Humans are capable of having a serious crush on a prominent person they've never met. And the system exploits this. The stars themselves are not innocent of this either. They know how they are perceived and they like the money, and some like the (normal) attention. This goes for both male and female stars.

In the end, they are the ones getting dressed up and going on stage to move their bodies for the pleasure of the crowd. There are plenty of other ways to make money in a capitalist system. You can't blame capitalism. The stars chose the life.

I've never studied it, so I'm curious if this phenomenon occurs in true Marxist/Leninist societies, which many people see as the opposite of capitalism. Surely stars still exist? Money still exists in those societies and surely people spend it on entertainers.

Changing the system won't stop it. The only way to stop producers and entertainers from exploiting base human emotions is to outlaw exploiting base human emotions, and man... any government with the absolute power to do that is going to be dystopian. But, hey, ads would be outlawed!

The "victims" themselves—the lonely guys at home being brainwashed into falling in love with a star—are also not blameless since they allowed themselves to be put in that position by consuming that kind of media.

People are barely evolved apes. We won't figure this shit out for another million years of evolution. We have emotions. Everyone exploits them and allows themselves to be exploited. Plenty of blame to go around.

I'm just high and rambling. Don't take anything I said too seriously, because I don't believe any of it with any real conviction.

™Whatever the hell that means.

(I don't know how to type a dagger on my phone, so I hope you liked my footnote mark. It kinda felt appropriate. Almost don't even need the footnote.)