Celebrities & provoking emotion

I decided to look more into a blog about Demi Lovato and her journey through dealing with bulimia, cutting, and low self esteem. The topics discussed by this particular celebrity are very personal, however also something that many girls and boys deal with in their lives. I personally think that for a celebrity to come out and talk about their personal experience with such a deep topic could be really challenging. They risk judgment, social media twisting the story, and a life time of a ruined reputation. On a more positive note though, in opening up a personal issue, fans can feel a deeper connection and feel less alone with their own similar personal problems. 

The blog itself is set up similar to a news article. The issues of the celebrity (cutting, bulimia, family issues, ect) are highlighted as though to stand out to the reader of the blog. I feel as though the author does so to draw the readers eye to the personal issues of the celebrity to get an initial reaction. The post also includes personal quotes from Demi Lovato on her struggle with these issues, which makes the reader sympathize for Demi, and even empathize as the reader pictures themselves living her life and pursuing her battles. The blog is set up in a way to make readers feel emotion, and from the comments I believe personal opinion came before emotion causing lots of drama...

http://www.celebitchy.com/209712/demi_lovato_on_her_bulimia_im_going_to_have_to_fight_it_for_the_rest_of_my_life/ 

In relation to the above comment, it seems as though people on this particular blog forum post comments just to provoke an argument with people who are passionate about the topic being discussed. The person knew they were bored reading the article, yet decided to post anyways about their negative opinion about Demi .

These first few comments on the blog demonstrate how heated conversations can get when emotions such as anger become apparent. The posters feel connected to Demi through her experience, so they begin posting as if they know her personally even though they don't. In the above comments people begin making "obvious" statements as to what Demi is doing wrong, however it resulted in backlash from other posters who completely disagree. 

From what I observed on this blog was 90% of the posts were negative. Originally when I researched this topic, I expected comentors to post about their own personal experiences with what Demi is going through and connect with one another. Unfortunately, aside from a few comments here and there that were positive, majority of comments on other blogs were negative too! I went to (  http://perezhilton.com/2012-07-17-demi-lovato-opens-up-on-why-she-used-to-cut-self-harm-self-magazine/#comments ) to try and find some positive feedback, but came up with these nasty comments:

What I learned about pathos in blogs, is that the author may specifically go out of their way to highlight an important or serious topic expecting a certain reaction, however how readers will respond to the issue cannot be easily predicted. Since everyone has different experiences, certain things will affect readers while others will just annoy them. It is clear that the topics Demi Lovato is preaching about is old news and something that has been repeated quite often in the news.