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The Influence of Celebrities on Teenagers:

A Double-Edged Sword

Celebrities have always had a significant impact few critical social issues like gender
on society, from shaping cultural trends or setting new equality, environmental awareness,
beliefs. With the rise of social media, their popularity has education, and mental health.
reached unprecedested levels, and their influence on World famous band Coldplay
teenagers has grown stronger than ever before. Teenagers for instance is determined to
can now closely follow every step of their favorite actors, reduce their Carbon footprints
singers, athletes, and social media influencers, whether through their environment friendly
it’s their normal diet or fashion trends, thanks to the concerts all over the world. With
modern world’s digitization. Additionally, 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 Do 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, Copying Celebrity Behaviour: On the other hand, there
future goals, hidden talents, and so on. On this quest they are few celebrities who are known to live a luxurious and
are bombarded with different choices. 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 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 can also bring about valuable change. Many 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. A few of them
of them. Whether it is their confidence, fashion sense, also represent our Indian culture at a global level. These
lifestyle or even their diet, teens want to copy them all. people have made India proud and are indeed an
inspiration to us. The recent Olympic win of Manu Bhaker,
Fashion and Beauty Trends: The modern world tends for shooting has motivated many
to focus more on physical appearances. The majority of
the importance is given to the way we look and the way
we dress. In order to make themselves relevant for 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 to their
health.

Social Values and Causes: Awareness regarding a
few social causes is well spread across society with
the help of celebrity advertisements. Some celebrity
individuals are known for raising awareness about a

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