They say “never meet your heroes,” but that usually is a reference to how it can be disappointing to see the human flaws of someone you revere — seeing your favorite actor stumbling drunk on the street, or your favorite singer berating a restaurant server. It’s not really meant to mean “never meet your heroes, because the actual meeting is going to be a psychological assault on your ego.”
Anyway, that’s what happened to Kesha when she had a chance to meet Jerry Seinfeld. She ran up to him at a red carpet event and asked for a hug, to which he replied with a simple and curt “no.” Now, it’s a bit of a combo of parasocialism and overfamiliarity to go straight to hug, but the response was still devastating, even more so when he immediately afterward told the camera that he had no idea who Kesha was.
That’s much more embarrassing than that time you were eating a box of donuts in a work bathroom stall and you ate one too many off one side, fucking up the weight distribution, making the box fall down and sending three glazed donuts rolling out of your stall like sad little snails.