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The Influence of Celebrities on Teenagers:

A Double-Edged Sword

Celebrities have always had a huge impact on important and critical social issues
society, be it defining new cultural trends or setting like gender equality, environmental
new beliefs. Their popularity has been widespread over awareness, education and mental
social media and in turn their influence on teenagers health. World famous band Coldplay
has grown stronger than ever before. Teenagers can for instance are determined to
now follow every step of their favorite actors, singers, reduce their Carbon footprints
athletes and social media influencers, whether it’s their through their enviornment friendly
normal diet or fashion trends, thanks to the modern concerts all over the world. With
world’s digitization. In addition to this, celebrities are this they encourage the current
known to influence society by supporting various social generation to be more proactive
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causes, some of which bring heated debates concerning on environmental issues. These D/o SRINIVAS.T
a person’s personality. These subtle aspects affect young aspects impart a positive light on Class: XII ‘B’ (CEC)
minds in both advantageous and detrimental ways. the society making the teens a CRPF PUBLIC SCHOOL GC RRY
bit more responsible towards the
Why Teens Admire Celebrities? world and themselves as well.
The current generation is still in the process of figuring out
their individuality- trying to identify their dreams, future Copying Celebrity Behaviour: On the other hand, there
goals, hidden talents and so on. On this quest they are are few celebrities who are known to live a luxurious and
bombarded with different choices. And sometimes these carefree life with unethical behaviour such as drug abuse,
choices are influenced by their immediate surroundings bad language, unhealthy relationships, and getting into
and the current generation’s irrelevant fights. The teens who 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
flawed, 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.

The Positive Side of Celebrity Influence
Movie stars, sports stars and social media influencers
immediat e have a valuable change as well. Several renowned
surrounding is their social media. Over here, personalities talk about critical topics like self-love,
teenagers look up to their idols and desire to be one mental health, and spreading positivity. Few of them also
of them. Whether it is their confidence, fashion sense, represent our Indian culture at global level. These people
lifestyle or even their diet, teens want to copy them all. have made India proud and are indeed an inspiration
to us. The recent Olympics win of Manu Bhaker, for
Fashion and Beauty Trends: The modern world tends to shooting has motivated many young
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 few
social causes is well spread across the society with
the help of celebrity advertisements. Some celebrity
individuals are known for raising awareness about few
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