Are fans still a problem ?

I sort of knew one of them, who even has his own documentary out now!

The public at large seems to have largely turned against celebrities. Bad content and overabundance of streaming shows meant theater audiences shrank, and covid was the nail in the coffin. On top of that, social media has brought celebrities into the public and made us all aware of how moronic a lot of them are. Celebrities and movies don't have the same "mystique" that they used to, and it's never been easier to make your own movie and upload it online, making you a "filmmaker" and "artist" just as much as them.

I've been lost in Beverly Hills a few times and the neighborhoods the celebrities live in are really sad to me. They buy these ridiculous mansions with giant walls all around so nobody can see them, and then they can't see outside either. Driving around some areas feels like driving around a giant maze with walls and gates on all sides of you and you're not allowed to park anywhere just to walk around. I've been to Chevy Chase's house and it was much more modest and accessible, but then again it's not like he's a giant star with legions of fans and stalkers anymore.

Is TMZ even a thing anymore? I remember once on Melrose seeing Lady Gaga walking around shopping around 2010 and she had 3-4 people following her around with cameras. I would guess Paparrazzi's still exist but it's probably not nearly as lucrative as it used to be since printed tabloids are over.

So in the end, I think there are still fans out there, but the mentally ill majorly obsessed ones have other things to distract them, their appetite is whet by social media interactions, and there's a lot less stars these days major enough to accrue a huge army of fans. Taylor Swift probably has a lot of deranged fans, but someone like John Travolta or Morgan Freeman can probably walk around in public and only occasionally get approached by people for selfies, etc. That's about the sum of harrassment these days.