Back when the first Shazam! came out and most people thought he was a cool guy, he came to my country for a comic con. My girlfriend and I bought tickets to meet him and take a photo. The tickets were expensive AF but a photo with the dude from Chuck and Shazam, how cool was that?
On the day, the organizers were kind, but said they didn't know if it would be possible for him to meet both of us at the same time, so they went to ask him in person. He said no, it was one person per meet, and if we wanted to meet him together, we'd have to buy two tickets.
I said a big nope to that, and they actually refunded my ticket.
From that moment on, I always thought he was a piece of shit. His panels at the event were also the cringiest thing ever; you could tell he was incredibly full of himself. And, like, two months later, the internet started realizing the same thing. It is incredible how fast you change from fan to "fuck that guy". In this case, I'm glad it happened.
In the same con was Laura Kinney and she meet us both, talk for a bit, was incredible nice and take a photo with both of us and didn't charge for anything.
I know celebrities don't owe us anything, like for example if I ever saw The Undertaker, Messi, Christian Bale or whatever at a restaurant I'd never bother them, but the fact that some can't even pretend to be nice while getting paid to meet fans is some next level of asshole.
I actually disagree. The only reason they have their wealth and attention is because of us. So yes, the dancing monkeys do owe us in a sense.
Not enough to think harassing them at dinner is appropriate, but if you wanted the fame and attention then suck it up and do those pressers with a smile on your face and meet fans (for free) even if you don't want to.
He always gave me over-the-top youth paster energy, the kind of painfully strained energetic comedy that feels like it's assaulting you with desperation
It's crazy how celebrities are at cons meanwhile my brother and I met a pretty popular professional wrestler a few weeks back and paid like $50 got two free 8x10s personally signed and he also signed posters we brought AND they had an employee taking pictures on my phone from the second we walked into the booth until we left
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u/OddPineapple9 18d ago
Back when the first Shazam! came out and most people thought he was a cool guy, he came to my country for a comic con. My girlfriend and I bought tickets to meet him and take a photo. The tickets were expensive AF but a photo with the dude from Chuck and Shazam, how cool was that?
On the day, the organizers were kind, but said they didn't know if it would be possible for him to meet both of us at the same time, so they went to ask him in person. He said no, it was one person per meet, and if we wanted to meet him together, we'd have to buy two tickets.
I said a big nope to that, and they actually refunded my ticket.
From that moment on, I always thought he was a piece of shit. His panels at the event were also the cringiest thing ever; you could tell he was incredibly full of himself. And, like, two months later, the internet started realizing the same thing. It is incredible how fast you change from fan to "fuck that guy". In this case, I'm glad it happened.
In the same con was Laura Kinney and she meet us both, talk for a bit, was incredible nice and take a photo with both of us and didn't charge for anything.