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The Tyranny of the GlamBOT Must End


In fact, the live-action celebrity GIFs aren’t half as interesting as the person taking them.

Stan’s trepidation felt like a sliver of honesty in a GlamBOT landscape full of halfhearted “Oh, wow” and patient “Cool!” responses to the slow-moving camera capturing celebrities turning around and making eye contact with the lens on a crane. A typical red carpet these days requires celebrities to list their Letterboxd “Four Favorites” or describe Brat Summer, which makes the GlamBOT the most disposable and empty of all the new press obligations. An eight-minute compilation of the GlamBOTs plays like an eight-hour video of a cozy fireplace burning to put on in the background of a Christmas party if the logs were wearing couture.

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