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Ricky Gervais says that many people believe that getting likes on social media is more important than doing something of value.
The BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning actor, who has 14 million followers on Twitter, said that ‘an entire generation’ has mistaken being popular on Instagram or Facebook for being a worthwhile person.
The creator of Extras and the Office criticized the ‘influencers’ for ‘hiring private jets’ for a day just to make other people feel terrible about their lives.
He also argued that television shows today often ‘sponsor’ their audience because they are too concerned with offending people.
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Speaking on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast, he said, “It’s [social media] it’s like being able to read all the bathroom walls at once.
“There is a new form of narcissism, there is super narcissism and that is because of similar races.
“You see these people who have worked, taken off their shirts, and are on a private plane they’ve hired for a day … They make people think, ‘I’m not accomplishing anything. I need to work, get out and get on a plane.
“Not true, you know what, everyone just does what you like.”
The 56-year-old man, whose last The Netflix series After Life has just returned for its second season, saying an entire generation has mistaken “narcissism for courage.”
He said: “You have to have courage, if you have to check all the boxes of the meaning of life, courage would certainly be near the top.
“But people have confused narcissism with courage. They have made a mistake in loving themselves for no reason, such as being as good as loving themselves for a good reason.
“You should love yourself because you have done good things and you are a good moral person, you put people before yourself, you leave the world in a better place than you entered.”
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“All those things, those are the reasons to love yourself. Just take a picture of yourself and post it and like it, that’s no reason to love yourself.”
“It is a whole generation that has made that mistake. You know there are people taking selfies at Auschwitz …”
The controversial comedian, who hosted the Golden Globes this year but was criticized for being “too vulgar,” said people had become used to being sponsored.
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He said: “I think people are used to being sponsored and there is no need, who are we to guess what people can take at home?
“They can take anything they have heard worse language on their construction site and in their canteen.
“Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right. Some people are offended by equality. We have to see why someone is offended, why someone hates you.”
The comedian also spoke about the time a Twitter user called him over a joke he made about nut allergies.
He said, “I did a routine on Jimmy Fallon about nut allergies … The next day on Twitter someone said ‘how dare you joke about nut allergies … I was tagging NBC and Jimmy Fallon.
“Then she texted me saying, ‘You should never joke about food allergies … I just thought it was such an arrogant thing to say the routine wasn’t true, she doesn’t know me.”
“I said, ‘I’m joking about AIDS, cancer, famine, and the holocaust, and are you telling me I shouldn’t be joking about food allergies?’
“She replied, ‘Yes, but the holocaust did not kill the children.'”
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