However, there were other complaints about the website which prompted him to significantly change its tone. The LGBT community criticised him for outing gay celebrities, while others were upset by his use of nasty nicknames.
In , for example, Hilton repeatedly referred to Christina Aguilera as "Floptina" in an effort to damage her sales and boost those of his then friend Lady Gaga. Hilton's remorse for his behaviour makes for one of the most interesting sections of the book.
That is something I no longer believe. Hilton, who is gay himself, received death threats when he outed former American Idol contestant Clay Aiken. But it was a social-action campaign that led him to change his ways. In , activist Dan Savage launched the It Gets Better movement in response to the multiple suicides of teenagers that year who had been bullied because they were gay.
But when Hilton recorded a message of support for the campaign, he faced an immediate backlash. Hilton has since made efforts to make amends. But I was paralysed by fear, that I would lose everything that I had worked very hard to achieve up until that point," he says. Getty Images. Story continues. Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions.
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But instead of showing up on People. Lux is friendly with a lot of the people he talks about — including Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star , two of the most polarizing YouTubers in the makeup scene. His content often reflects that; rarely does he take a real run at someone, on the off chance they might run into each other at a Morphe store. Lux is one of very few YouTube tea spillers who speak to the camera, talking-head style.
Rarely do you see a face, never mind a real name. Deuxmoi is completely anonymous. But bloggers like Lui and Hilton were and are the faces of their websites. Neither show has publicly disciplined her over her past posts. Hilton runs his websites, appears on reality shows like Celebrity Big Brother , and currently hosts The Perez Hilton Show , a weekly live chat on the video app Triller, where he has a little more than 6, followers. I asked both Hilton and Lui what restorative justice might look like, not just for the people they insulted but for the communities they maligned.
Nothing is fun. But I think it makes so much more sense than just pushing it away. Hilton, meanwhile, is convinced that his current demonization is punishment enough for his past sins. Near the end of our interview, I asked if he wanted to give one last apology for his old work.
I started to wrap up our call, but he interjected one last time. Contact Scaachi Koul at scaachi.
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