Speaking of how people can change their narratives/their lives, it’s crazy to think that some people are able to SO DRASTICALLY change things up completely.
Of course, there are some people unable to do this. But some do it extremely successfully!
I thought about this because I saw a TikTok from Colleen Ballinger. She used to be known as Miranda Sings. She was preeeeeeeetty famous as Miranda – totally breaking out of the YouTube world into the general zeitgeist and everything.
And now, she’s very successfully pivoted to a cute mom and ‘genuine’ performer. (Miranda is a performance art of some kinda, but Colleen has now led a show on Broadway.)
And she’s become I think(?) even more successfully, more connected, and I think more well-liked. Of course, in her case, that pretty much makes sense that people would like someone who seems real and genuine more than a silly characters. Silly characters don’t uuuuuusually last indefinitely – especially if they’re not someone else’s sidekicks.
But to a smaller extent look at the way some boyband guys reinvent themselves. There are a bunch of younger people who only know Lance Bass as the guy his assistant was playing on The Circle.
It’s interesting, and to some extent exciting how people can reinvent themselves. If someone’s career is around long enough, they’ll see the generation that only thinks of them as whatever they wanna be now, since they’re not even familiar with their old chapter.
Think of Ted Danson! I know being an actor to more acting isn’t fully completely new chapters. But there are SO many people who don’t even know he was on Cheers. To him, he’s Michael from The Good Place. Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
The world is always changing. I suppose that means people can always be forgotten, and that might be a little scary… But their personas can be forgotten as well. And that might be a little cool with lots of room for possibilities.