There star Academy has never been so talked about. If the tenth edition broadcast in 2022 had succeeded in relaunching the brand with great audiences and successful exposure on social networks, the 2023 season broke all records. The strong audiences were confirmed, and the exposure on social networks really exploded. The winner, Pierre Garnier, has more than 1.2 million subscribers on Instagramand his tube Those we were peaks at more than 25 million plays on Spotify. The other candidates have nothing to be ashamed of, and almost all of them have surpassed last season’s subscriber record holder, Enola Cox, followed by 250,000 fans. Héléna Bailly and Lénie Ficara have exceeded 600,000 fans, Julien Lieb has more than 300,000 subscribers, and Margot, Djebril, Axel, Clara and Candice are also a hit.
A media coverage as unexpected as it is brutal, which can have serious psychological repercussions among young adults who were in no way prepared to become stars overnight. The tour, which barely started in Amiens last weekend, adds another piece to the machine, and the excitement picks up again. As Julien Lieb and Axel Marbeuf explained to PureCharts, psychologists are present with them on a daily basis to supervise and support them
facing the online hatred that they have to endure on a daily basis, some more than others (Candice Vernier and Axel Marbeuf are regularly targeted), but also facing the pack of fans that they now have to support.
“We know it’s the game. We are young, we are the social media generation. We know that there is bad and less bad, but we (are) surrounded by psychologists” tempered Axel, who seems to accept this rule of the game. “If we have the slightest slack, we have psychologists to talk to directly” he explained, before confiding that the adventure in Dammarie-les-Lys was a total bubble, in which all the candidates were reclusive: “When we are locked up, we just don’t know if there are people more appreciated than others, if some are hated… Which is not the case for anyone”.
Clashes between teams hurt them deeply
On the other hand, if Axel Marbeuf seems to roundly mock the attacks that can regularly target him on social networks, the semi-finalist is more annoyed by the squabbles that their fan communities engage in, even though they are all friends: “Some are quite virulent among themselves. Whereas we love each other, all thirteen of us. And it’s real love, it’s not just for the cameras. We are together all the time, we enjoy being together“ assured the young man, who has indeed established strong bonds of friendship with Margot, Djebril and Lénie in particular. And to continue: “We understand that the teams put forward the candidate they prefer, but that is not a reason to take down the others. We will always advocate this message of goodwill between the teams. We will never take down one or the other . If we can do it, they can do it too.” A beautiful philosophy of life, which, we hope, will be heard by the fans.