It’s been less than a week since Gypsy Rose Blanchard was finally released from prison, and it’s been clear that all the attention she’s received can be a double-edge knife in her life.
For the past 15 years, people have been interested in the life of Gypsy Rose out of morbidity and curiosity. The gruesome way in which she decided to put an end to her mother’s abuse fueled a moral debate on victims and victimizers like many few real crime cases have done so.
Ever since it was announced that she would be granted parole and reduce her sentence, people have been overly excited about her life and have been avidly sharing content on social media about her. Last Thursday, she was finally freed, and social media went crazy about this.
It hasn’t been a week since her release, and how she’s responded to all this attention might prove that more than helping her get reinserted into society, we’re actually dooming her. Let us explain why.
During the weekend, we were all invested in how her husband Ryan Anderson looks oddly familiar to her late mother Dee Dee Blanchard. All comments went from people just pointing out it was weird to some deep conversations about Freud’s Oedipus Complex. Not only that, it even was mentioned that he looked more like her rather than Dee Dee, which sparked all sorts of new theories.
The attention was then poured onto Ryan’s social media to the point that Gypsy found the need to defend him in a very strange way… by oversharing. The comment read as follows: “Ryan, don’t listen to the haters. I love you, and you love me. We do not owe anyone anything. Our family is who matters. If you get likes and good comments great, if you get hate then whatever because THEY DON’T MATTER.”
Until that, quite mature, quite loving, but then she immediately jumped to say this: “I love you besides they are jealous because you are rocking my world every night… yeah I said it, the D is fire 🔥 happy wife happy life ❤️.” Replying to hate with something like this only reminds us that she has never had a very normal life. She’s never been free, and she’s never socialized as we normally do.
She might’ve spent eight years in prison and lived with other adult people, but she’s never really had the chance to mature like others, and all this attention might impede her from doing so now. The sad thing is that as it happens to these types of ‘celebrities,’ the attention only lasts a few weeks if they’re lucky. She might have it all back when her documentary is out, but what happens next?
Cases like Gypsy Rose show us that we should really consider what our social media actions can lead to; we’re showering someone with fake attention only to abandon them once we find another person to focus on. And at the end of the day, Gypsy has acquired this celebrity level of attention for a tragedy that will probably haunt her for the rest of her days, so no, she didn’t ask for this.
