That the murder of Christina Grimmie from a fan who tells the influencer YouTube culture

Christina Grimmie was Hannah Montana, careers in the television industry Children parlayed a talented player like Disney starlets in pop music. At the age of 15 in 2009 Grimmie uploaded one of his first title on YouTube – (played by Montana in an eponymous TV series), a cover of Party in the USA Miley Cyrus. E ‘went viral. In 2011, they released their first EP, then moved to Los Angeles. In 2014 came to American television talent show The Voice, their popularity extends beyond their third million subscribers. All the while they kept the Upload Video, knowing that it would be important that staff, unfiltered connection to keep up with their fans. Little did they themselves know the difficulties that would bring. On 10 June 2016, following a concert in Orlando, Florida, instead Grimmie a meet-and-greet for their fans. One of them was Kevin James Loibl, a 27-year-old from nearby is located in St. Petersburg, who finished with two pistols and a hunting knife. As Grimmie autographs, Loibl shot four times, then turned the gun on himself. Grimmie was pronounced dead later that evening. He was 22. Local police said the shooter had a “delirium unrealistic” shown with Grimmie. The desire of fans obsessive injuries to famous people is not new (John Lennon founded in 1980, Gianni Versace murdered in 1997 by fans who felt with them some sort of property or relationship), but YouTube even more, that obsession can food. First, there is the apparent closeness of the relationship between star and fan, with the creator launch mentioned in his video and fixing social multimedia messages directly into the lens – and therefore the viewer’s eyes. Second, the stars should be more accessible than traditional celebrities, shown in Grimmie meet-and-greet, common and YouTube pop stars like them. More than a quarter of people aged between 18 and 24 told pollsters ask for this piece who know KSI (another famous YouTuber) good. Viewers feel that intensive environment: 47% of Millennials in an Ipsos poll Connect admitted that YouTube improves their mood or health. Instead of rotating the phone to a friend picking her favorite YouTuber. Ian Danskin, a YouTube user contributions essays on new media, film and video games, saying: “Internet fame creates the same feeling that a person is a celebrity, but also that this person is your friend. After these two things happen at the same time (not just this person is known and judged by celebrities rules, but it also has a close access to them and depend on the way you would if you behaved bad friend) is fun. “Many viewers want to approach the their YouTube hero. in January 2019, Birmingham city center, was the second city in Britain, is brought to a halt when the make-up artist and James Charles model in a make-up shop in Birmingham Bullring appeared shopping center. three years of experience on YouTube to get his 20 years, Charles has more than 14 million subscribers, calling sisters. Eight thousand people in Birmingham thrown to see him, many driven by their parents. While the worst traffic jams at 02:00 of the day would be what is normally a bus in 15 minutes it took her 75 minutes. in February 2018 decided that a fan has even closer to the post office wanted to get INEM other big YouTuber, Logan Paul. Twenty years Tahj Deondre Speight decided to break into $7 million of Paul home in San Fernando Valley in California. If the YouTuber returned home with his father at 22.00, Speight was asleep on the living room sofa, recharging your cell phone into an electrical outlet under a small table. As a father of Paul grabbed the intruder, Paul phoned Speight: “Yo, who the hell are you? My boy, we’re damn darkness [point] you.” Although the shots on camera and uploaded to YouTube Paul was caught, the police confirmed the incident really happened, say that Speight told them that he wanted to meet YouTubers. One of the many reasons brother Jake Logan left his house for rent that fans was, would stake out his front door of his neighbors patience was tested. Whenever the media report these incidents, they do it with astonishment, but they should not. YouTube has created a new dynamic between fans and stars. Creators feel with fan in their triumphs and fans to achieve a sense of belonging of these achievements. This tends to treat adults who have never been within 100 miles of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. British newspapers derided as the news that Joe Sugg vlogger a candidate of the BBC talent show high-rating Strictly Come Dancing in August 2018. Four months later he was in the final Sugg. Despite his lanky limbs and awkward posture, 27-year-old Sugg the road to the final was smoothed by a growing agile dance ability, yes, but the choice for him in the public vote for a dedicated following, about 30 or 40 times a week. The organizer of the Summer online video festival in the City Tom Burns points out that Zoella Sugg sister, and her boyfriend Alfie Deyes are flattered similarly. “For a while there was when people would make videos and say, ‘I went to Brighton Pier down and 200 is shown, it was crazy,'” says Burns. At first glance, this sounds like a compliment for the 200 fans – so 200 more the next time would be up. fans would start the movements of her favorite YouTube monitoring, the location of social triangulation multimedia messages (either because this generation of celebrities is always a little ‘light on their personal prestige living considered authentic) hoping to catch a glimpse of them. Burns watched a video of a tour Deyes charged him and Sugg were under the book tour Zoella to London to do. He says: “The fans taxi banging on the window surrounded tried to get their attention. [Deyes] says this is crazy, but at the same time the fans do not want to strike while umming and aahing with how it’s gone too far. What for create necessary when it occurred. “it has exceeded a limit, and new rules (perhaps better now called fans) of the interactions between creators and viewers. Therefore, the summer in the city now has a backstage. Burns said: “It ‘was the first outbreak of,’ This is so cool, I have this huge fan base, come see me, ‘and then,’ Actually, guys, when we’re in public, we want to be private ; See above our walls are not sent to Hause.’Die boundaries further and further away. “Burns finally change. “Yandex have become less accessible,” he says. “Some people say it’s good for some people say that it is for the worse, I think it’s one of those things where, as it has always gotten more popular, it is inevitable.” Almost every year on video or newspaper interviews, Zoella and Deyes not plead to visit their home, to try and meet their fans. In 2017, Deyes told The Telegraph that he and his girlfriend face running daily operations in their life from parents to their door their children. “I’m always polite, but the way I see it, not even my mother shows uninvited,” he said. Christina Grimmie the murder was “a big wake-up call for many YouTuber”, according to the website of the historic unofficial Anthony D’Angelo. important personalities of the site have begun their meeting individual protection; VidCon (another online video festival) this year made major changes to security, the talent to keep the event safe visit. “It survives this rhetoric of equity for a long period of YouTube,” said D’Angelo. There was a belief that the playing field has been leveled; Media had been democratized, and success could come to anyone. “In many ways this is true, but it brings problems.” Until Grimmie early death, people knew that that would be more open, democratic manner in which YouTube has encouraged links between creators and viewers a problem. After his murder, he realized that there was a problem. This piece is an excerpt taken from YouTube: YouTube rocked as TV and a new generation of stars, published by Press Canbury (2 May 2019) created
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