Slowman wrote:
DFW_Tri wrote:
well said above, but I think she epitomizes "2018"....where social media runs crazy. A world in which the Kardashians have made billions and our President (I'm not trying to make this political) tweets about important policy decisions.
So, AH puts her stake in the ground and everyone has a reaction to it, and then everyone has a reaction to the reaction, and well, its a chain reaction...
i don't want to put words on your mouth, but what you're saying is that AH is the endurance sport version of the kardashian/trump world, where fame and infamy are now almost the same, everyone chooses his own reality, there is no penalty to pay for bad execution, and fame is a sort of fireproof currency? that as long as i somehow stay out of jail that i'm pretty much good to go, as long as i don't sexually harass an employee?
and you all have a problem with that? with someone getting away with it, using endurance sport as a platform?
I had typed out a response in the other AH thread - that to me, she comes across as a combination of Katrin Davidsdottir (Crossfit games multi winner), Kardashians and my 13 year old daughter.
She has respectable fitness, a whole lot of being famous for no reason with a fleet of delusional shallow followers (thank you social media) mixed in with the stubbornness, self-centered, "I know it all so I dont have to listen" own reality of a 13 year old.
I respect her fitness, shes sure fitter than I am. But I dont agree with the social media scene for the most part (#ashlete), and Im pretty sure my daughter drives me nuts with her attitude at times too...
Completely agree with your assessment re: social media. Except fame is currency, most youtubers with channels get paid per view or they have Paetrons, etc. They choose their own reality, in some of the cases it involves pathological lying... then their followers accept it and end up believing in it too - like a form of Stockholm Syndrome.
Its a weird one for sure.