Firstly I want to apologise to Mr. Fry; this is nothing personal. I adore QI, and I love the fact he’s raised awareness of gay issues. In some areas Fry is criminally underrated, such as with his film writing debut Bright Young Things, and the astonishingly personal The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive. But I still don’t understand why everyone fawns around Fry to the extent they do.

As I write this, Fry has 1,289,721 Twitter followers, and they are increasing by the second. And what does he do with it? Put pressure on the government? Make a movement for change? No. He encourages political apathy and publicly refused to vote in the 2005 election. I’ve had many conversations with people who abstained from voting and been told that if the nation’s scrumptilicious teddy-bear doesn’t, why should they?

Fry also decried tax-payers for being upset over the MPs’ expenses scandal. “Who hasn’t fiddled expenses?” he said, and though he has a point, this is unsuitable coming from such a figurehead. “A tedious, bourgeois obsession”, says someone who has clearly benefited from financial fiddling at the tax-payers expense. Hardly the ideal role model.

The media reporting Fry’s every move is tedious. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t care if he stops using Twitter or not. Not everything he does is news; nor should he be the ‘go-to-celeb’ for a comment on any technology-based advance or news story.

No-one can criticise Fry without fear of umbrage from the social media community. Back in October, when one microblogger dared to say that although he admired Fry, he found his tweets “a bit... boring”, the uproar was ludicrous, with even the BBC finding it necessary to run the story. The poor chap who dared to say anything was bombarded with rebukes from Fry’s many followers. There are numerous Facebook groups demanding Stephen Fry be made King, Prime Minister and/or Poet Laureate (maybe all of them at once). One group appears to think he already is, declaring “Bad Mouthing Stephen Fry should be classed as Treason”. He apparently has his own day (24th Aug), and there is even one group with the sole aim of aiding his escape from a lift.

I want to make it clear; I do not hate Stephen. I just feel it is possible he has spread himself a little thin; the moments of excellence are diluted by inane comments regarding the weather or darts scores. I hate his sycophantic fans who fawn on his every word, making complaints about news articles they have yet to read (by their own admittance), simply because Fry has frowned upon it. I re-iterate: I do not dislike Fry; I merely wish he was a little less ubiquitous and less revered by those who appear to be under the illusion he is God.

But Stephen, please don't send your Twitter army after me. I'm scared of them. All 1,290,282 of them.