The media revolves around a cycle of people wanting to be celebrities, the celebrities, and the paparazzi. To get a glimpse of how obsessed people actually are with celebrity, the documentary brought up some appalling evidence from a survey. The survey asked people which job they would most want to have, the survey included jobs such as CEO of a large company, US Senator, Chairman of Harvard University, and as well as the personal assistant to a celebrity. Forty-two percent of the population the survey targeted answered with assistant to a celebrity, causing it to take most desirable job by that population. This is ridiculous because just the assistant to a celebrity was picked over a variety of incredibly more prestigious careers with a much higher income rate and social status.
Society seems to have an undying hunger to relate themselves to celebrity whenever we can, this therefore means that we want to know as much as we possibly can about complete strangers! In the documentary “Teenage Paparazzo” they brought up an interesting point of how society obsesses over celebrities in order to try to make their lives seem less boring, when we see celebrities showing signs of imperfection, we often feel closer to them and evidently, we would then feel better about our own lives. Paparazzi feed society’s undying hunger for celebrity news by stalking them obsessively. Paparazzi are always trying to get that perfect shot, as evident in the documentary where there would be crowds of paparazzi around a celebrity doing something, like for example, Paris Hilton in her car. They would even stay up all night editing and looking at photos, like Austin would do in the documentary. Often this leads to paparazzi swarming celebrities, preventing them from living their lives comfortably, sometimes even leading to injury.
Paparazzi are usually also invading the celebrity’s privacy, through their obsessive nature. This can