Of course

I have heard of The Weekend. I have no idea who they are, what they're famous for, what they look like, if they're a person or a group, or anything about them. I also legitimately have no idea if you're meant to pronounce the 'e' in Grande, people have told me, I just don't care enough to remember.

Yes. And there's also famous people you have never heard of.

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Ariana Grande or The Weekend

Uhhh... the first one's a pop singer I've still never heard a single song by, and the 2nd one's how we spend our SAT & SUN's?

Heh, am I close?

I'm sure my parents don't know who either of them are.

At some point in your life, you didn't know who any famous people were.

The Weekend are?

Like Saturday and Sunday?

Famous where? I bet you don't know famous people that are only famous in their country.

Edit: tell me who Lola Flores, Camarón de la Isla or Robe Iniesta are.

I know Ariana Grande and The Weekend are singers.

But if you printed out 9 pictures of a vaguely hispanic woman singer, and 1 picture of her, I would have a 1 in 10 chance I point her out.

Same thing with The Weekend.

And I'm sure you could name 20 names, 10 of them famous people, 10 are random names from the phone book. I would have zero confidence in knowing rather than guessing, who the famous people are.

Who the fuck is The Weekend?

You went with Ariana Grande and The Weekend as your example?

There's a lot more famous people out there.

Who?

What?

Like totally

Those are people and not the last part of a week and a font?

Yes. We just have different priorities.

I have no idea who "The Weekend" is.

Absolutely, and there no shame in that whatsoever, our world is currently full of people who are famous for being famous, a singer/rapper for every citizen, everyone is a dj, or an influencer, even politicians and faceless droops, you know who you know and the rest are just background noise

Of course.

Not everyone consumers mainstream media.

I hadn't heard of the weekend until a couple of months ago and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Also https://m.xkcd.com/1053/

Tig Notaro used to have a show where celebrities would come on, she would interview them, and at the end she had to guess who they were. So, yes, even famous people who live in LA don't necessarily know who other famous people are.

Damn are y'all actually falling for such obvious bait

I know who The Weeknd is (and how to spell his name — it always irks me that it's missing a letter, but it makes his name more memorable, because it makes one think about how it's different). I'm not familiar with his music.

There are people in the world who don't know who a lot of famous people are. Consider someone in Europe who knows quite a bit about association football (called soccer in the US, but they just call it football). In the US, you might know David Beckham was a soccer (sorry, football) player. You might even know what team (sorry, squad) he was on, but you might not know too many more. Someone in Europe might be able to name ten footballers off the top of their head, maybe tell you what position they play and who they play for.

American music and movies are pretty much known everywhere, but it's also kind of regional. I've moved around a lot, and I've met people who swear up and down they never heard of bands I grew up listening to. They're objectively famous, they sold many millions of albums, they were on MTV, but it's possible to have just missed them. Same with movies and games.

Famous people are like fashion trends and pass like the seasons, and are about as meaningful. Eventually you give up caring about trying to keep up.

They're all narcissists, anyway.

Yes.

Very much possible. I have seen the names you mention but I've got no idea what either are famous for.

If I had to guess I'd say porn star and binge drinking.

It's pretty much the entire concept behind a Funny or Die show with Tig Notaro

https://deadline.com/video/funny-or-die-under-a-rock-with-tig-notaro-amazon-alexa-something-fierce/