To think the haste that some posters show to create a thread regarding the death of a celebrity is distasteful?

What's odder to me is the 'active' thread that the OP rushed to post then never came back. Suggests they literally wanted to be the first to 'announce' it rather than felt sad and wanted to commiserate with people

What an odd question, have you just landed on earth and are unaware that in general it's a subject that interests people.

If no one was interested there wouldn't be a thread complaining about the number of people starting threads would there?

There are people and their jobs are updating people's biographies. When these people die, upload the biography online.

I don't see it any different to people who read about the death of a celeb and go and tell their partner. Not everyone has people in their life they can speak to, that's what social media is all about.

It's also not really any different to reading a thread you find distasteful and posting about that rather than speaking to someone about it irl.

Nobody needs consoling or comforting over the death of a celebrity. Nobody knew him, and the music is still out there so nothing changes.

Absolutely agree

People fall over themselves to be first. It's unseemly

I'm glad that SM was not a thing when she passed.

There was a lot of fake grieving imo then and if you dared not to grieve, you got backlash from people.

Or even 'xxx tribute thread'.

What? There've been loads of threads about Liam Payne and at least two for Alex Salmond.

There's a certain type of person who gets a thrill out of being grief adjacent, for want of a better word, they love the attention, and thrill of feeling near to grief without actually having to do any of the mourning.

They tend to be like it irl too "ooooh guess who died, I had a conversations with them once", they somehow have to turn the death of a celebrity or acquaintance into being about them.

Many posters shaking their heads in disgust at the media reporting the news so quickly with no thought to the family! But it was ok for them to post where to find further info and pictures (All dressed up as warning people obviously 🙄)

I'm so glad to see this thread as I've been thinking the same thing for a while

Most people read/see the news so there's no need to announce it with the ghoulish titles, "xxxx dead" - like you need to be the first to tell people.

It might be different if it was a thread titled "isn't it sad that xxxx has died" 🤔

I think competitive fake mourning is better than competitive nastiness.

Yes, and all those who revel in it will get defensive and rush to say there's nothing wrong with it.

But it's creepy.

I know when Matthew Perry died someone on here made a thread that his friends costars hadn’t said anything, like they were owed a statement on how heartbroken they are. How do you even start to put into words your grief and shock so soon after something like this has happened.

Liam Payne’s poor family could well have been asleep when the news broke, woken up to a barrage of texts and missed calls or potentially the police at the door. They’ll have woken up this morning and just tried to function. His sisters will have been trying to make sure if nothing else, his parents have drank something even if they can’t eat. They’ll have reached out to Cheryl to see how Bear is doing, maybe asked to meet them, just to connect and be there for each other. They are in shock and just hoping everyone can make it to the end of today when the reality can start to sink in tomorrow and they can start to try and sort the administrative nightmare associated with death.

Is that you, ChatGP? What an odd post!

I agree that the rush to be the first to start a thread is ghoulish.

I haven't seen any threads on the recent death of a celebrity, I'm glad to say. This is primarily an advice forum for parents and it's a topic based discussion forum, rather than a social chat medium such as facebook. It has broadened out from its origins and now has specific sub forums for discussion for a vast range of individual topics as well as a general one called Chat which doesn't specify any particular topic and there's also one for Other Subjects.

I always like the people pitching up 12 hours later and starting a thread like they are the first person to do so too.

Oh dear! I'm off to hide more of them then. Yes, right from Active too.

I hid five separate threads within about ten minutes of the news 'breaking'. I daresay there are even more now?

I deleted them from Active so it wouldn't have been an arduous chore for the thread-starters to check if a thread already existed or not.

It's a strange phenomenon. Maybe it's linked to the App? Everything seems to be laid at the door on the App.

I find it grim that “Liam Payne dead” was posted as a title in AIBU. Weird choice of forum and insensitive wording.

Discussing big news is not necessarily a bad thing but some people seem to get something out of being the first to post.

I thought this too. And the fairly blunt thread title.

Does anyone actually care about drug and alcohol fuelled sleb deaths? Fake competitive mourning. It's all a bit cringe

Did they spell his surname Pain or something?

if its news, shouldn't it be posted in the news topic anyway.