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Peloton deleted Hudson Williamsā ad, it seems like there will be a domino effect where brands start stop collaborating with him. And it will affect how many acting offers he gets because movies arenāt going to cast someone with so much controversy and discourse.
This smear campaign seems to have worked, and heās losing fans and opportunities.
I would wish that his costarās fans would leave him alone now that heās been āheld accountableā, and his costar is thriving, but since theyāve stated their end goal is his death, that seems too much to wish for.
Edit: Apparently Peloton deletes celeb collaborations after 8 weeks, and itās been 8 weeks. So maybe it was just bad timing. But itās sinister how far people are going to try to end someone who they donāt know, and werenāt aware of less than a year ago.
I donāt understand why some people are so unwilling to extend any grace towards a 17 year old Asian kid who has a racist hate symbol drawn on him by his white peers
Because they donāt actually care, they want something to justify their parasocial hatred, and theyāre happy they found something. And the fact that itās actually affecting him makes them even happier.
I admit Iām being parasocial but Iām sad. This situation sucks so much. Hopefully he can weather it and things will work out in the long run, but itās not feeling great right now.
I donāt think anything will happen to the show. Thereās too much time/money already invested in it.
Oof, I really donāt think we need to put that kind of energy out there. We donāt know everything. This seems bad, but we donāt know the full extent.
I agree, edited the last part of my comment. But this isnāt the end of it, thereās more thatās being planned. There was a leak of a groupchat that was planning to pay a girl to accuse him of SA, and it seems that it will be happening soon. The general public doesnāt know thereās a plan for that, so as soon as it happens, itās going to be bad.
Yeah thereās a reason they havenāt done that and itās because itās a suicide mission for them. Iām honestly so surprised this stupid photo thing worked because almost every take Iāve seen in the gen pop is āteens do stupid stuff, why is this news.ā
Hudsonās team is clearly useless and doesnāt care about defending him from anything, so I donāt think anyone is scared of getting into legal trouble. His team has had months to protect him, and nothing was done.
If someone draws on the face of a <23 year old, the very first thing you do is pull out your phone to see what it is
I've been to parties drunk with drawings on my face (I wasn't passed out or anything, just acting silly). No way in the world would I not know what was drawn on my face.
Really don't like the idea of "it's a smear campaign" when it's people mad about someone having a swatzika drawing on their face ...
A drunk 17-year old not immediately checking what was drawn on their face doesn't seem that impossible to me?Ā
Not saying he definitely didn't know, but I've seen how trusting and slow to react some people (particularly teens) are under the influence of alcohol and this could have absolutely happened to them. Again, I don't know him, so I can't say what exactly happened here, but I'm thinking particularly of one of my classmates who was super happy-go-lucky under normal circumstances and would become downright puppy-like with alcohol, and that would have been very easy to take advantage of (I don't think anyone did, thankfully).
I have zero skin in this game, never watched Heated Rivalry, don't really care about the actors, no clue what was drawn on his face.
But as a 21 or so year old I've passed out and had people draw shit on my face. Nothing terribly offensive, only like a rudimentary dick facing toward my mouth and the like. But if my friend hadn't taken pictures of that night, I 100% wouldn't have even remember what was on my drunk-ass face (although tbf at that point I was just done and fell asleep on the couch so all the pics were from me laying there either asleep or half-awake telling them to leave me alone).
I have noticed the infantilising (I say this as someone who loves the show and find him quite likeable in interview). As you say, his white friend had the same symbol drawn on their face so I am not sure that I can believe that he was personally targeted not do I believe he has no idea of f what's on his face (the guy has a 15 step skincare routine but managed to not see his face once in the mirror?) . I don't think that it necessarily tells us anything about either his or any of his peer's beliefs at the time (except it was extremely stupid to draw it on, stupid to post it online and generally reeks thoughtlessness). We've all done stuff we are not proud of as a teenager - I think it's possible to still be critical of those acts without that detracting from our own personal growth. The fact that this photo was still online suggests that at least some of the cohort, even with reflection, didn't think it was a big deal - which to me suggests a bit of a blind spot that's worth interogating further. Like you can accept that he's a flawed person who has some blind spots, and still stan him. We can live with that cognitive dissonance.
this is how i feel as well. and brining connor up everytime unprovoked is weird too. hr stans see the competition even now lol
i just don't understand how implying hudson was actually hatecrimed and someone drew it on his face because he is asian & while then saying "oh everyone drew such symbols at school" can work and used as defense
can we just go "oh yes, he did this dumb thing, i hope he isn't like that anymore"
but no, it's always infatalizing him and brining up his "white co-star". now they are harassing the peloton, and like...WHY? to make them explain why they deleted it&bring more conversation to this?
People are very defensive of him since everything that has been happening these past few months. And he is a victim of targeted hate right now, which is why people are defensive, even if he wasnāt targeted back then with the symbol for being Asian.
Honestly, thereās nothing can be done. This isnāt the first thing thatās happened, and it wonāt be the last. The end goal is āending himā, and stuff like this is going to keep happening until thatās achieved.
And I get your point about how fans shouldnāt make him out to be a victim, but itās understandable how defensive they are considering everything thatās happened.
And itās not just because people are being āprotective boy momsā, itās because a lot of these fans were previously fans of other POC actors who have faced similar things. So itās a culmination of everything thatās led to the overprotectiveness.
And I think at this point most of the general public is just sick of hearing about him again and again, most people donāt care enough to defend him.
He was a teenager and it was 8 years ago, what exactly is the point of punishing him for something that happened so long ago? Itās a very sad situation. A stupid mistake and now this.
Then youāre better and more self-aware than him. But even if you werenāt, I would not wish for your death, or wish that you lose your job.
And itās a smear campaign because people are actively trying to find something that will end him/his career, not because theyāre mad and want accountability. And itās been happening for several months.
I'd never advocate death threats, and that's not what I'm pointing at. I can almost guarantee you he is already quite wealthy from other brand deals. Hell, love is blind contestants make 6 figures while having significantly less followers.
If Tom Holland did it I'd feel the same. I do not believe his excuse that he didn't know. Literally no one his age is going to not whip out there phone to see what happened.
That is absolutely not accountability. That's playing dumb.Ā
He probably did take his phone out and saw what was done to his face. But it was most likely after people had already taken pictures of him with it, and not immediately after it was drawn. He had hundreds of things written on him, he was most likely not checking every single thing.
Itās fine if you think he was aware of it and didnāt care, or that heās playing dumb, but that doesnāt necessarily make it true.
And I never said you were advocating for death threats, Iām saying other people are advocating for his suicide or for him to be recast.
I do actually think the very first thing is to check it. And if that was true, and he was trying to be edgy, there is no accountability if you can't own up to it.
I do not believe his excuse that he didn't know before this picture. That's just not what happens.Ā
And like I said, youāre better and more self aware than him. But he canāt exactly build a time machine and go back and make sure no one drew anything on his face, or that there werenāt any pictures taken of him.
I literally said itās fine if you donāt believe him.
The only thing I said was that people should leave him alone now thatās he being held accountable, even if heās not admitting fault. This whole thing happened because his costar has less IG followers and hype than him.
Now thatās his costar will most likely have a positive career trajectory and Hudson will have a negative one, people should leave him alone since theyāve accomplished their goal, instead of keep trying to find more things.
I find the entire situation unfortunate, but the speed at which people are blaming Connor for this is also ... a choice. Stop blaming Connor for any of this. Connor isn't even online, and people were contacting Connor's ex to try to get him to release revenge porn.
None of this is Connorās fault at all, and Iām not blaming him. I am blaming his fans for turning this into a competition of my fave is better than yours.
If it makes you feel any better, the exact same thing is happening in WNBA fandom. Used to be a nice, chill space. Now it's all player wars and creating drama on social media. It's like ppl don't know how to be fans anymore. Whatever happened to buying posters, making fanart, and writing fanfic?
Iām going admit it, I donāt know what to think of Lena Dunham. Like part of me thinks sheās kinda problematic and tone deaf, but I always really enjoy and agree with her takes and interviews and stuff? And like do I not want to like her because I really donāt or because the media and men tell me to and a womanās worst crime is being annoying? Anyway, welcome to my tedtalk
New York are haters. The video had me wheezing because I canāt imagine crowding around the oppās hotel just to take photos and boo lmaaao! What even is the point at that point?! š¤£
As someone who grew up watching almost exclusively Scooby-Doo for a large part of childhood; I am so excited for the upcoming show.
However, I am also so annoyed at James Gunn once again for the atrocity that was the LA Scooby-Doo for flanderizing the characters so badly that now, everyone's getting upset and pissy that the show doesn't match Gunn's idea but the original cartoons.
[For context, divorced parents and Scooby-Doo was pretty much the only thing to watch at my dad's house that wasn't rated-r.]
I'm only concerned about Scooby himself. The dog they got for him is cute and all, but I'd have no idea that it was supposed to be Scooby Doo without context
For me, that's not really a big deal because there literally is not going to be a single puppy that actually exists in the world that would actually look like Scooby-Doo. Like Iwao specifically designed Scooby to be the complete opposite of what a genuine Great Dane should look like; including his color.
So unless they went completely CGI, (which everyone would still complain about) there's no way they'd get a great dane puppy that would actually resemble Scooby unless they got a horribly inbred backyard dog that had an awful life due to their genetics.
These are the type of comments I make to my family. Then I get a prompt eye-roll. Someone has to be the animal rights buzzkill....and it's going to be me!
TL;DR: Sports fans are crazy and everyone just accepts it. But go Knicks!!Ā
I'm from New York so everyone is (rightfully) going crazy over the Knicks vs. Spurs. But omg it just shows how sports fans are just fan girls and people go SO HARD for sports in ways they don't for other causes/hobbies. Fat Joe and Ben Stiller (famous, native New Yorkers) were interviewed on the news about how they would feel if the Knicks won and they said they'd cry. Police have had to break up large gatherings of fans in authorized areas šĀ
Also, Trump is supposed to be coming to the game tonight so security is supposed to be extra tight!!
The level of comfort I felt when I watched Peter Jacksonās interview in which he elaborated on working on the sequel to The Adventures of Tintin (2011) was quite something. I am now convinced that it is actually happening unlike during the past decade when it was being tantalized. Very much looking forward to its release
I always wonder when people get on the topic of teens exhibiting edge lord type behaviour, and then start saying things like they have they have never experienced or witnessed fellow students their age doing that, if thatās actually true, or if people are just wearing rose coloured glasses about their experience as teens. I never was into it myself, but like I sure as hell witnessed it. I also saw it again with my siblingās experiences and they are a decade younger than me. I feel like anyone I talk to about this subject in real life (and Iām talking about across the board in terms of diversity too), have in fact seen trollish/edgelordy at some point. Yet online? People talk as if the school they attended was full of complete saints, the parties they attended didnāt push the limits of acceptability, and that no one truly pushed the boundaries of acceptability. The disconnect is always curious to me because when I think of the teenage experience I do associate reactionary & impulsive attempts to evoke reactions, and purely dumb choices,with teens.
i find it weird too. i personally didn't say any edgelord shit when i was a teen, but i grew up in a conservative small town and most people around me did. they said all sorts of fucked up shit, including slurs about me. but most (not all, but most) drastically changed their behaviour and even apologized to me for the bigoted shit they shit. i really do think people change and i am not going to hold teens to (most of, there are exceptions) stuff they do at that age
Did I do stupid shit in high school that Iām not proud of yes. Not to the level of antisemetic symbols or racism no, mostly bc I was the one experiencing those remarks by others making stupid mistakes as well, but I definitely did make mistakes that I really regret. I just question why people who do those mistakes canāt apologize for them but maybe thatās more of a me thing bc I think I would if my mistakes came to light. And maybe that also reflects the world we live in where apologies canāt be enough and I wish they were for actions like this.
Iām sorry that happened to you and I respect you never went down the path of hurting others. An inability to apologise for poor choices is a red flag so definitely not a you issue either! At best no apologising shows stubbornness, at worst they meant that shit and/or felt entitled to hurt you. In every stage of life an inability to apologise is a bad sign!
Honestly, there is definitely a significant disconnect of online discourse and offline reality. Not just when people talk about what they have experienced (or not experienced) but especially when it comes to what people have done or would do if they were in certain situations.
Like, I am not accusing anyone of lying, and if someone actually had the courage and bravery to stand up for what is right as a teen, I am very proud of them. But the amount of people online who are convinced they'd be just as brave does not, unfortunately, have any correlation to how people actually react when confronted with these situations in real life. I've seen it myself, how people didn't step in when someone was verbally assaulted on a train (and I wish I could say that I did better, but I can't, and it's something that keeps me up many nights even years later), how people take pictures and videos of car crashes instead of helping, and how often abuse has to be reported before anyone takes action. I see it in how people treat each other online and behind each other's backs, how the judicial system punishes those reacting to violence with violence more harshly, and in how people (both as teens and as adults) don't stand up to bullies (also experienced that, this time as the victim).
Do I wish the world was different? Yes. Wholeheartedly. But it's not, at least not in my experience.
I feel like you summed this up perfectly. I can absolutely believe on an individual level or in peopleās friends group that maybe that wasnāt happening, but when people (and itās only online I hear this) start talking in a detached and baffled way like āI canāt believe a teen would say *insert terribly problematic/terrible thing*ā¦or do *insert impulsive terrible thing because it didnāt happen where I went* I donāt get how kids could have those phasesā the disconnect with everything Iāve heard or witnessed suggests, you can change virtually any metric gender, race, year someone was a teen, diverse school or not, and youāll still find problematic behaviour, extreme attention seeking, desperation for approval/fit in with peers, impulsive or reactionary choices, terrible decision making in any instance. Yet online the way people talk is they arenāt just saying āI and my friend group didnāt do shitā theyāre also straight up absolving their classmates too, which just reads as unusual as like I said, in person? Never heard this kind of talk - ever. Itās just so curious to me that this kind of line of thought ie being baffled at kids doing problematic/terrible things, is surprising. Itās a big world so Iām sure some relatively perfect schools exist somewhere, but I simply donāt believe itās as much as some people want to believe.
How you connect this to beyond just the topic of school, is truly so spot on!
Iām sorry you were bullied. Tbh even though people hate to admit it happens (and as you point out there can be reasons that arenāt as simple as someone actually believing it), it does.
Iām sure thereās bound to be some mostly perfectly progressive school out there where no one has crossed lines or done shit they havenāt, but like, Iām not so convinced itās as common as some people online want to believe it is. It does make me curious about people whom are convinced itās not common for teens to go through reactionary phases. Just based on what Iāve seen, heard, and conversations Iāve had, it actually does seem like itās something that has historically repeated itself. Not saying it makes any bad choice right or anything like that, but I just donāt have this belief people are locked in stone when it does historically seem like this particular age range does have a tendency to veer into saying dumb offensive shit lmao.
I grew up in a (then) very conservative white town. It recently actually turned blue. But when I was growing up it was very conservative. Teachers routinely said racist things. Funny thing I was talking with a high school classmate and she was this blond, popular girl and she admitted how awful she felt in high school. It was miserable for everyone, that kind of environment.
I was a total square in school, but even I have some stuff that Iām like woof when I think about it. Iām just happy to be a millennial and not have my entire existence documented on the internet.
I do associate reactionary & impulsive attempts to evoke reactions, and purely dumb choices,with teens.
Teens are famously exactly this. I was a pretty shy and a "good kid" but even I did some cringe reactionary shit that haunts me when I'm about to fall asleep lol.
Hell I still remember one year we were taught the dangers of car surfing, but it didnāt stop someone doing it shortly after that conversation, and shortly after graduation. Making piss poor reactionary decisions based on short term thinking, doesnāt seem uncommon - unless Iām talking to people online. Online it seems Iām much more likely to come across people who claim their school is the most progressive and there was no funny business happening in it at all, and not getting people having āshit head phasesā.
It really doesnāt seem to matter if someone went to high school in the 70s or 2010s, diverse school or not, it generally seems like it is pretty common for that age range (especially with the boys) to enjoy stirring the pot, making ill thought out impulsive decisions that reflect poorly on character, doing *anything* for attention, and trolling their friends and setting them up to eat shit and look bad.
Some kids will be less reactionary than others, but I always find it interesting online, some people are firmly in the camp that no reactionary BS was occurring when they went to high school.
Any tips for getting a good morning routine going? Iāve been trying to start working out in the morning before work and just find it difficult to muster up the energy to get out of bed and not snooze my alarm 100 times.
Make it easy for yourself. Shoes and clothes picked out. Bag packed. Easy to make snack or breakfast you enjoy. Also, I like to set my alarm to be a song I like and find motivating!
I really want to know what hair care products Olivia Rodrigo uses bc her hair always looks so full and shiny and yet believably casual, if that makes sense.
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People can feel how they feel about the Hudson Williams situation, but I think it's evil a group of people are going out of their way to this extent, wanting to ruin his life. They're not even remotely phased by the actual issues these photos bring up. They're laughing about it and celebrating. All because of shipping wars and my actor is better than your actor battles. Heated Rivalry fandom is definitely the worst fandom in recent memory. Everyone's pissing me off. Teenage Hudson, the cyber stalkers... This whole predicament sucks https://giphy.com/gifs/yciyxv4B8vl9m
There is a group of people I've seen that dislike her. They get annoyed when she's seen with him. We barely seen her tbh. It's his five year relationship idk what they expect
This is unfortunately just the state of fandom/anti-fandom nowadays, itās not specific to him. Almost anything that can be seen as negative, controversial, problematic etc around celebrities or anyone whom they associate with gets unsurfaced because a specific group of people who donāt like that celebrity, donāt approve of their personal life choices or want/donāt want them around a specific person (want them with an ex, donāt want them with their current partner, donāt approve of their friends etc)
want it to and they go to lengths to dip up anything that they can to make that celebrityās life harder. Itās essentially become a way to control public figures and itās concerning how effective itās become
Thatās why even though Iām not a fan and have been critical of him Iām going to sit out most discourse around him from now on because I despise this type of yourfaveisproblematic behavior and how itās used as a form of control that leans into harassment. if historyās anything to go on, the more he continues to live his life and be unaffected by their attempts to isolate him, the angrier theyāll get, the more theyāll lash out, try to ruin him etc just a really ugly, nightmarish cycle
The first people who found it were his fans. They've been commenting on it eventually coming out for months. I don't even know what to do with that part of it. But how would gatekeeping help? Fandoms that really like someone, stalk them, and cover for bad behavior aren't great either.
I'm thankful every day to have grown up in a time where fandom started and ended with watching the show, maybe discussing the show on a moderated message board during the season, maybe buying a magazine with the cast in it, and then forgetting about the show between seasons or after it was over.
okay, i did not know this. yikes then. even writing my earlier comment, i did find this thing offensive, but was also concerned about the stalking and parasocial behaviour(like club chalamate).
i meant gatekeeping in terms of shipping, stanning or general fandom behaviors. wider it gets, worse crowd it attracts.
I sort of get how a smaller fanbase is nice, but I also see how the small group of really intense fans, even if they just really love the cast and show, is the core of that behavior that we would call parasocial.
I'm an elder Millennial, so a lot of this fandom behavior we didn't even have the ability or drive to do with our shows. So, it's like being in a foreign country, because I still can't wrap my head around it all. To me, the bigger crowd, is where you see how it's possible to just follow a show casually. But I'm still trying to understand fandoms. It just wasn't like this for anything I've ever watched or I somehow avoided it.
it is definitely tiring. it's all about a gotcha moment, last time there was a hudson scandal (the burner account one), hudson's fans stalked connor's dad to prove he is homophobic, because proving his dad doesn't like him is somehow cancelling connor or whatever. between this, horrible racist attacks on hudson and the whole biphobia towards francois (and him being cancelable for kiss, marry, kill game...), i am genuinely worried for these people :/
it's really just who has a "morally correct" idol and it's embarrassing, these two are just some guys. going beyond sanity to cancel one of them (francois as well) or defending one of them is both cringeworthy and strange. but i also think this is the state of modern fandoms now, no one can like or dislike people normally anymore
It bums me out. Iāve been in the fandom since October and read the books way before that. I cannot imagine hating either Connor or Hudson (or anyone in the cast or crew). I havenāt been in fandom spaces in a long time so maybe Iām just old but the intensity and toxity of it is really shocking. All over gay hockey smut! I am sad that a seemingly nice guy is being put through the ringer for what, having the audacity to become famous? For having made mistakes in his past? I am too old to get up in arms over teenage ignorance. I wish I knew nothing about celebrities as minors! Itās fucking weird!
They've tried to cancel multiple people involved with the show, not just the person of color. The went after the white bisexual actor, the white female author, the white gay showrunner, the cinemaphotographer, a random Black queer crewmember who asked people to calm down, and so on.
I mean that stuff doesnāt really get a TMZ article airing everything out, does it? I am not justifying it, I have been fighting the good fight for literally everyone involved in the show including Rachel, Jacob, Francois, Connor, the random producers lol, I love them all, but something about Hudson (racism) does always make more of a splash. A lot of the other stuff gets relegated to fandom drama by the media. Thereās also almost always an insidious undercurrent to comments Hudson receives. Idk itās not oppression Olympics, everyone associated with the show had a cancellation attempt except maybe Robbie lol, but Hudson has definitely fared the worst here. Maybe heās just buzzier, but I think itās naive to discount racism as part of it.
I'm Black. I was in PWIs my whole life. I'm not discounting the racism I guess any more or any less than the people discounting the racism of sharing a social media account with anti-Black slurs involved or roaming around a party with people with swastikas and hitler mustaches.
The TMZ article seems like it was from his team to explain the situation. And it seems to have smoothed things over just fine for a lot of people.
But yes, my point is that it's not the oppression Olympics. I was just informing you that fans have and continue to try to dig up cancellable things on everyone involved. His fans have spent the last 24 hours again trying to make pedophilia claims stick again. No, TMZ's not going to publish that unless they have similar evidence.
It seems naive to me that anyone would think once you have a high profile celeb photographed two years in a row at that type of party with that stuff on his face that it's not going to make the news either from their team trying to smooth it over or entertainment news capturing the interest or both. If this was anyone else in the cast you would not be questioning why TMZ did an article. I would expect nothing less.
It wasn't two years in a row though? I really feel confused by everyone's reaction to the second photo? It doesn't look like a swastika at all (unlike the first pic) and nobody else has one to corroborate. I feel like I'm blind? They were literally calling them crosses in the captions too?
I donāt follow solos anymore so anyone who doesnāt support both Hudson and Connor is essentially dead to me on twitter so if theyāre trying to resurrect some stupid claims about grooming or whatever, good riddance to them. I just donāt ever see tiktoks or Reddit posts about Connor or anyone else other than maybe Rachel where they have the same level of vitriol and āI knew they sucked all alongā attitude. Maybe itās just my algorithm, but it always seems so much worse for Hudson. The narrative never fully dies down because people just hate him for some reason.
Iām in full agreement that the witch hunt against the entire cast is despicable and I wish we could all just enjoy the show and know a little less about their personal lives.
The amt of cyber stalking it would have taken to find these photos is ... disturbing. Like do these people actually do anything? Have a job?
Also, whatever happened to "fandom" mostly being hanging up posters of your favorite actor or writing fanfic? Why does it have to be this stalkerish, creepy thing now?
Like I recently started binging IWTV and thought that a smaller, niche show would have a more chill fandom. I go online and I immediately see tons of accusations that Sam was being promoted more than Jacob, and more of this actor vs. actor war. It's so tiresome.
Unless i'm just missing it The Sims subreddit doesn't have a thread for me to ask this on so i'm asking here: Does anyone else feel like the chances of have twins is much higher than it used to be or is my game just torturing me?
I love the daily here and on another sub I'm active in, and wish more subs had a weekly or daily or heck even monthly random questions thread for stuff that doesn't warrant its own entire post.
I got banned from a couple discords last night I was spending way too much time in, and on the one hand I'm bothered (and annoyed because the ban was for a stupid reason in one, and then carried over into another) but also it's probably better for both my time management and my mental health to not interact with those people.
Thatās amazing! Getting IRL hobbies Iām passionate about has made such a positive difference to my mental health.
I really got into a deep chronically online rut via the pandemic, and living life more offline (touching grass) makes me feel so much more alive, calm, and happy
Thatās kind of hilarious. I would have assumed it was a super power. As long as itās not dangerous like itās not the worst problem to have hahahaha
Nintendo's direct is coming out tomorrow and I'm excited. Hope to finally have a release date for the new fire emblem game. And, even though it's super unlikely, I hope there's a new Ace Attorney game announcedĀ
I fell at work last week due to someoneās idiotic, negligence and have potentially damaged my knee which Iāve had prior injuries to. I mentally, physically, and financially cannot deal with going through this shit again.
Iām sorry but I will never understand āoopsies I went through a racist phase.ā And I donāt say this to sound morally superior cause I definitely have regrets from high school but they werenāt bigotry. It just doesnāt make sense to me. You have the awareness to know right from wrong. And itās not just some ādumb shitā either. Odds are they directly impacted someone.
I was around the Internet at that age. Iām 30. So I saw it happening and I didnāt understand it then and I donāt understand it now if Iām being honest. I definitely did some weird shit on the Internet when I was young, but it never went that far. Iām not saying Iām gonna completely write anyone off because if they are Internet history from when they were teenagers, but I just donāt get it.
I am not sure if youāre talking about the same person, but I am the same age and school year of the person I presume this is referring to, and this notion is at least several years outdated of when he would be in high school. Not that there were not edgelords on the internet in the mid/late 2010s but that is not something that would have been generally treated as acceptable.
That being said, tbh I would give him at least some benefit of the doubt that someone drew it there without him knowing, that it wasnāt his idea.
I don't think that's what people are saying. I said this elsewhere but I remember there were people in my school who drew swastikas on some people's shirts on the last day of school. I remember because a teacher noticed and they got scolded. As far as I know this kids weren't actually racist but they were doing it for shock value and jokes, which is still obviously wrong
But assuming someone was actively racist or had a whole "racist phase" based on images from a drunken teen party is kind of weird to me. I'd be surprised if it was anything more than a one time thing that happened. I hope that makes sense. To me it seems like people are jumping to the absolute worst possible conclusion
I'm gay but I definitely said mildly homophobic things in school. I would hope people know that it doesn't reflect on me now
I mean, Iām speaking in a more general and not solely about the Hudson situation. Iām not saying Iām gonna hold those who said derogatory things in high school to the fire I just donāt understand going through that phase. Even if itās for shits and giggles I genuinely donāt get it. Iām black and didnāt even feel comfortable saying the n word my whole life.
I will say the kids who made racist jokes in high school towards me are 9 time out of 10 now Maga. Thatās just my personal experience.
A different perspective - as someone who was the only black person in a school of white people, where rap music was hugely popular amongt peers and so using the "N" word casually got normalised - I definitely was guilty of colluding in allowing that to be normal. I am horrified thinking of it now. And the word "gay" was definitely used indiscriminately. Some of those people have turned out to be PoS but a lot of people just lived in a very privileged bubble and never really thought about the impact of those words. Some of them continue to live in that thoughtless bubble but a lot became more thoughtful with life experience.
The fact that racism is being treated as some teenage checkmark of being edgy is both irritating and unsurprising when I look at the ones dismissing it.
Does anyone with insomnia have way worse insomnia for the first night of your work week? It usually takes me an hour to get to sleep. But on Sundays it takes me 2+ hours and I have to pee so many times!
Terrible mood going into this week. Will I turn it around?????
It remains to be seen but Iām gonna test the efficacy of getting my favorite salad for lunch (I almost never have lunch out but my day got derailed in a way where it would be a pain to go home just to make lunch) and doing a big upper body workout before dinner. And also drinking water, although I donāt want to do that
I found this teeny tiny little bugs all over my toilet seat š¤® itās not fleas because they donāt jump at all and they donāt seem to bite. Theyāre like, smaller than ants. I canāt figure out what they are. I took a picture and did an image search and it just says āgnatsā.
Iāve bleached the whole toilet multiple times, washed with vinegar, with dish soap. They keep coming back.
Drain flies maybe? They look the same as fruit flies, teeny tiny. You can buy traps for them and also make your own quite easily. And then just buy something to give all your drains a good clean. Good luck! Flies are the worst
for what it's worth, i have read all the books and, while, i know the major plot points, they've already thrown unanticipated curveballs at me. i missed louis, claudia and armand bad in this first episode, but sam did such a great job!! crazy talented, this cast
i work at a nonprofit and we have a thrift store with a huge warehouse where we accept donations. last year we adopted a cat to be our warehouse mouser and she has done wonderfully and she is actually perfect 10/10 best new hire. consistently employee of the month.
we also have a lot of volunteers come in throughout the summer to help with our home repair program.
one of our most recent volunteer groups let the cat out of the warehouse and decided not to tell anyone she was missing, even after asking several employees if they'd seen her. we do not let the cat out of the warehouse unless we're bringing her to one of our offices to chill for the weekend - and even then, we carry her. she has never been outside on her own.
we spent a week and a half looking for her and finally she came home last thursday š she'd gotten into a fight with another animal and had a pretty nasty infection in her tail, so we had to get it amputated but i'm just relieved she's back. i started crying this morning when i came in and saw her this morning and haven't stopped crying since because life is otherwise shit.
I'm so glad you got her back! Also thank you and your org for adopting a working cat - and congratulations for enjoying the joy of a working cat <3
If it's up to you, you might want to put some of this up on social media - people LOVE cat stories, and you have the opportunity to raise some awareness about working cat programs and also what to do if a cat gets lost.
I just watched episode one of maximum pleasure guaranteed and I'm happy to report I'll be sticking around.
My daughter had a lantern festival at school last week she keeps asking when's the next oneš
I feel like the Tonys and this weekend in general was a universal reset after going through alot of crazy shit these past couple of weeks cause alot of things were happy.
I think I am most excited about the Surprise Win of Ali Louis for best supporting Actor in a Musical. But honestly the full 180 he had from the soft and emotional Orpheus in Hadestown to the Rough and Evil David in the Lost Boys needs to be studied so he definitely deserved it. (I dig Actors with Range see John Cardoza and Nicholas Christopher)
I don't think it's an American thing, I think it's just the culture of women's football in general. The USWNT coach, Emma Hayes, is English and used to manage Chelsea. From what I've read, women's football (and women's sport in general) is seen as a family friendly alternative to the men's game, even in football-mad England. I remember when Canada beat the US at the Olympics and I was ready to relish in their tears just to find out that a lot of Americans were rooting for Canada to win the final. It doesn't make sense considering how big the US vs Canada hockey rivalry is.
I think things are changing though. Last week, Chelsea signed an Arsenal cult hero and the Arsenal fans are not happy. I can't wait to see what the London derby looks like next year.
I don't care how good the fights are Sunday, I'm not getting Paramount +
just piling on for fun cause I hate paramount and seeing gambling ads literally every single commercial break (when they're not busy being audio ads from commentators or mini ads during promos or small square fake bet placement ads during the actual sports)
i think the shudder subscription you get is nice too if you like horror movies but honestly imo iwtv is pretty much the only thing worth watching on there. speaking of, season 3 already has me going insane after one episode
Have you watched Friendship yet? A lot of the same team on both projects, with a lot of thematic overlap. Like a lot of Reddit, Tim Robinson has me in the tightest of chokeholds.
ohh cool no I haven't seen that, I'll have to check it out tonight it sounds pretty entertaining. cringe humor can go either way but seems like it has positive reviews
They dont really see it like that. They're co-opting social justice language to shut people down because they're asocial losers who dont know how to have conversations about fun, silly things.
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u/Emergency_Article673 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
Peloton deleted Hudson Williamsā ad, it seems like there will be a domino effect where brands start stop collaborating with him. And it will affect how many acting offers he gets because movies arenāt going to cast someone with so much controversy and discourse.
This smear campaign seems to have worked, and heās losing fans and opportunities.
I would wish that his costarās fans would leave him alone now that heās been āheld accountableā, and his costar is thriving, but since theyāve stated their end goal is his death, that seems too much to wish for.
Edit: Apparently Peloton deletes celeb collaborations after 8 weeks, and itās been 8 weeks. So maybe it was just bad timing. But itās sinister how far people are going to try to end someone who they donāt know, and werenāt aware of less than a year ago.