Why certain fans defend celebrities even if they kill / rape / assault someone ?
I think we need to look into the psychology behind this . There might be people who might benefit from this post . That's why i wanted to post this because the recent BTS / Chris Brown controversy clearly showed a division between Army . Certain fans stood with their morals even though they love BTS madly . Certain fans are defending BTS . Certain go to the extent to even report an organisation which donate to DV victims.
There are 3 type of fans who are defending BTS right now.
Category 1 - These people dont have morals. It is as simple as that.
Category 2 - These people have morals. But they lack self love severely. So only thing they do is in life to feel loved is being obsessed with celebrities and form a parasocial relationship with them . In the process, they build their own reality of who these celebrities are which actually is completely different from these celebrities' real personality. So these fans think that their version of these celebrities are incapable of doing anything wrong. So whatever these celebrities do , they come up with different excuses to protect their imagination that these celebrities are doing nothing wrong , so they can continue to stan them without their moral compass judging them. In their own make believe reality , they have morals , their idols are simply not doing anything wrong.
- Some people have no Empathy. When they have no empathy , they cannot understand what these domestic violence / rape victims are gping through
It is as simple as that.
If the fans who falls under the 2nd category start to love themselves and connecting with real life freinds , getting exposed to real life and getting educated on different social issues /feminism /humanity /self growth and self love , they actually can get better and recover from this fucked up mindset.
But first of all , they need to accept the reality that the reason why they are this parasocial is because they do not love themselves. They seek that missing love within someone who is not actually available to them. Secondly , they themsekves should get the need to get out of this parasocial situation. Third , they need to take neccesary steps to get out of it , such as , going therapy , consuming self growth self love content. Trying to bomd with real life people and start having real life relationships. Or focus on own goals. If they do all these , these people can change.
Theres no hope for category 3 at all. They simply cant understand what is wrong.
Maybe there is a hope for category 1. If morals can be taught later in life or if something happens to them which leads towards them developing morals themselves . Then maybe they will change.