We’ve got another Tik Tok here, and there is so much we could talk about here.
[In case the links ever breaks, or you don’t want to watch it, it’s @lateseagull saying that it’s easy to hate the Kardashians, because their consumption is thrown in our face, and “they’re not talented people, so it’s easy to dislike them,” but it’s harder to look at the celebrities we love and see the bad things they’re doing.]
One part of that that’s actually kind of interesting to me is over the years, I actually have grown to have a lot more empathy for the Kardashians. I don’t know if Kim is purposefully doing a brand overhaul that makes us feel that way, or if she really is just getting softer, or a I get older, I see how hard life is and have more empathy for all she’s been through. I dunno. But I could probably do at least one, if not more posts on how the Kardashians have changed over the years, and how I’ve gone pretty actively trying to avoid all news about them to actually being interested in some of the things Kim is doing in her life. But anyway, to the main reason I brought up this Tik Tok –
Is it our job to always be calling everyone out? Can’t celebrities ever live?
Like, I saw another Tik Tok earlier (which I have searched for you show you, and sadly I cannot find it again!) where this woman just had a cute video talking about how nobody ever do anything bad to JoJo Siwa, or she was gonna come get ’em, or whatever. It was upbeat and in full support of JoJo and she kind of had this little chant going.
But then some people starting commenting how we shouldn’t so deeply support JoJo because she’s saying the word lesbian is like the word ‘moist’ and she doesn’t like it. So they’re like, “now we can’t support her.”
JoJo is a lesbian! She’s said that. She just doesn’t love the word. She prefers to go by gay woman.
And yes, sure, she could’ve been more gentle in her phrasing of how/why she didn’t like the word. But are we really going to be policing a young woman on saying that she doesn’t like the language used in how she identifies?
So the original woman who made the pro-JoJo video (who at the time of the video was unaware of the lesbian comments) came on and backtracked!
And I know that our ‘relationships’ with celebrities are para-social, and we don’t know them. And I know there are certainly some things some celebrities have done that have made me want to write them off hardcore, when for other people, certain things are not as big of a deal. So, I’m not above reproach here to say I’ve never judged a celebrity based off of one thing they’ve done.
But if it’s a celebrity you already like, do we have to be that fickle? One tiny scandal about something they could probably be better educated in, and boom, it’s just like, that’s a wrap, baby?
I dunno. I don’t see the value in just finding out bad celebrities have done and constantly holding them accountable. Like, maybe let people live.
As far as what the original tik tok I linked was talking about, like… I dunno, just let people make exorbitant money and take private jets?
It just feels like there are worse things? I dunno. To some extent, I’m just kind of tired of living in like the judgement factory, and I get it to some extent. There are a million reasons to judge the people (you want superiority, you actually want things to be better and think holding people accountable could help, whatever they did is something you went through as well so you’re looking for your own justice in the form of someone else’s, and on and on and on).
And I definitely have and probably definitely will judge before and again. But like… I dunno. I dunno!
Those were just my little swirly thoughts of the day!