#Alba Optics

[allthatlives]

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Alba Optics Stratos, helping you focus on the road ahead

Alba Optics Stratos, helping you focus on the road ahead

Another pair of classic glasses from Alba Optics, the Stratos When I took a look at the Delta Glasses from Alba Optics, I thought I’d found my perfect pair of glasses. Well it seems Alba have more up their sleeve and the Stratos looks like it may be my new BFF! The Alba Optics Stratos with photochromatic lens Alba Optics have a five model range, with each model having multiple options to…

[justenjoythegossip]

THE SHOWER PORN AND A FEW FICTITIOUS MYTHS…

Recently again, I have come across the fictitious myth that Alba posted her shower porn to deflect from her racist and antisemitic stuff that was uncovered by (more likely leaked to) Chris’ fandom a few days earlier. 

But I would argue that this explanation for her posting herself stripping in the shower has little to no credibility. I will explain why, share my theory about what likely went down and the clues that point to it. I will also use this opportunity to debunk a few myths that have plagued this fandom for a very long time…

Usual disclaimer: I have no insider knowledge and have 0 contact familiar with this shitshow and the protagonists.

Her posting a shower porn was likely an act of retaliation to embarrass Chris…

When someone posts their nudes online, it can be either accidental or purposeful. If the posting is purposeful, it cannot be about deflecting from an existing PR crisis for the sole reason that the distraction would only work temporarily. The thing you are trying to deflect from would come back and bite you (on the butt) very quickly AND you would have added a sex scandal to the mix. Not the greatest move. Especially when you are a woman. Men tend to go unscathed or even end up benefitting from such scandals, but it’s rarely the case for women because… double standards and misogyny, you know? 

So the reason someone would post their nudes, a sex tape or in this instance a shower porn is to find elsewhere. It is most likely to get attention. The question is: what kind of attention and from whom?

I suspect it was actually Chris’ side that leaked the receipts showing her to associate with racist/antisemitic people in what turned out to be a successful effort to silence her. The reason his team likely tried to keep her quiet is probably because she had made a couple of very costly mistakes prior to that.

What made Chris’ team want to silence her and get her under control…

Her first mistake was to post the now debunked fake yoga certificate so that she could place herself in Atlanta with Chris. It probably forced his team into damage control mode, as they had to get assistance from a yoga studio based in Atlanta and a couple of its members that helped corroborate Alba’s claims. But her most aggravating mistake was posting her mother’s age on Instagram, very shortly after people commented on the fact that Chris was closer in age to Alba’s mom than to Alba herself. It was a catastrophic move on her part because, it showed she and his team were lurking on SM, it showed how thin-skinned and rash she is and worse it drew more attention to the age difference and terrible optics of this “relationship”. 

Leaking her problematic stuff likely served as a warning shot to behave and stay quiet or else she would be destroyed. And that’s probably why she posted that shower porn, to embarrass Chris and get a semblance of revenge. I believe she felt safe doing that anyway because a marriage was already in the pipeline.

But notice that she has kept quiet since then. You can compare her SM activity before that event and after she came back to Insta, and it differs greatly. And of course, her problematic stuff never reached the general public. 

Do people remember the GQ event in Portugal where she refused to talk to the media and was said to be rude? It was most likely because that poor Nazi troll wasn’t allowed to speak. Her only job was to flash “her” ring in order to honor one of their sponsors and that was it. 

But she did manage to post a video of the rings with her soulmate Justin to try and embarrass Chris once more. 

Why a talent agency would seemingly work against its client’s best interests…

Of course, some people might think this theory has little credibility because leaking her problematic stuff doesn’t reflect on Chris well. But I believe that not only did the talent agency not mind this little problem, but they actually welcomed it. First of all, they made sure her problematic stuff never reached the general public, as this information was only destined to his fandom. But more importantly, why not charge more hours to your client to manage a crisis you have created yourself? That’s actually quite the smart savvy business model and that’s “capitalism” for you. 

It might be too cynical for some but we are talking about a company that allegedly dabbled in sex trafficking by providing actresses to a famous disgraced producer so that he could sexually assault them. They then allegedly helped cover the scandal by helping him destroy the lives of the women who dared speak up. So this shitshow, that would be kids’ stuff for them, wouldn’t it?  

Of course, such tactics have helped decrease Chris’ market value or help accelerate it but as you have noticed, all of his upcoming projects (excluding Red One) are CAA-backed, so they basically get him for cheaper. And Marvel is likely the only place where he can still get huge paychecks these days but they will get a big chunk of that anyway so basically it is a win-win situation for the talent agency. 

Of course, it’s difficult to know what is happening behind the scenes and it’s just speculation on my part but I suspect they no longer have much faith in Chris’ career and future. A few critically panned projects and commercial flops may have helped reinforce their strategy and it seems like that they are trying to squeeze as much money out of Chris as quickly as they can. 

The legend that Chris’ fandom is like the FBI is a great cover story…

Rumors are that the fandom uncovered Alba’s past and exposed her, like they have uncovered so much of Chris’ business over the years. But I suspect this is a lie. A very practical lie by the way. 

Because the legend that Chris’ fandom possesses the most amazing investigative skills has served two purposes. First of all, it has enabled the fandom to feel good about themselves as they could pat themselves on the back for being such great detectives. And yes, I would argue, it was a good thing to try to make a loyal fanbase feel good about themselves, especially when they are so easily and so often thrown under the bus. But more importantly, this legend has been used to cover the fact that this fandom has been infiltrated for years and has been fed information directly from his team. On this platform (which sponsored his NY con) and other SM platform. I have discussed it previously and have used many examples to illustrate that. 

Like a Team Real blog having a picture of Chris’ dog at the daycare center. Like a blog which made a (non)sensical U-turn from Team PR to Team Real (a very practical trajectory that I explained in a previous post) who allegedly recognized a hotel room in Finland or in… Lisbon!

Let’s talk for a second about the video Chris did in his hotel room in Lisbon for that teacher. Isn’t it amazing how quickly people found out where Chris had shot this video? Isn’t it tragic how that poor teacher allegedly had to quit her job because Chris’ crazy stalker fans harassed her? 

People would be smart to question the veracity of this story as it is likely totally fictional. It did serve at least 2 purposes. First, it helped reinforce the crazy fan narrative that has been shoved down our throats for years and more importantly it helped place Chris in Portugal, which was the whole point of this little video. His team leaked where Chris was (something they have done very often) to breadcrumb his relationship to Alba, so that his fans could connect the dots. Do people remember the first articles that came out after Chris and Alba became official? They all put so much emphasis on the fact that his fans figured it all out and put 2 and 2 together when Chris and Alba were trying so hard to be private. Because private people always breadcrumb their relationship on Social Media, don't they?

But it was nothing new for Chris as he was flirting very ostentatiously and so privately with Jenny on Twitter back in the day...

[majaloveschris]

Okay, but why don't we see that huge love and happiness on his face?//Well in the valentine's pictures he showed on SM they seemed happy and even kissing, If I had to guess why he doesn't look so smiley or happy when other people take pictures of them I would say it's because all the ugly comments and the backlash he knows he's going to receive after people see the pictures, I think he's aware that Alba looks way too young next to him and it bothers him that people notices the big age gap, in previous relationship he didn't have that problem 'cause his partners were close to his age and nobody criticized him for age gaps or talked how he's a Hollywood cliché, that's why he's not able to relax and get candid pictures when the paparazzi are around, it's not that he's not in love it's that he's worried about the optics and at this point he should just own it, he chose a much younger woman to marry, so he shouldn't care about people's opinions.

The problem that I have with those pictures is that they are staged. We don't know how many pictures they've taken, and it's easy to be smiley for a picture. And most of those were taken on those occasions when we already knew they were together. To me, that kissing picture is also really weird. Not just the way they kissed, but the way he was sitting and in the position his body was in. The same goes with him wearing a cap.

I would understand what you are saying, but for example, at Disney, he shouldn't have known they were being photographed. The same goes with that video that was taken by that Twitter girl in NYC. So if the only reason he acts like that is because he knows they are being photographed, then why did he act the way he did when he wasn't supposed to know they were being photographed? He dropped her hands in New York and didn't want to hold it when she was reaching for it but rather put it into his pocket. He didn't really want her to touch his back at Disney. And he supposedly didn't know about them being filmed during these. So no, he acts like this all the time, whether he knows or does not know they are being filmed. And if he knew that they were being filmed, then yeah, those were all for PR reasons.

I get that he is nervous, but you'd assume that the love of your life's presence would decrease your anxiety, but it seems like the exact opposite happens with them.

Nobdoy forced them to do the pap walk in Central Park or get photographed on their way to Scarlett's party. Nobody asked him to upload the scare videos or to post those pictures and videos on Valentine's Day. He could've kept this relationship private just like all of his previous ones, but they need to sell a narrative.

Both of them look stiff and uncomfortable every single time they are together, and I'd be incredibly hurt if my partner was okay with our age gap behind closed doors but was ashamed of it in public. And this applies to both of them.

The only thing I think he is worried about is that people think he is like them because he is associated with them.

[oh-my-damn]

Do you mean that he's not talking about it, or what do you mean by vetting??/

Sorry lol; i mean it seems questions about personal life are more forbidden now than ever before; if his thing with Alba was related to ghosted to sell him as a romantic lead, how it makes sense none of the questions are romantic?

Okay, so

I definitely think things are locked down rn because of the backlash. I do believe they intended something different, probably more, than what's happening. The backlash has not only been on Chris and the trolls, but also on Ana and Dexter and it has tarnished the entire movie. I have a feeling Ana and Dexter, if anyone, do not want anything to ruin the release. They were absolutely counting on Chris' fandom to pull in numbers and I'm sure they're worried about what will happen with everything going on. I also think they know that even anything mentioning or hinting at AB will make the fandom angry and not want to support (even less than they already do)

However, I also think the PR thing, while connected to Ghosted, is not connected to Ghosted. It's connected to Chris and the image he needed to sell in a movie where he was the lead. They thought it would be a good idea and work well, both with the GP and his fandom. It worked with neither. A lot of the GP already dislike the pairing due to the age-gap and the visuals of it, they don't even know about the racism etc.

So I think strategy has changed from what they intended. He lost a lot of fans and followers after posting those stories, too. People didn't even know about it until they saw it on his insta and a lot of people think of him as a cliché now. He does not have the cute, loving, husband-material vibe anymore; now he's an old creep dating someone much younger who looks even younger than she is.

Considering a lot of his fans are women (and that many of them are in their 30's and up) that's a really bad look. Just go on tiktok or twitter and you will see people who aren't even that deep in the fandom cringing about the optics all over the place.

I'm not sure why they thought it would be a good idea to begin with, tbh. I don't want to jinx anything but I also feel like there might be hints coming at us right now. The silence, the weird articles about his ex's, the solo sightings and articles with no mention of the pairing.

He didn't necessarily need the image for or during Ghosted. He needed it back in the day because he had simply been single (in the public eye) for too long. That can be ratified by having him seemingly settled down/wanting to settle down and keeping that partner around for the press etc, but it can also be ratified a lot easier (for him in many ways since it does not tie him as permanently and he doesn't have to actually be tied to it physically for as long, like Seb and Ale); by selling a narrative that they have been in hiding for over a year and are happy but that it fell apart before the premiere. It's perfect for them to also blame it on the backlash from his fandom especially, and once again make the fans the bad guys, like they did with Jenny (and ignore the fact that he definitely isn't as he seems, as we could learn from the few hints in her book)

That way, there will be no mention of her anywhere during press, and eventually she fades away until he drops a hint or comment somewhere that he's single.

I also believe we won't get a BUA. I simply believe it'll fade, like it usually does with him, and then months later we'll get some confirmation (like with Jenny, where the confirmation of the break up actually came out months after it had happened, as was mentioned in her Vulture interview after the first round)

[calmwaterstarot]

Is it wrong that I’ve always wondered how Evans would handle huge controversy, he’s never had to deal with that alone, people always stood up for him.

This isn’t even huge because most of the general public just sees the age gap and the bad optics, but he’s still loveable …..his fandom is walking up but you still have those who will kiss his ass plus now try to kiss albas ass due to him.

I think he needs a fall from grace and then maybe he won’t take the supposed received for granted.

Like dude had a damn near perfect image AND people in and out of his fandom willing to go to bat for him.

He posted his dick and people helped him cover it up and it wasn’t a big deal, just embarrassing…..other celebs would have been ridiculed to the max.

He took so much for granted and now he’s with his Lolita.

I've been waiting a looooong time for his downfall.

[somuchyoudontknow]

If I may add my two cents worth… I’ve seen the ongoing narrative that Chris is being taken advantage of by Scott, his friends and family etc, and that he is being held hostage by CAA or by Alba herself.

My honest, intuitive feel is that this is simply a PR arrangement gone wrong. The reason he continues to associate with her, in my opinion so I may be wrong, is simply because he signed a contract.

Now, I dont believe for one second that he signed it without reading. Chris is not a bumbling golden retriever; RDJ himself has commented that Chris is shrewd.

What I think happened is simply that he signed the contract agreeing to all these things for some good benefits that will come once the arrangement is over.

This ties in to your visions, Sophia, where you say he will get a good blockbuster project that may result in nominations and wins and other good things coming his way.

He may have only realised the optics of being seen as Alba’s boyfriend once he saw that a) she still looks very young and b) once the evidence of her racism and sexual innuendo leaked. Many are saying this was done or it happened after the contract was signed.

By this point in time, they were already knee-deep in the contract, and there was no backing out. He may have lawyers try and negotiate an end, but the contract may not have had clauses or loopholes — and Chris may not have thought he needed them since he has never done long-term PR relationships before. Lesson learnt for him.

Think of it as you signing an employment contract for your job. If you dont understand the terms when you sign, and you try to escape from it later — that is exactly what is happening here with Chris and CAA.

But the point is, whether he likes it or not, he has to ride this contract out and honour whatever he has agreed to.

The reason he looks sick and stressed is simply because of the sheer backlash against him and even his family. His fans hate Alba, and I dont think he or his team could estimate just how much. After all, the fandom has had his back for decades. There was no reason for them to think we would all flip a 180 and walk away from him. There was no reason to ever think that his family and friends would also get the backlash and hate comments and possibly death threats.

And now he is simply seeing the side effects of playing games with people who have supported him through A LOT of crap. In other words, Chrissy just had a “Fuck Around and Find Out” moment.

In many ways, this is the major tower moment that so many readers have predicted for him. Many of them did warn that to get into a relationship with a “20-something clout chaser” — this was talkingtarot’s description of her — would be disastrous for him and would bring a lot of heartache. This is now being proven.

The question is how long he wants to take to learn his lessons in this major tower moment. There is no way out, so he has to suck it up, learn from it and take the opportunity to rebrand himself the way he desires (but never says out loud).

I believe he wants to be taken seriously as an actor — this is backed by the fact he pursued roles like Knives Out and Defending Jacob. He has the chops and the potential, now he needs to reshape himself and his reputation to get the things he wants.

❤️ StarStruck 💫

Hiiii Hope you are doing well 🤗

Oh, I have missed my anon fellow intuitives so much 💙❤ Thank you for coming back and sharing your reading with us.

In, regards to the big role, I feel since he is helping Wild Bunch promote their European movies, he would get a very good payout in the end.

And I strongly agree that Chris is very smart and intelligent. He is not a fool as some people are persistent to make him look like. He knows what he is doing and he must have signed the contract after taking into consideration the condition of the industry and the work prospects available to him after his Cap Era and Covid. The only downside of this pr has been his team underestimated his fandom's reaction due to the age gap and now , no matter how much he dislikes the situation or wants to end it, it might not be possible.

He also wants to be taken seriously as an actor. he doesn't seem to be interested in going back to Disney or doing any superhero roles in the future which is quite understandable. Going back to Disney would not be beneficial. They would lock him down for years and he will not have the creative freedom that he is looking for. He is already in his 40s and almost all his career he has spent a big chunk of his career doing superhero roles. He seems to be desiring to expand his career and not stay limited. If we look at his approach it would be pretty understandable why he chose to do a PR.

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Personally, I don't see how switching gears at the premiere/after the movie release would in any way drown out the negative talk that's already happening around Ghosted. To me, it would just amplify it, as then people would be making comments tying his "private" life with the negatively perceived characteristics of his role in the movie. ///

Exactly this. Also, the people who are dragging Ghosted on Twitter don't care about his personal life. Like at all. Tweets mentioning him and Jenny are still going viral, but nobody except his stans seem to care about Alba. The GP cared about him and Jenny together for whatever reason and (non-fandom) people were genuinely rooting for them. It's still Alba who for most people. And this is despite him posting multiple videos and photo dumps featuring her, something he has never done with previous girlfriends.

The Chris/Jenny relationship caught on in the general public because it went beyond his fandom; she had somewhat of her own fandom at the time, and was known in the wider public because of her appearances in things like Parks and Rec. But, also, it was the optics the PR teams were able to sell: smart funny girl with non-traditional looks wins the heart of America's sex symbol. That's like the set-up of a movie; it's like Notting Hill meets NATM, let's face it.

They have nothing like that in the current situation, nothing to spin to make the optics of him suddenly dating much younger/in a more unbalanced power balance situation look any better. And I don't know how anyone who works on his expensive PR team could have ever believed they could have.

But, yeah, I agree: the Twitter dragging that's happening is mostly just people dogpiling on a movie that looks bad. It's a normal thing.

[ohnoichangedmynamecallthefbi]

He wanted a youngin knew it would look bad and decided to capitalize on his image and instead destroyed it.///

Omg I’m loving this conversation anons.

You’ll love my theory, it’s similar.

Chris used his IG as tinder, saw it myself but he was liking big booty fitness women.

Anyway he meets Alba via IG and after deciding he liked her enough to go public, he knew it would be a hit to his brand so his smart tail decided to use PR to make this seem like a guy who found his one vs a 40+ yr old having a mid life crisis like most his age and in his industry.

So just like with Jenny he uses the media to “clean” up this mess but it backfires because November 2022 this man goes public on the day her show debuts and that’s a red flag, but within a month times between Disney, Alba and her friend trolling, Chris and his friends breadcrumbing the past year, the fans end up finding her bff past tweets….they forgot to clean up her friends.

Anyway all racism and other bs is revealed, Alba panics and posts her nudes for whatever God awful reason and then boom he IG is suspended and now it’s all up to Chris to push this.

So he waits new years and post videos…..omg I bet that’s what is going to happen this year, rinse and repeat anyway he’s again trying to sale the “I’m in love” bs with people mag pushing articles about the couple no one cares about. Trying to paint her as mature and other bs but his fans know these people and who they truly are based on how they acted.

Fast forward they are married and still doing the same bullshit but now Chris is really pissed things aren’t going his way and still trying to control whatever bs narrative.

I honestly don’t know what he’s going for in the last pics, I do get college professor who left his age appropriate wife for his grad student and is slowly regretting his decision. 😂

I can’t wait for the next dump to show him in love. 🤮 the optics are bad so if they are thinking to push wedding pics, it’ll backfire tremendously.

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[thelonesomequeen]

Pascal if you had to guess, do you see this marriage lasting in your personal humble opinion?

I don’t think so, no. I think the age difference could eventually be their demise. I think right now while they’re both younger, they’re still full of life and energy and the age gap doesn’t matter a whole bunch because they’re probably still having a good time. But in 10 or 20 years from now I’m not sure that’ll be the case? Alba (who would only be a few years older than Chris is now) is still going to have that energy and Chris will be at a point where he might be slowing down due to age. And I don’t mean that negatively. It’s just a reality of life and aging. How many of us don’t witness our parents start to slow down a bit in their 60s? I kind of wonder what social/generational differences could pop up between them as well in that time period that could cause issues, too.

There are other things like distance between friends and family that in a normal situation I think could also be a problem. But with his money and their freer schedules, they’ll have the time and money to travel to see family. They aren’t bound to limited income and working a typical 9-5 with only so many PTO days like us average people are so that might not be an issue for them specifically, but I can see how there could be potential for that to be a problem down the line because one of them would need to relocate.

Overall I still kind of question the sincerity of both of them in this relationship, too. I don’t know them personally, so I can’t say what their intentions are for certain, but the optics of the relationship due to the age gap don’t look great. It’s caused plenty of speculation about their character from outsiders. How many people didn’t look at Chris when the relationship was confirmed and go “oh so he’s just a typical Hollywood man going for the young girl?! Gross.” and how many people didn’t look at Alba an assume she was a gold digger looking for a rich husband? IF Chris was just looking for a pretty young thing, who is to say Alba wouldn’t one day get replaced with the next pretty young thing once she ages? Or if Alba was just looking for a sugar daddy, who is to say she wouldn’t one day replace Chris with someone with more money or who is willing to shell out more cash on her? ***I want to point out that I’m not accusing either of them of going into the relationship with bad intentions like I’ve described, I’m just pointing out that IF one or the both of them have, then they’ve built a relationship on a foundation that isn’t going to last because it didn’t start with the right intentions. Hopefully I’ve explained that well?

And I could be completely wrong here. Maybe they’re both extremely happy and they’ve found their person and things will work out just fine for them. But you asked my opinion and I shared it. I’m not entirely convinced it’ll last in the long run because things have always looked and felt off about this whole thing based on what we see from the outside (which I acknowledge isn’t always an accurate depiction of reality) 🦎

[witheringdream]

Hello, what do you mean KTY probably lives in a trailer? I don't mean to be polemic, but this is my view on things. Neither Alba nor KTY have an actual like proper career or platform in the USA. They're both "newbies" trying to make it and have a breakthrough. Even tho Alba does have a longer career, that's back in Europe, and even in her country she's not really a big star. So KTY being quite vocal about her support for Palestine is actually kind of a big deal for her future career, she's taking a stance that's still shamefully not supported by the Hollywood industry as a whole. Much bigger and much more visible artists and celebrities have been fired and lost their current jobs in productions because they openly support the Palestinian struggle. So for her who's barely in the Hollywood radar to be vocal about it could very much close doors for her, who's upcoming in said business. There are high stakes for her.

Now as for Alba, that's IMO sad. She married a military propaganda prop. An imperialistic cheerleader. One who unfortunately is still very popular and visible. Her speaking up would basically go against her husband's "values" and how he made his livelihood and his millions, and it's a given that man has to think about optics and his own marketability and PR and all those ugly things that come with big Hollywood fame, and she's now entangled in it as well, so I honestly do not expect her to even acknowledge the horrid situation that's going on. Which again is sad. I don't think we'll ever even know what she thinks about this, and that ofc impacts what her fans think of her. Even tho she's consistently shown that she's really private before getting married. Her silence does reflect quite poorly. Now to add some nuance I personally believe we shouldn't be looking to celebrities for accountability, much less expecting deep social/political analysis (at most we should want to know their stance to decide if we'll continue to follow and support them or not) we should be looking at the people that have a real impact on the situation, lawmakers, congress, and presidents of the countries that are bankrolling Israel's genocide. They are the ones we should demand accountability from. I think the few celebrities that are actually out in the streets doing activism well.. we're lucky they're using their voice and platform in that way. But we can't expect everyone in showbiz to do the same (they should but to expect that from the USA showbiz specifically is kind of hopeless) what I'm saying is for the USA Hollywood showbiz specifically

i genuinely do not care about this lmao (i will not be reading your essay) . all i know is that speaking up about palestine should not be life changing or give you brownie points it’s literally the most humane thing to do. it’s not that hard to make a choice between killed civilians and broken families and ethnic cleansing and well… the people doing it??

[chrisevansluv]

This is what I have been noticing about Chris for the last 3/4 months , I’m opend to rebuttals.

Something that I find very interesting is the fact that Chris has been off ever since he started filming PH. He went MIA and barely posted on sm. But the unusual thing is that he looks sad or something seemed off every time we have seen him since Sept. (in set photos and even on the Bros, SMA and The Rock videos he looked kind off/sad) And throughout the year he wasn’t like that (he would have a few off moments in interviews but for the most part he was he’s normal goofy self).

So my question is: Why do you look so miserable if you’re in a “happy” relationship ever since Sept. (I don’t believe they are PR and we know she’s been around him since then)

Maybe I’m imagining things but I’ve been feeling that way before we got the confirmation and was wondering why he seemed off. Now it makes even less sense lol. I’m sharing to see if anyone has felt the same way.

He looked fine while filming Pain Hustlers though

I mean, clearly in SMA he looked off, but probably it's because he knew what was to come right after 🤷‍♀️ We've seen him being insecure and ashamed of the whole thing ever since it was released to the public.

I don't think the reason he's off is Alba though. In intimate pics he looks comfortable and happy with her

BUT the whole situation, and how affected he is by the rest's opinions is what makes him be off. And it's obvious when he spends hours blocking random people (that aren't even tagging him, so he's actively looking for his and Alba's names).

He knows the optics are bad, he knows a part of his fandom know when and how it all started (and it's not the fairytale he tried to sell to everybody).

There's a reason why he always wears a full on disguise to at least hide his age and avoid people comparing his looks to hers. Because not only she's 16 younger than him, she doesn't look her age.

Of course he's off. Before, most part of his fandom would literally praise him and baby him as soon as he was attacked. This time, he still has a vast majority babying him, but the ones dragging him or shading him were the most active ones in his fandom.

I don't know. He's a grown man. He took a decision and he should own it, give 0 fucks about what others think because it's his life. But it's a privilege you can't have when your career depends so bad on the public, the fandom and the perception they have of you.

[justenjoythegossip]

A LOT OF CHRIS’ RECENT PR ISSUES ACTUALLY FALLS ON HIM…

I won’t go as far as some plants from Team Middle/Real who have defended the unfamous talent agency as CAA has proved to be as shady as it gets and that’s putting it mildly but a lot of Chris’ current issues PR wise can be attributed to his own doing and likely input. And I am not even talking about the fact that Chris has signed off on all of this PR rebranding and the tactics used to achieve it since he is the client and actually pays for their expertise and services.

The cringe and alienating content they shoved down our throats…

Some people have drawn the parallel between Chris and Alba’s shitshow with Seb’s former shitshow with Ale, and rightfully so. As clearly, CAA’s stamp is all over some of the content they shoved down our throats. Here are a few examples of pictures that show all the similarities.

However I would argue that the scare videos were very probably Chris and Scott’s idea. And it sure was a good idea originally. During Covid, so many celebrities were desperate to stay in the public eye and their scare videos were a cute way to get some good attention as this banter between two siblings living together during hard times was quite entertaining. At least it was for a while until it felt quite forced. It is still puzzling to me that anyone (Chris?) thought it would be a good idea to have him do the same thing with Alba. As if the dynamic between 2 romantic partners resembled the dynamic existing between two siblings? How didn’t anyone say that the optics of an immature middle aged man play silly games with his teenage looking girlfriend were not only atrocious but humiliating for both participants? And the general public deserved a lot better than this horrifying & badly acted spectacle that turned a lot of people against them right from the start.

The duplicity of playing the victim card to feed the discourse/save face with his fans

I have already talked about this aspect profusely in several posts including these:

Chris has been more than complicit in the little games that has been played at the expense of his fans. He might genuinely dislike her or be depressed but obviously he is an actor and he CAN act. And he did manage to do a much better job at selling their relationship at the Vanity Fair party for their debut when he wanted to for example. So of course, it’s safe to assume he has not only tried to feed the discourse but also tried to gain sympathy from his fans as he has looked purposefully miserable to the point where it was over the top. Do people remember the first pap pictures that were released when he was on the set of The Materialists? He looked so down, sour and miserable but it was short-lived as he then looked ridiculously happy and was smiling from ear to ear and laughing on the barrage of onset pictures we got afterwards. Ad nauseum I should add, which also shows how curated and manufactured it all was.

Side note: I believe that the backlash would not have been this extensive if Chris and Alba had both tried to sell the puppy love better but I suspect the relationship between them was always designed and meant to be controversial to give Chris some much needed edge. I might develop this aspect in another post. 

The crisis of the signing of the inert object and the disastrous PR response

The crisis that resulted from John Cusack posting the picture of Chris signing an inert object was poorly handled to say the least and I suspect it falls exclusively on Chris, for the sole reason that a PR firm would have never handled that crisis in the way that it was done. 

PR 101 tells us the steps you need to take when it comes to handling a PR crisis: acknowledge the issue, own it, apologize for it and then promise a better future. There was none of that here and I suspect it was because Chris didn’t want to apologize as he felt he had done nothing wrong. I won’t discuss his merits as it’s totally irrelevant but I will say that he should have kept quiet if he truly felt that way. 

Because in the PR world, lame-ass apologies are worse than no apology. When the wife of a senate candidate rebuffs antisemitic claims by saying that one of their attorneys is a Jew… well, how can I put it? Not helpful! Drew Barrymore’s crying video after crossing the picket line? Not helpful and deleted! Ashton and Mila Kunis’ apology after defending convicted rapist and scientologist Masterson? Not helpful! However she is about to make a comeback in Knives Out 3 because this is Hollywood and nobody cares if you are a monster or a monster apologist.

To go back to Chris, he should have kept quiet about this issue because he not only drew more attention to the controversy but he also put even more emphasis on what he didn’t apologize for: his silence after being so vocal politically speaking and the backlash he received for associating with Nazis. Not a smart move.

And I suspect CAA did their best to help him by creating a much needed distraction as they basically sacrificed the movie The Materialists for good PR for Chris and Dakota, by releasing an unheard and unseen amount of onset pictures. 

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So apparently the new Disney pics were sent to a hate blog of Chris and Alba to my understanding so yeah this was a forced “leak” and now there’s some noise about a guy Alba was dating name Tomas or something based on pics lonesome queen recently received and the ones they received of Alba and some guy over the summer, I don’t have all the facts but every week it’s something new.

Had chris and Alba gone radio silent, that would’ve been more believable. I don’t see this ending well, nothing feels normal or natural about this situation and the optics of those pics ……she looks like she’s one of the teens.

I want to know what is going on because this makes no sense, I refuse to believe he said fuck his 20+ yr career and rep for a 25yr old clout chaser. I’m legitimately shocked this is even happening. He followed her on IG and she’s was 23 at the time. He really is a PR image . At this point would any woman want him after this or are things not precisely as they appear or are making it to be? Sideways I’m baffled.

They leaked the photos because they noticed people figured out the timeline wasn’t legit. Funny how it was on the exact day people discovered the name of her real boyfriend all year.

She was screwing Tomas, and he wad screwing anything and everything from GA to London. Thank you!

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Don’t you think that precisely because she looks 16 this isn’t PR? Seems there wasn’t a single functioning brain in that PR meeting

They might have thought tying her to an older guy would actually have made her seem more mature tbh 🤷🏻‍♀️ especially one known in HW for being low key, grounded and wanting to settle down. Good way to get rid of her party-girl past and make her seem serious.

Remember, in a PR deal, each team is thinking of their respective client. So Albas team was thinking about Alba only. Perhaps they also saw a possibility of her seeming "strong" if they were to spin a possible breakup in the sense that he was ready to settle down and she wasnt, aka she took her power back and is an independent career woman.

There are a lot of opportunities to a possible deal, probably also situations we havent even thought of. For Alba though, the optics of being tied to Captain America are only positive. They also will be in a future break up.

It can be spun a lot of ways to benefit her - the only reason it isnt right now, is because the fans kept digging and found her problematic past, which her agents most likely were unaware of. And then because of her subsequent naked shower tantrum on Instagram.

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Chris and team are doing the most but for two people in a relationship that went public you’d think there would be “romantic” pics but there aren’t because there’s more to this crap and it has nothing to do with anything romantically. Chris is not into this 25 yr old and we’ve only had rumors of him and other young women and we’ve yet to see him romantically linked or kissing anyone under the age of 30, so yeah something is up behind the scenes. If Chris and team release anything of these two being romantic, or kissing the backlash will be negative and huge due to the optics and Chris definitely will get labeled. She looks like a child. The Disney pics with his mom and niece and nephew…..i showed someone and told them to point out all the kids in the picture and the FIRST person they pointed to was…..Alba. 😫🫣😓 The scare video wasn’t romantic, looked like he was babysitting his friends’ sister and playing hide and seek with her.

#ask