When a celebrity dies and other minor celebrities post their tenuous link to them

[Bulbstarglitterball]

I’m not quite sure how to put that into a sentence but today my Instagram is full of people posting tributes to Vivienne Westwood (rightly so because she was an incredible woman) but somehow managing to make the post all about them. It happens a lot whenever anyone of note dies and I find it really irritating.

One particular influencer has posted a picture of herself in various different dresses and nothing actually on VW. I just find it all really distasteful and attention seeking.

So AIBU in finding the whole thing annoying or is it just me being annoyed by nothing.

My favourite of this when there was the fire at Notre Dame cathedral, everyone raking round there old photos to find one of themselves there to post on social media to say how devastated they were about it all.

Very much agree - I am doing an end of year clear out of accounts like this! May also delete the app for January and have a total detox…

Got to be Sali Huges? Who, of course, invented Dame Viv Westwood her very self

What did all these "influencers" do before they started whoring themselves out on crappy social media i wonder ?

I just looked up this influencer and those dresses look terrible.

I really really hate to slag off other women - but note I'm about to do it anyway - but those dresses just look like .:. nothing on her?

Yes! There's something egotistical about it as it seems more about their photo and their connection to the person rather than the person themselves.

It's the rush to gush. Grief tourism. They flock from one newly dead celebrity to the next to pour out their shock, distress and tenuous links. Some even travel miles to leave flowers outside the homes of people they didn't have a clue about or leave a sea of flowers around a lamp post said celeb once leaned against to tie their shoe lace. It's quite ghoulish really.

This is just human nature, as it happens with non celebrities too.

I'd argue it's not human nature otherwise we'd all be doing it. It's a certain section of society. And it's usually for selfish reasons.

No-one will ever be as obsessed with Jack Monroe as some Mumsnet users, I assure you.

Her, again.

What an absolute idiot that woman is.

It’s completely nauseating and very disrespectful.
Grief vampires.

This may be opening a can of worms but why don’t people like Jack Muncie. I left Twitter ages ago so not sure what she’s up to.

Munroe!

Grief vampires is such a great term.

Who is it?!

Jess wright did this earlier.Just her in her VW wedding dress several times over.No pic of VW to be seen.

It’s certainly not only a celeb thing, a local teenager was murdered in my hometown a few years ago and the amount of people who had one drink with him down the pub posting photos, making it seem like they were best mates was very gross to see

I think some of them are reading here as the Sali Hughes post seems to have gone (I saw it earlier) and can't see JM's one!

Reasonable to say when you met someone (if you did) and if they were a pleasant person (hopefully), but the kind of posts the OP refers to are in bad taste I agree. Grief tourism is very distasteful.

The Jess Wright one is bizarre. It’s just an excuse to show off her dress.