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Posted by Tomte 3 days ago

Reasons not to become famous (2020)(tim.blog)
163 points | 132 commentspage 3
nephihaha 3 days ago|
Johns Hopkins is a loaded university with global backers. It doesn't need much more promotion.

On the other hand there is probably some obscure college that does worthwhile research and gets little funding.

luxuryballs 3 days ago||
I get so much scam bait and phishing emails that I don’t bother reading I can’t imagine even bothering to read threats and similar crazy person emails.
theodric 3 days ago||
Having been briefly regionally known when I was a kid, I can tell you that it gets fucking annoying having to deal with your adoring public after the novelty of it wears off. Sometimes you're just in line for the toilet and really need to piss.
kayo_20211030 3 days ago||
What an unbearably tedious fellow he is. What was worse? The boasting, the pathetic pleading for understanding, or the sanctimonious preaching? Too rich, too famous, too hurt; how bad? It's 2025. Did he become less tedious since he wrote this piece?
mannicken 3 days ago||
>As you might imagine, dating can be a quagmire of liabilities and bear traps.

I did not imagine that at all. In fact, I, like I imagine many other young men, thought that becoming famous would certainly solve their dating problems forever.

That certainty has disappeared. Thanks for sharing this.

>The point is this: you don’t need to do anything wrong to get death threats, rape threats, etc. You just need a big enough audience.

Jesus fucking christ, that is a very believable and plausible thought. Even in these 93 comments I'm already seeing people who most likely don't know this dude and somehow decided to dislike him.

_RPM 3 days ago||
This guy seems like a sociopath