Our pop culture critic has seen blog culture boom, bust and bounce right back. When you write or talk publicly about your personal life, she writes, people feel entitled to know how the story ends.
if you must) also emphasized the ways in which YouTube contains elements of 2003-ish blog culture and journaling. Fulmer is what people refer to as a"Wife Guy," a guy whose public image is very much centered on his loving relationship with his wife. So obviously, this revelation about cheating was an issue.In early blogs and online journals, pseudonyms were very common for the people in your life, and even for yourself.
So did single people who wrote breezy, almost Carrie Bradshaw-like diaries about this and that, jobs and dating and what have you. And one of the first things they learned was that when you thrive as a storyteller about your own life, people begin to feel entitled to know everything. It was even harder, I think, for people who were dating. Somebody would be writing about a boyfriend called Blue Eyes for months, and then nothing. The respectful thing for a reader to do, of course, would be to let it go, to understand that people break up, and if the person wanted to write about it, they would. This is not usually what happened.
I'm not sure you lose your YouTube job because you cheated on your wife, exactly. And I'm not even sure the real issue is that your likability is damaged, even though that's probably part of it. I think you lose your YouTube job when you shatter the illusion that you are a character defined by your — and I apologize to those of you who hate this word — content.
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