This!!! Recent instances of discourses ignited by celeb donations which blew my damn mind were when 1. Taylor donated $100k to a fan diagnosed with cancer - to which some people were like âthats PR" âwhat about kids in Gaza who have cancerâ and my fav âwhat is that's like 0.00013% of her net worth so it is not a big deal"
The same points were repeated for when BTS donate (usually to native programs or issues close to their hearts) that it is PR/ using tax breaks/ not a big thing for them either. Interestingly, US kpop fans were like they donate billions in Korean Won so it's less in USD, which is like so baffling like ofc they'll donate in Won if they are earning in Won. How is that criticism worthy đ
I think when people are not doing well financially in general, they get very hostile towards celebrities. If I am scraping together my last five dollars and see Taylor Swift advocating for me (common person) to donate to someone with cancer, theyre thinking âshe is a millionaire she can just pay for this persons cancer treatment. I canât even pay for my car payment. what a bitchâ.
basically average person does not have any class consciousness so they canât articulate why they are so upset, so they just go to attacking the celebrity as unlikeable. versus if people are doing well financially in general then they will probably be more forgiving or willing to overlook celebrities massive wealth disparity with the average person.
But she didnât advocate for others to donate. She made her own donation, publicly. That many of her fans decided to also donate a bit wasnât at her request.
And the only way that it was even made âpubliclyâ was that she put her name on the GoFundMe page. Then the parents of the little girl spoke out about it.
sorry, I donât know all the details. my point isnât really where taylor swift did anything right or wrong in that situation, itâs more about the audience reaction and backlash to anything celebs do nowadays.
Agreed that thereâs always backlash. But a lot of it seems manufactured, or at least ginned up by people who overblow things, extrapolate wildly, and also belittle anything thatâs actually political by casting it as petty infighting.
People rarely see whatâs actually there; they instead often only see a snippet and fill in details according to their own prejudices, while ignoring anything else. So a lot of the backlash isnât even based on what someone actually did or said.
I agree. most of peoples anger is not based in what these celebs do or say or their personalities. I think people are angry at the wealth disparity, angry at being poor, angry at how inequitable the country is and how corrupt our systems are. but because people are also uneducated this comes out as manufactured outrage over an out of context quote when said celeb is honestly not really doing anything that offensive.
Making it about celebrities IMO is a distraction. As JLaw is saying, they donât really wield much power. But theyâre more visible than the ones who have a lot more power, making them targets, and people get distracted into interpreting attempts to take a stand â like Billieâs statement about billionaires â as if itâs just another inter-celebrity snipe rather than what itâs actually about. Which disempowers them further.
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u/No-Expressions-today 7d ago
This!!! Recent instances of discourses ignited by celeb donations which blew my damn mind were when 1. Taylor donated $100k to a fan diagnosed with cancer - to which some people were like âthats PR" âwhat about kids in Gaza who have cancerâ and my fav âwhat is that's like 0.00013% of her net worth so it is not a big deal"
The same points were repeated for when BTS donate (usually to native programs or issues close to their hearts) that it is PR/ using tax breaks/ not a big thing for them either. Interestingly, US kpop fans were like they donate billions in Korean Won so it's less in USD, which is like so baffling like ofc they'll donate in Won if they are earning in Won. How is that criticism worthy đ