Perez Hilton, The Queen of Mean:  A blogger with a name, but no "mean"ing  Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

 

In the beginning, I was okay with Perez Hilton.  For like, five minutes.  The guy played a huge part in making a name for bloggers; he apparently has a lot of sources, because he's "broken" stories on his very own; and he seems like a likeable guy.  For five minutes.

I've e-mailed him in the past:  sent him articles on topics that have a lot of interest, but make a difference in the world.  With the amount of traffic he has - whether or not he got there riding on the coattails of "celebrities" - he could make real strides.  Not just fluff stuff, not just rumors and sketching stupid obscenities on celebs.  He could choose to plant some positivity in there.  His site gets around 7 million visitors per day.  He chooses not to.

He's in the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine, which is entitled, "Perez Hilton:  The Queen of Mean; How a pudgy TV addict from Miami became the Most Hated Man in Hollywood."  I think a large part of why Perez gained so much popularity is because he's not afraid to speak his mind.  Which is good; except that he reserves his rants for the likes of Britney Spears, Nicole Ritchie, Lindsay Lohan, you get it (and mostly omits Paris Hilton from the mix, since they're "friends").  The closest he's come to activism is telling his readers to boycott Britney Spears, because she's "supid, like stupid stupid.  A dumb, druggie, awful bitch."  Oh, okay.  Rolling Stone writes:

"What he does with his blog mainly is scrawl nasty, snarky comments on pictures of young Hollywood-type celebrities — Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie — and hand-doodle suspicious-looking little white dots around their noses, mouths and nether regions. It's lowest-common-denominator stuff, totally debasing, totally now, totally like he's getting even with those kids who pinched the fat on his back, and it's turned him into a sensation. He's got a book deal...When he reports that Fidel Castro is dead, legitimate news outlets take him seriously (for a second)."

And when he bitches about celebs, it seems to serve no purpose at all, since he continues to cover those same people, drawing the crowd in, spreading the darkness that is today's incessant obsession with "celebrity."  It is a shame, because he's out there with a voice now, he's paved the way for many bloggers - but he just doesn't get it.

   

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