Caroline Downey

When extreme celebrity vanity is packaged as high-minded female empowerment, the resulting PR campaign can instantly collapse into internet comedy. Caroline Downey breaks down the widespread online roasting of pop star Katy Perry and her fellow high-profile passengers following their 11-minute Blue Origin "all-female" space flight. Unpacking how orchestrated photo ops, dramatic emotional reactions, and heavy-handed "girlboss" rhetoric transformed a billionaire-backed tourist trip into a textbook cringe moment, Caroline exposes the growing disconnect between Hollywood elites and everyday audiences. What does the fierce internet backlash reveal about general public exhaustion with virtue-signaling celebrity stunts and tone-deaf PR spectacles? Watch Caroline’s full analysis, leave your thoughts below, and subscribe to National Review!