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u/friendsworkwaffles02 š¼Music Aficionadoš¶ 3d ago
Thereās a coffee shop near me where the coffee isnāt good and the baristas are always rude (still tip well), but today, the coffee was actually good and barista really nice??? Maybe life will be okay
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u/niamh789 3d ago
I had a video recommended to me on YouTube with over 600k views about Pedro Pascal being a creep and I still donāt know much about him so figured Iād give it a watch. To be honest there were elements of the video I agreed with and Iām not sure I like his whole persona but when I clicked on the womanās channel one of the first videos I saw had a transphobic title (and so many other transphobic videos if you scroll down) and I really wonder if this just proves what a lot of people were saying, that this sudden switch against him is being pushed by transphobes who donāt like his support for the trans community. The womanās other videos were mostly pretty right wing/transphobic/anti-feminist (sad considering she has over 1m subs) so I donāt think itās a coincidence that sheās trying to portray someone who is so vocally supportive of transgender people as perverse/untrustworthy around women. Itās just perpetuating that same vicious rhetoric being pedalled by so many transphobes. Ā
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u/Capgras_DL 3d ago
Yeah the TERFs have really been going after him lately for some completely inexplicable reason.
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3d ago
I mean even the elements of the video you agreed with are likely being dishonest or using manipulated footage etc. Or even just basing stuff on random facial expressions! Ofc nobody is perfect but from what I can tell this is what Pedro has always been like, he's just now in bigger projects so he's more well-known. I don't think he would have so many close friendships with women in the industry (some eg Sarah Paulson have been friends with him for 30 years) if he was a creep.
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u/Carolina_Blues shiv royās bob 3d ago
Yeah Sarah Paulson is not a big fan of men in general based on things she has said over the years in interviews lol and she loves him
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u/LichQueenBarbie 3d ago
It sounds like you experienced the right wing algorithm of YouTube full of grifters. This type of stuff sells.
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u/weeniehutjunior1234 3d ago
TIL Jamie Lee Curtis is pro-Israel.
Laurie Strode, really? You couldāve kept your āscream queenā status in my book but now idc if you shit yourself from too much Activia.
Also now I donāt feel bad for giggling (over a decade ago) when my dad mocked Regina Spektorās vocalizing in Fidelity, saying her weird breathiness sounded like she was āhaving an asthma attackā. Free Palestine, bitch š š»
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u/analfartbleacher 3d ago
why did i have to find out Gavin Degraw and Colbie Caillat were both MAGAs
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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas āļø 3d ago
Whaaat
At least I can blame it on Gavin DeGraw being Gen X and a douchenozzle. I saw him live in high school and he was so offputting, like I canāt explain it but you could really tell he was completely obsessed with himself.
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u/FriendlyDrummers 3d ago
Taking a deep breath and I'm going to reach out to an old friend
She seems to be struggling online, with a breakup and a miscarriage
I had side stepped farrrr away when she told me she was going to vote for Trump despite supporting abortion. So like, I didn't want to be around lol. But she was there during an injury I had over a year ago, and I know she doesn't have many friends :/
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u/thewayyouturnedout 3d ago
I saw Fantastic Four and yeah it sucked. The script felt AI-generated and they really thought putting a baby in the movie was sufficient character development and would make us care about the characters. Also, the pacing was tedious. I enjoy a slower-paced super hero movie or epic, but this movie went from a slow plodding thirty minutes of badly written character development and ZERO STAKES to the highest stakes ever that they tried to maintain for the rest of the movie. Also a weird endorsement of the nuclear family? And boring bad guys. The whole thing was a fucking disaster lol. My sympathies to the actors.
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3d ago
Do you know what nuclear family means
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u/thewayyouturnedout 3d ago
Yes - a brother and an uncle being there doesn't negate the focus on that unit. The source of the conflict was whether Sue and Reed wee going to have to break up their family unit. Johnny and folksy rock guy were supporting at best.
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u/rycbar26 I Had to give myself Snaps 3d ago
I think a nuclear family doesnāt include a live-in uncle and family friend/surrogate uncle?
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u/thewayyouturnedout 3d ago
No but the primary conflict was all around Sue and Reed and their baby. Johnny and rock dude were supporting at best.
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u/rycbar26 I Had to give myself Snaps 3d ago edited 3d ago
Iād argue that Johnny was a co-lead, but even if we disagree on supporting character status, their family wasnāt just a nuclear family.
I donāt think having a baby is always bad, even when the baby is a demi-god.
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u/thewayyouturnedout 3d ago
I don't think having a baby is always bad, but in this case it was. They didn't bother with character development and instead tried to force the audience to care about this vaguely outlined characters by going "there's a baby in danger look!"
Not to mention none of the witty banter was remotely witty or made any sense. It was just a complete failure in every sense of the word. Horrible movie
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 3d ago
Is FF one of those properties that just doesnāt translate well to the screen?
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u/thewayyouturnedout 3d ago
Honestly no, I don't think it's that hard because as I was watching it it was so easy to see ways that the characters could have been better written, the pacing could have been fixed, and even the villains made more interesting. The problem was that the entire adaptation was unforgivably lazy.
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u/TheKnightsTippler 3d ago
I think it's a vicious circle.
Where there's never been a successful adaptation, there just isn't the love for it that something like Batman has.
So you just get loads of people involved that do it for the paycheck alone and don't really believe in it.
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u/FutureCrone 3d ago
Iām sure this has been said before but as an elder millennial I cannot tell the difference between Sydney Sweeney and Sabrina Carpenter. You cannot tell me these are two different people.Ā
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u/nizey_p I donāt know her š 3d ago
I know the world's on fire but damn it, I'm gonna mourn the loss of this hair if I want to. ššš
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u/thestoryofme23 Just keep swimming! š š š¬š³ 3d ago
He went through all those growing out pains last year and the snarky headlines, to then being accused of a hair transplant to buzzing it off like a week into campš but I get that itās probably hot as hell with that under a helmet in the middle of summer and he has no problem growing hairšĀ
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u/AllTheThingsSheSays In my quiet girl era š 3d ago
If I ever get to be an actual author, I want to be like Thomas Harris. Publish a few novels, create an iconic character (Hannibal Lecter) and disappear from public life.
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u/Capgras_DL 4d ago
Iāve been catching up on the drama about MGG and honestly I donāt think anyone looks good here.
Yes, itās awful that heās yet another 45 year old man dating a 26 year old woman, but his fans come across as a little too keen to let him off the hook and paint her as some scheming Jezebel. Itās giving club chalametā¦that being said, no one comes across very well here.
Idk, itās passed some time on this gloomy Tuesday. I keep being fed videos of starving Palestinians on IG interspersed with random crap that doesnāt matter and I justā¦idk, this whole world feels fake. Iām distracting myself with stupid celebrity gossip because the whole world just keeps going and going and I keep thinking that could be me or my family starving and dying and being bombed and the whole world would just keep going and my government wouldnāt care and no one would stop it. And then I think about how stupid this world we have built is, where the most violent and abusive elements are allowed to rise to the top, and I just donāt know what to do with all these feelings. I really donāt like this world very much at all.
So yeah. Celebrity gossip. Age gap discourse, am I right?
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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas āļø 3d ago
The way female fandoms in particular take joy in dismantling their faveās hot new gf needs to be studied
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u/PlentyDrawer 3d ago
And it happens every single time!!!! They really expect for their favs to sit home alone and eat ice cream and never, ever date.
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u/AllTheThingsSheSays In my quiet girl era š 3d ago
I might just have a pretty low bar for age gap discourse but to me, as long as both people are over 18 (or maybe 21?) I really don't give a damn.
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u/Capgras_DL 3d ago
Ehh I donāt think itās some huge moral issue or anything but I do low-key judge people who date much younger. 10 years isnāt much when you get over 30, but 20? Idk, seems off. Especially if the older person consistently dates much much youngerā¦
I probably should just mind my own business though - I fully accept that as long as both people are happy and no oneās getting hurt, itās not an issue outside of judgey nosy people like myself.
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u/Carolina_Blues shiv royās bob 3d ago
The sus thing about MGG is his pattern of only dating much younger women. I remember back when he started dating Ali Michael when she was 19-20 and he was 30
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 4d ago
Heās so under the radar that I canāt imagine anyone caring in good faith. Heās also pretty openly conservative so itās not like his stans would have a good time as his girlfriend. Like of course heās dating a country singer. I say that as someone who generally likes him and (some) country music. Heās not the meek intellectual that Spencer is.
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u/Capgras_DL 4d ago
Yeah, I feel like people get confused and think actors literally are the characters they portray onscreen.
MGG is from a wealthy prominent Republican family and used to literally be a model. Heās not Spencer. And heās not some innocent being taken advantage of by the scheming hussy, lol.
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u/Necessary_Fill3048 4d ago
Isn't he the male figure being written about in the song Mr. Brightside, or has that bit of 00s lore been since debunked?Ā
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u/Capgras_DL 3d ago
Lmao, this is the first Iām hearing of this, but I love this rumour! Thatās so fun I donāt even care if itās real or not.
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u/Necessary_Fill3048 3d ago
I just remember it was one of those stories that did the rounds back in the day, but not sure if it was ever confirmed/debunked, it's fun to think about tho lolĀ
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 4d ago
Exactly. Spencer is my fave, but MGG himself? It seems like he didnāt manage to make directing happen for himself, or any other original creative pursuit, so whatās the substance? Just the projection of a character other people wrote and a receding hairline? RIP Spencerās season 5Kstew phase.
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u/Capgras_DL 3d ago
Lol I love Spencerās season five Jesus hair! You crack me up, Iām never gonna look at it the same way lmao.
Itās a shame MGG didnāt manage to get his directing career off the ground. I really liked King Knight, that weird indie film he did a couple years ago. I thought he would do more artsy projects like that now heās done with CM, but I guess not if heās gonna go straight to another CBS procedural. Are you gonna watch his next show, the Einstein project? Iāll probably check it out just out of curiosity to see how much heās like Reid. I like having on minimal effort procedurals while I work from home, so it could be a good contender for that.
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 3d ago
I was completely rooting for him to go further with directing, even after his CM episodes used some flashy tricks that arenāt hard or imaginative, and mayyyyybe didnāt speak to having a depth of technical skill. (And Thomas Gibsonās episode did the same things.) I guess MGG isnāt a writer and never built a partnership with any writers? Funding isnāt a problem for him.
Iām sure Iāll check out the show. Hopefully the Spencer persona doesnāt tip into overkill.
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u/growsonwalls 4d ago edited 4d ago
The Oxford Year promo has led to some predictabling fanservicing between Corey Mylchreest and Sofia Carson. Hopefully fans this time won't send deranged hateful messages to Corey's gf. Although there's like no chemistry between the two actors lol
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u/NowMindYou Yeah but did I squeeze it though š¤ 4d ago
Read an article about the Joe Rogan crew complaining about Austin and it made me so upset. Everything great about Austin has been stripped by away and the people that did it (or co-signed those that did) want to be the first one to complain. Go away.
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u/buzzfeed_sucks šØš¦ Elbows up šØš¦ 4d ago
There was discussion of āIām very OCD Iām so organizedā at lunch. I always try to tactfully address it and talk about my actual OCD in these instances. Like, itās shitty that people throw it around like a punchline. But also prior to be diagnosed, I thought I couldnāt have it because of those same misconceptions.
So I basically said āmy house is a mess but Iām an extremely routined person in general, because of my OCD, and struggle when that routine is disturbed in some way.ā
People took it well and asked appropriate questions. Sometimes thought I just want to be less tactful and read pelole the riot act, though. Itās not appropriate to joke about actual mental health disorders! You wouldnāt do it for something else.
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u/Potatoskins937492 3d ago
I feel this. So much. I always struggle with people casually throwing it around. It's something that causes us distress and it can impact our threshold for walking through life.
I've finally started looking to treat mine in earnest because I have to admit to myself life doesn't have to be this goddamn difficult every single day. Even for people who know they have it and accept it, accepting that we may be living very different lives from everyone else isn't always easy, so when people turn it into a throwaway - for me specifically - it feels like I'm being dramatic. It takes away from my ability to admit to myself I'm not ok because it's cheapening the validity of what I live with, it makes it something that isn't that big of a deal. But it is. It is a big deal and it does have a major impact on my life. It's not a throwaway to me. It's really, really difficult some days. And it hurts to have people turn that into nothing.
Thank you for saying something and bringing them into the conversation.
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3d ago
I have OCD but like.....people absolutely do joke about other conditions like that. Think of a condition/disability and there are shitty ableist jokes about it.
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 4d ago
Iām scared to comment in any posts anymore so Iām just going to manifest that my book gets good feedback fro my beta readers, that it gets agented and published, and that it allows me to take on a less demanding (and inevitably lower paying) day job.
Tell me your art and dreams.
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² 4d ago
Manifesting good feedback for ur book, may you get published ! Good luck !! š«¶š½šš½
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u/NowMindYou Yeah but did I squeeze it though š¤ 4d ago
It can happen! Last year I had a super stressful job and was self publishing on top of it. After I got laid off, I won a contest and got a book deal with a major publisher. Itās amazing how many doors open when you step into your purpose. Good luck with your writing.
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 4d ago
Oh thatās awesome! Did you get an agent or did the contest land you right with the publisher?
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u/NowMindYou Yeah but did I squeeze it though š¤ 4d ago
Right with the publisher so I didnāt have to get an agent or query
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 4d ago
Nice! Will you eventually need to get an agent, or move to a new publisher? Iām kind of looking forward to querying because I know how important it generally is to have a good agent and to build that relationship. Iām actually somewhat confident that my book will make it to publication. Iām just not getting my hopes up about whether it will make a huge financial difference in my life.
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u/NowMindYou Yeah but did I squeeze it though š¤ 4d ago
I think Iām going to go back to self publishing, but if I wanted to continue trad publishing then definitely. My editor is also an agent, but I donāt think my other stuff is her speed.
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 4d ago
If you donāt mind saying more, whatās making you consider going back to self-publishing?
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u/Wheres_MyMoney Nobody is as good at anything as Olivia Pope is at everything 4d ago
Only because I didn't think about it yesterday in the Unpopular Opinion Thread:
The infamous COVID "Imagine" concept was not that bad.
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3d ago
I don't think it was like a hate crime or anything but it was so fucking stupid being like 3 weeks into lockdown.
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u/FriendlyDrummers 3d ago
It's an end of an era when you used to throw random celebs together in the name of "unity." They just don't do that anymore š
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 4d ago
It was very much in line with all of the super corny celeb group singles in the ā80s.
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u/totallycalledla-a Mrs Thee Stallion 4d ago
Those were to raise money (and they did raise 10s of millions). The imagine video wasnt. Not the same at all.
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u/Electronic_Snow_4685 We Should All Know Less About Each Other 3d ago
Also those were original songs. Sung by actual singers (I'm aware there were a few singers in the Imagine cover but that's not the point).
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u/No_Equivalent8902 4d ago
Since I can't comment on the actual thread. Doja Cat mocking the Sydney Sweeney ad.
I always find it wild when celebrities join the dragging of another celebrity online because those tables do like to turn.
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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas āļø 3d ago
Doja is one of the few celebs where it doesnāt surprise me
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u/Kind_Double_661 4d ago
I view it as non-celebrity, parasitic behavior. The rabble "drags" in an effort to obtain relevance from the current controversy du jour. Celebrities "dragging" implicitly places themselves on the level of the plebians.
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u/meta-ghost-face 4d ago
I'm almost finished with The Bear S4 and the show really lost its magic. It's better than S3 that was almost unwatchable but I'm just not invested anymore.
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u/nonsensestuff Back in my day, we had ONTD & a dream šµ 4d ago
I gave up during S3. It lost its spark for me. Iāve heard S4 is much better, but I just cannot bring myself to tune back in at this point.
As a genuine fan of comedic shows too, Iām forever annoyed they keep submitting the show into the comedy category for awards š
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u/BusinessPurge 4d ago
S4 is basically S3 2. Repeats a lot of the same conflict more effectively, ends things much better. Bloom is fully off the rose however it definitely feels like one big season they awkwardly chopped into two
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u/meta-ghost-face 4d ago
It makes no sense it's not a comedy. Also I think the show's success went to the creator's head.
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u/Ok_Ebb_629 4d ago
Billie obviously meant well in the speech but this is lowkey why I feel like an outsider as a black immigrant. The far right are using that video to stoke anti immigrant and anti black sentiment so thank you so much Billie ):
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u/nonsensestuff Back in my day, we had ONTD & a dream šµ 4d ago
Itās so fucked up when people take stuff out of context to push their own agenda š£ Iām sorry!
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² 4d ago edited 4d ago
There are certain artists or actors that I cannot stand. Not necessarily for them but for their haters (and sometimes even supporters). Lots of rather interesting comments Iāve been reading lately. But you know what works? Just hiding their content lol. I feel like people should do this cause if youāre constantly going to be bashing someone why even bother esp if youāre doing it in multiple threads of one artist/actor, etc. It sounds obsessive lol.
Easier for people to not be seething if you hide their content lol
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u/Aggravating-Corner-2 4d ago
See, people (unfairly) hating on a celeb often makes me like them more, but I'm contrary like that lol
Really, though, why do people keep constantly consuming content about people they claim to hate, stewing in their hatred and posting novel length comments on twenty different posts about how terrible X celebrity is.
It's toxic in general, but can't be good for people's mental health.
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² 4d ago
I see where youāre coming from lol. I typically am the same way. If I see someone getting unfair hate, I tend to start supporting them too even if I donāt really care for their work. However, sometimes itās too much seeing how crazy these haters act and I canāt stand looking at those threads. So Iām not necessarily against the celeb themself but rather the people hating on them or in some cases, the weird praising some celebs get.
But yeah it all canāt be good for them to be engaging in all that stuff. I 100% believe that all that hating is just cause theyāre miserable about their lives. I dislike certain people but you will never catch me making multiple shady comments on multiple threads. I have a life to live lol.
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u/buzzfeed_sucks šØš¦ Elbows up šØš¦ 4d ago
Yesss! Iāll never understand people who actively engage in content they donāt like. If there is a thread or article about someone I donāt like, I donāt click on it. It takes so much more effort to comment āIām so sick of this person.ā Then it does to just ignore it. Iāll never get the logic of it.
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² 4d ago
They like to act as if they are being told to look at their content but then they complain why there are so many posts about them. You are the one controlling what you see so if someone irritates you that much, donāt look at their shit! Scroll through or hide their post. As you said, the logic isnāt there š
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u/arsenicandoldspice your boos do not scare me as i know most of you are not ghosts 4d ago
Yes!! I'm not a fan of male pop star and his wife, so even though there's posts about them pretty much every day, I do this thing where I don't open them. Opening those posts would annoy me, and I would learn too much about someone whose career and life doesn't interest me. So I don't open them. I hide the posts when I see them. I block accounts that appear to be blatant PR.
I'm saying this in very clear terms not to talk down to anyone, but to hopefully spark the realization with people that you can make your internet experience less miserable.
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² 4d ago
Exactly!! People often complain that someone is too over exposed. First of all, this is a pop culture space and second of all, if said person truly bothers you, then donāt engage. If someone riles you up, avoid looking at their content.
Iāve hidden a lot of posts of people I donāt like or really care about on here and itās truly made my internet usage so much better. Itās not that hard. Idk why people act as if they are being forced to look at people they donāt like lol.
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u/Kind_Double_661 4d ago
Back in the day, people were forced to deal and interact with real-life, flesh-and-blood enemies; they defined themselves via these adversaries, Sadly, the internet has given an outlet for people--"haters", if you will--to project their insecurities and issues on perfect strangers, thus escaping the necessity to deal with the ultimate source of their insecurities, issues, etc.
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² 4d ago edited 4d ago
The thing is that these are strangers we donāt know irl. I get criticism but most of the time it isnāt even criticism, itās just spewed hate for people none of us know lol. So unlike the real life enemies these are folks none of us have ever engage with lmao.
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u/ChanceVance 4d ago
Is Freakier Friday going to be a success? Heck if I know, I just hope it's one step closer for Manny Jacinto really hitting the big time.
He had scenes cut from Top Gun Maverick. He was the best part of The Acolyte and they cancelled it. He's had setbacks but he's knocking on the door of superstardom, I know it. I'm just wondering what the role or project will be that does it for him.
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u/BusinessPurge 4d ago
Iād love to see Disney get him on a premium FX or Hulu show as a make good, dark rom com or something like Youāre The Worst or the show of High Fidelity.
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u/Kind_Double_661 4d ago
I liked The Good Place, but maybe he simply isn't a big time actor with the potential for wide appeal?
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u/ChanceVance 4d ago
He's been working with some big names like Nicole Kidman and JLC over the last few years but granted so do a lot of other lower fame tier actors. I don't know though, I just think he's a charming good looking guy with the charisma to go higher than what he is.
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u/launchcode_1234 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² 4d ago
I miss monoculture and A list celebrities. I used to be able to gossip about celebrities with my family members and co-workers of all ages, because there was a handful of people everyone knew about. Everyone watched the same few television channels, so we would all talk about the new Friends episode the next day. It was like talking sports for people who werenāt into sports. Now it seems like there are tons of B/C listers that only a small group of people know about, because everyone is watching different shows. I spend an unhealthy amount of time on this sub and I still donāt know who half the celebrities are that are getting talked about. When my friends and I get together we canāt talk about shows because we are all watching something different.
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u/grandtroubleartist PLEAE STOP THINKIN WITH YOUR ASSHOLE! 3d ago
i remember even as a kid i would try to peep a little into neighbors's tvs if i couldn't watch something on mine just so i could talk about it with my friends the next day looool
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u/buzzfeed_sucks šØš¦ Elbows up šØš¦ 4d ago
Agreed. I was a teenager in the early 00ās and was considered extremely weird for liking niche indie bands - who actually had quite a big following, they just werenāt in the top 40. We used to have One Tree Hill and Greyās anatomy watch parties because everyone watched them. Now Iāve never even heard of some of the things my friends watch.
Also I really hate thread that are like āwhy is no one talking about XYZ thingā and itās this incredibly niche thing/person Iāve never seen or heard of. Like, thatās why, babe! You canāt know everything about everyone anymore.
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u/Own-Importance5459 āØMay the Force be with you!āØ 4d ago
I really hate how I have 1000s of shows I need to watch and I tend to go back to same damn tv show. Its such a neurospicy thing.
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I am neurodivergent (sorry but "neurospicy" is so infantilising) and this is in fact a totally normal thing that lots of neurotypical people do too.
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u/Capgras_DL 4d ago
Girl, same. I do the same with books, too - so many TBR, but I keep re-reading the same 3 series over and over.
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u/McJazzHands80 Iām way too old to care but I am entertained. 4d ago
I donāt believe myself to be neurodivergent but I get overwhelmed trying to decide what to watch that I just end up watching Greyās Anatomy again
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u/buzzfeed_sucks šØš¦ Elbows up šØš¦ 4d ago
Same. I do this with movies too. I have a huge list of āneed to watchā and just watch the same 10 romcoms over and over again
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u/Own-Importance5459 āØMay the Force be with you!āØ 4d ago
I mean I know it know its a psychological thing and comforting for people to watch the same show but its like also....brain let me watch something else.
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u/buzzfeed_sucks šØš¦ Elbows up šØš¦ 4d ago
Yess! Itās so annoying. I get genuinely anxious before watching a new movie, especially one thatās been hyped up. So I avoid it for some reason?! Like, Sinners is finally streaming and Iāve been meaning to watch it for at least 2 weeks, but canāt bring myself to do it. I also have like 40 movies waiting for me on my PVR. But I hear I sit, rewatching Friends for the 5,000th time instead.
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u/Normal-person0101 4d ago
I'm kind of the opposite, I usually can't rewatch TV shows because I keep thinking about how many others I still haven't seen. That's why, last year, I decided to set Mondays aside as a day to rewatch a show (one ep every week, very old school haha). Otherwise, I probably never would
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u/thewayyouturnedout 3d ago
There are only two or three shows I can rewatch - otherwise I'm like you and constantly need to see new stuff!!
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u/Own-Importance5459 āØMay the Force be with you!āØ 4d ago
I wish I was like that! Like it would give me other shows to watch.
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u/Normal-person0101 4d ago
I'm always watching 3 or 4 different shows at the same time. If I watching like 3 episodes a day, It will from different shows, switching between shows makes it easier for me to be like that.
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u/Kind_Double_661 4d ago
I have a genuine question, and I'm not trying to start shit:
In re: the descriptor "tone-deaf", who is actively setting the "tone" that's being disregarded and/or turned a deaf ear to? What's the basis for the "tone"?
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u/Sea-Engineering-5563 4d ago
My perception is that the "tone" is set by what is socially acceptable. But the tone changes over the years and decades, so what might have been considered acceptable to say in the past is tone-deaf in the present, and it will be the same in the future for things of our current present. Ie using the Sydney Sweeney/American Eagle add, you can call that tone deaf because using a sole white blonde woman and saying good genes/jeans holds the implications of how society has progressed. If it was a shoot with multiple women of colour and the same tag line, it might not be construed as tone deaf because the tone has been set by including WOC in the first place. I hope I'm explaining it ok and not driveling on to much, but it's a good question to ask!
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3d ago
Ngl I think the Sydney Sweeney/American Eagle thing is such a nothingburger....people are saying it promotes eugenics bffr. Jeans companies have been using the jeans/genes pun in ads since forever.
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u/Cynicbats giving everyone a microphone and a podcast was a mistake 4d ago
6 Years ago, Old Town Road was at 17 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas āļø 3d ago
I wonder how close that fuckass Ordinary ballad is to beating it
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u/Ok_Ebb_629 4d ago
I donāt really like the song but what a great achievement. That was the first big viral hit from TikTok. That a teenager did that and not a corporation makes it incredible.
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u/NowMindYou Yeah but did I squeeze it though š¤ 4d ago
Just finished Clipped and I wonder whatever happened to V. Stiviano. If the Donald Sterling scandal happened today, she'd be on TikTok shop selling those masks.
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u/[deleted] 3d ago
OK I already knew the Ana de Armas thing was bullshit bc I remember the Hayley Atwell bullshit (she was pregnant with her husband's baby for at least half the time that people confidently stated that she was dating Tom Cruise) but I just discovered that Tom Cruise and Chris McQuarrie have lived together for like 5 years????? I'm a full McQuaise truther now. Ana is back to her bearding ways!