Of course, by writing about the Gawker coverage, I'm implicated even as I cluck my tongue, obsessing over someone obsessing over someone else's sexuality; it feels icky and very meta at the same time.
They were spending $3.50 a minute to obsess over someone they'd never even kissed.
When you're obsessed with someone else's success, your self-respect suffers, and you may neglect or even sabotage your own performance and possibly your career.
It is this notion — of being obsessed with someone, and, through photographs, making that person iconic — that resonated with me in his work.
"We all have this belief that music makes every moment better, so we're obsessed with someone tapping the app, opening it up, and being served the perfect soundtrack," says Asbill.
She hid sudden emotional escalations inside disaffected quips ("excited to get over you by being obsessed with someone else who doesn't want me") and paired Internet slang ironically with feel-good clichés: "forgive and forget jk".
If you're in need of a soundtrack to your summer crush – or just a song to have a summer crush on – consider Norwegian trio Sassy 009's Pretty Baby, a pulsing, sensual track that, according to the band, "flirts with being obsessed with someone without knowing what you're attracted to".
"While I don't waste too much energy on it, people would be right to ask the obvious question – what is it in [Australian editor-in-chief] Paul Whittaker or Ray Hadley's head that they are so blindly obsessed with someone they have never met.
The main story is really about this lowly office worker who is romantically obsessed with someone he works with (played by Mia Wasikowska).
We should add to these views the observation that the negative effects of being angrily obsessed by someone's wrongdoing is not by itself a justification for blaming or forgiving him.
The second track, "Paper Bag", is about being obsessed with someone and not being able to have them.
