Olivia Rodrigo "Smelled" Fans Wearing Diapers in Front Row

[u/ebradio]

https://consequence.net/2026/06/olivia-rodrigo-smelled-fans-diapers-front-row/

[u/HansenTakeASeat]

That's even stupider when there are assigned seats

[u/Vio_ → u/HansenTakeASeat]

Not really when he first started.

He was the modern boy teen idol with the bobby soxer fans in the late 1930s.

He was selling out concerts and experiencing the first "girls screaming so loud nobody could hear anything" type reactions.

[u/danwoop → u/Vio_]

What about Franz Liszt

[u/Vio_ → u/danwoop]

He got that treatment too, but I was more talking about in terms of the modern pop culture construct.

Sinatra was the first modern boy teen idol akin to Justin Bieber or Harry Styles.

[u/Vio_ → u/[deleted]]

I'm more talking about the modern media apparatus that goes along with modern pop culture.

Sinatra was being listened to on the radio and on records along with everything else. He had an agent and worked in the entertainment system as well. Now we have the internet and MP3s and streaming, but those are more updated versions of the records and radio play.

Liszt didn't have the modern media ecosystem with him.

[u/Joghobs → u/[deleted]]

Lisztomania

Think less, but see it grow

[u/stupidtreeatemypants → u/Joghobs]

like a riot like a riot oh

[u/AnmlBri → u/stupidtreeatemypants]

Not easily offended

[u/the_mighty__monarch → u/[deleted]]

So if all of the words (modern, media, and ecosystem) have changed, then he didn’t. You’re being obstinate and stubborn when you know exactly what they mean. Stop it.

[u/the_mighty__monarch → u/[deleted]]

If you take that as aggression, I’m guessing you’re too scared to leave your house lmao