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submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by Alpha71 to c/asklemmy
 

I know this is weird, but someone whom I follow, I recently discovered had an OF.

Now I'm not knocking them for it. It's just that everything they present to the public is the complete opposite of someone whom (purely in my opinion) would never do something like that.

I dunno it's just something odd I wasn't expecting.

*Edit: Fuck it. It's Alice Winterhold. There. Are you happy now? Perhaps you'll understand now...

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[–] partial_accumen 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

it’s just that their online persona

This is the bit right here that is most important. Someone online isn't required to represent everything that they are there. In fact, appealing to a specific audience usually means tailoring yourself to a persona that appeals to that audience and subtracts anything that would offend them, as you want to retain them.

I imagine this is a big component of being a public figure or celebrity. You have a specific image you want to project to the world. Bill Cosby had a public image of the clean comedy (and eventually) father figure, while is private life included things that were very much different from that.

[–] Alpha71 2 points 7 hours ago

True enough. And I don't care, like I said, just surprised. This person isn't like Cosby (as far as i know😜)