Another day, another debacle that gives fans of The Pitt a bad name. Isa Briones, who plays second-year resident Trinity Santos on the HBO Max medical procedural, recently took to social media to scold fans for their poor behavior as theatergoers. Briones (daughter of Broadway great Jon Jon Briones) is currently performing in the musical Just in Time on Broadway, playing crooner Bobby Darin\u2019s lover, popular singer Connie Francis. On Saturday, in a since-expired post to her Instagram Stories, Briones wrote<\/a>: \u201cHey, hey, hey! Once again, Broadway is not a circus. Do not yell whatever you want at the performers. Yelling \u2018When are you going to finish your charts\u2019 before I sing \u2018Who\u2019s Sorry Now?\u2019 is fucking disrespectful to the performers onstage and your fellow audience members. Y\u2019all are pissin\u2019 me off. Love and light and please remember you are occupying shared spaces and watching art.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201cchart\u201d comment is a reference to Santos\u2019 trouble finishing her charts in The Pitt Season 2. This marks the second time in a matter of months that the actress has addressed poor behavior from Pittheads in the audience. In April, in another post to her Instagram Stories, Briones chastised<\/a> a different fan, writing: \u201cSome people need to brush up on theatre etiquette, and just person in the world etiquette in general. Do not talk to the performers while they are performing on stage (unless you have been asked to). And don\u2019t talk to me on stage and call me Dr. Santos. I\u2019m not Dr. Santos. I\u2019m not even Connie Francis. I am Isa Briones, one of the actors in the show you have paid to enjoy. So watch it respectfully. You are not a kid at Disneyland. You are an adult man at a Broadway show. Act like it.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s embarrassing as both a Pitt watcher and theatergoer to see actors having to make statements like this, wagging their fingers at a growing number of fans who seem to have lost all sense of decorum when it comes to enjoying culture. This Broadway incident is just the latest escalation in behavior from a fandom that has grown in size and in intensity with each new season of The Pitt. These past few months have been riddled by infighting among fans<\/a> who fundamentally disagree with what is taking place in the show. Other Pitt watchers have expressed anger<\/a> at the show\u2019s co-creator and star, Noah Wyle, for how he\u2019s discussed his character arc this season, lambasting Wyle for downplaying his character\u2019s toxic behavior<\/a>. Elsewhere in the fandom, deleterious debates have erupted over the hostility between characters like Santos and Langdon (Patrick Ball), leading to the stark demonization of a flawed, human character<\/a> and anyone who defends them. For a show that is ostensibly about medical professionals helping people, The Pitt has somehow ended up with hardcore viewers who fly off the handle with rage upon hearing that their interpretation of the show isn\u2019t the only valid one.<\/p>\n What\u2019s happening with The Pitt is not unique to this show and its following. In fact, fandoms on the whole have become increasingly unhinged over the past few years. Some Heated Rivalry fans have bullied the show\u2019s own stars for not actually being a couple outside of the show via a barrage of deplorable social media insults that earned a reprimand<\/a> from a number of the show\u2019s leading stars, just to describe the tip of the iceberg for a fandom so rabid that they\u2019ve been jokingly diagnosed with \u201cHeated Rivalry psychosis<\/a>.\u201d K-pop stans have sent funeral wreaths<\/a> and protest trucks<\/a> to idols who they feel have tarnished the reputation of their favorite groups, much to the groups\u2019 detriment<\/a>. Love Island USA fans have attacked contestants online under the guise of defending their favorite contestant, notably making derogatory racist remarks and posts that are left to be sloppily addressed by the unequipped reality TV stars<\/a> that the twisted fans are fighting in the name of.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read More<\/b>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n SNL Finally Found Its Kash Patel. It Could Only Have Been One Comedian. The World\u2019s Most Evil Couple Exposed the Rot at the Heart of the Met Gala It Was the Crime Saga That Captivated Millions. A New Book Provides Some Fresh Insight. What\u2019s behind this dangerous cocktail of fervor, delusion, and entitlement that threatens to spill over from the internet into real life, like with these Broadway incidents addressed by Briones? Part of it, I theorize, has to do with economics. Things cost more money now: Everything from media outlets<\/a> to streaming platforms is running on increasingly expensive subscription models, while tickets for cultural experiences like concerts or the theater are at record-breaking highs<\/a>. Given the elevated prices of media and the tough state of the economy, it\u2019s inevitable that many fans are going to feel more entitled to the content they\u2019re paying hard-earned money for. When you combine this with the open-feedback system that is the internet, the people behind shows, movies, and albums will feel more pressure to listen to the fans and let the audience\u2019s desires lead their creative judgement. Plus, with the internet increasing our cultural metabolism for celebrity and personality, all of this is coinciding with fans feeling more parasocially invested in their favorite creators. Then, of course, there\u2019s the fundamental brainrot of it all, worsened by the vices of social media and smartphones: Some people have simply blurred the lines between fiction and reality, convincing themselves that two actors whose characters have a famous television romance must also have that romance themselves.<\/p>\n It\u2019s bad enough when all this swells online. But it becomes even more frustrating when the evidence of it filters offline, too, invading concerts where everyone is shrieking the lyrics<\/a> until no one can hear the actual singer, movie screenings filled with the sounds of other people chatting out loud, and, evidently, theater productions ruined by horribly disruptive audience members. Showing up for our favorite actors, musicians, and stars doesn\u2019t mean we get carte blanche to treat them however we want, or to go to a Broadway show and yell at the performers the way we might yell at the television in the privacy of our own homes. Please, for everyone\u2019s sake, can my fellow fans act like it\u2019s not their first time leaving the house? All of us\u2014artists and spectators alike\u2014will thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/e50b3814-3e17-4c4b-b532-723ff42d2d67.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&width=140\")
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