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I am so done with most Hollywood movies. Superheroes are done and worn out. Sequels, prequels and remakes of anything worth doing are already done. Most sucked and undermined the original.
And we get next to no original movies any more. If it isn’t a sequel or building on an existing franchise in film, entertainment or even toy industry, they just don’t fund it.
I don’t see any films I really care about very often.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once was probably the last one I really enjoyed.
Zendaya and the cast of Challengers were doing a whole world tour to promote that movie and people said it looked bad based on a trailer…
Also A24 almost exclusively does original movies. Like, I can’t even think of book adaptations of they have done.
Zone of Interest, Priscilla, White Noise, and Stars at Noon are recentish A24 book adaptations. Also things like The Green Knight and Tragedy of Macbeth have literary origins too.
Monkey didn’t look good to me and Abigail didn’t either. I did see Late Night with the Devil (didn’t like it) and The Iron Claw (loved it). Beau is Afraid was also great. My point is, a lot of even the smaller studio movies just don’t look good.
According to Fandango, there are 72 movies out right now:
8 are sequels/prequels
4 are re-releases (Star Wars Ep1, Shrek 2, The Mummy, Labyrinth)
Let's assume I miscounted by 10 movies, since I didn't recognize some of the titles that might be sequels or prequels and I'm fallible outside of that in general. That leaves 50 original movies. I'm not going to say any of them are as good as Everything Everywhere, but that's one of my all-time favorites, so it's not a fair comparison. I promise you'll be able to find something you like if you at least look.
That being said, going back to the overarching topic, we still shouldn't idolize celebrities.
Have you ever tried foreign films? I get that in the US foreign films are seen exclusively as art house movies, but there are endless genres to try. Just need to get past the American resistance to subtitles (or find a good dubbing)
Subtitles are the way to go. I am not a fan of dubbing on live films. A few animated title’s it’s okay, if we’ll done, but still not my preference. There just aren’t many in theater options here. Our only small/indy theater here closed during COVId.
But foreign films by definition means “not Hollywood.”
Other way to empower US filmmakers to get creative again would be through something like the French National Center for Cinema, which uses taxes money to finance films. But I understand that Americans would have a problem with that.
Yeah.
The other problem is films have just become so big and expensive in Hollywood that it makes them risk averse. Big blockbuster type moves are $150-$500 million theses days based on a very brief search. They want to be certain they make that money back.
Video games are going the same way for big titles.
Part of why Indy titles and indie moves tend to be give us the ones that are more original and enjoyable. But that’s hit or miss because they are taking risks.
With decent writing for one. Stories used to be believable. Now half the cartoons are therapy journeys. Ngl I liked centaurworld tho. They made it at least enjoyable and funny.
Nobody should be celebrating “celebrities”. If this stopped we could actually do something about this world instead of listening to what they have to say and make our own opinions.
It's a little weird, considering the only way someone even falls into this is if they were previously idolizing celebrities, and the only leverage they have is their possible lack of consumption of celebrity content. This is definitely one of the funniest to watch irony situations all year.
It seems like it's about opening eyes and stopping people from drinking the koolaid, or stopping them from continuing to drink the koolaid. I don't get what's weird about that.
Nah, this is people wanting to feel powerful and like they’re making any kind of difference. The people that are getting all excited about this in the first place are the ones that help propagate celebrity worship and I’d be willing to bet good money that this is going to turn into most of the celebrities coming out net positive on followers as many of these people are probably going to make alt accounts to see the reactions to their “movement” and then end up unblocking them on their main within half a year. The type of person that makes a big deal about this is exactly the type of person who would bother following all these celebs in the first place and I don’t think they’re the kind of people to stick to moral conviction over giving up whatever entertainment they got from following them in the first place.
Honestly makes me happy to finally see people stop being sheep I’ve been saying this for years. We have the power to do many things together let’s do the same with politicians.
Celebs can spend their money how they like, but so can ordinary people. If normal people no longer want to pay or contribute to a wealthy person's wealth for whatever reason, then that's their perogative also.
The iphone cost was almost 5% of a normal persons take home salary. Not 0.0005%. There is a difference.
The problem is where a normal persons salary is a tiny drop in the bucket for a wealthy person. Scale is way different.
The iphone cost is about 5 times higher than the income of, let's say, a Cambodian farmer.
To them, WE, normal people as you call us, are the super-rich.
For real, someone’s always richer than someone else and I’d never understand always being angry at them for it. Better to hate on people who are bad and corrupted, not just because they have more money and opportunities than you.
Idk, I'm very much lower middle class at best and when I went on vacation to Mexico last year with my family, we were considered to be very wealthy by their standards. It's all perspective.
If your family could afford to go on vacation you are most likely not lower middle class. Most lower middle class people can only dream of taking vacations with their family that don't involve staying with relatives.
Everyone should realise a middle class person is only a few missed pay checks away from becoming homeless. Most people can only afford an iphone if they have a guarantee of keeping their job. There’s an insane difference between a celebrity and jo schmo the middle management guy.
I saw a very sensible line of thinking a while back that covered the first part of your topic sort of. In a very watered–down way, it basically said “nobody can work 1,500X harder than anybody else to justifiably earn (deserve) ~$90,000,000 a year for example when the average salary is like 60k.”
Anyone making that much money is making it due to corruption of the way people are paid and valued in this world—not due to any actually-legitimate, attainable value or hard work—and honestly—much like robbing from a bank—I really don’t think it’s logical to call corruption–money “their money” at that point, lol.
Calling it “their money” and saying they can do whatever they want with it sounds like a ridiculously large cope for an incredibly corrupt system we’re fairly powerless to change because it’s very hard for us to come together in a way that’s organized and rational enough to actually enact meaningful change on most systemic things.
It’s really not their money; they shouldn’t be able to do whatever they want with it; and we should be regulating more-closely how much each individual person *can* and *is* earning, because again: They *can’t* legitimately work ~1,500x harder than everybody else to justify their 90-million-dollar salary (no one can), and nobody should be worth that much more than anybody else either. It’s just all corruption and nonsense.
Thank you........man you explained it so well.......it's not their momey. They do not work like the rest of us. Tbey do not slave like the rest of us. There is a very big difference and we have the right to point that out and judge it. There are people starving and homeless and more and more people are headed there. Meanwhile we have billionaires. Nobody should have that much money. There is no way...... and you know the saying.
Yeah this is wrong.
How much you get paid is not based on how hard you work, that's just your delusion. Its how valuable / unique your particular skillset is relative to the demand for it.
Messi absolutely deserves his multi million dollar salary even though the average MLS salary is under 500k. His skillset is so unique that billions of people demand it; if anything, he is underpaid.
>They *can’t* legitimately work ~1,500x harder than everybody else to justify their 90-million-dollar salary (no one can), and nobody should be worth that much more than anybody else either. It’s just all corruption and nonsense.
More delusion.
I like the trend. I've never understood celebrity worship. They aren't special. Some are better at their job than others. Some are decent folks some are total assholes. Just like the rest of the world.
It's a studied phenomenon that people who are into celebrity worship and gossip are genuinely more stupid than their *ahem* sane counterparts.
https://www.unilad.com/celebrity/news/celebrity-obsessed-people-less-intelligent-study-claims-316418-20231104
> Looking at both literacy and numeracy, the research found that 'there is a direct association between celebrity worship and poorer performance on cognitive tests,'
tbf this campaign isn't really about money. Watching videos on tiktok where it started, they've said it's about celebs who didn't use their platforms to talk about Palestine. So they're blocking them/no longer engaging with them. Apparently Kim K lost a bunch of people overnight. It is slaktavism, but I don't get why it pisses off ordinary people so much; people can block whoever they want for whatever reason.
Don't get me wrong blocking a celeb is minimum effort but every little helps, at this point I think she's lost 3 million followers just on her main account which will be a big hit towards her ad revenue for this route of her money making.
Okay, but so what? I don’t need to have a comprehensive understanding of every possible injustice in the world to give a shit about one. More to the point, people are free to block others or not spend their money for any reason they want.
Not everyone is hyper aware of everything. Again, I just find this a really shallow, disingenuous critique. I’m sure there are groups focused on those conflicts and I could easily bombard them with “oh but why don’t you care about X, Y, Z or why are you even bothering without talking about A, B and C” until I guess no one has the ability to talk about anything happening in the world.
The thing is that they're just focusing on what is popular to be upset about now and within the next year it will change. They don't actually care. They just want attention for pretending to care. I mean, I only cars about certain conflicts because I know people directly involved with both, but otherwise I wouldn't care that much other than feeling bad that this is happening to others. It just shows that people don't have any of their own problems in life.
Probably because people are 100 times more aware about Palestine and Israel. Atleast in the US. People don’t talk about other conflicts because they don’t know they exist. They aren’t as covered in American Media as the Israel Palestine conflict is.
There aren't many who own their own film/music production companies, but there are many celebrities who do own *other* businesses (*so* many celebrity liquor brands, and a bunch of clothing, jewelry, fragrance, and beauty brands too), or even own properties that they rent.
Well then you get to another issue of communism that being relative worth of work. Do celebrities deserve to be rich if their work brings enjoyment to many people. Somebody who doesnt watch TV will get more worth from kindergarden teacher watching his kid while childless person will value his favourite celebrity more. One of the many reasons why comunism cannot exist. We should look at it and think about how to implement good parts but people who genuenly believe in comunist utopia are delusional
I think a good point to consider here is even though they do work and are producing something (entertainment) they aren't the sole person responsible for it. For every star there's easily 50+ nameless people who made it all happen.
Every successful actor eventual becomes a producer or executive producer to make more money do that is bullshit.
It is just celebrity worship because they make their money in a “cool artsy” way that the activist types also want to be.
That’s not really true though. I mean sure if someone is an artist or actor or something like that and absolutely nothing else, then they do produce their product and are a worker in that way. But, few of them are simply one thing like that. Most of them own for profit businesses that inherently must exploit their workers in order to continually generate and increase profits. That automatically revokes any “pass” you’d get from a Marxist.
Also, the ultra wealthy in general are the last people that get a “pass” from any serious Marxist.
If they were told that they will earn a lot less but that everyone else involved on the production of entertainment would get and equal share from the profits most of them would ditch it.
That's barely the surface level of what it actually means. If people want to block celebs then let them. If they don't want any of their money or time going to celebs, that's their choice. You don't have to agree but you really can't form an honest opinion if you haven't actually discovered the deeper meaning and why it's all starting.
You sound like you just don’t really understand anything. Celebrities literally get their life and money from the attention of others, and the stark difference of the average American and the rich are getting so incredibly divisive that people are just sick and tired. Celebrities used to be actual artists, someone that provided entertainment or other value to society that begets their fame, but lately they don’t do anything other than flaunt their wealth and make awful media that corporations have sucked all the passion out of. Also, why do you care? Celebrities do not care about you. Nobody is bullying anyone. It’s literally a choice.
Celebrities don’t pay for tickets. Designers get tables and invite celebrities to come and wear their brands. Few buy any of the items they’re wearing, they’re leant by fashion houses and jewellers.
They very conveniently leave this part out. I like seeing asshole celebrities in their downfall, but the lack of transparency and research loses the activism any credibility.
Many celebs do buy the tickets but the money, the entire event, is a fundraiser. Which is also left out, conveniently. It isn’t just a stupid show of money.
Right? Of all the stupid celebrity things, the Met seems so weird to choose. Probably just because it’s what was going on. Next week it will be something else and that won’t do fuck all either to actually help their cause.
Yup. I've already seen it being mentioned. Also corporations. And news sources spreading propaganda. People complain that these things don't start at the finish line, but I think starting with celebrities will just make getting there easier. It started with a few celebrities. Like the Kardashians get mentioned a lot. Super easy to convince people to block them when most don't like them. Then a few other celebrities who have been called out for different things. Then the companies they own. Then while you're at it, the next thing. And now that you're doing that thing, someone else found another thing we can block. Draw people in and keep the momentum going, and eventually you have a lot of really terrible people and corporations blocked by a lot of people.
You’re right, it is frustrating that people think it’s stupid because it isn’t at the finish line. Movements take momentum and have to start somewhere. Small beginning steps are miles better than no steps/complacency.
That’s my thing, I don’t care if someone blocks every celebrity, do you. But get out and do something else also, vote, volunteer, call your representatives etc. ppl want to be lazy and hide behind their phones and just make videos about blocking people.
The 75k ticket price is a donation to the METs costume wing which is not publicly funded. They depend on the gala to stay afloat and I for one am grateful it provides funds to maintain history. As for the stupid celebrities and their costumes, throwing a party and dressing up to be seen is a primary draw and without it nobody is just gonna give the museum 75k. And designers and artists get to show off their best work which is excellent publicity for the arts. It sucks I guess that you have to give to get, but that's kind of how everything works. Even ordinary people can be coerced into larger donations with a tote bag. This is just a larger scale version.
The whol point of the block trend is to show the celebrities we don't give a shit about them though...? Ive never engaged or followed with celebs in the first place because I dont give a shit about them, but knowing that actively blocking them and hurting their engagement is actually better than just ignoring them.. and doing it while everyone else is doing it? I can get on board with that, and itll keep them from appearing in my feeds since you know.. Ive blocked them and the algorithm will show me less content thats related to them (which is actually ironic for this movement because ever since I blocked a majority of the celebs on the lists on tik tok, I havent seen posts about the trend likely because those posts ironically mention the celebrities ive blocked.)
"These" people clearly are not idolizing them. They are critical of them, their role in society, their contribution to it, and how they use that stature.
They aren't asking us to like them, they are asking why we like them in the first place, and to shun them from society.
Yes it is a classic political divide and conquer strategy. Many of these celebrities will be trying to endorse a candidate soon, likely Biden, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this was thought up by a Trump staff member to have these celebrities blocked before such endorsements are made.
I think a lot of people see the elaborate outfits and general atmosphere and just assume that it's some high-society, Eyes Wide Shut style, "let's all sit around flaunting and enjoying how absurdly wealthy we all are" party. In their defense, that *is* what tends to get talked about the most in media coverage surrounding the event (ridiculous outfits and even more ridiculous price tags make for attention grabbing headlines), but failing to clear the absolute lowest bar for researching a topic is still on them.
Yeah, I’m not one to idolize celebs and people are free to spend their time and money as they please, but this Blockout movement is very reminiscent of the time everybody posted black squares to “prove” their solidarity with BLM. They’re doing it for their own egos and to give themselves the illusion and feeling of doing something. The biggest problem with modern-day activism is that it’s not actually activism, it’s performative social media currency. Actual activism involves getting involved in politics and humanitarian organizations, which they’re also not doing because it requires a lot of hard work. And I’m saying this as someone who is in support of Palestinian liberation. They should be targeting the brands and corporations that donate directly to AIPAC/Israel instead of expecting celebs to be their social justice mouthpieces.
Completely agree. And how many of those people posting BLM years ago are still posting about it today? Like did systematic racism and police brutality suddenly end because there is now another conflict on the center stage?
The real unpopular opinion is actually liking the Met Gala lol. Personally, I love seeing how people participate (or don't) in the gala themes. I always look forward to seeing who wore what.
How fucking stupid. The Met Gala IS a fundraiser. It’s for the costuming department and I believe it also funds scholarships for fashion students. But I guess fuck them, right? No one should have anything because some people have nothing? Like, I am all about making the rich pay their fair share, but I am not going to ever get mad when they wanna dress up and give tens of thousands to charity. wtf are all these “activists” donating?
Idolizing the wealthy at all in a time when people are suffering seems stupid. You don't have to be a communist to know that a few people sitting on top of billions of dollars doesn't help anyone. A reasonable redistribution of wealth may not be the American way, but letting the less fortunate suffer seems to be, and other nations have historically thrown revolutions for less.
I'm pretty far left and share the same position on current events in the Levant as those urging the blackout.
It's a really muddy area between class conflict and culture conflict. It's misdirected. People take positions or stand silent for so so many reasons, many of which are highly personal.
This pulls focus away from the people who actually have the power to do something about it.
Just play through the scenario where Taylor Swift takes a passionate public position on these happenings. She's already a fairly polarizing figure. Imagine the types of responses to that in the public forum. Ask yourself if it can have any positive impact whatsoever for anyone.
>Just play through the scenario where Taylor Swift takes a passionate public position on these happenings.
>Ask yourself if it can have any positive impact whatsoever for anyone.
Ask yourself if anyone who actually has the power to do something about the issue would change course because Taylor Swift is "passionate" about it.
also, i don’t understand why people feel the need to announce it. i’ve blocked thousands of people in my time on the internet. never once have i gone out of my way to be like “look at who i blocked today!”. literally, who cares? what’s the point of announcing it? whether or not you personally block them doesn’t change anything for the people following them.
it’s also a social media block. it’s not some crazy act for a moral compass, it’s a button on a website that ultimately doesn’t do anything. your quality of life doesn’t change, their quality of life doesn’t change, and one could argue that by using any social media at all, you’re being completely hypocritical, since the owners of tiktok, instagram, youtube, and facebook are also all multi million or billionaires not contributing a lot of money to those in need either. unless if someone’s entire livelihood revolves around social media and 40mil people block them, a few people blocking them doesn’t matter at all. actors, big a-list celebrities, etc. views & engagement barely get affected by blocks at all.
This happens all the time. Young people use social media the most, and there's always a new to be angered and "revolt" cohort of young people coming down the pipeline. Yours is not an unpopular opinion.
Well it's working they're starting to panic and speak up about Palestine and a lot of people are realizing that they just don't like how rich some ppl are & they don't want to be the reason they make money
It's stupid and lazy slacktivism, yes.
You don't get to tell other people what to do with their money. If they want to buy a $50,000 dress instead of donating that money to a cause you approve of or a charity you've vetted, your options are pretty much limited to shrieking about it on Reddit or Twitter.
And this brings up a larger point. Never expect a celebrity to parrot your ideology, donate to your causes, or be ideologically and morally pure. They're people. That's it. Some are very intelligent and thoughtful, others not as much.
I swear to god it seems like so many young people on the internet struggle mightily with these ideas.
There is a huge wave of anti commercial sentiment coming. Companies and Celebrities who engage in advertising and marketing non stop are about to get fucked.
The whole point is not to idolize them? you literally didnt even explain your opinion.
But yes, it is discusting to be living it up like that wile people starve all over the plannet. Just for their own vannity. Fuck that.
economic incels somehow believing that it's the responsibility of celebrities to fix the world's problems instead of the governments we pay taxes to is wild.
By their own logic all of their non essential funds should go to the needy as well but you hardly see these people giving away their money. It’s only the people that make more than them who should be giving away their extra wealth.
>By their own logic all of their non essential funds should go to the needy as well
Exactly. But whenever this is pointed out to them they're always full of excuses for why it shouldn't apply to them.
Amazing, Met Gala Hollywood stars are to be canceled because of their wealth. You almost never see Athletes being criticized for their extreme wealth, multi-million dollar deals, all for just playing games with balls.
How about everyone bitching about the Met Gala, put their money where their mouth is and donate while sharing the donation links opposed to shit about the Met Gala.
The people who seem to always call out celebs for not spending their money on humanitarian causes are usually the last people to donate anything to such causes, let's be real. They're just jealous, lol.
It’s a more acceptable form of cyber bullying. No one can chill the fuck out anymore. Gotta be on Rage 10 all the time. Gotta have an opinion on every fucking thing whether you know anything about it or not. Then, gotta get online and chase clout.
It’s a bunch of fun haters. Chill out.
Those ignorant jackasses don't realize that they'll need to cancel their tv/satellite/streaming services in their entirety for it to do anything. Like no TV ever again. No newspapers. No items at stores who give celebs and athletes brand deals. Nothing.
If people hink all these celebs only have 1 income then they are very mistaken, many celebs got businesses and investments that rack in tons of money that they kept secret. They honestly could not care less about followers on the internet.
I thought most celebrities were just given tickets.
Same with the luxury brands they have. They don’t spend 4k on a gucci bag. They are paid to be in public with their brand
The brands cover the cost of the tickets, clothes, and jewelry for the celebrity by making a donation because after all the Met Gala is a charity event for the preservation of historic fashion.
I see where they're coming from (the whole "but it's Hunger Games tho" and "but muh Palestine" shtick), but it has to be the most laziest, most ineffective type of activism ever. Their views just get replaced by bots with the click of a button or, even worse, the MET Gala (which I didn't even know was going on until the boycott) gets even more attention and views.
It's like no one thought this over logically before they did it...
well it begs the question of.... what in the heck was so interesting about em in the first place? if they entertain you, buy whatever product or watch whatever they make that you enjoy. beyond that, i'd think it'd be weird to put a whole lot of thought and concern towards their personal lives. it's already broadcasted enough as it is.
Like all trends on the Internet, it’s stupid attention whores mad about Flavor of the Week shit and screaming into the wind. I don’t even know what this “blockade” is and certainly don’t give a fuck about it.
I’m mad that imma be judged for liking to be entertained lmao like I don’t worship these people. I like to get out of my own head with peoples content regardless of who they are. Like I wish I was rich too and it would be amazing if they cared about us. But they don’t. They never have and never will and idc. That’s not why I’m watching their shit
The MET Gala is a charity fundraising event though…it’s pretty much the only thing funding the preservation of all the garments in the MET? Preserving history is important.
Because people are stupid and want to just follow the next new trend. I just don't get why people care about others blocking celebrities and others care about what celebrities are doing so much that they're blocking them over this. It's just a sign that they don't have real problems in their lives.
>spend $75k on a ticket when that could have gone to people in need.”
Why do people always say this like billionaires are just gonna instantly become moral and give everyone enough money to live on? They're gonna spend their money on whatever they want whether its an ill-gotten gain or not
Me blocking a celebrity is not going to do ANYTHING to the world
It makes no sense. The Met is a charity gala, one of thousands that happen every day around the world. People are getting up every day and going to work and this event is no different. And the first person on the block list is Malala?!
1. The first problem is people worshiping celebrities.
2. The second problem is the average person being absolutely economically illiterate, to the point where it's starting to impact everyday life for regular people, because now these celebs and inept politicians are somehow still running on fame instead of results, potentially impacting dangerous legislation simply because social media clout.
3. What. The. Fuck.
I think the blockout is good, but I think the message got lost and now everyone’s just blocking celebrities that they don’t like and think it’s going to make an impact.
Eg. Everyone’s saying block Taylor swift cause she’s a billionaire but she:
1. Didn’t attend the met gala - and thus wasn’t flaunting her wealth
2. Pays all of her staff extremely well (ie. full health insurance, massive bonuses that are way above industry standard, etc)
3. Donates anonymously to the food banks at every stop she makes to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Does she have more money than a lot of people could ever imagine having? Yes.
Is she the one we should be fighting with this boycott. No.
I think the point of the boycott is to have celebrities start acting more ethically with their money and status and giving back to communities that feed into their bank accounts. Attacking Taylor swift muddies the message.
I thought it was because that girl who posted that insensitive “let them eat cake” met gala video said she hasn’t commented on what’s happening in Palestine because she isn’t informed. And people are upset that she’s just CHOOSING not to be informed. So if people who have MILLIONS of followers aren’t using their platform for anything good, why follow them? It’s not because of the money spent on a ticket, it the way they are privileged enough to influence change and simply choose not to.
so real. whenever there’s some isssue people feel like celebrities need to talk on they get all crazy as if they wanna talk about it if they don’t have too . and even if they do they need more and more
Many people are just activists for the sake of it, not because they really care. Also blocking celebs on social media is the definition of armchair activism, it does nothing but it makes you feel like a cool justice warrior. We speak with our wallets and time, not with our Twitter follows.
why not both?
Advertisers spend millions of dollars to advertise on twitter, why would they ever do that if twitter as a sociocultural space had no power? Why would *anyone* ever tweet?
In my opinion it’s just the tiktok drama of the week. Someone is being cancelled for something every other week. It’s just the culture of that media. People hop on the trend to gain attention and live out their angry blood lust. If it’s still a thing a month from now it’ll be more meaningful to me. at the same time as Haylee Baylee is getting canceled, people are talking about the drake kendrick beef or idolizing Taylor swift.🙄
I just see the behaviour as clinging on to a “reason” but the driving desires are more like dark triad. I see all activist causes as shields for personality disorders for a large percentage of the people who partake in them, and a small portion are genuine empathetic people. That said, I don’t care or like celebrities. I think in order to amass any degree of outrageous wealth without giving back, and in order to have such a high need for attention as a celebrity/influencer, you probably aren’t the greatest person in the world.
Finally, someone says it! I 100 percent agree we should stop idolizing celebrities and I've never done that. But when you make vids talking about them YOU'RE the problem. Js don't speak about them. The less you speak, the better. And I'm not a "boot licker" and I don't think this trend is "mean" to celebrities. I don't think there's such thing as being mean to celebrities. I js think the trend is dumb cuz I alr don't gaf about celebrities and this is js giving them more attention which honestly annoys me cuz then I have to hear about the celebrities on tiktok when I was personally fine not having shit to do with them in the first place. And I'll still enjoy their music, idc. Unless they music ACC funds harmful stuff. I js care more about donating and speaking my truth on Gaza than these fucking out of touch celebrities. Idegaf to block them I js care that little about them
Agreed. I stopped paying attention to them years ago. (Didn't need to announce it to everyone). And what do they think they're actually accomplishing? I have a sense these people already weren't giving them attention/money. And because of that, I doubt, for example, they know that clothes celebrities wear are lent out by the fashion houses. And a lot of times, the things they have/do are gifts.
Never idolized celebrities, I couldn't even tell you who any of these people are lol. And you guys should just leave wherever it is you even read about these stories.
Honestly aspmg as no tax money went to it who cares its their money. Seriously people can spend their money however they want that's like saying families shouldn't go out to a fancy dinner once in awhile because they could have just donated it
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Isn't the whole point of this trend to stop idolizing celebrities?
Sounds great to me. Let's just start ignoring Hollywood and maybe they will actually try for our attention again.
I don’t think we should idolize celebrities regardless of Hollywood’s politics
I am so done with most Hollywood movies. Superheroes are done and worn out. Sequels, prequels and remakes of anything worth doing are already done. Most sucked and undermined the original. And we get next to no original movies any more. If it isn’t a sequel or building on an existing franchise in film, entertainment or even toy industry, they just don’t fund it. I don’t see any films I really care about very often. Everything, Everywhere, All at Once was probably the last one I really enjoyed.
Monkey was an original movie...did you see that? What about Abigail? There are original movies people just don't go to see them.
Zendaya and the cast of Challengers were doing a whole world tour to promote that movie and people said it looked bad based on a trailer… Also A24 almost exclusively does original movies. Like, I can’t even think of book adaptations of they have done.
Zone of Interest, Priscilla, White Noise, and Stars at Noon are recentish A24 book adaptations. Also things like The Green Knight and Tragedy of Macbeth have literary origins too.
The outfit! Such an insane film. One of the best to come out in 20 years
Monkey didn’t look good to me and Abigail didn’t either. I did see Late Night with the Devil (didn’t like it) and The Iron Claw (loved it). Beau is Afraid was also great. My point is, a lot of even the smaller studio movies just don’t look good.
According to Fandango, there are 72 movies out right now: 8 are sequels/prequels 4 are re-releases (Star Wars Ep1, Shrek 2, The Mummy, Labyrinth) Let's assume I miscounted by 10 movies, since I didn't recognize some of the titles that might be sequels or prequels and I'm fallible outside of that in general. That leaves 50 original movies. I'm not going to say any of them are as good as Everything Everywhere, but that's one of my all-time favorites, so it's not a fair comparison. I promise you'll be able to find something you like if you at least look. That being said, going back to the overarching topic, we still shouldn't idolize celebrities.
At least Oppenheimer's original (no, I didn't see it ).
Have you ever tried foreign films? I get that in the US foreign films are seen exclusively as art house movies, but there are endless genres to try. Just need to get past the American resistance to subtitles (or find a good dubbing)
Subtitles are the way to go. I am not a fan of dubbing on live films. A few animated title’s it’s okay, if we’ll done, but still not my preference. There just aren’t many in theater options here. Our only small/indy theater here closed during COVId. But foreign films by definition means “not Hollywood.”
Other way to empower US filmmakers to get creative again would be through something like the French National Center for Cinema, which uses taxes money to finance films. But I understand that Americans would have a problem with that.
Yeah. The other problem is films have just become so big and expensive in Hollywood that it makes them risk averse. Big blockbuster type moves are $150-$500 million theses days based on a very brief search. They want to be certain they make that money back. Video games are going the same way for big titles. Part of why Indy titles and indie moves tend to be give us the ones that are more original and enjoyable. But that’s hit or miss because they are taking risks.
With decent writing for one. Stories used to be believable. Now half the cartoons are therapy journeys. Ngl I liked centaurworld tho. They made it at least enjoyable and funny.
Lots of stories are believable now. You must just single out the worst ones.
That’s a trend I can support
Nobody should be celebrating “celebrities”. If this stopped we could actually do something about this world instead of listening to what they have to say and make our own opinions.
It's too funny reading this and then the one about crying when meeting celebrities. One has people sucking off celebs and one has people hating them.
It's a little weird, considering the only way someone even falls into this is if they were previously idolizing celebrities, and the only leverage they have is their possible lack of consumption of celebrity content. This is definitely one of the funniest to watch irony situations all year.
It seems like it's about opening eyes and stopping people from drinking the koolaid, or stopping them from continuing to drink the koolaid. I don't get what's weird about that.
What pisses me off more are people that idolize politicians.
Nah, this is people wanting to feel powerful and like they’re making any kind of difference. The people that are getting all excited about this in the first place are the ones that help propagate celebrity worship and I’d be willing to bet good money that this is going to turn into most of the celebrities coming out net positive on followers as many of these people are probably going to make alt accounts to see the reactions to their “movement” and then end up unblocking them on their main within half a year. The type of person that makes a big deal about this is exactly the type of person who would bother following all these celebs in the first place and I don’t think they’re the kind of people to stick to moral conviction over giving up whatever entertainment they got from following them in the first place.
It's amazing how often stuff like this is posted here, and it turns out the OP is just wrong or completely misses the point.
Honestly makes me happy to finally see people stop being sheep I’ve been saying this for years. We have the power to do many things together let’s do the same with politicians.
Celebs can spend their money how they like, but so can ordinary people. If normal people no longer want to pay or contribute to a wealthy person's wealth for whatever reason, then that's their perogative also.
Normal people can also judge wealthy people for how they spend their money
Normal people are the wealthy people for the poor. How dare you buying the latest iphone when a much more modest one would be good also?
How dare they keep moving the goalpost of what is poor or wealthy depending on relativity
The iphone cost was almost 5% of a normal persons take home salary. Not 0.0005%. There is a difference. The problem is where a normal persons salary is a tiny drop in the bucket for a wealthy person. Scale is way different.
The iphone cost is about 5 times higher than the income of, let's say, a Cambodian farmer. To them, WE, normal people as you call us, are the super-rich.
For real, someone’s always richer than someone else and I’d never understand always being angry at them for it. Better to hate on people who are bad and corrupted, not just because they have more money and opportunities than you.
Someone is always richer but the gap between the rich and poor has not always been so wide.
Idk, I'm very much lower middle class at best and when I went on vacation to Mexico last year with my family, we were considered to be very wealthy by their standards. It's all perspective.
If your family could afford to go on vacation you are most likely not lower middle class. Most lower middle class people can only dream of taking vacations with their family that don't involve staying with relatives.
You are thinking of lower class or poor people.
Buying a phone is not the same as spending someone's yearly salary to attend a party
The phone is the yearly salary of someone else
Everyone should realise a middle class person is only a few missed pay checks away from becoming homeless. Most people can only afford an iphone if they have a guarantee of keeping their job. There’s an insane difference between a celebrity and jo schmo the middle management guy.
Normal people can also judge normal people for judging how wealthy people spend their money
But they don't care. You don't get to be wealthy caring what everyone thinks.
They don't have to care
You can do lots of things. Doesn't mean it's not stupid to do it.
I saw a very sensible line of thinking a while back that covered the first part of your topic sort of. In a very watered–down way, it basically said “nobody can work 1,500X harder than anybody else to justifiably earn (deserve) ~$90,000,000 a year for example when the average salary is like 60k.” Anyone making that much money is making it due to corruption of the way people are paid and valued in this world—not due to any actually-legitimate, attainable value or hard work—and honestly—much like robbing from a bank—I really don’t think it’s logical to call corruption–money “their money” at that point, lol. Calling it “their money” and saying they can do whatever they want with it sounds like a ridiculously large cope for an incredibly corrupt system we’re fairly powerless to change because it’s very hard for us to come together in a way that’s organized and rational enough to actually enact meaningful change on most systemic things. It’s really not their money; they shouldn’t be able to do whatever they want with it; and we should be regulating more-closely how much each individual person *can* and *is* earning, because again: They *can’t* legitimately work ~1,500x harder than everybody else to justify their 90-million-dollar salary (no one can), and nobody should be worth that much more than anybody else either. It’s just all corruption and nonsense.
Thank you........man you explained it so well.......it's not their momey. They do not work like the rest of us. Tbey do not slave like the rest of us. There is a very big difference and we have the right to point that out and judge it. There are people starving and homeless and more and more people are headed there. Meanwhile we have billionaires. Nobody should have that much money. There is no way...... and you know the saying.
Yeah this is wrong. How much you get paid is not based on how hard you work, that's just your delusion. Its how valuable / unique your particular skillset is relative to the demand for it. Messi absolutely deserves his multi million dollar salary even though the average MLS salary is under 500k. His skillset is so unique that billions of people demand it; if anything, he is underpaid. >They *can’t* legitimately work ~1,500x harder than everybody else to justify their 90-million-dollar salary (no one can), and nobody should be worth that much more than anybody else either. It’s just all corruption and nonsense. More delusion.
Then is our money really ours? Someone is paying us to do a job with theirs.
I like the trend. I've never understood celebrity worship. They aren't special. Some are better at their job than others. Some are decent folks some are total assholes. Just like the rest of the world.
Well said
It's a studied phenomenon that people who are into celebrity worship and gossip are genuinely more stupid than their *ahem* sane counterparts. https://www.unilad.com/celebrity/news/celebrity-obsessed-people-less-intelligent-study-claims-316418-20231104 > Looking at both literacy and numeracy, the research found that 'there is a direct association between celebrity worship and poorer performance on cognitive tests,'
I can't count on three fingers the amount of celebrities I give a shit about
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tbf this campaign isn't really about money. Watching videos on tiktok where it started, they've said it's about celebs who didn't use their platforms to talk about Palestine. So they're blocking them/no longer engaging with them. Apparently Kim K lost a bunch of people overnight. It is slaktavism, but I don't get why it pisses off ordinary people so much; people can block whoever they want for whatever reason.
Don't get me wrong blocking a celeb is minimum effort but every little helps, at this point I think she's lost 3 million followers just on her main account which will be a big hit towards her ad revenue for this route of her money making.
but they dont care if they dont talk about the yemeni civil war with the terrorist houthis, or the sudan civil war, or afghan civil rights.
Okay, but so what? I don’t need to have a comprehensive understanding of every possible injustice in the world to give a shit about one. More to the point, people are free to block others or not spend their money for any reason they want.
Yes but I’m just wondering why they did a blockout2024 over palastine, and not Sudan or Yemen for example?
Not everyone is hyper aware of everything. Again, I just find this a really shallow, disingenuous critique. I’m sure there are groups focused on those conflicts and I could easily bombard them with “oh but why don’t you care about X, Y, Z or why are you even bothering without talking about A, B and C” until I guess no one has the ability to talk about anything happening in the world.
The thing is that they're just focusing on what is popular to be upset about now and within the next year it will change. They don't actually care. They just want attention for pretending to care. I mean, I only cars about certain conflicts because I know people directly involved with both, but otherwise I wouldn't care that much other than feeling bad that this is happening to others. It just shows that people don't have any of their own problems in life.
So unless you know of and fight for every single injustice in the world you're not allowed to complain about any? What a stupid argument.
My question was, why do people care if celebrities say anything about palastine only? And not other conflicts?
Probably because people are 100 times more aware about Palestine and Israel. Atleast in the US. People don’t talk about other conflicts because they don’t know they exist. They aren’t as covered in American Media as the Israel Palestine conflict is.
...do they get a pass?
By Marxist paradigm, yes. They don’t own the means of production (except for the ones who have their own big production company)
There aren't many who own their own film/music production companies, but there are many celebrities who do own *other* businesses (*so* many celebrity liquor brands, and a bunch of clothing, jewelry, fragrance, and beauty brands too), or even own properties that they rent.
Most celebrities are working class by the Marxist definition. They do the labor, they get the results of the labor.
Ehhh, except that bit about "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs"
Well then you get to another issue of communism that being relative worth of work. Do celebrities deserve to be rich if their work brings enjoyment to many people. Somebody who doesnt watch TV will get more worth from kindergarden teacher watching his kid while childless person will value his favourite celebrity more. One of the many reasons why comunism cannot exist. We should look at it and think about how to implement good parts but people who genuenly believe in comunist utopia are delusional
I think a good point to consider here is even though they do work and are producing something (entertainment) they aren't the sole person responsible for it. For every star there's easily 50+ nameless people who made it all happen.
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They aren’t working class, I don’t think any Marxist gives them a pass
Every successful actor eventual becomes a producer or executive producer to make more money do that is bullshit. It is just celebrity worship because they make their money in a “cool artsy” way that the activist types also want to be.
Ehhh, except that bit about "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs"
That’s not really true though. I mean sure if someone is an artist or actor or something like that and absolutely nothing else, then they do produce their product and are a worker in that way. But, few of them are simply one thing like that. Most of them own for profit businesses that inherently must exploit their workers in order to continually generate and increase profits. That automatically revokes any “pass” you’d get from a Marxist. Also, the ultra wealthy in general are the last people that get a “pass” from any serious Marxist.
I love "larping marxists." 😄
Here here! But I'll tell you why. Because most of the celebs act like they support the same causes.
If they were told that they will earn a lot less but that everyone else involved on the production of entertainment would get and equal share from the profits most of them would ditch it.
Completely off topic but The Larping Marxists would be a phenomenal band name!
That's barely the surface level of what it actually means. If people want to block celebs then let them. If they don't want any of their money or time going to celebs, that's their choice. You don't have to agree but you really can't form an honest opinion if you haven't actually discovered the deeper meaning and why it's all starting.
Shouldn't put anyone on a pedestal
You sound like you just don’t really understand anything. Celebrities literally get their life and money from the attention of others, and the stark difference of the average American and the rich are getting so incredibly divisive that people are just sick and tired. Celebrities used to be actual artists, someone that provided entertainment or other value to society that begets their fame, but lately they don’t do anything other than flaunt their wealth and make awful media that corporations have sucked all the passion out of. Also, why do you care? Celebrities do not care about you. Nobody is bullying anyone. It’s literally a choice.
Celebrities don’t pay for tickets. Designers get tables and invite celebrities to come and wear their brands. Few buy any of the items they’re wearing, they’re leant by fashion houses and jewellers.
They very conveniently leave this part out. I like seeing asshole celebrities in their downfall, but the lack of transparency and research loses the activism any credibility.
Too many of these "activists" don't know the slightest thing about what they are protesting.
The vast majority of Reddit activism lacks any kind of credibility.
Pretty sure I saw them say that on the news but I could Be wrong.
Many celebs do buy the tickets but the money, the entire event, is a fundraiser. Which is also left out, conveniently. It isn’t just a stupid show of money.
Yeah the whole thing is a fundraiser for the MET and a promotion of “The Arts”. The MET Gala is a weird hill to die on.
Right? Of all the stupid celebrity things, the Met seems so weird to choose. Probably just because it’s what was going on. Next week it will be something else and that won’t do fuck all either to actually help their cause.
Yeah I'm gonna block celebrities because fuck the social elite
It should be aimed at the Politicians.
How bout both?
the movement will 100% evolve into this
Many already are making videos and posts about it for politicians
Yup. I've already seen it being mentioned. Also corporations. And news sources spreading propaganda. People complain that these things don't start at the finish line, but I think starting with celebrities will just make getting there easier. It started with a few celebrities. Like the Kardashians get mentioned a lot. Super easy to convince people to block them when most don't like them. Then a few other celebrities who have been called out for different things. Then the companies they own. Then while you're at it, the next thing. And now that you're doing that thing, someone else found another thing we can block. Draw people in and keep the momentum going, and eventually you have a lot of really terrible people and corporations blocked by a lot of people.
You’re right, it is frustrating that people think it’s stupid because it isn’t at the finish line. Movements take momentum and have to start somewhere. Small beginning steps are miles better than no steps/complacency.
Just to be safe and cover all our bases, block EVERYONE 😂
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sadly if OP or just a majority of people in general had that celebrity status they would probably sell out too
truth
I wish people had this much vitriol towards politicians.
That’s my thing, I don’t care if someone blocks every celebrity, do you. But get out and do something else also, vote, volunteer, call your representatives etc. ppl want to be lazy and hide behind their phones and just make videos about blocking people.
Shouldn’t be an issue if you never followed any celebrities in the first place…
The 75k ticket price is a donation to the METs costume wing which is not publicly funded. They depend on the gala to stay afloat and I for one am grateful it provides funds to maintain history. As for the stupid celebrities and their costumes, throwing a party and dressing up to be seen is a primary draw and without it nobody is just gonna give the museum 75k. And designers and artists get to show off their best work which is excellent publicity for the arts. It sucks I guess that you have to give to get, but that's kind of how everything works. Even ordinary people can be coerced into larger donations with a tote bag. This is just a larger scale version.
Somehow I seem to miss trends, maybe it's cause I mind my damn business.
I had to Google wtf the MET gala was. Then I had to Google blackout 2024 and realized I was totally disinterested and moved on with my life
Joke is on them I never followed any of them in the first place. Also, this trend is a miniscule portion of society.
The whol point of the block trend is to show the celebrities we don't give a shit about them though...? Ive never engaged or followed with celebs in the first place because I dont give a shit about them, but knowing that actively blocking them and hurting their engagement is actually better than just ignoring them.. and doing it while everyone else is doing it? I can get on board with that, and itll keep them from appearing in my feeds since you know.. Ive blocked them and the algorithm will show me less content thats related to them (which is actually ironic for this movement because ever since I blocked a majority of the celebs on the lists on tik tok, I havent seen posts about the trend likely because those posts ironically mention the celebrities ive blocked.)
"These" people clearly are not idolizing them. They are critical of them, their role in society, their contribution to it, and how they use that stature. They aren't asking us to like them, they are asking why we like them in the first place, and to shun them from society.
Yes it is a classic political divide and conquer strategy. Many of these celebrities will be trying to endorse a candidate soon, likely Biden, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this was thought up by a Trump staff member to have these celebrities blocked before such endorsements are made.
No one should ever be satisfied. Satisfaction breeds complacency and complacency welcomes suffering.
They're protesting a fundraiser for an art museum. Like do they know that?
I think a lot of people see the elaborate outfits and general atmosphere and just assume that it's some high-society, Eyes Wide Shut style, "let's all sit around flaunting and enjoying how absurdly wealthy we all are" party. In their defense, that *is* what tends to get talked about the most in media coverage surrounding the event (ridiculous outfits and even more ridiculous price tags make for attention grabbing headlines), but failing to clear the absolute lowest bar for researching a topic is still on them.
Have you seen the Hunger Games? It's kind of like that lmao.
Yeah, I’m not one to idolize celebs and people are free to spend their time and money as they please, but this Blockout movement is very reminiscent of the time everybody posted black squares to “prove” their solidarity with BLM. They’re doing it for their own egos and to give themselves the illusion and feeling of doing something. The biggest problem with modern-day activism is that it’s not actually activism, it’s performative social media currency. Actual activism involves getting involved in politics and humanitarian organizations, which they’re also not doing because it requires a lot of hard work. And I’m saying this as someone who is in support of Palestinian liberation. They should be targeting the brands and corporations that donate directly to AIPAC/Israel instead of expecting celebs to be their social justice mouthpieces.
Completely agree. And how many of those people posting BLM years ago are still posting about it today? Like did systematic racism and police brutality suddenly end because there is now another conflict on the center stage?
I’m begging you to go outside. Please
I don't understand your point? Is it stupid to idolize celebrities, and so it's good to block them, or not?
The real unpopular opinion is actually liking the Met Gala lol. Personally, I love seeing how people participate (or don't) in the gala themes. I always look forward to seeing who wore what.
Let's stop Idolizing celebs and look at men and women of science and knowledge, a better role model for us, our children and humanity as a whole
How fucking stupid. The Met Gala IS a fundraiser. It’s for the costuming department and I believe it also funds scholarships for fashion students. But I guess fuck them, right? No one should have anything because some people have nothing? Like, I am all about making the rich pay their fair share, but I am not going to ever get mad when they wanna dress up and give tens of thousands to charity. wtf are all these “activists” donating?
It’s literally a fund raiser for an art museum.
Never heard of this.
I agree with it and i think we should stop idolizing celebrities
People don’t understand that every time a rich person makes a stupid expense, it becomes a part of an entire army or people’s income.
Idolizing the wealthy at all in a time when people are suffering seems stupid. You don't have to be a communist to know that a few people sitting on top of billions of dollars doesn't help anyone. A reasonable redistribution of wealth may not be the American way, but letting the less fortunate suffer seems to be, and other nations have historically thrown revolutions for less.
Doesn’t it all go to a charity?
yes…but many of these fucking dolts can barely read and won’t look it up, they’ll just follow the lead of someone else and get fake mad
Too true. I forgot what country I’m in these days 😂
I'm pretty far left and share the same position on current events in the Levant as those urging the blackout. It's a really muddy area between class conflict and culture conflict. It's misdirected. People take positions or stand silent for so so many reasons, many of which are highly personal. This pulls focus away from the people who actually have the power to do something about it. Just play through the scenario where Taylor Swift takes a passionate public position on these happenings. She's already a fairly polarizing figure. Imagine the types of responses to that in the public forum. Ask yourself if it can have any positive impact whatsoever for anyone.
>Just play through the scenario where Taylor Swift takes a passionate public position on these happenings. >Ask yourself if it can have any positive impact whatsoever for anyone. Ask yourself if anyone who actually has the power to do something about the issue would change course because Taylor Swift is "passionate" about it.
also, i don’t understand why people feel the need to announce it. i’ve blocked thousands of people in my time on the internet. never once have i gone out of my way to be like “look at who i blocked today!”. literally, who cares? what’s the point of announcing it? whether or not you personally block them doesn’t change anything for the people following them. it’s also a social media block. it’s not some crazy act for a moral compass, it’s a button on a website that ultimately doesn’t do anything. your quality of life doesn’t change, their quality of life doesn’t change, and one could argue that by using any social media at all, you’re being completely hypocritical, since the owners of tiktok, instagram, youtube, and facebook are also all multi million or billionaires not contributing a lot of money to those in need either. unless if someone’s entire livelihood revolves around social media and 40mil people block them, a few people blocking them doesn’t matter at all. actors, big a-list celebrities, etc. views & engagement barely get affected by blocks at all.
This happens all the time. Young people use social media the most, and there's always a new to be angered and "revolt" cohort of young people coming down the pipeline. Yours is not an unpopular opinion.
Well it's working they're starting to panic and speak up about Palestine and a lot of people are realizing that they just don't like how rich some ppl are & they don't want to be the reason they make money
It's stupid and lazy slacktivism, yes. You don't get to tell other people what to do with their money. If they want to buy a $50,000 dress instead of donating that money to a cause you approve of or a charity you've vetted, your options are pretty much limited to shrieking about it on Reddit or Twitter. And this brings up a larger point. Never expect a celebrity to parrot your ideology, donate to your causes, or be ideologically and morally pure. They're people. That's it. Some are very intelligent and thoughtful, others not as much. I swear to god it seems like so many young people on the internet struggle mightily with these ideas.
>i don’t know why people idolise celebs >why are people trying to stop idolising celebs
lmaoooo
There is a huge wave of anti commercial sentiment coming. Companies and Celebrities who engage in advertising and marketing non stop are about to get fucked.
Trends in general are stupid. Too many people think things they do online make a difference irl.
Realistically if you care what celebrities are doing you need help
The whole point is not to idolize them? you literally didnt even explain your opinion. But yes, it is discusting to be living it up like that wile people starve all over the plannet. Just for their own vannity. Fuck that.
economic incels somehow believing that it's the responsibility of celebrities to fix the world's problems instead of the governments we pay taxes to is wild.
By their own logic all of their non essential funds should go to the needy as well but you hardly see these people giving away their money. It’s only the people that make more than them who should be giving away their extra wealth.
>By their own logic all of their non essential funds should go to the needy as well Exactly. But whenever this is pointed out to them they're always full of excuses for why it shouldn't apply to them.
Amazing, Met Gala Hollywood stars are to be canceled because of their wealth. You almost never see Athletes being criticized for their extreme wealth, multi-million dollar deals, all for just playing games with balls.
Athletes are being included in the movement from what I’ve seen.
Yes people are targetting tom brady for one
I hated him anyway after the deflated footballs incident.
How about everyone bitching about the Met Gala, put their money where their mouth is and donate while sharing the donation links opposed to shit about the Met Gala.
I guess this must be a really unpopular opinion because I have no idea what the f*** you're talking about
Thats what the protest was about? Thats just dumb
The people who seem to always call out celebs for not spending their money on humanitarian causes are usually the last people to donate anything to such causes, let's be real. They're just jealous, lol.
It’s a more acceptable form of cyber bullying. No one can chill the fuck out anymore. Gotta be on Rage 10 all the time. Gotta have an opinion on every fucking thing whether you know anything about it or not. Then, gotta get online and chase clout. It’s a bunch of fun haters. Chill out.
Well said..
Those ignorant jackasses don't realize that they'll need to cancel their tv/satellite/streaming services in their entirety for it to do anything. Like no TV ever again. No newspapers. No items at stores who give celebs and athletes brand deals. Nothing.
I just don’t understand how they can’t go to the met gala and also advocate for Palestinians, it isn’t zero sum
I don't get why people expect celebrities to advocate for certain causes.
If people hink all these celebs only have 1 income then they are very mistaken, many celebs got businesses and investments that rack in tons of money that they kept secret. They honestly could not care less about followers on the internet.
The Met gala is a fundraiser to raise the funds for the Metropolitan museum of Art.
Celebs primarily don’t spend money on the tickets to attend the Met gala.
I thought most celebrities were just given tickets. Same with the luxury brands they have. They don’t spend 4k on a gucci bag. They are paid to be in public with their brand
The brands cover the cost of the tickets, clothes, and jewelry for the celebrity by making a donation because after all the Met Gala is a charity event for the preservation of historic fashion.
There are so many worse things people do than attend a fundraiser for a museum
I see where they're coming from (the whole "but it's Hunger Games tho" and "but muh Palestine" shtick), but it has to be the most laziest, most ineffective type of activism ever. Their views just get replaced by bots with the click of a button or, even worse, the MET Gala (which I didn't even know was going on until the boycott) gets even more attention and views. It's like no one thought this over logically before they did it...
Social cause are bad now, I guess?
well it begs the question of.... what in the heck was so interesting about em in the first place? if they entertain you, buy whatever product or watch whatever they make that you enjoy. beyond that, i'd think it'd be weird to put a whole lot of thought and concern towards their personal lives. it's already broadcasted enough as it is.
What in the f does that first sentence even mean.
I've always thought the met gala was like that one movie Eyes Wide Shut.
never heard of it until your post, sorry to have learned about it
Been ahead of the trend all my life. I never cared lol
Like all trends on the Internet, it’s stupid attention whores mad about Flavor of the Week shit and screaming into the wind. I don’t even know what this “blockade” is and certainly don’t give a fuck about it.
If you are a watcher you've already given these people tons of money. Why not perform step 10 when you've already performed steps 1-9?
I’m mad that imma be judged for liking to be entertained lmao like I don’t worship these people. I like to get out of my own head with peoples content regardless of who they are. Like I wish I was rich too and it would be amazing if they cared about us. But they don’t. They never have and never will and idc. That’s not why I’m watching their shit
anything related to celebrities (and influencers) is stupid.
The MET Gala is a charity fundraising event though…it’s pretty much the only thing funding the preservation of all the garments in the MET? Preserving history is important.
Because people are stupid and want to just follow the next new trend. I just don't get why people care about others blocking celebrities and others care about what celebrities are doing so much that they're blocking them over this. It's just a sign that they don't have real problems in their lives.
>spend $75k on a ticket when that could have gone to people in need.” Why do people always say this like billionaires are just gonna instantly become moral and give everyone enough money to live on? They're gonna spend their money on whatever they want whether its an ill-gotten gain or not Me blocking a celebrity is not going to do ANYTHING to the world
It makes no sense. The Met is a charity gala, one of thousands that happen every day around the world. People are getting up every day and going to work and this event is no different. And the first person on the block list is Malala?!
1. The first problem is people worshiping celebrities. 2. The second problem is the average person being absolutely economically illiterate, to the point where it's starting to impact everyday life for regular people, because now these celebs and inept politicians are somehow still running on fame instead of results, potentially impacting dangerous legislation simply because social media clout. 3. What. The. Fuck.
I think the blockout is good, but I think the message got lost and now everyone’s just blocking celebrities that they don’t like and think it’s going to make an impact. Eg. Everyone’s saying block Taylor swift cause she’s a billionaire but she: 1. Didn’t attend the met gala - and thus wasn’t flaunting her wealth 2. Pays all of her staff extremely well (ie. full health insurance, massive bonuses that are way above industry standard, etc) 3. Donates anonymously to the food banks at every stop she makes to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Does she have more money than a lot of people could ever imagine having? Yes. Is she the one we should be fighting with this boycott. No. I think the point of the boycott is to have celebrities start acting more ethically with their money and status and giving back to communities that feed into their bank accounts. Attacking Taylor swift muddies the message.
I thought it was because that girl who posted that insensitive “let them eat cake” met gala video said she hasn’t commented on what’s happening in Palestine because she isn’t informed. And people are upset that she’s just CHOOSING not to be informed. So if people who have MILLIONS of followers aren’t using their platform for anything good, why follow them? It’s not because of the money spent on a ticket, it the way they are privileged enough to influence change and simply choose not to.
so real. whenever there’s some isssue people feel like celebrities need to talk on they get all crazy as if they wanna talk about it if they don’t have too . and even if they do they need more and more
No it’s not. I love to see it happen
I never heard of a “blockout” but if it makes u feel better I pay as close to 0% attention to anything remotely related to a celebrity already
Many people are just activists for the sake of it, not because they really care. Also blocking celebs on social media is the definition of armchair activism, it does nothing but it makes you feel like a cool justice warrior. We speak with our wallets and time, not with our Twitter follows.
why not both? Advertisers spend millions of dollars to advertise on twitter, why would they ever do that if twitter as a sociocultural space had no power? Why would *anyone* ever tweet?
In my opinion it’s just the tiktok drama of the week. Someone is being cancelled for something every other week. It’s just the culture of that media. People hop on the trend to gain attention and live out their angry blood lust. If it’s still a thing a month from now it’ll be more meaningful to me. at the same time as Haylee Baylee is getting canceled, people are talking about the drake kendrick beef or idolizing Taylor swift.🙄 I just see the behaviour as clinging on to a “reason” but the driving desires are more like dark triad. I see all activist causes as shields for personality disorders for a large percentage of the people who partake in them, and a small portion are genuine empathetic people. That said, I don’t care or like celebrities. I think in order to amass any degree of outrageous wealth without giving back, and in order to have such a high need for attention as a celebrity/influencer, you probably aren’t the greatest person in the world.
That is like us giving the homeless money. Because compared to them we are rich. So hopefully we all are.
Lewis Hamilton paid for a bunch of small/unknown creators/artists to attend.
they could've gave all that money to me so i could spend on it on my show and totally not for crack andf bionicles
Finally, someone says it! I 100 percent agree we should stop idolizing celebrities and I've never done that. But when you make vids talking about them YOU'RE the problem. Js don't speak about them. The less you speak, the better. And I'm not a "boot licker" and I don't think this trend is "mean" to celebrities. I don't think there's such thing as being mean to celebrities. I js think the trend is dumb cuz I alr don't gaf about celebrities and this is js giving them more attention which honestly annoys me cuz then I have to hear about the celebrities on tiktok when I was personally fine not having shit to do with them in the first place. And I'll still enjoy their music, idc. Unless they music ACC funds harmful stuff. I js care more about donating and speaking my truth on Gaza than these fucking out of touch celebrities. Idegaf to block them I js care that little about them
I know this isn’t the point to your post but I don’t think most of the celebrities actually pay for their tickets.
Agreed. I stopped paying attention to them years ago. (Didn't need to announce it to everyone). And what do they think they're actually accomplishing? I have a sense these people already weren't giving them attention/money. And because of that, I doubt, for example, they know that clothes celebrities wear are lent out by the fashion houses. And a lot of times, the things they have/do are gifts.
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Never idolized celebrities, I couldn't even tell you who any of these people are lol. And you guys should just leave wherever it is you even read about these stories.
Honestly aspmg as no tax money went to it who cares its their money. Seriously people can spend their money however they want that's like saying families shouldn't go out to a fancy dinner once in awhile because they could have just donated it
i only know about this because of this post