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Niall Horan Warns Fans Against 'Saying Anything They Want' To Celebrities Online
This is so entirely true. Since this is a ongoing issue right now within the 5SOS fandom. Niall is right, celebs are people to and they also have feelings and are normal people just with a abnormal type of job. Feel free to like and repost this.
#the nasty side of the 5SOS Fandom#people or fans just cannot say whatever they want to celebs through Twitter#Celebs are people as well just with an abnormal job they also have feelings as well#Niall Horan offers the best advice on why you should think of weiting before you tweet at people
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so allegra had a go at a fan on twitter for posting a photo without crediting her (even though she got it from someone else who didn’t know the source), and she called her out really horribly. even after she apologised and said she’s just a fan she was just appreciating the pic, allegra was rly mean and in that moment my respect for her decreased even tho that might be mean or whatever. and what makes it worse is that jared liked the tweets too ...
Um. Okay. I haven’t seen that tweet, so I don’t know what she said exactly.
We know how sensitive Allegra is with not being credited for her photos and vids and hey, I’m obsessed with credit too, I give people credit as much as I can because I want credit for the things I create, the things I find and the things I help with. I think credit is about being nice and fair to the person who offered you that content in the first place without asking anything in return, just... credit.
That said, Allegra is famous for calling out people who use her content without permission. We saw her Insta stories where she called out the producers of The Terror s2 for using her vid of Jared talking on the phone with one of the show’s people without her permission. I believe The Terror producers could have at least asked her since, let’s face it, that was free promo for them. However yeah, she didn’t let that go, I think she was encouraging her followers to act on that, but don’t take my word for it.
Another time she was asking persistently a Jared fan how come they had posted on their Insta a pic of hers with Jared, a pic that happened to appear that very day on her private facebook account as a “memory” from 2 years ago. She had forgotten she had posted that pic on her Insta too (which is public) exactly 2 years before. That fan was probably keeping a very organized archive of Jared pics with dates etc, maybe for throwback posts, who knows. But Allegra was bewildered by the “coincidence”, maybe she thought her privacy was being breeched, I don’t know.
As for me, I’ve seen her teasing a super dedicated Jared fan during one of her quarantine Insta vids for being on her twitter 24/7. Surely, some fans are very present in her twitter but who knows if that’s the only thing that helps them get through the day.
In short, Allegra is very sensitive about credit, which makes sense. And she hardly ever pulls her punches whether it’s harmless teasing or calling out someone. Since I don’t know how harsh her reaction was towards that fan, I cannot really pass any judgement of my own.
But if tumblr is a place where we can give our opinion freely, I have this one thing to say: just because you’re an actor’s fan, you don’t have to be their wife’s fan. We’re here for the celebs, not their wives.
And if you want to feel better about not respecting her so much anymore, she said during one of her vids “Sorry, Chernobyl fans, but The Terror IS Jared’s best work”. It came completely out of the blue. She just wanted to praise The Terror but she used Chernobyl for that and I was like... wut? Why compare two totally different parts?
So there, you don’t have to like her, we’re not compatible with every person out there. As for Jared liking her tweet, I wasn’t expecting anything less from him tbh, they’re completely dedicated to each other and fully support each other. Don’t forget that Jared is not into social media at all, it was Allegra who pulled him into this, but he knows how important social media are to her. He knows that she is capable of having a meltdown over stuff that happens on twitter and instagram, I mean, aren’t we all?
And let’s face it: I do love Jared as much as I love Stellan, he’s brilliant, he’s hilarious, he’s a genius and the nicest most humble talent in Hollywood who deserves the best and is here to give us more but... I don’t fangirl Jared per se, if you know what I mean. I fangirl him as Valery. It’s Valery who makes me dream, not Jared and his wife. I leave his personal life out of my fandom experience because I cannot have a ferocious “gatekeeper” in the form of a gorgeous rich brunette popping up in my headcanons.
I’ll stick with Valery because he’s mine. Well, ours. Well, Boris’.
I hope I wasn’t too harsh on Allegra but this is stuff I’ve seen with my own eyes. I do believe she could have pulled her punches if I can judge by your description of her harshness. That fan has my deepest sympathy, and I can only hope it wasn’t one of us..
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SPN Fans? (Beware VERY VERY Long Post!)
There has only ever been a very small handful of times where I have had to make a public post to call out hypocrisy in this fandom. And now, again, this is one of those times.These past few days I have seen fans, specifically Destiel & Cockles fans, hating on both Jensen & Jared. Some of these fans reasons being valid, while other reasons are just to be malicious to these men simply for the attention of a retweet on Twitter or reblog on Tumblr.
Just to be clear before I even start to delve deep into the several topics of what I am about to discuss. Yes I am a “AA” or whatever people like to insult Jensen fans with. And yes I am a fan and appreciate Jared. And lastly, yes I do ship Wincest. I am not ashamed of it either. All this evidence is visible when you (because I know some of you will) click on my account to view my posts. I normally avoid drama because I am fan that likes to reblog or to simply make posts that support the boys and the wonderful show that is Supernatural. But I do have a decent following and amount of followers on here. And me staying quite on issues like this is almost as bad as the malicious people who attack the SPN actors out of spite.
Now to get to the matters at hand.
Jensen Ackles: I’ve seen Destiel Fans hate on Jensen because he quote on quote “doesn’t speak up enough on political issues.” And when he does he still receives mass amounts of criticism for it. An example of this is when Jensen recently made that #metoo tweet on Twitter to show support for women who have been sexually abused/assaulted/and or harassed. And when I looked at his mentions I honestly cannot even give you the exact number of how many people attacked him for showing support to women because there were so many. I could have taken screenshots & added them in this post, but I wont. That is how disgusting I found them. If anyone would like to know what I am talking about for proof all you have to do is go to Jensen’s Twitter, click on the #metoo tweet, and see for yourself.
Another thing Jensen receives hate for and fans have called him homophobic for is because he said “Destiel doesn’t exist” at a convention. I do understand if you are a hardcore Cockles or Destiel shipper and what Jensen said grated your nerves. It is a common human emotion to be upset. What is NOT okay is to tag him on Twitter calling him all sorts of derogatory hateful slurs because your feelings got hurt over a fictional ship. I’d like to point out that Jensen being called homophobic has not happened recently, but when it did happen mass amounts of people dragged him. And yes I did call Destiel a fictional ship because it is not canon. That’s not a dig at the ship or anyone who participates in that part of the fandom either. That is literally just the truth. Destiel isn’t canon the same way Wincest isn’t.
When Jensen first dismissed Destiel questions at a J2 panel, within days the top Google search when typing Jensen Ackles name in the search bar was “Jensen Ackles is homophobic.” It stayed like that to for a long time. And it is crazy that people in this fandom do not realize how fucking damaging rumors like that can be to someones career let alone how that might make them feel if they were to see what was being said about them.
Could Jensen have handled Destiel questions better? Absolutely. But the fact that fans started career damaging rumors about him out of spite of what he said is extremely harmful.
The most recent thing Jensen has been dragged for is for liking a Blue Lives Matter post. Even I am a huge fan of Jensen and even I know that shit was wrong. But instead of attempting to educate him respectfully on his ignorance, he received slurs and name calling instead.
Jared Padalecki: Recently Jared has been getting hate for calling out bad service on his social media in front of his several million followers. The first few times he did it, those could be semi excusable because everybody has their days where they’re off. I do believe fans had the right to say “man that isn’t cool, please delete this.” But instead of doing exactly that and trying to educate in a calm, cool and collected manner. The same way they should have done to Jensen when he liked that Blue Lives Matter post. Some of you do the exact opposite. You berate Jared with your words in attempt to make him feel lesser than. As if you fans not tagging him on Twitter means he won’t see the shit you say about him. It’s damn near common knowledge that most celebrities search themselves up online.
And the comments some of you say to Jared shake me to my core. When I see some of you telling Jared to kill himself, it literally hurts me which is a bit insane because these comments are not even directed at me. Fans wishing that Jared would die, makes me scared for his life. And I’m not trying to play that card of “ooooooohh poor weak Jared! He has depression! Everyone please be nice to him! Let him be, poor weak little soul! Awww!”
No, I realize Jared has made mistakes. But the way some of you go about correcting him is appalling. I am shaking as I write this because you are telling someone to die who has publicly said MULTIPLE TIMES he’s wanted to die and has been on the verge of almost killing himself, that he is basically a worthless piece of shit. Those types of comments literally make me want to cry which bothers me because I don’t consider myself a weak minded person. Not after all the obstacles I have personally went through. Jared, like Jensen, is a grown man that I’m sure can handle some criticism. But the criticism some of you show isn’t educational criticism at all it’s hate. And I have to say is that if Jared ever tried to hurt himself over something he’s read online that a supposed “fan” sent him, you will always be vile to me.
Jared’s most recent call out tweet, was that wrong? I have to say yes. And that is not hate, just truth. But clearly Jared learned his lesson seeing as he deleted the tweet within the first few minutes.
Final Thoughts: It’s very sad to me that fans, and lets be honest here, mostly Destiel and Cockles shippers with Misha in their icons are the ones that continue to attack Jared and Jensen for things that happened years ago. Could you imagine everyone bringing up your past only to throw it in your face every five seconds? Most of you are lucky stuff like that does not happen to you like it does for celebrities in general every morning they wake up. Some celebs deserve criticism while others don’t.
What’s also fascinating is that a specific group of fans continue to drag Jared for calling out bad service or defame Jensen for several different matters like dismissing the ship that is Destiel. When only a few years ago Misha Collins was making racist and disgusting slavery jokes on Twitter.
It’s jokes like the one Misha made a few years back that literally give more examples and reasons as to why informative enlightening groups like Black Lives Matter exists. It is also jokes like that being the reason why I still get the “she must be angry” simply because I am a black woman who was having a bad day and didn’t feel like smiling at any creepy ass men.
Stereotypes like the “black women are always angry” are so fucking hurtful and I can’t stand all the misogynistic and racist people out there. This fandom claims they’re so progressive but are the first ones to call a women or even some men of a certain age “old hags” or say things like “you’re too old to be in a fandom”.
As a woman of color I was extremely offended, hurt, and surprised when Misha made those borderline racist tweets. Did he apologize? Sort of. In the second screenshot above, that apology was half-assed. I still cannot for the life on me wonder why he seemed surprised that a slavery joke like that would not receive backlash just because he does a lot of great charity work. And that slavery joke that he made on Twitter is the number one reason why I can’t and will not support Misha and his endeavors. But despite the fact that I do not support Misha, you don’t see me slandering his name every five seconds either.
To be clear I don’t think Misha is a racist nor do I believe that people should loom this over his head for the rest of eternity. But I’m using this as example to show that like Misha, both Jensen and Jared have made mistakes. And to bring up their mistakes on a constant basis like Misha’s fans seem to do to Jared and Jensen whenever possible is out of decent respectful humane character.
There is one thing no one in this dysfunctional fandom can deny. And that is that all three of these men have some of the biggest hearts, when it comes to charity, in the sexist world that is Hollywood. And the fact that some fans can’t even let Jensen, Jared, or Misha do any charity work without them supposedly having some sort of hidden deceitful agenda behind their motives it is truly sickening.
Now before anyone attacks me on bringing up old news, like the racist tweets on Misha, decides to say that I just contradicted myself. Or that I am trying to bring Jensen and Jared up while tearing Misha down. That isn’t even the case.The point I was trying to make was that I or anyone else really could say and do that EXACT same thing, in regards to bringing up old mistakes, the same way some of you do to Jensen and Jared whenever you get the chance or whenever they do or say something you don’t like. Jared, Jensen, and Misha are not your puppets. They don’t jump when you say jump and they will continue to make mistakes. Which isn’t all that surprising seeing as they are human beings with emotions like everyone else.
I realize many people will not take this post and message the way it was meant to be, which is honestly to stop being so petty and let people ship what they want to ship. And let them love their faves. No, I’m sure a good amount of people will see this post as something to start up drama. But it’s fine because I would not have made this post if I couldn’t handle people not agreeing with me.
This fandom always talks about how they support women, they don’t bully, and that they support the LGBTQ community. Now lets see if I get attacked and berated for expressing my opinion.
I am going to put this post in the tags because I feel like it is extremely important. No matter your take away from my post and message I am trying to send. It is critical to realize that at the end of day, it is okay to respectfully call a celebrity out without any hidden shade and name calling. But it is not okay to tell Jared to kill himself, call Jensen homophobic or racist for liking that Blue Lives Matter post when you don’t know his stance on anything. It’s also not okay for people to tag Misha in their slander either.
It really is time for fans to start respecting Jared, Jensen, and Misha. This fandom is headed down the wrong path. And we really need to fix it before it’s too late.
#Supernatural#J2#Jensen Ackles#Jared Padalecki#Misha Collins#SPN#This needed to be said#Black Lives Matter#Wincest#Weecest
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The Best of Eric Jr.
I don’t know if Bryan Colangelo has four burner Twitter accounts to go along with a fifth account that he confirmed himself the owner of in a story published last night by The Ringer.
Four of the accounts are private, but one, @AlVic40117560, is still active. The account is attributed to a guy named “Eric jr” and features a profile picture of a mushroom, for whatever reason. The last Tweet was posted in July of 2017, so there’s nothing recent. A majority of the 296 tweets were posted halfway through the 2016-17 season.
If this is indeed the Sixers’ general manager, then some of the things posted under the “Eric jr” handle are firing-worthy. There is criticism of players and the disclosure of personal medical history. There are shots fired at former GM Sam Hinkie and allegedly biased media members as well. And if none of what’s in there is true, then it’s fabrication, which might be worse.
Here’s some of the stuff that stands out, starting with an anti-Hinkie take:
I agree, i think Colangelo's reorganization of the franchise and his good work area making Hinkie look better than he could've made himself
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) July 15, 2017
Hinkie died for our sins? Nope:
sorry not mine. Jesus died for mine. and i am ok with it.
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) May 3, 2017
Eric is a Dei Lynam fan:
She is also well prepared. Why was she let go?
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) June 29, 2017
Anti-Hinkie, after Sixers President Chris Heck tweeted a photo of the team’s new court design:
ENOUGH! What should Mark Jackson say about the Warriors he left to Kerr. The league has many more deserving Exes.
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) May 3, 2017
Another anti-Hinkie take:
you are crazy, Colangelo is cleaning up hinkie's mistakes and being killed while keeping mouth shut and protect team.
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 16, 2017
Eric responded to a story Kyle wrote about supporting Derek Bodner’s Patreon site, which he ran before moving to the Athletic in 2017:
I think it is great idea. Willing to pay the 3$. Only need to know if will objective or slanted towards base's opinion
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 16, 2017
Eric also hates anonymous sources:
I HATE sources are saying: people can make stuff up. Give name of sources for credibility.
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 16, 2017
Bob can you please ask your sources why are they lying to you? This is so fishy, smells like set up
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 16, 2017
Nerlens Noel is apparently selfish and knows something about “Jay” Okafor’s knee situation:
Noel is looking out for Noel. Knows about Jay's knee and using it for leverage. What a great teammate! He disgusts me
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 16, 2017
Yes b/c he knows team is protecting Jah not saying Y deal felt through. Noel behaving like a vulture to get more money
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 16, 2017
yes I want Noel gone over Jah, Jah has a bad knee but class act, Noel is a selfish punk
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 16, 2017
Okafor allegedly failed a physical with another team:
he protected a kid who did. Not pass his physical with the other team. Give the guy a break for caring about Jay's future
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 16, 2017
ask Jah If he passed other team physical? He will not say not to lose other chance. But I bet the farm it's what's happened.
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 15, 2017
balme hinkie for creating a kid with a bad knee that did not fit the system. But hey better to attack BC…
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 15, 2017
hinkie knows he drafted a kid with a bum knee that did not fit his system he should feel gulity
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 15, 2017
He wasn’t a fan of Joel Embiid not taking his injury situation seriously:
too bad that Embiid danced like a fool and the whole disaster happened, next time he will think twice before mocking his team
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 14, 2017
He thought he could play on National TV vs Houston & not disclose injury, missed 9+ gs. 6s play hearts out w/o him: SELFISH
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 11, 2017
or… JoJo behaved like an idiot 22 y old. Who tells the docs he is still in pain and then cannot resist being the Star
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 11, 2017
I agree with you. Colangelo wants to win. JoJo to be a kid, whose head is getting to big …
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 11, 2017
And here’s one with Embiid tagged:
@JoelEmbiid;Joel, you are just a kid, but why didn't you tell docs knees hurt before Houston? You costed yrself (&us) 9+ games & play-offs
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 10, 2017
Hinkie should have drafted Porzingis instead. Actually, we can all agree on this:
he was the one who drafted damage goods to begin with. If he picked Porzingis, hinkie would be still GM
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 13, 2017
Tweets about Raptors GM Masai Ujiri, Colangelo’s replacement:
nobody answers my one question. Why is Ujiri not called out on this mess?
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 13, 2017
but they resigned Ujiri for 30+ mil. So why worry?
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 13, 2017
Here’s a story about sitting next to Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union at the Beijing Olympics, which Union and Wade denied this morning:
I sat NEXT to you and DW at Beijing Olympics and saw you both being rude nasty to little kid fan. Had to eat yr pizza.
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) February 8, 2017
Plot twist: Union has denied being in Beijing:
Well ain't this interesting. I didnt go to the Beijing Olympics so whoever wrote the tweets created a whole rude celeb fantasy for a very specific reason, an attempt to discredit me for my tweets about athletes not wanting to go to the White House
https://t.co/OozdMUziPL
— Gabrielle Union (@itsgabrielleu) May 30, 2018
More Hinkie:
hey… how is the teaching at Stanford going?
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) January 31, 2017
BC has done nothing but clean up hinkie's mess. Hinkie got great pieces but could make the puzzle work.
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) January 22, 2017
And a political tweet:
@MarcJSpearsESPN con's stand Trump, but it is not a Muslim Ban. It is vetting from the 7 countries identified by Obama's team
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) January 30, 2017
The Ersan trade (the first time he came to Philly):
love Ersan. Best trade in the last five 76ers years.
— Eric jr (@AlVic40117560) January 30, 2017
As I mentioned above, Eric jr. is the only remaining active account. The Ringer story logged tweets from the other accounts before they were locked, and this passage jumped out at me:
In one particularly bizarre tweet, Still Balling even accused Brown of sidelining Fultz in order to sabotage the team. “I think that it would shorten Brett’s rope on ‘why we lost’ alibi,” the account wrote in a response to a tweet from Sixers announcer Marc Zumoff. “So Brett would rather keep him out.”
And there was another tweet where he responded directly to Markelle Fultz:
Time’s yours.
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Writing Angry: Celebrities, Supergirl, and Political Creep
Americans can put up with a lot when it comes to celebrities. We still go watch Mission Impossible movies even after Tom Cruise had a bouncy seizure on Oprah Winfrey’s couch. We can even forgive him for hawking a religion that has all the trappings of a cult to anyone outside of it. People still tuned in to watch Joe Namath play football even after he admitted to a strange predilection for wearing pantyhose. (Well, strange for that time at least. If Tom Brady did it now, we’d all let out a collective, “Whatever.”)
People even still watch the Kardashians even after it’s become painfully clear that they do absolutely nothing. Hell, they watch them specifically because they do nothing.
But one thing we cannot tolerate is the newfound need of any person with even a slight hint of notoriety to expound their political views if they get within 20 yards of anyone with a video camera or cell phone. Like creeping ivy weaves its way up a trellis, politics has started to creep into our entertainment, and that’s not something we’re going to take sitting down… even if the couches we potato on are really comfortable.
I’ve posited a theory about why this is happening (Hollywood Guilt: Why So Liberal?), but just to recap: If you made millions for doing something every kid in the entire world does for free, and you came to the realization that if you disappeared tomorrow, a hundred other people just as talented as you are there to replace you, you would probably feel the need to do something that others might consider more worthwhile. In a world where people are supposed to feel guilty about the color of their skin or how much they make, it’s a solid hypothesis. Unfortunately, it would be impossible to test because no celebrity would ever be honest about that while they’re telling you how hard it was on their psyche to pretend to be someone else.
Soldiers facing IED’s in Iraq didn’t go through anything compared to an actor having to pretend to fight with a laser sword that he could only see after postproduction.
What these celebs seem too self-important to realize is that we watch them because we need a break from the real world from time to time, especially politics, and we do that primarily through them. They appeal to us because they can take us away from our lives, if only for a couple of hours. When they stop being able to do that, their value as a celebrity drops like an eagle hitting a wind turbine.
Slight pause. A little background for perspective:
I’m a self-admitted movie buff and comic book nerd. (It says so right in my bio, thanks for reading.) As a world class insomniac, I tend to get in two to three movies a night. I had rated over 15,000 movies on Netflix before they switched to the thumbs up/thumbs down system and made me start all over.
That’s not bragging, unless lack of sleep is a virtue in your mind. I just don’t want anyone to think I’m just writing this out of hatred for celebrities. I’m not. I’ve spent the night with quite a few of them. Now back to the column.
Believe it or not, most people don’t want to know about a celebrity’s political views whether they agree or not. In the celebrity search to matter, they taint the very reason they matter to us.
We want to go to a Green Day concert and sing along with Basket Case without hearing Billie Joe shout “F^$& Trump.” We could stay home and watch any report from Portland, OR to get that.
We want to watch a football game without having to think about who’s going to be taking a knee during the national anthem. (And for God’s sake, don’t pretend that the flag and the anthem haven’t been part of sports since the day Cain and Able picked up a couple sticks and played field hockey with a sheep patty.)
We want to read a Stephen King book or listen to a Cher album without worrying about whether they blocked us on Twitter. (Ok, that one was personal.)
And this may come as a surprise, but I want to watch a Clint Eastwood movie and not think about him talking to an empty chair.
No celebrity has ever changed anyone’s political opinion. No one says,” Well, I was against illegal immigration, but then Kylie Jenner gave that Pepsi to that cop, and now I get it!”
At most, it’s a validation of what we already think. It’s fun to believe that you and Lady Gaga are simpatico, or that Kid Rock and I could have lunch together without wanting to kill each other by the time we get dessert. It makes us feel that we could sit at the table with the cool kids.
No, as much as celebs want you to believe that they just feel it in their hearts that as long as you gave them fame, they have the obligation to use it to make a difference in “just one person’s life”, it ends up being a supremely selfish act. If you do something just for the sake of someone seeing you do it, you can’t truly call it altruistic.
“Now, Parker ” you say, “a lot of people get on Twitter and pop off about politics. Why can’t celebrities do that?
“Good question,” I reply, “and to that I say know your role.”
You don’t turns on the news expecting a reporter to suddenly break into a stand-up comedy routine, and nobody goes to The Avengers expecting Iron Man to deliver a soliloquy on gun control. The first has yet to be seen; the latter is becoming all too common. And it’s not just the actors, the political creep is weaving its way into their product, too, thanks to Hollywood writers who feel the need to get in on the politically correct act.
Arrow (yes, I’m a comic book nerd) had that very special episode on the goods and bads of gun control. Supergirl’s entire season turned into a thinly disguised Trump-bash about immigration. (Yes, there are aliens on Earth, but most of them were good and there is no reason except bigotry to kick them off the Earth or for God’s sake do something silly like build a force field around the planet to keep them out. Most of them were just trying to get away from their own bad planets.
The writers were so intent on getting this message in, they completely forgot that Supergirl worked for a secret government organization dedicated to monitoring those aliens and getting rid of or locking away the bad ones.)
If I tuned in to the West Wing, I knew I was going to watch a political show. Ditto House of Cards or Homeland. I even know which way the show is going to slant. If I tune in to Supergirl, I want to turn my brain off and see a flying woman kick some alien butt with heat vision. I don’t want to watch her have a debate. Not only is it clubbing you over the head with a position, it’s just bad writing.
As a conservative, I’m a big believer in freedom of speech, and everyone has the right to share their opinions. Celebrities aren’t excluded from that, but they need to get over themselves and realize the reason they’re celebs in the first place. There are consequences for their little forays into feigned relevance. George Clooney’s movies have tanked, and it’s not just because they were all horrendous (although Solaris could put an ADHD kid on a sugar high to sleep.) A bigger reason is that he’s turned off half the people in the country who would bother to go watch him onscreen.
Clooney, like Hillary Clinton, may feel like he doesn’t want those deplorable people as fans anyway. If he does that would be a shame, since he owes a lot of his success to those very people.
I don’t want to speculate about Clooney’s life, but he’s got money for days, a gorgeous wife, and a job a lot of people would love to have. I’m guessing he’ll be okay no matter what I think. I can say the same about Trump, which is why I’m pretty sure he doesn’t care what Sarah Silverman or Whoopi Goldberg think of him.
Judging by the last election, most people aren’t influenced by their opinions either.
I just don’t want to become a place where our entertainment avenues are as divided as the country.
I don’t want to live in a world where only Calgon can take me away. Especially since then we’d have to debate showers vs. baths
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Writing Angry: Celebrities, Supergirl, and Political Creep
Americans can put up with a lot when it comes to celebrities. We still go watch Mission Impossible movies even after Tom Cruise had a bouncy seizure on Oprah Winfrey’s couch. We can even forgive him for hawking a religion that has all the trappings of a cult to anyone outside of it. People still tuned in to watch Joe Namath play football even after he admitted to a strange predilection for wearing pantyhose. (Well, strange for that time at least. If Tom Brady did it now, we’d all let out a collective, “Whatever.”)
People even still watch the Kardashians even after it’s become painfully clear that they do absolutely nothing. Hell, they watch them specifically because they do nothing.
But one thing we cannot tolerate is the newfound need of any person with even a slight hint of notoriety to expound their political views if they get within 20 yards of anyone with a video camera or cell phone. Like creeping ivy weaves its way up a trellis, politics has started to creep into our entertainment, and that’s not something we’re going to take sitting down… even if the couches we potato on are really comfortable.
I’ve posited a theory about why this is happening (Hollywood Guilt: Why So Liberal?), but just to recap: If you made millions for doing something every kid in the entire world does for free, and you came to the realization that if you disappeared tomorrow, a hundred other people just as talented as you are there to replace you, you would probably feel the need to do something that others might consider more worthwhile. In a world where people are supposed to feel guilty about the color of their skin or how much they make, it’s a solid hypothesis. Unfortunately, it would be impossible to test because no celebrity would ever be honest about that while they’re telling you how hard it was on their psyche to pretend to be someone else.
Soldiers facing IED’s in Iraq didn’t go through anything compared to an actor having to pretend to fight with a laser sword that he could only see after postproduction.
What these celebs seem too self-important to realize is that we watch them because we need a break from the real world from time to time, especially politics, and we do that primarily through them. They appeal to us because they can take us away from our lives, if only for a couple of hours. When they stop being able to do that, their value as a celebrity drops like an eagle hitting a wind turbine.
Slight pause. A little background for perspective:
I’m a self-admitted movie buff and comic book nerd. (It says so right in my bio, thanks for reading.) As a world class insomniac, I tend to get in two to three movies a night. I had rated over 15,000 movies on Netflix before they switched to the thumbs up/thumbs down system and made me start all over.
That’s not bragging, unless lack of sleep is a virtue in your mind. I just don’t want anyone to think I’m just writing this out of hatred for celebrities. I’m not. I’ve spent the night with quite a few of them. Now back to the column.
Believe it or not, most people don’t want to know about a celebrity’s political views whether they agree or not. In the celebrity search to matter, they taint the very reason they matter to us.
We want to go to a Green Day concert and sing along with Basket Case without hearing Billie Joe shout “F^$& Trump.” We could stay home and watch any report from Portland, OR to get that.
We want to watch a football game without having to think about who’s going to be taking a knee during the national anthem. (And for God’s sake, don’t pretend that the flag and the anthem haven’t been part of sports since the day Cain and Able picked up a couple sticks and played field hockey with a sheep patty.)
We want to read a Stephen King book or listen to a Cher album without worrying about whether they blocked us on Twitter. (Ok, that one was personal.)
And this may come as a surprise, but I want to watch a Clint Eastwood movie and not think about him talking to an empty chair.
No celebrity has ever changed anyone’s political opinion. No one says,” Well, I was against illegal immigration, but then Kylie Jenner gave that Pepsi to that cop, and now I get it!”
At most, it’s a validation of what we already think. It’s fun to believe that you and Lady Gaga are simpatico, or that Kid Rock and I could have lunch together without wanting to kill each other by the time we get dessert. It makes us feel that we could sit at the table with the cool kids.
No, as much as celebs want you to believe that they just feel it in their hearts that as long as you gave them fame, they have the obligation to use it to make a difference in “just one person’s life”, it ends up being a supremely selfish act. If you do something just for the sake of someone seeing you do it, you can’t truly call it altruistic.
“Now, Parker ” you say, “a lot of people get on Twitter and pop off about politics. Why can’t celebrities do that?
“Good question,” I reply, “and to that I say know your role.”
You don’t turns on the news expecting a reporter to suddenly break into a stand-up comedy routine, and nobody goes to The Avengers expecting Iron Man to deliver a soliloquy on gun control. The first has yet to be seen; the latter is becoming all too common. And it’s not just the actors, the political creep is weaving its way into their product, too, thanks to Hollywood writers who feel the need to get in on the politically correct act.
Arrow (yes, I’m a comic book nerd) had that very special episode on the goods and bads of gun control. Supergirl’s entire season turned into a thinly disguised Trump-bash about immigration. (Yes, there are aliens on Earth, but most of them were good and there is no reason except bigotry to kick them off the Earth or for God’s sake do something silly like build a force field around the planet to keep them out. Most of them were just trying to get away from their own bad planets.
The writers were so intent on getting this message in, they completely forgot that Supergirl worked for a secret government organization dedicated to monitoring those aliens and getting rid of or locking away the bad ones.)
If I tuned in to the West Wing, I knew I was going to watch a political show. Ditto House of Cards or Homeland. I even know which way the show is going to slant. If I tune in to Supergirl, I want to turn my brain off and see a flying woman kick some alien butt with heat vision. I don’t want to watch her have a debate. Not only is it clubbing you over the head with a position, it’s just bad writing.
As a conservative, I’m a big believer in freedom of speech, and everyone has the right to share their opinions. Celebrities aren’t excluded from that, but they need to get over themselves and realize the reason they’re celebs in the first place. There are consequences for their little forays into feigned relevance. George Clooney’s movies have tanked, and it’s not just because they were all horrendous (although Solaris could put an ADHD kid on a sugar high to sleep.) A bigger reason is that he’s turned off half the people in the country who would bother to go watch him onscreen.
Clooney, like Hillary Clinton, may feel like he doesn’t want those deplorable people as fans anyway. If he does that would be a shame, since he owes a lot of his success to those very people.
I don’t want to speculate about Clooney’s life, but he’s got money for days, a gorgeous wife, and a job a lot of people would love to have. I’m guessing he’ll be okay no matter what I think. I can say the same about Trump, which is why I’m pretty sure he doesn’t care what Sarah Silverman or Whoopi Goldberg think of him.
Judging by the last election, most people aren’t influenced by their opinions either.
I just don’t want to become a place where our entertainment avenues are as divided as the country.
I don’t want to live in a world where only Calgon can take me away. Especially since then we’d have to debate showers vs. baths
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Allegra is the greatest.I don't think she is "serious" about the boyfriend comments she makes, it is amazing she says it, but I don't know if she's aware to the extent that we really ship them... if she is aware that is great that she still makes the joke,but we want to be careful.I don't want people sending her too much because like you I want the privacy. I want to keep Allegra feeling comfortable enough to make such amazing comments, and Jarllan comfortable to keep behaving like they do.
Hm.
I’ve been warned before about keeping celebs happy. Celebs are human and they can be hurt, and we must respect them. At the same time, they know very well how exposed they are and what their work does to the imagination of millions of people.
I think I’m the last person a celeb would want to get to know better. Not that I’m not respectful, it’s just that I’m (…wait for it) “inconsequential”. This dark little corner of the internet is very dark and very little for a very good reason: it belongs to me and I want to keep it under the radar and do whatever I want with it. That’s why I don’t tag Allegra on my… Valoris fanart on Insta.
Allegra is a treasure. She shares her family life happily (or at least that side of her life that she wants to share, we’ll never know exactly how she is with her husband).
Yeah I don’t think she’s serious either. I don’t think she has read - rather I hope she hasn’t read any smutty Valoris/Jarllan fics.
I know that The Terror fans would tag Jared as J*red H*rris so that Allegra wouldn’t find their smutty fics/headcanons, still they feared she found those posts anyway.
If you want my opinion, I think Allegra is way too busy with twitter, Insta and… living with Jared to even consider getting, I don’t know, a fake tumblr account to explore our dark little corner of the internet. She has ZERO time.
If people on twitter tag her on their Valoris/Jarllan posts that does sound scary. But it’s not my problem.
I’m happy going unnoticed. I’m also happy that the Jarllan/Valoris fandom is not so big as to put any kind of pressure on Jared (Stellan doesn’t give a fuck anyway plus he’s social media-less). And let’s face it, EVERYTHING Jared gets to know, he learns through Allegra because she runs his social media while he’s busy reading scripts. She got him into twitter in the first place and I’m sure she would filter anything “weird” before it got to him, so yay for us.
I’m eternally grateful to Allegra for being as big a Jarllan shipper as we are. At the same time, and just to be the devil’s advocate here, I can’t help smelling some territorial pissing here. Which is totally cool btw, it’s much better than some celeb partners who have been super disrespectful to fans (*cough* Amanda Abbington *cough*).
But let’s face it: the fangirling starts in my blog and it stops there. I cannot truly share anything with Allegra, she’s not my buddy, we’re worlds apart. In that respect, I kinda relate more to celeb wives like Elsa Pataky who is so discreet about shipping that no one knows what she thinks.
Elsa would be like “Hiddlesworth what? Querida, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
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