I've finally send a message to Teamsugar concerning with having a more diverse coverage of celebrities on Popsugar, which she will then forward it to Pop and Molly.
I want this to be a collective effort so here is the message I send:
"Dear Pop and Molly,
First of I love Popsugar. The lovely atmosphere of the community was what attracted me to Popsugar in the beginning. As a member of the community for 17 weeks, I visit the site religiously.
However, this isn't a love letter on how wonderful the community is but more of a request. I have talked to many sugar members and they all agree that a diverse coverage on celebrities is needed in Popsugar.
You have to remember that sugar members are diverse too in ethnicity, background, culture, likes, dislikes, and heck maybe even in sexuality, but Popsugar doesn't reflect that or cater to the diversity of the sugar members. The excessive coverage of Britney, Lindsay, Hayden, Hilary, Mischa, Angelina, Jennifer Garner, Rachel Bilson, for examples, (or as I like to call them "the usual suspects" or "your typical white girl in Hollywood") are too much and unneseccary. Really do we need to see photos of Angelina taking her kids to school every day?
I know that these celebs are who you like to write about, but there are many sugar members that are just tired of reading about them. I also know that it's base on how many hits that the post gets, but in spite of the many hits that a Paris Hilton post gets the comments are negative. In other words, sugar members comment on how much they hate her or sick of her. Doesn't that mean something to you? Like I said you enjoy writing about them but it seems that you don't take to consideration on how many negative comments you get on them?
The argument that these are the celebs who are in the limelight all the time can be made. However if other celeb blog sites like JustJared, Dlisted, Oh No They Didn't, and Perez Hilton can find stories on some of the most private celebs out there I think you can too. In addition, these sites post on celebrities of all ages and race. I don't see how you can't do that as well.
The postings don't have to be on their daily activities; it can be about anything. As an example, Oh No They Didn't posted a story on the artist Bjork performing in the Opera house in Sydney. And that post got more than 40 comments by the readers.
When I looked at the source of you postings, I see so many celebrities that you could have written about instead you picked to write about the usual celebrities we see often on Popsugar. For examples today there were photos of Helen Mirren at the National Movies Award and Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution" New York Premiere. There are many sugar members who are fans of Ang and Helen.
So with that said, as part of the ongoing effort to have more diverse postings of celebrities I want you to know that we, sugar members, love diversity.
Here are our efforts:
The Steve Martin post got more than 48,500 hits, which is close enough to the Paris Hilton's 50,000 hits. 71 comments were made as well in the Steve Martin post: http://popsugar.com/656181. Also I started a blog asking "Which other celebrities would you like to see in Sugar?" Many people commented as well: http://teamsugar.com/user/pinkflats/blog/660064. You can go to that blog to see a list of celebrities that sugar members would like to see more.
Here are just a few:
1. Gabrielle Union
2. Jennifer Connelly
3. Veteran actors, like Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton
4. Tracie Ellis Rose
5. More Latino celebrities, like Shakira and Gael Bernal Garcia.
6. Gerard Butler
7. Seth Rogen (my personal favorite)
8. Clive Owen
9. Celebrities from different parts of the world, from the UK to Asia
10. Just any celebrities who have talents to offer, not just attention-craving celebs.
I hope that you too would read the comments and see the message that is being made across: WE WANT DIVERSITY.
Like I said you have to remember that this is a community full of members with diverse taste in celebs, likes, ethnicity, culture, and background.
Please do consider our request. On behalf of many sugar members, thank you so much.
pink."
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I really do hope that Pop and Molly do take this to consideration and broaden their choices of celebs to write about. If not, I can take comfort in knowing that I did my part and got many support from everyone.
Lastly I just want to thank everyone who commented and supported this idea.
All of you made me feel like I wasn't doing this alone so thank you so much!!
Great job!!!
thanks for putting Gabby and Gerard on the list!
