Recently someone mentioned that they felt that they were being chased off on ddb and the new jason castro site by older fans. My response to this is the following:
It isn’t because they are older per se. Jason has always had a lot of older fans. What has happened is that for some reason….maybe because they unconsciously think they can BUY a piece of Jason,
It isn’t because they are older per se. Jason has always had a lot of older fans. What has happened is that for some reason….maybe because they unconsciously think they can BUY a piece of Jason, the fans left on the boards are older. But, it isn’t their age that is the issue…it is that they are possessive and jealous and want access to Jason. That is ALL they care about. Not all, but most. They chased off everyone who spoke up against the first serious problems with over the topness..gifting.. They just truly didn’t care whether they hurt him or not. They were only interested in their continued access to him.
My understanding is that all of this over the top behavior is typical for American Idol conestants; but, that this whole scenario happened much quicker than it usually does. I wonder how much that may have had to do with the family’s over-involvement with the fans and the forums.
The family influenced the moderators to protect the overzealous at the expense of the rest of the fanbase. That is because the overzealous had Betsy’s blessing. She knew them! She communicated individually with the key players, like Sherry. And by being so involved in the fan site in the first place…..the moderators would of course be trying to please the family. The family would never have had to say a word. The mods, who are human, would simply try to anticipate what the Castros would want. Therefore, those who were overzealous in the gifting, for example, were left on the main page, while those who wanted to discuss the issue and frequently wanted to talk about PR concerns about gifting, were shoved to “the basement” and eventually threatened with banning if they talked anymore about the subject.
Meanwhile, the gifters carried on about their gift right on the front page.
I designed this blog for people to speak freely about ISSUES. Those of you who do nothing but leave personal attacks on me and do not address THE ISSUE will have your comments deleted. If you don’t like me stay away…but I will not allow the same treatment of me on here as happened in the forums. You want to do that to someone…go back there.
I left those for exactly this reason. The inability to speak the truth, as one sees it, without being personally attacked.
Go back to the forums where you are loved.
This site is for discussion not attacks on me.
And should anyone be stupid enough to say I am the one attacking…BS…I responded to personal attacks with an attack. I won’t have to do that anymore. I will just delete your off topic attacks.
This is a key issue, the gifts to Jason. There are a lot of people that have problems with this. IMO I think that this is a free world, we are free to send gifts to whomever we wish. Just because I wouldn’t give a gift to an artist, doesn’t mean that I don’t understand that other people feel they want to do that. We are all different, and we often “know” or “assume” things about other people. We don’t.
The gifts that were given on tour (to all the Idols by the way, not only jason) where often chosen for a reason by the fans. They had a meaning for giving just that, and wanted to convey that, to create their own connection to the idol of their choice! Why is that a big issue?