To be creeped out by people who make a huge deal out of celebrity deaths?

[TealDreamer]

I don’t mean the normal “Oh, that’s sad” reaction when a famous person dies - I mean the people who act like they’ve lost a close family member. The ones who post long, emotional tributes, talk about how “devastated” they are and make the whole thing about them.

It just feels… off. Like they’re using someone else’s deaths to fill a gap in their own lives, feeding off the drama in a way that seems performative. I get feeling sad about someone whose work you admired but the extreme reactions just feel weird and attention-seeking.

AIBU to think this is creepy?

Back in the late 60's tve Stones were often in pubs in the King's Rd. We first met the singer, Marianne Faithful there - oddly enough her song As tears go by wasxplayed on the News Channel tonight. She said that the publication of her and Mick Jagger and a certain Mars bar incident affected her life. The journalist who published it was a schoolfriend of my husband and we knew about it befire it was published. Ironically we saw her in a cafe in the King's Rd just before her death and she seemed on top form then so maybe she had got in top of her addiction. Not only did she have a lovely voice but she was very beautiful and yes I was sad. It reminded me tgat while for many of us the 60's were great there had been downsides as well. The other death that was sad was that of the actor Jeremy Brett who died suddenly. When Im 'next in London I will go to the bench dedicated to him just outside his flat with a mini bottle of champagne. He could be terribly amusing and he loved to tease.

I was a long term fan of an actor from the 1960s/1970s who died at 80 after a lifetime of chain smoking and with a history of alcohol abuse. I had to leave the fan group because of all the “taken too soon” “my heart is broken” posts…..

I also felt like you until Matthew Perry passed away
I grew up watching friends, literally watching it before I was even old enough to understand what was being said, friends was the backing track to my life, it was there after school and before I'd fall asleep.
His death really hit hard, my first ever tattoo is dedicated to Matthew Perry
And people have stopped me to talk about it which is quite nice
Live and let live I say

I had to unfollow a 40 something year old who started off as a home decor insta account who now turned into a full on influencer ( who is full of shit.) Never once mentioned poor Liam Payne as one of her many obsessions before he died - now - she’s constantly on the grief train for him - grow up Jen.

Im with you on this OP

Some people take a strange interest in dead celebs. It’s like they want to attach themselves to any grievance available

If they go into meltdown over pretty much every celebrity death yeah that's odd, but most people have one idol who passes away and it's a sad moment.

The days after Diana died - many people acted OTT. Thank goodness SM didn’t exist then!

I was 16 at the time and felt ‘pressured’ grieve for her when couldn’t care less about her.

Some have gone to realise this themselves.