Why do all these memanist type hide behind odd beards?
Cancel Culture
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Why do all these memanist type hide behind odd beards?
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Some young wan off Love Island called Molly Mae currently getting the sack-cloth and ashes treatment from the righteous online.
This is the best tweet I’ve seen about it.
This is the best tweet I’ve seen about it.
Not familiar so I googled and most of the right wing press are doing this as a 'kids today don't know they're born' story over her not fancying a 12 hour shift but there's also a Sky News one about her being criticised for 'Thatcherite' views, so you get the choice of either being wound up by her being a lazy millennial (I know she's Gen Z) snowflake or up in arms at her being unfairly cancelled for her conservative views.
Third option is distaste at ferocious online bullying of a young(ish) kid who said something silly.
Seems to be some issue with her workers (or those of the company she works for) getting paid £3.50 an hour.
Sun didn't run with that, for some reason.
If so, the company deserves criticism. Employees shouldn’t be personally attacked like that. There’s zero chance she has any input into salary structures.
Yeah I agree, I think it’s just the juxtaposition of that fact and her comments that have gone sone way to provoking it.
It’s so depressing that we see so much bullying like this from people whose politics are ostensibly compassionate. Comments from years ago, or details about the company they work for are weaponised to whip up an army of people making hateful comments. Yuk.
Well what did she actually say? I'm not googling any of this shit.
Basically that the key to success is hard work, and peoples’ socio-economic background shouldn’t stand in the way.
The American dream. Shows how well the propaganda machine still works! Loads of American celebs always bang on about the same thing, though admittedly not as many of her age, usually a bit older.
To be fair, the key to success is hard work... and lots of luck
That Molly Maes house was broken into recently and close to a million pounds worth of stuff was stolen.
"Away from social media, users of Wikipedia edited Hague's entry to name her "Molly-Mae Thatcher", changing part of her entry to say she is best known "for having worked harder than anyone less successful than her".
The changes have since been removed."
The changes have since been removed."
I agree. I once read that 9 out of every 10 startups fail. Go bankrupt of whatever. So there is a lot of luck involved.
Maybe they didn't work hard enough.
Yup
To be fair I don't think many commenting on her comments want her cancelled. Do feel for anyone caught up in an online storm. Because those kind of banal aspiration, hustling thinking is prominent in influencer/girlboss spaces.
But probably many saw her comments as a chance to push back against the Tony Robbins motivational-speaking, life coaching kind of thinking that doesn't take into account privilege, class, inequalitys, systemic disadvantages etc. Agree though people should be wary of others in stuff like this for all the reasons Jon Ronson says.
Twitter is basically this though
And once you realise that and decouple your way of thinking from that, it prevents you from succumbing to poster's brain
Not as hard as Molly did.Privilege + hard work is obviously a hell of a lot more likely to bring you success than hard work alone. But that doesn’t make the statement that hard work is an important part of success any less true. Certainly not an opinion you should be crucified over.
Her comments are basically just normal Tory speak
She was mostly crucified because she added "everyone has the same 24 hours in a day to achieve" as if people who don't get reach don't do enough in these 24 hours.
I will always fight against online bullying, insults etc. I think I never wrote online something i wouldn't have said to the persons face. Obviously some of the comment are way over the top (maybe abusive even if i didn't take the time to read all of them). But it's normal, in my opinion, to take a lot of backlash when you say something stupid if you live by your internet presence. She's an influencer, her audience is huge, of course it'll trigger a lot of people.
The paradoxical nature of being successful also amazes me, because you have to put yourself out there to gain traction, but then you have to be careful what you say and do, to avoid being cancelled. it defeats itself.
Or you can just say "i was lucky to have the opportunity to be in a successful tv program, then I had to work very hard to turn this into a more successufl carreer" and nobody will bat an eyelid.
I'm assuming nobody is quibbling over hard work being important mate. But my cleaner has 3 jobs, I have 1, I don't think she earns more than I do...I think she was born in Medellin and me Worsley.
She's only got three days to live, someone should call an ambulance. (I'm not being serious, it's just a funny word.)
We aren’t seriously defending her are we. She’s an idiot with idiotic views.
This is disingenuous. Hers was clearly not just a statement "that hard work is an important part of success", which you're implying is what she's being "crucified" over.
This is war. If we allow people with idiotic views to be criticized, where does it stop?
She's being rightly ridiculed over saying extremely stupid / malicious tory crap. Feck her. Chat shit get banged. You can always chose to have an anonymous career like the rest of us layabouts who are too lazy to make duckfaces on instagram. Much less chance of being "cancelled".
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Hasn't she also doubled down on it for good measure?
TIL there are gay people who are against gay marriage
If your business model is designed in order to have the biggest amount of people possible reacting to your social media posts, you're going to get a lot of reactions if you say something stupid, it's that simple and you can't have it both ways.
Now it doesn't mean that it can't be civil and polite, and in now way should it be insults or threats, but when you're a social media "influencer", bad reactions WILL pile on. It's the content of the messages that should be blamed, not the fact that she gets thousands of them.
Pffftt... Deja vu. Amazing how people pick and choose what 'cancelling' attempt they get animated over.
Millennial snowflakes and their cancel culture will be the end of free speech
Bans teaching the nazis ha
I like how republicans want less government, but also more government interference into the curriculum of schools. Schrodingers libertarian.
I know it's not really similar, feck you.
I know it's not really similar, feck you.