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You're right. Seeing that we're both German you too will have seen hundreds of scarily drunk grandmas dancing on tables at Schützenfeste 😂 so you're totally right. In fact it's not like we aren't talking about this with the other teens, we just use twitter or insta for that so you may not see that as much However I still think that an 11 year old fangirling over an artist is different than a married woman doing the same. Sure, you're young at heart. Sure, "everybody else is doing it". But that doesn't make it okay. And between the two the hypothetical adult woman should overall be more responsible and know what is best for other users. Hormones may not be an excuse but so isn't justifying one's own behaviour because everyone else is doing it. Anyone can choose to be the better person. The question is who is more likely to be mature enough to do that?

That scared me to the very core ngl

Thanks! I agree, we can't ignore the scary level of sexualising artists (anyone remember young Justin Bieber? the poor kid)

Thanks Susan (this is hilarious sorry) But yea absolutely agreed thanks for being so clear

Also, I'll add: it's not just comments, am I the only one remembering photoshopped pics of Mika's face placed on semi naked bodies? Because if we got into the gogo boy era it would get uncomfortable pretty fast I fear

Thanks for coming down to discuss! Firstly I'll clarify: dropping a skincare routine means sharing what products you use like moisturiser or stuff so it's basically a compliment bc you're telling the person they look good. Anyways I do not think this is censoring. There is a line between a cheeky emoji and "I had a strange dream after watching this last night" (these are actual comments) All we are saying is that some thoughts can be kept to yourself, especially if they're this 'intimate'. It's not censoring, it's public decency. It's not forbidding to say "I like Mika's outfit" or "He looks really nice lately because he's been working out". It's asking to please limit the content that you wouldn't want to show to a twelve year old child. It's obviously very rude when people make remarks like the one about his hair, but I somehow doubt that Mika is tremendously happy about people almost twice his age saying he has a "very hot body 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍". As said, I just believe there is a line that people can choose not to cross for others' wellbeing.

Thanks for discussing with me! Absolutely great to be able to discuss with adults as well. You are very right about the fact that also teens write that kind of things. What I've noticed with other peers is that many young fans comment in a sarcastic manner (for example I've seen people ask mika to drop his skin care or workout routine) but there surely are teens getting weird in comments sections too. While we're debating about this among us too, though, I think the difference is -as you also mentioned- that teens are in the weird hormones phase while I've seen that most adults commenting are married with kids. In no way do I want to justify us younger teens' debatable behaviour, but it kind of spooks me that some people had time to enjoy their weird teen phase at Queen concerts and now drool at artists half their age- admirable that some people are this young at heart but.. if I can't have a rational debate with a 12 year old I was hoping I could start with a grown up adult.

Hello everyone. My name is Chandler and you may know me from my fan page on instagram, @mikosounds. As said in the past days, I've wanted to address and discuss this topic for a while but I had no luck and didn't get to discuss it with people with a different opinion than me. But what is the topic anyway? Together with quite a bunch of young fans (roughly 14-25), we've been talking about how particular content gets certain reactions from older fans- I'll explain. If you don't live under a rock you've probably seen the video from Xfactor of Emma pulling down the zipper of Mika's jacket, revealing -oh my- Mika's tummy. This got an extraordinary amount of reactions -understandable to some extent- but we soon noticed how most part of these reactions were making us younger fans (but not only us) terribly uncomfortable. The aforementioned reactions went from a weird amount of "😍" emojis to the most uncomfortably sexual comments regarding -again, oh my how shocking- Mika's exposed stomach. While it's a known fact that Mika's body is at this point a sexual fantasy object for many, we wanted to address this because, if you just read the last sentence, that's not exactly nice or normal. Basically this is going from most of the young fans to -weirdly, I might add- most of the adults: we know that Mika is good looking. Hell, I'm gay, I know what we're talking about. But this fandom goes from 10 year olds to 70 year olds and we don't think that drooling under every inch of Mika's exposed skin is exactly pleasant to have on our feed. Please notice that people the age of our parents are commenting things like "ah, the things I'd do to him" (an actual thing I read under a photo) and it's uncomfortable and in our opinion very wrong, because it's gone from appreciating an artist to sexualising him. There is a big fat line between appreciating someone's looks and sexualising the person as if they were an object. If you're not going to stop having sexual fantasies in a comments section for Mika -the poor fella-, at least think that there are 11 year olds (that could in most cases be your children) reading that. It's okay to feel certain ways, just don't write it in a (public!) social media feed. Hoping I was not too harsh (but this has been happening for way too long), I hope that you'll consider discussing this. I'm open to discussion in private chat on instagram too if you're not comfortable sharing under here ( @mikosounds ) Thank you for reading!