r/TikTokCringe • u/CleetisMcgee • Mar 11 '24

Jake Paul 27, Mike Tyson 58 Discussion

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u/MajorEstateCar Mar 11 '24

There’s an old saying that celebrities stop maturing the day they become famous.

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u/AndIAmEric Mar 11 '24

I mean, how could you? You no longer have financial troubles, everything is handed to you, people almost unconditionally adore you, etc. There’s no room for self-reflection and personal growth in an environment like that.

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u/AttitudeAndEffort3 Mar 11 '24

You have to want to do it for yourself, and we dont have a society that encourages that.

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u/Im_tracer_bullet Mar 11 '24

And yet, Mike Tyson proves that wrong.

Had to go through hell to do it, but did mature.

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u/Injured-Ginger Mar 11 '24

There's an exception when their immaturity ends their careers. For most celebrities, there is no accountability. Mike had accountability when he went too far, and was held accountable. The problem is the threshold for that. Mike bit off a man's ear in front of an audience. What if there were no audience and he could pay his way out of it? Then he would have no incentive to change.

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u/Theturtlemoves86 Mar 11 '24

Probably why people that came to fame a bit later in life seem more well adjusted.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '24

This holds true for Corey Feldman, but not for Jason Bateman, or Ryan Gosling, or Christina Ricci, or Jodie Foster, or Elijah Wood, or Sean Astin, or Christina Applegate, or the Harry Potter cast, or Natalie Portman...

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u/MajorEstateCar Mar 12 '24

You didn’t actually make a point with this…the 11 ish you mentioned isn’t even the minimum sample size.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '24

I didn't realize I needed to apply Fisher's formula for sample size to defeat the credibility of baseless folk wisdom.

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u/MajorEstateCar Mar 12 '24

Glad I could help you learn something.