#j2:instagram

[acklesforlife]

jaredpadalecki: Walker likes a defined brow. #BeautyIsPain😂

[detailtilted]

I found some missing (to me, anyway) Indy August 2024 Gold footage! This is NOT from the latest one this past weekend.

Someone on Instagram posted about 19 minutes' worth of content from the Indy August 2024 gold panel. They've had it up since August, so maybe people knew about this and I somehow just missed all the posts about it back in August despite checking the tags multiple times a day for a month?! But judging by how few likes the first and longest video has, I guess I'm probably not the only one who had no idea it existed.

It isn't the full panel, but it's quite a lot of it. Up until now, I was only aware of maybe 6-7 minutes' worth of small clips, not counting the different versions of duplicate parts. The Instagram format is wonky, at least on the PC, or maybe that's down to my inexperience with it, but it's content that I hadn't seen before and that I didn't think existed, so I'm thrilled to have it in any format!

It's split up into 5 videos below. I'm not 100% sure I have them listed in the correct order, but I used the report on Fangasm's web site (which also has some video links and a lot of pictures) to try to sequence them correctly.

Part 1 (first 13 minutes) - Direct Link

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Part 2 (1.5 minutes) - Direct Link

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Part 3 (1.5 minutes) - Direct Link

Part 4 (1.5 minutes) - Direct Link

Part 5 (1.5 minutes) - Direct Link

[deanwinchestersgirl8734]

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[thej2report]

Thank you Chris Schcmelke for this lovely pic of Jensen Ackles!

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[j2loverdeansam]

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Had to share this amazing work from Kami Diox, just wonderful & funny, perfect representation of J2

[4evacrazy]

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[i-megneto]

I got to meet the amazing Jensen Ackles this weekend at Crossroads 6 💜✏️

I got to show him my artwork of him during my op and his reactions meant everything 😁🥰

Thank you Jensen and thank you @starfuryevents

#jensenackles #ackles #deanwinchester #supernatural #j2 #spn #theboys #soldierboy #thewinchesters #Bigsky #drawingsbymegsart #digitalart #Crossroads #starfury #portrait

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Imagine if this was Jensen who did this?!?!

[t4tozier]

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and if i said j2.

[deanwinchestersgirl8734]

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[loveinterestcastiel]

pls tell me what you chose and why in the tags and also reblog :)

HONORABLE MENTION:

misha, in a squeaky voice: “i’m the one who gripped you right and raised you from perdition.”

jensen: “he sounds like that in the morning.”

jared: “how do you know?”

*cue mic drop*

[thej2report]

New J2 content alert!!

From Clifs Instagram. Our boys are spending the night hanging out together. They're currently playing chess against each other on their phones.

[lean-mean-demon-genevieve]

I’m not interested in defending celebrities, to be so for real, but I am interested in a crumb of whatever drugs this blogger is on. This kind of standom delusion must feel amazing. 💊💊

It’s so funny to me when stans go after each other and fail to realize that they are all engaging in the same kind of “Nuh-uh! That other side sucks the hardest because of all this very biased data I’ve compiled” type of arguing. I’m also not interested in warring with any stan blogs, but this was just so egregious and needed to be debunked. So let’s unpack:

Right off the bat, this blog has used the word tokenize incorrectly. This means to use someone as a symbol of inclusion or compliance with regulations, or to avoid the appearance of discrimination or prejudice.

I think they are intending to refer to the kids being a commodity to exploit in the overall branding of the family; that they are being objectified. And one only has to skim the Instagram feeds of Danneel and Gen to see which family is more heavy-handed. “Danneel’s entire Instagram use to be solely about that.”Based on what, exactly? Danneel’s very first post is of Jensen and JJ, yes, and her identity as wife and mother is (gasp) very much on display ever since. But…that’s to be expected, right?! After all, sharing those parts of their family life on socials is exactly the whole point and why anyone initially followed. It is that behind the scenes peek into the family lives of J2 that drew people in. It’s not as if either of these women has much of a fan base on their own and neither of them were acting at the time their IG accounts launched.

A quick side-by-side of the 2 accounts at about the same point in time (2017/2018) shows little differences in themes of content:

This blog further claims that “Genevieve and Jared are intelligently including their children where needed” and doing so in “genuine, selfless ways.” *snorts* At the time of this writing, Danneel has 458 posts and Gen has 1,833. Now, I didn’t review each post but the few tags I saw included in family photos were Disneyland and Warner Bros when they visited in recent years. I did not see multiple paid partnership ads featuring the Ackles children. I’m open to anyone proving me wrong, because by sheer volume my argument will still stand. In a random sampling of 2021, we have a string of posts of the Pada-kids that double as ads to varying degrees. Here are just a few examples:

Now you might say, “ok but these are products for children and families…that still seems pretty thoughtful.” Except that one need only scroll a little farther to see the kids included in brand deals for adult supplements, exercise gear, cleaning products, and even shampoo.

All of these products still fit in the “items that help me be a great mom” theme of the Now & Gen era, but this is still blatantly using images of the kids for profit in ways that the Ackles just have not done. What is shown here is just the tip of the iceberg and does not include the other attempts at branding on the failed Now & Gen blog or the YouTube vlog. So I’m not sure how the Pads have only used the kids “when needed” when this family was never going to go hungry without these endorsement deals.

Comparing the volume of likes on Gen’s IG posts that contain the children vs those that do not makes it seem likely that someone has been paying attention to the trends and has concluded that utilizing the children in ads has more earning potential. This is the current climate of social media marketing. These outcomes are in fact considered.

The idea that kids should be allowed to “earn money or have a brand” if they want is actually incredibly irresponsible. Protecting the safety of children that are a part of family content creation was a popular topic over the last year. There have been several examples of families who lost the plot in their efforts to market their children in order to achieve financial gain. What an asinine claim to make for children in general when Google is right there. And I love a link, so here’s a few: X, X, and X. It’s too early to definitively summarize the harm that the Pads might be causing their kids with all the exposure. Even when parents are not intentionally exploiting, their children are too young to consent to this type of “work.” Their brains are literally not developed enough to consider the long term pros and cons. All of this sets them up for potential harm, the risk of which makes none of this a need.

“What’s wrong are self-centered, clueless parents who only show off their kids to benefit off of a certain image.” (Pretending I can’t see the self-centered bit because woooo boy…Gen…😬) But aren’t both families posting photos of their kids to “benefit” off of their image of “family?” It’s baked into the Spn and even Walker marketing. The fandoms have been referred to as a family almost since their inception, so it only makes sense that fans were interested in the leads and their own growing families. Again, both families have benefitted but the Pads have benefitted all the way to the bank. And some Padalecki stans are quick to point this out as a win. If the above blog wants to congratulate Gen on her shrewd sense of business and use of capitalism, then that is a whole other thing and they should just come out and say that without making anyone out to be a saint.

One should take note that nowhere in here have I said that Danneel or Jensen are better people than anyone. I didn’t praise them for anything or proclaim their intentions are always pure of heart. How could anyone know that, except by virtue of the faith that comes along with extreme fandom? And that faith isn’t the same as screenshots, numbers, and patterns.

As always: Pedestals aren’t for people. Hold everyone accountable, even your faves. They will survive.✌🏼

[littlebeelife]

Daily J2 Breakdown

Day 11

There's a lot of content from the time Jensen directed Walker but today I just wanted to post the director chair seat pics. I love how Jensen tried to be grumpy about it but the fact that he used his instagram stories to post each one of these just shows how much he loved it. He was just another director on the show - yet was treated like a king because Jared, well... he is a simp.

It was a great week for annoying people (me)

(The first 3 pics were posted on March 1st 2022, and then March 2nd, 3rd and 4th)

[teamfreewill2pointo]

Came on Instagram to upload family photos from our vacation and saw Keegan liking J2 posts.

I will never be free.