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The Influence of Celebrities on Teenagers:

A Double-Edged Sword

Celebrities have always had a huge impact few social causes is well spread
on the society, be it defining new cultural trends across the society with the help
or setting new beliefs. Their popularity has been of celebrity advertisements.
widespread over social media and in turn their Some celebrity individuals are
influence on teenagers has grown stronger than ever known for raising awareness
before. Teenagers can now follow the every step of about few important and
their favorite actors, singers, athletes, and social media critical social issues like gender
influencers, whether it’s their normal diet or fashion equality, environmental
trends, thanks to the modern world’s digitization. In awareness, education and
addition to this, celebrities are known to influence mental health. These aspects
society by supporting various social causes, some of impart a positive light on the
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personality. These subtle aspects affect young minds more responsible towards the CRPF PUBLIC SCHOOL GC RRY
in both advantageous and detrimental ways. world and themselves as well.

Why Teens Admire Celebrities? Copying Celebrity Behaviour: On the other hand,
there are few celebrities are known to live a luxurious
The current generation is still in the process of and carefree life with unethical behaviour such as
figuring out their individuality- trying to identify their drug abuse, bad language, unhealthy relationships,
dreams, future goals, hidden talents and so on. and getting into irrelevant fights. The teens who
On this quest they follow them might have a negative influence, such
incidents can affect their thinking and thought
process making them believe that it is acceptable to
have such behaviour in the society.

Social Media Pressure: Previously which was once
termed as peer pressure is now termed as social media
pressure. The fear of not keeping up with the current
beliefs and so called “trends” has severely affected
the teens. The teens try to make themselves fit into
the flawless, virtual world created by their celebrity
idols, which in turn leads to developing anxiety,
insecurities or low self-esteem if they don’t match
the standards that are set up by their celebrity idols.

are bombarded with The Positive Side of Celebrity Influence
different choices. And sometimes these choices
are influenced by their immediate surroundings and Movie stars, sports stars and social media influencers
the current generation immediate surrounding is have a valuable change as well. Several renowned
their social media. Over here, teenagers look up to personalities talk about critical topics like self-love,
their idols and desire to be one of them. Whether it is mental health, and spreading positivity. Few of them
their confidence, fashion sense, lifestyle or even their also represent our Indian culture at
diet, teens want to copy them all. global level. These

Fashion and Beauty Trends: The modern world tends
to focus more on the physical appearances. Majority
of the importance is given to the way we look and the
way we dress. In order to make themselves relevant
with respect to the current fashion norms, teens tend
to follow their favorite celebrities, sometimes going
to extremes to fit in with these beauty standards,
which can be harmful for their health.

Social Values and Causes: Awareness regarding