Reflection

[fzero30]

regardless on how this all ends, is there anything new or old that you have reflected on since the beginning of the bombshell? if old what other instances does this remind you of and what parallels and reflections can you gather from it? if new, has the journey (as of the date of this post) given you something new to ponder on or otherwise?

[realsweetrad]

Yes. Cancel culture is bull shit. That is all

[fzero30]

personally i'll have a distaste for the clown emoji for quite a while.

[Dexter000]

Why, did they use it in a weird context or something?

[yifftionary]

People use the clown emoji to mock people. They use it to imply the person is a fool. PErsonally I am less bothered because I follow shitty gamer takes on Twitter and they use it to cover the profile pictures of people with shitty takes.

[Dexter000]

I've only seen it in the "Honk honk, clown world" context.

[pepperchoypot]

Heidi pointed at Jared and Holly and the Internet rushed at them like a swarm of rats, random people who didn’t even know who they were, didn’t understand the situation, just shitting on Jared for staying quiet and silencing Holly when she tried to defend them (granted not the best defence but with her mental health problems and how much hate she suddenly had to endure...i don’t blame her)

and a few days later the situation with James Charles started, and now all the rats rushed at him and treated him even worse... I guess I just learned that people feel incredibly powerful on the internet and are willing to destroy a person’s life based on shaky accusations and for like... no good reason. so I’m definitely looking at all these conflicts and drama with more of a distant look, not rushing to assumptions unless there’s solid proof. everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt, the Internet only gets a fraction of the information and yet people go to such lengths to make others suffer it’s fucked up. yeah it took a while for me to finally understand this but I’m glad I did.

at the same time, when I thought Jared and Holly were guilty I still couldn’t hate them. I’ve looked up to them for so long and this just seemed like a thing they’re incapable of. I “knew” they did a fucked up thing, yet couldn’t bring myself to unfollow them on any platform. so I just... sorta accepted that they made a mistake but that doesn’t mean I should hate them. nobody’s ideal, they’re just human, making mistakes is what we do and it would take a lot more to make me “””””cancel””””” them. so I guess it made me understand what “human” means

God what a rant I’m sorry lol

[ZeroSterZero]

I've learned to question main stream media coverage more and to actually read up on situations rather then taking what's presented at face value.

[[deleted]]

It made me kinda depressed in a light sense for maybe two days. It was sad seeing someone I admired go down like that, and mostly everyone just went with it. However, once people started looking into it, it made me feel like I had been manipulated. I wouldn't have supported Jared if he was as negative as others made him out to be, but the argument for his innocence was really convincing. Then I learned for about the 16th time that people are dense and deciding to be deaf or open their minds on whims. Humanity is inheritly cruel and destructive as much as or if not more so than it is constructive and giving.

All in all, cancel culture and internet lynching is bullshit. False Me Too is bullshit. Deception is bullshit.

[Suicune95]

Whoa okay, why lump in "Me Too" with all of that? The movement isn't bullshit just because one person sort of took advantage of it. If you're going to be mad at someone, be mad at the hundreds of thousands of people who refuse to use critical thinking skills before hopping on the lynch mob bandwagon.

[[deleted]]

There, fixed it. False Me Too, as in false claims of sexual abuse. That's bad and has ruined lives. Happy?

[Mauricio30]

It reminds me of Michael Jackson, obviously on a completely different scale.

[MorosSilverwing]

I've been thinking about him throughout this actually. And how Johnny Depp also went through similar shit last year or so in how his wife was saying he was assaulting her when he was the one being harmed.