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LikeEpisodeVIThemost t1_irw6qnk wrote

Reply to comment by Grim1316 in TIL Bing Crosby, called the first multimedia star, recorded over 1600 songs and 70 feature films by PicardTangoAlpha

I just think it willfully ignores media that came before. Books, paintings, poetry, songwriting etc etc all existed before and are considered media. Yeah he probably did a lot for films and music but he's not the first.

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Grim1316 t1_irw7zok wrote

Kinda moving the bar's here since you just said musicians and play actors. Since you brought it up and in continued fairness, most of those cases the average person would have little to no idea or access to all forms of media that any person created. It isn't until true mass media that you see household names become increasingly more common.

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