When should celebrities and influencers be held accountable, or at least be expected to adapt their content based on their audience and its impressionablity?
When should celebrities and influencers be held accountable, or at least be expected to adapt their content based on their audience and its impressionablity?
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When they’re aiming their content at vulnerable populations: children, the elderly, etc. Grown adults should be expected to cultivate their critical thinking skills so they can spot grifters.
They should be responsible anytime their content can cause harm or spread wrong ideas, especially to younger fans. Being popular means they have to think about how they affect others.
Perhaps a month after they are held accountable for their content which is not only factually wrong, but known to be wrong when presented.
When they make content for groups known to be impressionable or easily influenced/manipulated/taken advantage of, like children or gambling addicts.
Aside from that kind of case, it’s adults’ responsibility to do their own research and media diet curation for themselves, since most adults are capable of critical thought.
When they do something illegal.
They should be accountable for posting content beyond their expertise, particularly health advice (physical or mental), promoting potentially harmful supplements, get-rich-quick schemes, or hosting workshops without proper credentials.
When they post all their drama online like friend fallouts, family drama or relationship drama then expect us not to react bad or even good but have a opinion about then say guys please stay out of my mess!
Once you’re influencing behavior—not just opinions—you’re past the point of ‘I didn’t ask to be a role model.’ You don’t need to be perfect, but you should be aware of the impact you have.
Generally, no in a legal or regulatory sense.
The main impressionable group is minors. Kids. And unless the content is VERY CLEARLY targeting kids then it’s not on th content creator to monitor who watches. It’s on the child’s parent or guardian.