#what the fuck is “boycott fatigue”

[mintypsii]

how do you buy a drink or eat food or purchase products knowing that the money you just gave is going to be used to fund a massacre? to murder humans? children? how do you even do that knowing that there are other, BETTER options that won't go towards the culling of innocents? how do you live with yourself supporting people that advocate for genocide, who stay silent in the face of injustice? how do you listen to music created by someone who supports the systematic oppression and killing of people who have been suffering for years and years?

how do you find comfort in anything that supports genocide?

[soullessjack]

boycott fatigue is actually the stupidest fucking thing ever because how in the ever loving fuck are you experiencing “fatigue” from not going to Starbucks. how is not watching rushed cgi on disney+ and not eating a breaded slime nugget at McDonald’s “fatiguing” you. genuinely how fucking dare this even exist as a concept. entire bloodlines, children, newborns are dying slow and bloody and all of these companies are giving Israel the money to do that. they’re using YOUR fucking money to do this. and look, practically every war has been funded out of our pockets by a means we can’t fight around. almost all of the food and drink we have in the states is owned by some large corporation that makes it fucking impossible to not give them money because they are the sole providers. I understand there are some things we can’t boycott because of our own needs. but this isn’t basic needs that we are being asked to boycott. it’s fucking Disney+ and McDonald’s and Starbucks and a whole slew of luxuries that you’re not only capable of living without, but would actually be better off entirely without.

there’s been a lot of talk about how privileged we are to only be witnessing this human rights atrocity through phones or news and being able to get away from it with a button click and that’s entirely real, but the fact that somebody out here just felt soooo inconvenienced by not going to a drive thru for overpriced garbage that they literally coined the phrase “boycott fatigue,” is probably the biggest load of privileged dog shit I’ve seen in the past few days. do you want to know who’s actually experiencing fatigue right now? the millions of displaced families in Gaza without homes anymore. without any clean water to drink because it’s either been poisoned by the Israelis or contaminated with their peoples’ blood. the children without enough food to get by, or without any food at all. the injured and sick and disabled Palestinians who don’t have access to any medical aid for themselves because their hospitals and fuel trucks are being bombed. these people who have absolutely nothing but each other, and not even that in the worst circumstances, who can only keep walking for days on end, hungry and thirsty and in pain and unable to do anything about it. that is real fucking fatigue.

I understand we’re all seeing war crimes and death and atrocities that nobody should ever have to see and yes it’s difficult to process, but the people of Palestine are experiencing these atrocities in real time, every day, every hour. every ten fucking minutes a child dies. They aren’t even asking for help anymore. They’re only asking to be witnessed and remembered and for us to stop going to places that actively fund their deaths and you’re saying you just can’t because you’re exhausted by not going to that place? I know we’re all born and raised in a consumerist hellscape but you seriously need to get a fucking reality check if offering the bare minimum support to a dying people is ‘fatiguing’ to you. Jesus fucking Christ.

[tenmyoujump]

guys isn’t it sooooo hard not to buy overpriced coffee. just say you hate people unable to do even the bare minimum and go 🙄🙄🙄

[sreegs]

im begging y'all to please practice some basic due diligence and read the articles you link before sharing. make sure it actually backs up what the catchy headline says. make sure it's actually proving the point you're trying to assert. make sure it's not some far-right fash website that had a headline that sounded good to you

please.

so far this week i've seen people sharing things about mcdondalds stock tanking with the OP celebrating the success of the boycott, only to find the article was from over a year ago. i've seen people sharing a link to an article suggesting the Oct 7th Hamas attacks were planned by a "cabal of globalists" because the headline made it sound like Israel knew they were going to happen

you cannot just share flashy headlines and consider your job done. read the whole thing. that goes for people posting it and people just reblogging it. check your fucking sources for obvious red flags, or if it's even about what you think it is

it's extremely important that during times like this you're directing your anger at the right places, and you're informed with something tangible and verifiable. outrage fatigue is real and it's easy to burn out when so much terrible shit is happening daily

[mudshelf]

if i see any of you with the fucking jjk x mcdonald’s SAUCE im unfollowing/blocking you. i don’t care that you’re “tired” or have some bullshit “boycott fatigue.” it’s a tactic they’re using to regain revenue… because guess what, we’re still boycotting that shit.

ur actually lame as hell for giving in over some garlic sauce with ugly packaging, goodbye. 💀

[kayzthespaze]

i rock on the floor, eyes not red, but nose sniffling,

the words spill out of my mouth, tumbling like an avalanche,

unstoppable, and filled with harsh truth

“I don’t know what to do, i don’t know what to do,”

i am the plate dropped on the kitchen floor, shattered but graceful,

hiding my sharpest edges in the carpet,

what am i supposed to do?

what can i do?

i cant stop a world conflict genocide [this is not conflict] with a poem,

but that seems to be about all i can do,

‘Reposted’

‘Reblogged’

‘Liked’

how the fuck is that gonna help,

but its all i can do,

so i keep on scrolling and reading

atrocity after atrocity,

my anxiety is rising,

mental breakdowns everynight,

but at least its more poems [i guess?]

poems about blood and justice,

and humanity,

where is the humanity?

how have we lost the virtue that is our name?

when did we become so desensitized that there are

things more important than peoples lives,

people buying starbucks, calling “boycott fatigue”

to hide their blatant racism and zionism,

every video starts with: “how does no one care?”

and i whisper; “i do.” because its true,

but what am i, to a global issue,

a 15 year old in the middle of fucking no where,

there are no protests our here,

i have no money to donate,

so i sit, and i cry,

and i reblog,

and repost,

and pray to a god i don’t still believe in,

that there is yet mercy left in this world

[yutaholic]

Thank you for even making that post because I honestly feel like I’m going to explode!! Championing every issue is EXHAUSTING. I have such empathy fatigue. Bombardment of “rules”, behavioral guidelines, services, companies, networks + food brands & PEOPLE to boycott ALL THE TIME. Fandom is space many of us come to unplug from reality…it’s certainly my hyperfixation & ppl be like “well then get another one because you shouldn’t support–” IT DOESN’T WORK LIKE THAT. Fuck. I can’t take it anymore. Calls to action being in EVERY single place have weakened my mental state even more than it was before which was already on “pending disability” level of severe & now I’m just. burned t-absolute-f out….at everything!! I can literally FEEL myself unraveling. Kpop stans & their toxic activism can go to hell. They’re so worried about making sure to condemn others for “not doing enough” or being bad people, that they don’t even realize their actions are making them into bad people. This shit takes a toll on mental health, there is science behind this, it is real and what happens to human beings when inundated with constant terrible news, and it’s not just being ~too privileged to care~ but these performative mfs have no concept of blacklisting anymore and just want to assume the absolute worst about someone, call them names & wish harm on folks who are at the end of their ropes! It’s maddening! So even if compassion fatigue isn’t why you didn’t go out of your way to Denounce and Drag™️ him (bc you totally have the right to simply not want to do that on a fanfic blog!) I’m just glad someone else stated that this is supposed to be an ESCAPE. fuck.

Baby, burnout will fuck you up. Don't do that to yourself. Take the time you need and recoup. Life is a constant war and you can afford to lose a battle here and there to focus on your own health and well-being. Getting yourself back into a good place mentally will be a huge win. We both know the ppl obsessed with performative activism aren't doing anything from a place of compassion. The real ones are out there making change, not sending people death threats online from the comfort and safety of their mommy's basement.

When I posted the pic of NCT Dream and Big Time Rush, I wrote in the tags how BTR was something my sister and I loved and bonded over. We watched the show even though it was obviously a kids show and we were both adults. It was just something that gave us joy. My sister passed away years ago and anything BTR-related will make me teary because I think about how much we laughed together over it.

So the first thing I get are messages over how problematic BTR is, that I should delete the post or I'm pro-genocide if I don't dislike them. Ngl that made me so upset because I got a bunch of faceless people trying to taint some precious memories of me and my sister. If they came at me trying to educate me on things I didn't know that would be different, but it's straight to judgment and hatred toward me over something I posted that was totally innocent.

Meanwhile I get criticized for posting about a kpop group instead of reblogging every call to action post. I donate my money to these causes, but I don't post about it because I don't need my ass kissed for doing what I know to be right. I am 1000% sure the anons in my inbox that try to police me have never given a dime to anything, but are policing people's blogs for not reblogging posts or talking about it more.

I feel bad that I haven't been very active on here this year so I try to come on when I have some free time to interact with you guys. I make a silly post about Doyoung and get anons tearing into me for it like I'm his social media manager. Okay so because the world is going to shit we aren't allowed to enjoy anything?? Can't make jokes about anything. Can't show support for anything. Just wrong on every fucking count.

Believe me I am so goddamn aware of how lucky I am that I can sit here and say I'm very privileged that I live comfortably in the life I have. I know what's going on in the world and I do my part to help where I can, but I also have to keep functioning. I don't want every minute of my life to be seeped in anger, I did that for a long time and it not only eats away at you, it makes you ineffective in actually changing the things making you angry in the first place.

This was just supposed to be a blog where I posted my stories. One of the few places I could go and not constantly be reminded of how fucked up the world is. I've always said that people who told me reading a fic of mine made their day a little better or helped them escape for a bit were always my favorite. That was what I came here for and I loved being able to share the tiniest moments of peace and quiet with others through stories with guaranteed happy endings.

I'm frustrated because I have 4 drafts ready to go next year. I got the story posts done and made all the headers. But I don't want to post them. I have no problem admitting I'm selfish and spiteful. Even though I can turn off anon, I can't block these miserable people and I don't want them reading my stuff. They don't get to consume my content and then tell me to off myself right after.

A massive fuck you to those of you that ruined this blog for me.

[blackwoolncrown]

i feel like people say boycott xyz megacorp every few months... wdym you werent already boycotting them for the last evil thing they did?? maybe commit to boycotts instead of treating them like trends

THANK YOU it's so fkn annoying like they're really not standing on anything, ever.

I saw a black girl on TT say americans were suffering 'spinal deficiency' bc they couldn't stand for shit and whooo boy is that ever it.

like it should not take boycotts due to genocide for you to have a smidgen of awareness about what you're supporting and idk maybe you should like...be able to sustain moral participation decisions even when there's no fkn hashtag???

Like me and all the other crazies have BEEN telling you to stop eating mcdonalds, to stop supporting water stealing soda companies, that hollywood is full of government mind control and military connections, that all this fkn tech is mined from key jungle biomes w slave labor and doesn't just come out of nowhere etc

but ppl are ~overwhelmed~ by boycotts and it's 'hard to keep up' and they get 'fatigue' more like amnesia after a week....

when really it's not that hard at all when you realize it's all the same shit just different products

stop buying into the bullshit and maybe, just maybe I won't see you compaining every week about how you were (willingly) fucked over by some new streaming show, or makeup company, etc.

Like at some point...you're an adult and you're choosing this bs jst like you chose not to listen to the 'crazy' ppl when we talked about this over a decade ago

these companies, ALL of them, do fucked up evil shit once every 3 months MINIMUM there's no excuse y'all just literally don't care.

[gently-folded-paper-cranes]

i think the idf shld just kill themselves im so fr how do u live on knowing ur a murderer of people with dreams. how do u live knowing u are the one ending these dreams. destroying entire neighbourhoods. i rmbr crying because the mall near my home was taken down bcs i had so many memories there. how do u think these amazing Palestinians are feeling with their homes being BOMBED and neighbourhoods destroyed. sundays at their grandmas house for lunch - gone. going to school and seeing their friends - gone. having lunch at their favourite restaurants - gone. even the fucking right to sleep has been taken away because how can you sleep knowing KNOWING that u could die.

palestine is a beautiful place with beautiful people. not surprised usa doesnt mind this genocide since its a colonizer state. fucking donkeys, the lot of them.

please do what u can to help, be it buying esims, donating, EDUCATING because the more people who know about how fucked up israel is, the more people will fight for palestine. never ever stop fighting for those who are alive, they really need it. boycott shitty brands that support israel. dont dare say boycott fatigue when people are fighting to stay alive. go to ur local business - its more healthy and cnfm cheaper. wake up guys.

end this unlawful murder. now.

[rottingsam]

the most of what i’ve seen about “boycott fatigue” has been a conversation around Starbucks. Starbucks was not originally on the list to boycott, however when Starbucks unions spoke out in support of Palestine, Starbucks SUED THEM. Boycott fatigue is not real. You’re a selfish adult who loves paying 10 dollars for a small pumpkin spice latte. fuck you.

[pedriscroquettes]

Hi i DONT really have that huge of a platform or anything so I just wanted to anonymously put this here(i know you don’t support Israel but I feel like the dumb bitches who do need to hear this)

#Free Palestine

I actually laugh sooo hard when people say “free Isrnotreal” like from what? From the endless amount of money that they get from us and uk tax payers??? Like actual jokers.

Also can we talk about them annoying mfs who say “i have boycott fatigue that’s why i got my Starbucks water” like it’s literally filtered water with eyes in a cup you can make it home like you’re buying overpriced water like you’re soo lucky to have that imagine the millions of people all around the globe that don’t even have access too CLEAN drinking water.

Also I hate HATE this one girl who’s my friend rn for many reasons but also like one time she brought a Coca-Cola to school and I said that they support Israel and she said “omg i guess I should try and make the formula to home like I’m so sorry for buying a drink I don’t know how me not getting Coca-Cola is going to help Gaza” so like now everytime she mentions any brand that supports Israel she turns to me and goes “omg sorry i forgot they Support Israel🤭 it’s just SO hard not to have..” like imagine how hard it is for the people IN GAZA like shellfish bitch.

Also if you’re still a Noah Schnapp fan you man fucking suck bro how are you going to support a 19 year old seeing someone wrote “stop genocide” and putting a “Zionism is sexy” sticker on it like ewww

If.you.still.buying.from.brands.that.support.Israel.you.are.supporting.a.genocide

Zionism is not sexy.

Saying “from the river to the sea” is NOT anti-Semitic at all

We all grew up being told about the holocaust and how bad it was and we always used to wonder “why didn’t anyone say anything”

This will be the same thing for people in the future when they think about this so do you want it to be on you that you never even attempted to try and help.

Your voice matters

Your opinion matters

Put pressure on your governments

Put pressure on these big franchises and conglomerates (e.g. Disney and Starbucks)

If we all pitch in we can strain them to the point where they have to listen

Emailto your local governors and mps

Be the change you want to see

‼️‼️‼️‼️

– anon send me the addy and i will beat tf out of that girl 😭😭. imagine not being able to live without coke or overpriced coffee. FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

– also if you’re latino and you somehow still don’t support palestine this is your reminder that whatever problems your country is facing has at some point most likely been supported by isnotreal!!

[montecrizto]

i genuinely feel like im living in a dystopian world when after i just scrolled through reports of the atrocities that this genocide is causing i have to read phrases like “boycott fatigue”. what exactly is so exhausting in not drinking shit overpriced coffee or not eating shit overpriced food or not shopping at a shit overpriced store to show the least support that you can offer from your privileged position when a literal genocide is happening. fuck off

[yourgamemasterthewhiterabbit]

The great regular sleep experiment of 2024 part "I think I'm fucked"

Well, I went to be around 8pm, slept what felt like a decent 4 hours, started having weird vivid dreams that happen when I'm done getting restful sleep, and then when I got up and looked at the clock it was only 11:30, after laying around in bed for a while trying to go back to sleep.

So one REM cycle... 2 hours -ish

The weird things are that:

It did actually feel like restful sleep, even if my body is sore

I feel perfectly alert

If I was hyperthyroid enough to cause this level of insomnia, I'd be having extreme cardiac symptoms all day even before what covid did to my heart and that isn't happening [not that I am getting zero chest pains]. I'm running a little hot and hungry but not even problematically asides from it contributing maybe to not sleeping.

I'm not having to force myself awake anymore except occasionally just after 5 am during grocery time

I am not getting the extra *symptoms* insomnia usually comes with anymore, I would actually not realize I wasn't sleeping if I wasn't paying attention to the clock, currently [and maybe the sleep headache thing].

So unless I slept from 8pm on the 10th until past 11 on the 11th without noticing... I am getting what feels like actually restful sleep for at least 2 REM cycles per day, one in the morning, and one at night... But ONLY that much. And my morning shift is fucked up now too when it was stable.

The 6th weird thing is while I am sore in a way I would compare to doing crossfit face-first... I am not nearly as sore and not at all sleepy, compare to what I should be for sleeping less than 4 hours per day.

Usually this level of mental alertness on this little sleep is what happens when I take certain anti-depression meds and metabolize them weird. And -regardless of how it's happened- usually comes with something akin to mania, that has had me misdiagnosed as bipolar or manic depressive before [before they acknowledged the upswings were too slow, stable, and lasted months at a time and were my thyroid]. But like, I do not feel manic, or like I am acting or communicating in a way people would describe that way, and I always could before, I could feel it happening to me, feel the nervous energy and how fast I was talking etc...

Like I managed to make myself do chores almost every day without it being a struggle like usual to get started. Sometimes it doesn't even feel like I am forcing myself to do them.

And you might be thinking "well maybe it's the extra caffeine from the coke you've been drinking" NO! I ran out of the cherry cola 10 days after I did groceries!

The only thing from them that could still be in my system is phosphorus from the phosphoric acid. [coke brand cola is actually the cheapest way for me to even get bio-available phosphorus in my diet, so I am hopping we don't need another boycott, because supplements do not work the same way, and they and pork are expensive AF]

And as much as I have been trying to add a second cup of tea to my day I keep forgetting about it long enough that I am averaging closer to 1.2 bags of tea per day.

Which leads me to the only convincing theory, to me, right now, that I was low key "treating" insomnia by being at least somewhat phosphorus deficient most of the time, and that's why drinking coke would have me feeling more energetic for days at a time after the caffeine should have worn off [but ONLY coke brand coke], and this might only be possible because -in theory- part of my chronic fatigue could be that I'm one of the people who has a really hard time making Adenosine back into ATP, and needs extra phosphorus to make sure I am doing it as best I can.

The only hiccup in that theory is i think you mostly convert Adenosine back into ATP in your sleep, but I am getting 4 hours that feel actually restful for once, and I am unclear on whether your body also does this at a certain level of rest, even while awake.

This *could**** mean that drinking cola more regularly would mean having the energy to at least keep on top of housework without feeling like I have to force myself to do it every day. This sleep experiment may have inadvertently confirmed THAT suspicion beyond a doubt. It would of course be super helpful to have a doctor willing to IMMEDIATELY check my thyroid and ATP levels on request the moment I request it, so I can confirm things like this.

And I do think eating more ground beef is helping my iron levels.

But the problem is I need to sleep more than this. If I was feeling awake and alert off 8 hours I wouldn't question it... But this is 2 hours at a time twice a day at best. I'm not having terrors, or sleep adjacent hallucinations at present or "mis-seeing" things out of the corner of my eyes or anything... Which is great, because usually those symptoms would be more... Insistent for a lot longer... but I HAVE to doubt my judgement and ability to form memories properly on less than 4 hours of sleep per day, and I am starting to get a persistent headache threatening to be a migraine -and fairly constant tinnitus- that haven't been even this bad since I was last employed.

The fact that -at present- I mostly just feel pain/ache in my face and muscles as the only symptom of sleep deprivation doesn't mean I am not sleep deprived, and this isn't sustainable for someone with CFS... Usually any time this has carried on for any reason, there's a crash at some point and it's nasty.

In the meantime I AM going to be using this as best I can to get on top of housework and settling in, and getting things arranged and out of boxes... Because taking advantage of these upswings was how I was managing that kind of "catching up" for years before I stopped getting them. Is that ADVISABLE? WHO KNOWS!

[lagt-duck]

Like I am not one to say "let's boycott" but someone I know just said

"well it's stupid to boycott Disney because they are too big to fail"

NOT WITH THAT ATTITUDE

Like. No??? If someone wants to boycott you shut up

I don't care if you were hyped that Disney is putting their biggest films of the last two years in the theaters again (without encanto so I don't get it)

Because the fact is this

Yes they make a disgusting amount of money

They are also not getting as many fucking money as they would want

This based on the huge amounts of parents writing online that they don't see the reason to spend cash on a whole family trip to the cinema since Disney plus is a thing

And Disney adults 100% already have Disney plus

Disney plus is to Disney what Twitter is to Musk

A huge fucking loss done because they wanted to feel like big brain boys. Without thinking that people are in fact, not, walking bags of cash

The people who have the cash are also usually the ones more stingy in my experience

And only a small fraction of people is that rich

I haven't heard anyone going to Disneyland in so fucking long between the people I know (for context I don't live in America)

So I understand the idea that "oh boycotting Disney alone is not much" true. But the fact is this

Disney ain't shit

Okay? If you go to animation fans everyone would agree their stuff is basic

Not bad, BASIC. In the sense that they do the bare minimun and expect people to suck their dicks

(this is by no means against the people trying to make good films. This is about the higher ups who don't let them fucking do their jobs)

The last cool films these years everyone recommends to me

Are all from different studios.

Like Disney is a corp. And here is the deal. No one likes to feel like a money bag to be harvested

If you show your clients your hand like that

People ain't gonna like it

Because even the most dumbass person ever doesn't like being used

Even their big media franchises are now suffering from fatigue among fans

This without also accounting that nobody gives a fuck about the live actions

The only products everyone is hyped about are the tv shows which at best get 3 seasons before being immediately cancelled

I am not saying Disney is failing

I am saying that they are fucking shit up and most Disney fans NOTICE THAT

But then this is just a rant of a 20yo something on Tumblr

Have a good night tri-state area

...

Hey is that a platypus?

[ghettofabu05]

These niggas is weak as FUCK. What the hell is boycott fatigue? these people barely have anything ( water, wifi, FOOD, sanitary napkins, ect.) while y'all got it all. Yall can't put your privilege to the side and help for a bigger cause over some damn starbucks and mcdonalds? smh, pussy.

[alltimewhat]

i know why it happens but the annoying people who feel the need to declare that theyre experiencing "boycott/compassion/whatever fatigue" rather than just quietly handling their emotions on their own time is so fucking insane. i know its because they want to be told that its ok if they ignore the active genocide because they (rightfully) feel guilty about it but i just cannot imagine literally broadcasting how pathetic and spineless you are like that. it's one thing to do what you need for your own health on your own time privately and its another to use made up therapyspeak buzzwords to pretend that you're obligated to turn a blind eye to people whose only request is to be seen