>Yes, you can name shitty famous people of today. But when I was growing up, I don't think I ever followed a famous person who wasn't approved by a gatekeeper of some kind.

And yet, there were more independent voices with actual influence back in the day (writers, poets, musicians, etc) than in the whole of the internet combined. Who weren't there for the money either.

Those "passionate people" in vlogging have disintegrated into cheap salesmen very quickly. Those on Instagram even more so.

>Look at pictures of the highest grossing actors of 2016 [0]. Even in their facial expressions, they are miles away from John Wayne, Paul Newman, Humphrey Bogart, or Clint Eastwood in the golden age of Cool.

That's because everybody is as well. Styles change over time. We don't speak in a Transatlantic accent like actors of yore either.