Brooklyn Beckham

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I don’t know what it is about the man but I find him annoying. I have no problem with either of his parents or the rest of the family but him ... there’s just something about him.

His photography is god awful and he has such a smug face!

AIBU or is he a bit unlikable?

(Disclaimer - light hearted!! I don’t despise the bloke or wish harm on him and yes I might be a bit jealous that he’s loaded and has done fuck all to earn any of it!) 😁

I feel like you’re playing devil’s advocate SleepingSloth!

Would you post photos of your own children on social media before they’re old enough to consent? - No. you’ve already told us this (and I agree with you on that- it’s an invasion of their privacy)

So, even if the Beckhams were just posting pictures of their young children on social media with their privacy set to close family and friends only, presumably you wouldn’t agree with their decision?

So presumably you disagree even more strongly with their decision to post pictures of their children to the public worldwide?

The Beckhams are very media savvy. They know exactly what they are doing and are using their children as a calculated way of courting publicity and keeping the Beckham Brand in the public eye.

Duck willow it's well known in the disability world (( so to speak )) that the Beckhams make a lot of charitable donations and have done for years. They just don't publicise it..........I can't see them stopping because a random unknown person mentioned it. It's already quite a well known fact.

WHY would you start such a nasty thread about a young man that you wouldn't even notice if his parents weren't famous? This is what you do for lighthearted what are you like when you're mean

This is just horrible

This thread needs to go - he's barely an adult. Reported

Arf at reporting this thread!

He's not a child - he's 20 which makes him an adult man - old enough to buy alcohol, get married, have kids and fight for his country.

Hopefully, he will find his direction soon enough.

So presumably you disagree even more strongly with their decision to post pictures of their children to the public worldwide?

I wouldn't do it but I don't think they should be criticised anymore than anyone else for it. I think they are just proud of their kids and SM is just a weird way of showing them off. SM is a huge part of people's lives and people seem to get some kind of validation through having people comment on their photos and lives and that's true for celebs too. It's completely weird to me....but I know I'm in the minority.

He's not a child - he's 20 which makes him an adult man - old enough to buy alcohol, get married, have kids and fight for his country.

Yes, but the press attention, mainly the Daily Mail stories started when he was much younger. And there was a story in the last month about his brother and who he's dating and he's only 16. I don't think that's right....and I also don't know who would be interested really.

And I don't get this fawning over V&D because they buy some equipment for disabled kids. They're worth according to the Daily Mail over £200 million - I should bloody well hope they'd bung some of it towards others less fortunate.

His photography book is really good.

Not as good as the Andrex I usually use, but in an emergency it did the job, after a curry.

@SunshineCake yes, the beckhams have just read this and thought screw the kids! Cancel the charity! 
@DuckWillow that's a lovely thing they did,

As I said on the other horrible thread about celebrities that 'give you the creeps',
Two young people in the public eye have recently died one of them was definitely suicide. These are all people's family members that are no different to anyone else mentally. People need to realise that slagging off others online that have done absolutely nothing to them could seriously hurt those that read it.
I'm not saying online trolls are responsible for the deaths I mentioned, just that maybe it's time to consider working towards positive mental health for others by not slating them for thousands to see for absolutely no bloody reason

I agree with you OP. He seems like an average young man given extraordinary opportunities because of his parents celebrity. Has he the looks/experience for a top modeling campaign? No. Has he the experience/talent to produce a coffee table photography book. No. Has he the rapier wit and humour to command XX million instagram followers? No. But all the while, he gets the opportunities and takes them, someone else without celebrity parents is being overlooked or looses out on a job. And those saying, he is a young, vulnerable - its a nasty thread, grow up - he doesn't care what you or I think, he is too busy being very average in an extraordinary life.

Oh dear. I think it's one thing to criticise a person's work or behaviour. It's another thing to attack them as a person, for no real reason.
I think you're doing the second thing here, OP.

He's not a child, he's an adult who presumably accepted Burberry's offer to photograph their ad campaign of his own free will?

He's the living embodiment of how an entire industry (and its satellites, really) has been co-opted by celebrity offspring, and this thread won't be the first or the last to comment on it.

Today 03:00 SleepingSloth

So presumably you disagree even more strongly with their decision to post pictures of their children to the public worldwide?

‘I wouldn't do it but I don't think they should be criticised anymore than anyone else for it.’

Sleepingsloth So, what other celebrity couple do what the Beck-hams do, and aren’t criticised as much?

You say that you assume people put photos and videos of their kids on social media because they’re proud of them and want validation by people liking them. So why aren’t the Beckhams doing that for their family and friends, like other people? How can we even see what’s on their social media? If they wanted validation from family and friends they’d have their privacy settings for family and friends.

I think you know perfectly well that the reason they display their children’s lives completely publicly is that they want a global following. They want to publicise every aspect of their lives.

FWIW I wouldn’t start a thread slagging Someone off, and I’ve said repeatedly that it’s ludicrous to say you like/ dislike someone you haven’t even met. But I’m happy to discuss the cult of celebrity, which is the wider issue here. The fact is, the Beckhams have actively chosen this for their children, which I think is plain wrong and potentially quite harmful. They are media savvy so know exactly what they’re doing and have created an industry out of their family.

The daily mail journalists may well be vile but does anyone seriously think they’d be following the Beckham kids around on nights out of those kids had been kept out of the spotlight and the public didn’t know what they look like, who they’re dating or what their jobs/ hobbies are? Of course not.

if those kids

The Beckhams aren't shy about using injunctions to protect their family's 'privacy', if they wanted their children to have privacy, they'd have it.

Leave him alone daily mail reader, bitchy/bullying post.

SleepingSloth there's a big difference from me posting a pic of my adult DC having a meal with us on my FB (which has 29 friends, is all locked down privacy wise so no one can see, I only have it for far away rellies)....
and VB & DB posting from day one of having kids on everywhere , with them having millions and millions of followers all over the world. They exposed their children doing normal everyday things that kids do every day, to millions all over the world. They made a conscious decision to do that. It wasn't accidental, as can be illustrated by many other celebrities who have fought fiercely to keep their kids lives as private as possible.

Apart from security reasons, why on earth would you want 20 million people looking at Harper in her cute little swimming costume in a pool, or her gappy tooth smile, or the boys sat on the sofa playing online games, or in the garden playing with a football.

We all know what each child looks like thanks to the Beckham publicity machine. I find it abhorrent and so so unfair on the kids. I feel very sorry for the eldest, BB, he has to find his way in life after being pimped out by his parents to millions of people. To my mind, the desire for publicity and probably money, by both VB & DB has overridden the need for privacy of their children.

He's just a boy. Unfairly criticised by the public. I do wish he'd wear trousers that are longer though and do away with the white socks - but id say that to my son 😂

He's just a boy.

No, he's a man.

Disagree. He's still a boy at 20. A young adult finding his way.

Obviously at 20 BB is an adult. But it’s not as simple as just saying ‘it’s his choice now’ because a) his identity has been splashed all over the media since his birth and b) he may have little confidence to live away from the media when that’s all he knows and he’s had no chance to develop his interests away from the spotlight.

The photography book was such a poor decision. I mean, would any of us want our children to be held up to public ridicule by publishing a coffee table book of at best, very mediocre photos, after having access to the best equipment and tuition available? Yet that’s an example of what VB and DB have exposed their children to. And it’s too simplistic to draw a neat line and say everything that happens after age 18 is different because they’re legally an adult. What chance did these kids have? They’ve been trained like performing seals from a young age which is so unfair.

Totally agree. And then there's the mediocre song that one of the other boys released when he was about 10. I mean ... come on... who wants to listen to someone else's 10 year old singing??? The parents are just setting them up for a fall. They should be able to fly under the radar, finish education, even go to Uni... in peace. For instance, Malia Obama managed it because the Obamas did their very best to protect their children from the limelight.

A young adult

So, a young man then. He isn't still a boy.

It makes me feel old that I remember him being born as if it was yesterday... He's only young though, right? 18-20?
I don't know what you're reading, but I haven't seen anything about him for years, other than the occasional post he pops up on on his dad's Instagram.

Of course, he will have had a very privileged background, with the best of the best of everything. I think it can probably be a taxing transition for a child to get out from under the shadow of a world-famous set of parents, and get known for doing something of your own.