Area Celebrity Does Thing, People Have Opinions About It
The celebrity, who is famous, did something yesterday. Reactions ranged from supportive to critical, with a significant contingent choosing to weigh in despite limited information.
A celebrity did something yesterday and the internet, which is never not doing this, immediately formed opinions and shared them at high volume.
The thing the celebrity did — which was either brave, offensive, overdue, unnecessary, or a calculated PR move, depending on who you asked — generated approximately 340,000 posts across major social media platforms within the first six hours.
"I have never felt so strongly about something I learned about four minutes ago," said one commenter, who had not read the article but had read the headline and felt that was sufficient.
The celebrity, through a representative, released a statement that clarified nothing and satisfied no one. A follow-up statement is expected by Thursday.
Commentators on television discussed the thing for a combined total of four hours, reaching no conclusions but agreeing that it was "a lot" and that "we'll see."
By Tuesday the discourse had largely shifted to a different thing the celebrity had done, which was also controversial for reasons that were still emerging at press time.