The conversation about YouTube, celebrity, adult artists and young fans, and sexual abuse...
...continues to be conspicuously absent from most of the media outlets I've checked, but it continues full-force on Tumblr.
And there have been a couple of new articles:
- The Irish Independent: Online community reacts as YouTube celebrity jailed on child porn charges.
- TechGeek: Crossing the line: YouTube community in crisis as sexual assault allegations are made public. "For many fans, this accessibility allows them to generate some sort of connection. It may be platonic, it may be romantic. But this sad saga only confirms that fans are connected to a constructed image of the online creator – all based on what they are allowed to see. They don’t know the real person [behind] the lens."