Is it normal that when people become popular they start to act like jerks?

Is it normal that when people become popular they start to act like jerks? Or when they at least they think they have some more higher authority than people they think it gives them the right to start acting like a jerk? What triggers this?

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  • dom180

    They do it out of desire to protect their high social status. Their new high social status gives them more to fight for, so they behave more aggressively. They're biologically motivated to protect their high social status because high social status correlates with a greater variety of mates to choose from.

    God I sounded cold and lacking in humanity just then, didn't I? :P I feel like I should tell a joke to finish off, or something.

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    • suckonthis9

      Is it the deity Boreas, one of the Anemoi, that you are speaking of?

      Boreas (Greek: Βορέας, Boréas) was the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter. His name meant "North Wind" or "Devouring One". Boreas is depicted as being very strong, with a violent temper to match. He was frequently shown as a winged old man with shaggy hair and beard, holding a conch shell and wearing a billowing cloak.[1]Pausanias wrote that Boreas had snakes instead of feet, though in art he was usually depicted with winged human feet.

      Boreas was closely associated with horses. He was said to have fathered twelve colts after taking the form of a stallion, to the mares of Erichthonius, king of Troy. These were said to be able to run across a field of grain without trampling the plants. Pliny (Natural History iv.35 and viii.67) thought that mares might stand with their hindquarters to the North Wind, and bear foals without a stallion. The Greeks believed that his home was in Thrace, and Herodotus and Pliny both describe a northern land known as Hyperborea ("Beyond the North Wind"), where people lived in complete happiness and had extraordinarily long lifespans.

      Boreas was also said to have kidnapped Oreithyia, an Athenian princess, from the river Ilissus. Boreas had taken a fancy to Oreithyia, and had initially pleaded for her favours, hoping to persuade her. When this failed, he reverted to his usual temper and abducted her as she danced on the banks of the Ilissus. Boreas wrapped Oreithyia up in a cloud, raped her, and with her, Boreas fathered two sons—the Boreads, Zethes and Calais—and two daughters— Khione, goddess of snow, and Cleopatra.
      From then on, the Athenians saw Boreas as a relative by marriage. When Athens was threatened by Xerxes, the people prayed to Boreas, who was said to have then caused winds to sink 400 Persian ships. A similar event had occurred twelve years earlier, and Herodotus writes:

      Now I cannot say if this was really why the Persians were caught at anchor by the stormwind, but the Athenians are quite positive that, just as Boreas helped them before, so Boreas was responsible for what happened on this occasion also. And when they went home they built the god a shrine by the River Illisus.
      The abduction of Oreithyia was popular in Athens before and after the Persian War, and was frequently depicted on vase paintings. In these paintings, Boreas was portrayed as a bearded man in a tunic, with shaggy hair that is sometimes frosted and spiked. The abduction was also dramatized in Aeschylus's lost play Oreithyia.

      In late accounts, Boreas was the father of Lycurgus (by another woman) and the lover of the nymph Pitys.

      Aquilo

      The Roman equivalent of Boreas was Aquilo, or Aquilon. An alternate, rarer name used for the northern wind was Septentrio, a word derived from septem triones ("seven oxen") referring to the seven prominent stars in the northern constellation Ursa Major. Septentrio is also the source of the obscure word septentrional, a synonym for boreal meaning "northern".

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      • Coolieo

        o_O.. your comments are an educational read! :)

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        • Coolieo

          Ahhaha I got t.d. but oh ah whatever can't be all right now can we ahh. ahaha.

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    • TheGirlWhoStoleHisHat

      I thought you sounded cool, but then you ended it kind of insecure like, then again that is probably what I would do too.

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    • Coolieo

      Lol no not really :P You can tell a joke though :D lol, I don't usually post things like this.. it's like in real life, when they notice they get more popular they tend to act like jerks..even girls :p some just don't care though :)

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  • dirtybirdy

    I am a jerk but i was never popular. I win.

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    • shuggy-chan

      That's funny cause I was gonna say u don't have to have popularity to suddenly change and be a jerk

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  • kingsleycrowne

    ego and strangely enough, insecurity.

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  • VioletTrees

    Are you in high school and also a cartoon character?

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  • michaels4p5

    its because they let that shit go to there heads i've seen it happen and did not like it.

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  • 1000yrVampireKing

    That or all this popularity overiflates their ego.

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  • 1000yrVampireKing

    Maybe they were always secretly bad people and it took that for you to realize it. I have known people who pretend to be nice till they climbed to the top. Some people are not what they seem.

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    • michaels4p5

      I'm a nice person but i'd never let stuff go to my head like some ppl do.

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  • Ldizzy1234

    This happens with a lot of people in big corporations I think. They let their position go to their head, and suddenly, they think they can walk on water or something.

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  • Justsomejerk

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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