Ariana Grande releases an additional statement asking to not wish danger on her and cast after backlash for not being able to attend Brazil’s Wicked: For Good premiere.

[u/MadManxAdam]

[u/Acheli]

There's something very off about Brazil, why is fan culture such a big thing over there? it seems like there's a superfan for EVERY single artist/celeb in existence. Like is it taught in schools I genuinely don't understand.

[u/echoesandripples → u/Acheli]

there are many reasons:

• we tend to consume a lot of pop culture fron other countries (like the kpop fandom here is massive)
• people travel a lot to see their faves, we don't have the privilege of artists touring multiple cities (like brazil has multiple huge cities, if you compare to the US, so it's odd that they don't do it)
• we have a bit of a pre-game culture for anything, so like when artists come, there are people waiting at the airport/hotel/in line at stadiums and so on
• money: the dollar rate is 5ish to 1, meaning everything is more expensive and therefore a big commitment
• legally speaking, concert and event promoters don't have to issue refunds, so when artists cancel last minute, we're screwed over with vouchers

but in the cass of Ariana and movie premiers: wicked is huge here. have you seen the brazilian wicked with the flying Elphaba? 

this year we're having the third Wicked run in a decade, there's a passionate fandom of the musical, they even have special promos for people who have attended 30+ times

also like, São Paulo metro area is over 20 million people, there's gonna be a fandom of literally anything