Children of well known personalities, especially famous celebrities, are often attacked and trolled online. The term ‘troll’ has been misused for a long time now. Usually, the term ‘trolling’ has been applied to any form of criticism faced by celebrities on their social media profiles, but that’s not what trolling consists of.
Sometimes criticism is simply criticism. But when comments and tweets are left online specifically for the purpose of causing pain to the subject it’s addressed to without any constructive or reflective quality at all, that’s trolling in its truest sense. We might fail to sympathize with ‘star kids’ when they're made fun of online.
And that’s understandable. Many feel that ‘star kids’ are unjustifiably pushed into the limelight even when the public rejects them. This later morphs into a voyeuristic and sadistic tendency, where the general public wants to know about the lives of ‘star kids’ while also wanting to insult them.
It’s a self sustaining ecosystem at this point. But, anytime this starts happening to children – to minors – it’s not only wrong, but also disturbing and fundamentally disgusting. Going after people in their twenties and thirties has some moral discrepancies, but when it comes to children, the line of morality is extremely clear.
That is why a viral tweet about MS Dhoni’s daughter, Ziva Dhoni, is the perfect example of everything wrong with the obsession with children of celebrities, the self-inf.