So, it's only a matter of how much of a following they have?
As far as it concerns potential consequences, yes.
Much followers = much exposure.
Such exposure can result in good publicity or it can result in bad publicity.
I think that's kind of obvious.
I'm not sure I see it that way. Even if it's a low level employee at McDonald's, if they say or do something outrageous, there might be pressure on McDonald's to fire them
Only if there are actual complaints about it and / or if it goes "public" / "viral".
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it's "less bad" if a no-name says such things. I'm just saying that statements by someone with 20 million followers are much more "public" and go around a lot faster and a lot more.
So if she makes a dubious statement, she'll get burned in world media. It'll go viral in no time.
If the "no-name" with 5 followers says something 100x worse, likely it won't leave that inner circle of 5 friends.
That's the difference.
But to be honest, I wasn't even aware that Gina Carano existed before this incident.
Sure. But the millions of people who have seen The Mandalorian are aware of her.
I also don't think that being famous on the internet gives people that much "power."
Off course it does. Just about every hype of the last 10 years was started on twitter / instagram / failbook.
It nevertheless is a public platform with a reach of millions of people. A reach which is, furthermore, unprecedented in world history. You press "send" and within 5 seconds, millions of phones around the world buzz to notify you of the post that was just made.
There's a reason why companies pay billions to failbook and scroogle for "advertisement" through social media and whatnot.... Or why they pay millions to a Neymar or Ronaldo or Kardashian for a SINGLE tweet post in which they express their supposed love for some product or another.
I think that level of celebrity "power" is only reserved for a select few. The Beatles or Elvis might have had power, but the Cowsills or the Partridge Family - not so much, even if they were famous and had some measure of a public following.
This is another day and age.
I have genuinely wondered how Elvis, The Beatles or any of those other "old legends" would fair in today's landscape.
It's simply the times. It is what it is.
Honestly if I were famous and didn't have that "legendary" status where you excel so much in your field that people tend to turn a blind eye to your missteps from time to time.... I'ld probably try and stay far away from expressing opinions about anything on "social media".
I'm absolutely certain that she merely sent a casual thought and didn't think about it too much and didn't see any harm in it either. Perhaps she's dumb and ignorant, perhaps she's just naive, I don't know...
I don't think she meant harm anyway.
But the times are as they are. People are obsessed with PC and social media is taken FAR too seriously overall anyway.
I think social media is a societal cancer and the sooner it disappears, the better.