Cancel Celebrities Movement on TikTok

There is a movement on TikTok to block and reject celebrities, particularly after the Met Gala. The campaign aims to undermine celebrities' advertising revenue on social media. Users are upset about the display of privilege and wealth at the gala, especially during the Israeli assault on Gaza. However, some argue that the campaign is not effective since ads are often run through third parties. This trend has gained popularity in the past few weeks, with celebrities like Kim Kardashian losing millions of followers. Some believe this pushback is related to Trump's previous exclusion from the Met Gala. Overall, there is criticism of celebrities and the belief that social media activism does not make a difference. there's a movement going on to to eschew celebrities yeah i like this is hilarious and it's but it's not what you know it's interesting i i have the contrasting clips here these are people on tiktok who who talk about we have one of our producers is following this closely i got all updated this is about uh this is some sort of rejection i think to uh shit to the because of the i think the economy combined with people throwing their richness in your face at the met in particular oh yeah it's become an issue with the masses at the tiktok level but it's being i i have to play this first which is the npr take on it because they had actually had a report on it i think is npr or pbs oh sorry wait wait so this is the npr report and so that to find a reason a rationale they've dreamed this up this is bogus this is what you're gonna hear is complete bullshit here we go the social media campaign aimed at pushing celebrities to speak out about the conflict in gaza went into overdrive this week after the met gala npr's chloe beltman reports users on tiktok earned millions of views for their videos telling people to block stars like taylor swift nikki minaj and matt damon the calls to block celebrities on social media did she say matt damon yeah it's matt damon is now matt damon taylor swift nikki minaj and matt damon the course celebrities on social media have been going on for months but monday's met gala with its unchecked display of privilege and wealth enraged tiktokers like christopher claflin flexing on the peasants only works when the peasants aren't watching other peasants be wiped off the face of the planet the star-studded annual event took place just as thousands of palestinians are fleeing an israeli assault on rafa gaza the block seeks to undermine stars advertising revenue on social media but many users on these platforms are also complaining that they are still receiving ads related to stars they blocked that's because ads are often not run through the celebrities accounts but third parties chloe beltman npr news what some sort of parties a couple of things here one this is a media example this is a we don't use this term much but i call it shoehorning and shoehorning is where you have a phenomenon taking place and you don't understand it and instead of just listening to it and kind of figuring it out fit it into a model you fit it you shoehorn it into a model and in this case it's gaza uh there is no i the clips i have there's no indication of this this is just a a um a pushback against uh it's eat the rich these people rich eat the rich well it's an eat the rich thing is it has a lot to do with it and it all stemmed and it's not like this british woman said it hasn't been going on for months this is fairly recent yeah in fact the tiktokers like one clips eight claims has been going on for two weeks and and boiled up during the met gala which has really offended a lot of people but let's listen to these guys who are actually pushing it and they're on tiktok they're talkers and let's just start with the first guy they're talkers all right here's the talker blocking celebrities now the latest trend in social media including high-profile celebrities such as kim kardashian who has already millions of followers this all stems from a recent publicity event at the met gala in which influencer hayley bailey said let them eat cake which as you know if you ever took a history class back in college that is a reference to the famous queen marie antoinette who essentially belittled her peasants and said that she was better to them due to be an elitist with a lot of money and this has caused massive outlash over social media due to the fact there's a massive wage disparity in the world today with influencers making millions and millions of dollars to post on social media and everyday people simply struggling to make ends meet and pay their bills and get a job the effect has caused many celebrities to lose massive amounts of followers hoping that celebrities will lose a lot of their income as a result what do you guys think about this whole trend about blocking celebrities on social media okay well i'm gonna withhold the judgment until you're finished with your presentation now the other thing is you know again npr went with gaza as the reason for this which is bogus they could have gone with climate change but that was a bit hard and they weren't going to go with wage issues or anything like that because that hurts biden yeah so they have to dream up this gaza thing and it was really annoying to listen to their report because you i'm sure there's probably some tiktoker out there that has uh something to say about gaza but this other guy here this is the second one i'm not gonna this is the only one i had the other only one i'm gonna play uh is again more like the typical tiktoker complaining okay so this whole trend of blocking celebrities has got to be the best thing to ever happen to the internet you're unaware there's currently a trend going around on tiktok and gaining a lot of popularity of people that are blocking celebrities on social media celebrities such as oprah the rock kim kardashian the thinking behind this is that these celebrities have ascended into almost a god-like tier in society they're so rich they're so famous and they do a lot of weird stuff and they don't give a shit about us so if we all just go and block them and don't pay any attention to them then they lose all of their brand deals all of their ad revenue and all of their popularity and this trend literally just started two weeks ago but has picked up major popularity in the last few days and kim kardashian has already lost three million followers on instagram and i personally think this is awesome i mean these celebrities are so rich and famous and then they go to these places like the magdala which by the way costs 75 000 per ticket and they dress up in all this weird demonic shit and just act like they're better than everyone else when they don't realize that we're the reason that they're famous in the first place so now you let me know what celebrity should we do next should we do taylor swift should we do dogecat who should we do all right so your your ultimate conclusion here uh that there's a kind of a push back against these i i think it's the that that the a portion of the public was offended by the fawning bullcrap about this met gala and if you want to hear my overall conclusion i think trump's behind this whole thing i think elements of the intelligence community have decided to pull this stunt the elements that are pushing for trump because trump when he was when he was offended years ago this is part of that retribution thing when he was offended years ago and not invited to the met gala even though he had before been invited i think this is a payback well that's not a bad uh way of looking at this is uh this is 100 pathetic it's pathetic people are like you said a hundred percent though i did because it's 100 pathetic it's pathetic people who think they make a difference to anyone's life on social media and i'm looking at you no authority dot social people posting all day long and at the end of the day wow i really made a difference i started a conversation no you didn't no you didn't people on x you're there because you're being sucked into a system of patheticness that's all that it is please run around in circles post on your social networks post on tiktok post on insta no one cares it doesn't make a difference it's not going to change anything in the world while the elites crush you that's it that's all that it is please you know x has oh freedom of speech but not of reach it's the same thing with tiktok you're not gonna get you know and you know what you get a number millions of views who knows it's probably all lies it's probably all lies it's just lies it's just a number you think you're doing something you think you're broadcasting something you're not you're not it's pathetic stop it all of you go outside look at the northern lights throw a ball just look at the northern lights please