Poor Timothée Chalamet.

As if it's not enough to have the opera and ballet communities hate you, the 30-year-old star of Marty Supreme also missed out on an Academy Award — something he was openly thirsting for.

Then, he had to sit through savage jokes about it during the Oscar ceremony, to boot.

But now, in what is perhaps the most crushing of all, comes news that Timothée's number one fan has distanced herself from the actor she once claimed to love.

Simone Cromer runs Club Chalamet. She's a super fan who declared her unyielding admiration for Chalamet after his critically-acclaimed performance in 2018's Call Me By Your Name.

Simone Cromer who runs Club Chalamet. Image: Instagram/clubchalamet

But in a two-part essay on Substack, she announced she's taking a step back, explaining that her "absolute, best, die-hard supporter efforts" had not offered personal fulfilment.

Huh. Really?

So you're telling me that carrying on a deeply parasocial relationship with a famous actor half your age—while he does his best to ignore your borderline fixation—didn't deliver the steady stream of dopamine you were hoping for?

Shocking.

Listen to The Spill break down the Club Chalamet drama. Post continues below.

She also recently announced that she was turning some of her attention to a different star: Connor Storrie of "Heated Rivalry." Thoughts and prayers for Connor. He had better not straighten his hair is all I can say.

Cromer, a woman in her late 50s, who has documented and written what can only be described as open love letters to Chalamet's performances since 2018, has garnered a following of over 80,000 fellow fans across X and Instagram, by analysing not just his performances but his every move.

Look, sorry, but what would our reaction be if a man in his late 50s called off his almost decade-long obsession with Zendaya?

An obsession that began when she was 21?

Oh, it was a celebration of her acting, that's all. Oh I'm sure it was.

One thing Cromer did get right was the brouhaha surrounding his comments about ballet and opera at the Town Hall with Matthew McConaughey. Cromer called Timmy's remarks "an unfortunate choice of words" in a post on Substack, and said people were taking them out of context in an effort to "destroy Timothée's reputation."

Where's the lie?

Watch: Club Chalamet pulls back her support for the actor. Post continues after video.

Meanwhile, The New York Times has interviewed a grand total of four Chalamet fans to get an idea about how exactly he fell out of favour.

One of them, Madison Fetzer, 24, likened Timmy to Harry Styles and Role Model in that he was a bit cheeky, a bit earnest and was unafraid of making bold fashion moves, like halterneck backless blouses and Hermes micro bags. 

"For a while, he had this soft-boy, artsy persona," said Fetzer, 24. But sadly, "The "loud" promotion of Marty Supreme and his courtside appearances at Knicks games, were alienating parts of his fan base. "It all felt like a boys' club."

Sorry, Madison? This is a young man who has always been into basketball, especially the Knicks.

You know who else loves basketball? Adult soft boy and modern sage, Ethan Hawke. You know, the guy who just said you can't lose at love? And that "loud" promotion of Marty Supreme, including the choice of orange as a unifying colour, was based on the publicity tour of Barbie — Chalamet said so himself.

Why don't we all just admit it: we say we're fans until the person we're obsessed with changes in any way we don't understand.

But we fail to realise that:

a)We never really knew them and;

b) They're actually only human, not a cute little collector's doll conveniently embodying every semi-conscious desire we've ever had about what a perfect celebrity should be.

Timothée Chalamet at the Oscars. Image: Getty.

We want people to realise that women "contain multitudes" and to "smash the patriarchy" but do we dare extend that same idea toward a dude who is figuring out his identity in front of millions?

Do we want to understand men as people or as two-dimensional pin-ups? 

Also: he didn't do anything wrong!

It was comedian, former internet boyfriend and "wife guy" John Mulaney who said that the backlash against him for breaking up his marriage to settle down with Olivia Munn was liberating.

It allowed him to move away from the "polite" comedy that had made him "exhausting[ly]" well-liked and into his more authentic self.

"I used to care what everyone thought of me," he said in his standup special Baby J, in which he detailed his drug addiction and rehab.

"And I don't anymore because I can honestly say, what is someone going to do to me that's worse than what I would do to myself?"

If we're going to play parasocial boyfriend games with Timmy, we might do well to extend a little compassion his way.

He's probably going through a bit of his own stuff right now, because — shock! — he's not Laurie from Little Women or baby Bob Dylan, he's a working actor who has achieved global success, something that even the most talented of actors are yet to do.

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