Amanda Bynes...?

I came across this story, and I thought it was pretty interesting. Sadly, it is also reminiscent of many dried up celebrities that we have had in our culture in the past few decades. Amanda Bynes, Nickelodeon child star, has really begun to step up the inappropriate and erratic behavior that has been the cause of her spotlight in the past few months. Most recently, she posted very racy pictures of herself on twitter topless, with only the minimum amount of censorship using hair and hands, along with captions regarding her desire to lose weight and her tendencies. As a result of this, her ex-publicist Jonathon Jaxson tweeted that she was out of control and that NYPD should find and help her. Then, Jenny McCarthy began to tweet about the situation. Eventually it ended it a public twitter argument between Amanda and Jenny. Many people believe that this whole situation was a publicity stunt by Amanda in order to gain a bit more of the spotlight, considering how her ex-publicist jumped on the opportunity to “help her out” and how the argument with McCarthy was so public. Unfortunately stunts like this are precisely how many washed up celebrities try and get back into the public eye. This has not been the only thing that she’s been doing recently that could be seen as controversial or attention seeking. In the past year she has used twitter as a way of communicating with her fans and other celebrities in ways that are very unorthodox. She’s called Jay-Z ugly, complained about her weight, and publicly tweeted that she wants Drake to “murder her vagina.” When did social media become a gateway back into the spotlight for celebrities? I’m not necessarily one to judge other people, but if most of this is for publicity purposes because she has been missing the spotlight since she’s retired acting, I see no reason for all of this to go on. Does a celebrity sweetheart really need to do negative things to gain the attention they seem to crave? Looks like we've got another Britney/Lindsay. There are many more articles that give a more detailed form of the story.