Autograph hounds (and autographs in general) seem like a dying breed. The practice itself seems really outdated and only adhered to due to cultural norms reinforcing the idea that getting an autograph is what you're supposed to do when you see/meet a famous person.
Even though at this point, the purpose of an autograph has been more or less supplanted via social media. Getting a selfie, or an RT, or a like on Instagram or whatever - these are the sorts of things that seem to have more or less replaced what Autographs used to do in celebrity interactions.
The only reason autographs still carry any cultural cachet I think is because there's been a couple decades worth of dudes who made a legitimate market out of it.
Like, god bless the actors who show up at cons and can get 50-200 bucks out of fans willing to wait in line for that signature to hit a glossy 8x10 (that they probably paid 40 for), but I guess I don't get the point of that now, and I figure prices are only going to keep going up as the built-in audience for that sort of shit dwindles down to a specific core set of collectors.
