KIT THOMPSON WORD WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A WITH YOU
Following a hiatus from the limelight, Kit Thompson strikes back, better than ever. This time, he isn’t going anywhere anytime soon as he charges on to the future a trove of stories to tell
Fire up a Google search with your name and depending on your internet connection, watch as the results trickle in from exact, related, and even head-scratching far-fetched results in less than a blink of an eye. Come on, don’t even act as if you haven’t done this or even so much as entertained the curdling curiosity before. Whatever affront of enlightenment, elucidation, and education you swish around, it becomes increasingly clear that the underlying force that compels us to have a look at our virtual imprint, aside from narcissism, which really needs no threshing out, is that anonymity no longer exists. Sure, you can hide behind a fake name, a faceless profile photo, or even a bogus personality, but that still intrinsically means you have embedded a digital footprint on your own accord. Scroll through that page again and notice how there is a connection to everything, a presence somewhere, a mention here and there. Living in the paradigm that we do today has allowed us to tread two worlds all at once. Where we journey through reality as just a face in the crowd filing through the drudgeries and drear of the everyday, we also exist as someone or something completely different in the vast virtual void. While some would argue that this has increased the opportunities to be an unnamed unknown, especially online, but these pockets of reality and fragments of humanity become so elusive and tainted that it ultimately encourages the veil of anonymity to slip from our very hands.
Needless to say, at some point, and in varying exponential increments, you are something to someone.
This case of digital hide-and-seek manifests itself the most when you are a celebrity of any sort actually. Fascinating as it may seem, especially for us mere mortals awed by the faintest glint of a buffed out veneer, people indoctrinated by fame essentially lose who they really are as their name and brand gets peddled for just about anything. Getting increasingly hard to keep a low profile or live a semblance of a normal, private life, these personalities eventually rescind an initial resistance when their star gets progressively brighter. It’s part and parcel of the job, they would remind themselves, completely owing up to the gratification that their supporters have built for them to be where they are.
However, things are a bit different for Kit Thompson, who despite being a by-product of what is arguably one of the country’s biggest reality TV shows, Pinoy Big Brother, is still enjoying a fair amount of liberation as an actor in this celebrityobsessed country.
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This isn’t to say that he is barely a blip in the radar, because Kit Thompson is quite the presence on and offline.
In person, he easily towers over the crowd of average Asian height, already immediately singling him out as a sore thumb. Online, he has recently enjoyed a swelling surge of nostalgic hashtag: throwback when a video of him visibly restraining himself to explode emotionally and say…bad words made the rounds on the internet as a meme, a gif, a shrewd reply to a conversation. So, yes, the world knows of him. However, drawing up a comprehensive study of him would prove to be inconclusive as there are barely any substantial hyperlinks to him. Sure, there are more than a handful of clickbait articles on reacting to that clip, a brush with the law that forced him to recalibrate his career path, and a couple of stories that in earnest try to figure out the man that he is, as well as of the craft that he has chosen to really throw himself at. (He doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. What he has is an imdb page, which is far more impressive.)
“I’m not quite sure how people see me,” he wonders. “I do try and avoid trying to do the same thing over and over again.” Trite as it may sound, this explains a whole lot on the enigma that is Kit Thompson.
Rifling through his professional résumé, one that has been momentarily stalled when he decided to fly to New York and study Acting for Film at
“I’M NOT QUITE SURE HOW PEOPLE SEE ME...I DO TRY AND AVOID TRYING TO DO THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN