for just wanting to make himself more famous.
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