Quote Originally Posted by Payadopa View Post
To be honest, while it's sad, so is every mother's death. I honestly don't get why people who are in front of a camera get put on this pedestal. I see people die in my job very often so to me singling out certain individuals based on screen-time borders on absurdity. But then again I never understood the concept of celebrities either.

We live in a society, I guess?
Cause they entertain people, so their fans feel with them out of exactly that reason cause they have a positive connotation to them which makes them care. Based on the service they provide to their fans. Same as most XIV players would be devastated if Yoshi P. or any of the devs would fall ill or anything like that. Cause we have this positive connection with them since they give us joy and happiness.

And as cruel as that now might sound, you don't provide joy and happiness nor any valuable things to a broad audience thus nobody gives a fork about what happens to you since we need to limit the amount of feeling with others, otherwise we would just constantly suffer since people die all the time all around us like flies.

It's the same reason why you would feel sad if the wife of your brother would die, i mean you have no need to be sad if you just go after the logic of things. Doesn't really affect your own personal life but you still feel, hopefully, sad cause it affects your brother and through that you. Taking out of account that you might had a really close relationship to her.

tl;dr: Entertainers make brain go brrr with goody good feeling chemicals, brain wants more of that. Brain feels sad when something happens to that stimulation which interrupts the brrr time they give your brain.