#this is not going well

[the-girl-down-the-street]

we can definitely tell logan and alex are driving the same car now bc being out qualified by BOTH saubers??? williams what is going on???

[twentyseven-evil-bunnies]

Yeah, so Charles' staged pap pics in LA came out and people are claiming that this is proof fame got to his head. Maybe, maybe not, but my question is: as a marketing agency why would you want these pictures at all? Most of all, right now? Like isn't the contract renewal matter way more important right now? It's not like this is a relationship announcement so what does this achieve??? There's literally no shock value to this even (except that it is painfully obvious that the pictures are so staged).

Idk maybe there's a correct audience for this type of content and maybe that's not me but as a general consumer of Leclerc media wouldn't I be influenced by what other people are perceiving this as? And right now, the consensus as I see it, is that this coming out at the same time as Max's Time cover directly pits their media personalities against each other for comparison—Charles as the pr puppy who would have to have staged photoshoots to "keep his name in the headlines," rather than the professional athlete he is. Unfortunately, and quite unfairly, Max's cover directly influences our opinion on Charles' picture. His peer has already become a 3× World Champion while he...has a girlfriend...? Idk, I just don't get the logic WME were going with.

And maybe, this is Charles branching out to secure a sustainable future despite what happens in terms of his racing career, but you have to remember he's still gonna be in this line of job for the next decade or so, so then why would you have your image be distanced from your sport?

It could also be that this is his agency doing damage control for Charles liking a lestappen edit on the main (king behaviour), or perhaps even showing Ferrari that he is at ease and still happy after the DNS (denoting his confidence in his employability outside of Ferrari)...Idk there could be so many reasons but none of them can make for the how desperate this move ultimately come off as. After all, only those who would not be confident in their ability to be naturally papped (i.e., important enough to be noticed), would go to such length as hiring photographers to fake being papped so as to force their name into the headlines. [I can't believe this is a sentence I wrote unironically, excuse me while I go hurl ����]

But at the end of the day, I just want him to do good and (maybe just maybe win with Ferrari 🥲🥲🥲🥲], but yeah this papped thing was a weird shunt to his reputation. Well, that is life as a Forza Ferrari Sempre-er I guess. 🥲

Also, maybe we're just so chronically online that we assume the pictures are staged and not real. I mean a hard push that one, but I'd at least like to give them the benefit of the doubt. I mean I have been papped about zero times in my life so I am not the authority to decide about his brand reputation after all. [I just talk a lot of shit...it's okay, let's have it stay between you and me😀]

[riewritten]

SAVE @rinamars AND ME

[chaotic-kitty]

Oh it missed. Oh gods. He's is gonna beat himself up over that. Oh god no 😭😭

[railraptor]

Let me get this straight....Imogen is being eaten like spaghetti by some kind of mutant guard dog that's covered in teeth/spikes

[your-mentally-ill-vampire]

I'm only a few episodes into watching House but oh Lord, oh dear, did Wilson just ask House if he could spend Chrismas with him instead of his wife?????'

[anachronistic-falsehood]

DAKOTA ROLLING A NATURAL ONE?????

[miserye]

this class might actually kill me it was nice knowing you all

[divinekangaroo]

Modern Lizzie’s favourite movie is Ghost with Patrick Swayze

[clown-cult]

Me at the start of drawing for the Zhaozai event: I’m going to get better at drawing nice normal art in the show’s nice normal style

Me now: Zhao’s stupid sideburns are my enemy and WOW I’ve fully just turned Ozai into a vampire

[afternoonapocalypse]

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

[snakesinsocks2005]

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[reasonsforhope]

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