#billionaire celebrity

[probablyasocialecologist]

[jimothy-hopkins]

Jimmy’s mom has to have the craziest mom lore I just know it

[sinister-yet-satisfying]

New goal unlocked: Make billionaires cry

Cyber bully billionaires. If you have the opportunity, bully them to their faces. Make them cry. Make them scared to leave their houses. Terrorize them.

Break out the guillotine if you’re feeling ambitious.

[gamemakerm]

what do you call five billionaires at the bottom of the ocean? A good start

[houseofbrat]

What do most people not understand about what it’s like to be a personal assistant to very rich people? A lot of people think, Oh, it’s red carpets and Lamborghinis, but most of your job is sitting behind a desk. Even when you’re on the road with a client, you’re isolated in many ways. One family I was traveling with for three months, they had profound inherited wealth and they just wanted privacy, even from each other. So we were getting these big villas that were very quiet. Each person would go to their own wing, with their own kitchenette and fridge, and we’d keep it stocked with what they wanted and they wouldn’t have to see anybody. Sometimes they would give me their phone and be like, “I don’t want to talk to anybody. If anything important comes in, deal with it.” And that might go on for days.

[...]

Why do you think people get stingy about these salaries when they have so much money? They delude themselves because when they put out a job opening, and it says $80,000, they get hundreds of applications. What they don’t understand is that it’s not about quantity, it’s about quality. When you hire people who are gawkers, who are opportunistic, who don’t have a lot of experience and will work for $80,000 to be in proximity to fame, you’re guaranteed to have problems down the line. Eventually, everything falls apart and people start suing. And when a celebrity or billionaire gets sued, they never win. They lose every single time. The case never goes to court because nobody wants their dirty laundry out there.

Another reason these people get stingy is that there’s some kind of psychological distortion that happens when everyone fawns over you all the time. The VIP’s mentality is, “Hey, this person should be paying me, because they get to be around greatness.” They’re used to having people want a piece of them. So they think that the job is such an amazing opportunity that they shouldn’t have to pay the person what they’re actually worth. They live in a bubble and their reality is warped.

[...]

After more than ten years of working for high-net-worth families and individuals, I decided to start my own operation, recruiting and placing PAs for the same type of clients. A lot of other staffing agencies deal primarily with nannies and housekeepers. But finding a highly skilled person who you can trust with all your secrets is incredibly difficult — people want to hire an Ivy League–educated executive assistant who’s worked for a billionaire before and has recommendation letters. And just because someone worked for one billionaire doesn’t mean they’re going to be good in another environment with someone else. We are aligning the hard skills and the soft skills and the personality traits to make a perfect match that’s going to last for 5, 10, or 20 years. The high-net-worth families don’t want to be blowing through assistants every year. They have a lot to lose, and it’s hard for them to trust people.

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Are there situations where, after you embed yourself with a client, you realize they’re just too much of a nightmare to keep on? Oh, yes. I learned some very hard lessons. There was this one billionaire who had, it could only be described as a dungeon in his basement, for fetishes and stuff like that. With another client, I literally lied and said I was going to the bathroom, and I just escaped. There are times when I get into the mix and I’m like, “I’m out of here.” I’ve been in a couple situations where I was really worried about people’s behavior, especially with all the drugs and alcohol.

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What are some of the “soft” skills that you mentioned that PAs need to have to be successful? You have to have thick skin. You’re like a rhinoceros or an armadillo. And you have to have incredible patience. The way you word things is so important. Your intonation and speed of delivery — I mean, it’s an art. You’re working for people who are not used to hearing no.

One example: I was working for a prince, and in the Middle East, he’s a pretty big deal. But outside of that world, nobody knows who he is; he’s just another wealthy guy. So he got this crazy idea that he wanted to meet this big-deal Hollywood celebrity. I got on the phone with the right person who worked in that celebrity’s inner circle. And they said, “We might be able to do it, but here’s the set of circumstances under which it could happen.” So when I explained to the VIP that, if he wanted to meet this celebrity, he would need to make a donation to the celebrity’s favorite charity and do these other things, he exploded in anger. It went on for two days. He was running around screaming, “No, people pay to meet me.” He lost his mind.

So I learned an important lesson: It would’ve just been better for me to say that I couldn’t do it. You have to get to know the rhythms of the person you’re working for, and there’s certain ways that you have to say things. And you have to know when it’s better to not say anything or tell little fibs. The use of collective pronouns is very important — saying “we” instead of you or I. Sometimes when you’re working with people who have inherited wealth — they just walk into money and never had a job and don’t understand how the real world works — they’ll ask you to do something profoundly ridiculous, and you can’t tell them how dumb the idea is.

How do you deal with boundaries, personally, when clients cross them? It’s hard. You get sucked in, and the water becomes very muddy. A lot of these people are lonely. They’re in their megamansion all alone with you, and then they’ve had a couple lines, and then they’re telling you all their problems, and you become like a psychiatrist. It’s tricky.

Personally, I know other people in the business, and I would sometimes call them and say, “What do you do in this situation?” And we’d give each other advice. The big stars, they have a whole army of people that work for them, the agents and the managers and the doctors and the lawyers. But those people are only interacting with them intermittently at best. The PA is the one that’s there in the trench, day in and day out, year in and year out. You have to know your place, though, too. A lot of VIPs are obsessive about the people around them. They’re constantly in a state of mental torture because they think other people want something from them — usually their money. So you want to make sure you keep both feet on the ground, because it can all be taken away.

How do you keep from being starstruck or intimidated by the people you work with? You get used to it. It’s a business. And when you meet these people, most of the time, you’re going to be disappointed. Either because they’re mean, or they’re just not like what you thought they were going to be like. The Hollywood publicity machine creates a certain image, and it’s very rare to meet a celebrity who is genuinely an amazing, brilliant, kind, humane person to everyone all the time. Once you’ve been around it enough, those butterflies start to go away.

[wendig1rl]

While swifties are coming for my ass about taylors' carbon emissions no longer being as bad as some other celebrities, let's list some other horrible things she's done:

1. Refusal to so much as speak out about Palestine (to her billions of fans), let alone donate even a penny.

2. Blatant disrespect to music icon Celine dion.

3. Dragging lana del rey on stage as a means of asserting dominance, disguised as an honorary gesture.

4. Threatening to sue a collage student for "stalking and harassment" after he used public information to track her private jet usage.

5. Capitalising on feminism, despite never actually supporting feminist organisations.

6. Appropriation of black culture and romaticisation of colonialism.

And to answer the age-old question of "well why drag Taylor swift when alot of other artist are doing the same things she does?"

I do drag other artists. And them coincidentally also being horrible people does not make taylors actions any better, and the difference between her and other artists is that she is a fucking billionaire. There is no ethical way on this entire earth to become a billionaire. She is not a feminist. She does not care about you or your rights.

[whywoulditho]

last week my friend sent me a screenshot of her top spotify artists and was like "how tf is taylor swift my number one artist i literally just listened to one of her songs yesterday ONCE." since we're control freaks we like to stalk our own consumption so we go on this website called statsforspotify like every week to check our top lists and send each other etc. so upon hearing this and laughing at her a bit i went to see my own list and miss taylor was on my top 10 too.

but here's the thing, i literally have her BLOCKED on my spotify. like i could not have listened to any of her songs even accidentally. but somehow she seemed to make it all the way to the sixth place on my list. the website gives you a listening history graph for each artist and when i looked at hers it showed a huge jump in the last four days. here's the graph and her profile on my spotify that literally shows the blocked icon (🚫)

but i would remember if i had listened to her that much in the last four freaking days.

so my theory is that either there's a bug in the website... or miss taylor swift is quite humiliatingly buying streams. and that's the funniest fucking thing i've seen in a long time so i had to share it. she's so desperate. this isn't even a hate post, i genuinely don't care if you enjoy her music. i just hate her as a person and i blocked her on every platform and stopped streaming her music a few months ago with the #BlockOut2024 movement. i'm not trying to catch beef with swifties here, literally stay away from me. but you have to admit this is fucking hilarious. america's sweetheart is so desperate to be the number one in every single chart on the planet that she released dozens of different versions of the same lame ass songs and released dozens of different vinyls of the album with slightly different shades just to recover from what she lost in the blockout, and now she's so pissed she's no longer number one on spotify that she's BUYING STREAMS 😭😭

she's like a spoiled little rich kid stomping her feet crying that not everyone is paying attention to her

[lilithism1848]

[graveyardfullofstars]

[the-posh-life]

[minimalistdigitalism]

So I saw something about Swifties For Palestine trending over on Twitter? I don't have a Twitter account anymore (I deleted it 2 years ago thank god), but I wanted to remind everyone that you can block people on Spotify.

Go to their account on the Spotify app, click the three dots next to the follow button, and select "Don't play this artist". This will block them.

I recommend doing this with Taylor Swift if you want to make an impact on how much money she makes since she's a top played artist on Spotify.

[mysharona1987]

[tom-whore-dleston]

Bestieeeee! I was reading this book, where the mmc is a grumpy billionaire with a golden retriever personality with a dirty mouth 😩. He has a possessive side when he’s involve with the mfc. I imagine this with Adam Warlock hehe

Creations: select a hottie + scenario/AU/trope/prompt** and I will a playlist/moodboard/fic (please specify the creation you are requesting)

omfg I am sooo tempted to make this Honey Baby 2.0 klsfjkahjkhgl bc I picture a lot of wholesome exchanges between them in the beginning of the relationship but then as time progresses the seggsy stuff becomes more unhinged that Adam's subordinates always side eye him when he says he has "important meetings" to attend to

[fireangelsstuff]

This is what those in Hollywood decided to stay silent on

[hyunjining]

the way that the whole world revolves around taylor swift right now was annoying before but now it’s starting to make me unbelievably angry like she literally has the power to get the white house to call for ai legislation but she won’t leverage her enormous amounts of social capital to condemn israel or even call for a ceasefire. the american government is cartoonishly evil so maybe that would influence them or maybe it wouldn’t but god she could at least try

[mello-jello]

inspired by this shirt I just bought: https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Billionaires-Are-Not-Your-Friends-by-HeberJones/117823713.LKTGZ