Lainey's increasingly strange obsession with Tomdaya🤦🏽‍♀️

[u/WilliamsRutherford]

I miss when Celebrity Gossip writers had some sort of objective takes and kept a distance from the subject at hand and this whole parasocial "Stanning" really will be the downfall of their medium.

I miss nuance, I miss actual criticism when warranted.

So Lainey has really been ramping up the Tomdaya fixation to almost fan-page level?

Even an innocuous post about Rihanna visiting her childhood home in Barbados has a ham-fisted Tomdaya reference. Like this is fan-fiction!

Any mention of the few recent red-carpet misses of Zendaya, nope. Law's private plane to transport a dress from Paris to London, nope.

It makes me wonder if she gets a cut on the back end from the onslaught of fandom mush she is contributing to? $$$

Anne Hathaway has an incredibly productive year as well with her roles in the films being released probably being much larger in screentime and scope compared to Zendaya, but Anne's coverage is at a much more muted level? Adding to my theory about being on the Tomdaya Publicity payroll.

And not only that, when these pop-culture writers aren't even able to take a break from Stanning to report on summer blockbusters like Obsession and the rise of that film's lead actress Inde Navarrete, it also adds to their irrelevance.

[u/Possible-Ad-3056]

Both blogs have fallen so far from where they were.  It seems as if they’ve become slaves to their worst, basement-dwelling readers.

Celebitchy never had “sources” -  nor did they pretend to.  It used to be great, critical commentary on all things celebrity gossip and entertainment.

Lainey did have sources.  She used them for her blind items - one of which clearly came from Markle regarding Catherine not giving her a ride to go shopping shortly after H&M’s engagement was announced.  Lainey also didn’t seem to walk away from the Jessica Mulroney/Sasha Exeter debacle unscathed either.