system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Is there a scientific explanation for why we care so much about celebrities beyond their accomplishments (e.g. films, music)?
gpt
One theory is that humans have been evolutionarily conditioned to gossip as a form of information sharing among small groups or tribes, since in primitive times such information about people and events might prove vital to your group's survival.  Celebrity fixations act upon this natural impulse.