Mr. Mendes

I don't have to wish. I know. Unlike some of you all, I spend most of my time off social media and out in the real world. The Beyonce Diddy conversation existed solely online and was primarily driven by bots, just as many recent celebrity "controversies" have been. The internet is absolutely riddled with this and has been for a few years now. So much of what you all believe are real conversations are completely fake, such as all the "controversy" when Life of a Showgirl came out. There was an entire journalistic piece on the discovery that it was almost completely bot driven. The Beyonce Diddy thing was no different. You not knowing that doesn't make it untrue lmao

The man in your avi would ******* hate you and spit on the ground you walk on, and rightfully so

You're right! Now shut up please.

They didn't. The bot driven social media chatter on the subject did not reach the general public in any way whatsoever.

She is, it's just that it's primarily among a certain segment of the population. Beyonce's had right winger's pitchforks out for her since she did Formation at the Super Bowl.

This coming from someone who apparently needs help learning how to imbed an image

******* finally

Doesn't really matter whether they do something for us or not it's still absolute loser behavior to devote any amount of time to talking **** about people you don't even know who've done nothing to you.

Some of y'all really need to learn when it's time to shut that miserable black hole in your face because not a single person is interested in hearing what you've got to say.

So what do you suggest happen to kids that are given up by their parents or removed from their homes due to abuse and neglect? Just stay in an orphanage until they're 18 and then kick them to the curb?

Baby doll who do you think told them? PageSix is a known source for celebrity publicists to contact to break news.

You're such a ******* creep my lord

No that would be Confide in Me or Say Something but Spinning Around is a classic

It boggles my mind that the parents could either be so negligent that they don't know their child was doing this, or so evil that they did and try to cover it up.

Does the fact that DWAS ended up happening and becoming a huge hit not inherently invalidate Shallow as an answer to this question

I mean yeah? What she's doing now was a pivot. She hasn't always been doing this.

It's not about us and the suffering of queer people. That is a totally separate issue that has no place in the discussion about a genocide. Not everything is about queer people. We are not the only people in this world that are suffering. That's not to mention that there are certainly members of our community being killed in Palestine not by Hamas but by Israel. There are queer Palestinians who are being killed in the genocide. Stop being selfish for two seconds and care about something a little bigger than yourself you ignorant fool.

There wasn't an album released around that time.

Domination was cancelled because Britney refused to do it and was then forced into a rehab center against her will.

I wouldn't say that Beyonce really promotes products, hers or otherwise, that extensively. I'd actually go so far as to say she pushes and advertises the brands and products she's associated with noticeably less than other artists who have products they sell.

While I do think that it is the responsibility of artists to be educate themselves and not be ignorant to the realities of the places they go to perform (as doing so offers them legitimacy), I do also think that prior to the aftermath of October 7, many who were not already tuned in didn't really grasp the depth of Israel's evil. Partly through ignorance and privilege, and partly through how successful Israel's propaganda has been until recently. The genocide had been going on long before then, but it was generally a lot quieter in the sense that it just wasn't a major talking point. It wasn't frequently brought up, and if it was, it was often just mentioned as yet another conflict in the middle east. And that was likely by design of course and was a very successful suppression of reality. I could see clearly in late 2023 and early 2024 that many people were realizing the extent of things for the first time. I myself really only became aware of things in 2020 via a college course. Had I not taken that class, I too would've likely only clued into it once it became a widespread point of discussion. There's a long history of many artists performing in Israel. Do I believe that all of them are supportive of Israel's genocide? No, not really. I think many were unfortunately were ignorant about it, and it took this becoming an international talking point for them to get their eyes opened, which was also the case for millions of others around the world. Because many people, especially the rich and famous, are just not that interested in things that don't effect them and they lived lives privileged enough that they don't have to be. Others were likely uneducated and ignorant on it then and are fully in support of it now because they just inherently have that evil in them. Until recently, Israel's propaganda machine was arguably the most effective in the world. They successfully kept a genocide out of popular conversation for years. Only those who were really paying attention took notice and that's why you can go back and see very little mention of it in mass media or among social discussions until Oct 7 blew the lid off it all. All that to say, I judge individuals on what they say and do now that this is an extremely visible topic that has no reasonable excuse to be not educated about. I can believe that before Oct 7, these people really just weren't that deeply educated on it and wete not asking the questions or doing the due diligence to get the education. Which I want to be clear does not mean they should not be criticized for their ignorance or bare no responsibility for that ignorance and the way it indirectly helped Israel continue their genocide, even if they didn't know that's what they were doing. They have a responsibility to atone for it by being vocal now and thankfully some have.

I advocate for complete abolishment and destruction of at the very least LLMs and Generative AI. There are other kinds of AI that I think I need to know a bit more about and see practical application of before I make a final decision but I am skeptical, leaning toward negative and the burden is on them to show me why those things aren't as evil as the two types above. I will be honest in saying that at first, I like many did use Gen AI and GPT when it seemed like a toy. But time went on and more information and research became available and the damage that comes from those things has become more understood. I stopped using it and have not missed it. The ethical infractions are now known, and widely at that. Anyone who still uses Gen AI or GPT with that information now available I do in fact think less of than I did previously. It is to me evidence of a fundamental personality flaw.

I also can't really cook

Last I heard it was kinda unclear whether the owner of GGD is even, like, safe JDKSKD he hasn't been seen in a long time

Girl shut up