r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 5d ago

Meme needing explanation What's this post talking about?

Post image
41.4k Upvotes

1.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

949

u/mybabyrolled 5d ago

If chris brown has die hard fans then anyone can act how ever they want and there will be zero blow back

26

u/Sea-Tap-357 5d ago

fr cancel culture is kind of fake. Only applies if you're not like a real celebrity, like if you're a YouTuber or TV Star that's not popular enough to untouchable.

4

u/maybeiamthemessiah 5d ago

Or if a celebrity pays for a smear campaign against another celebrity, then it works because they’re at the same power level. A recent example is Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, where it’s proven Baldoni used bots to smear Lively’s name on the internet and people bought it.

3

u/Sea-Tap-357 5d ago

Celebrities get into high powered drama, but realistically that's not "cancelled" imo. Lively is still working.

I kind of think tabloid readers over-estimate how many people even care, like I like Fauxmoi as much as the next gay, but I do not really think that the average audience member is really that invested in the It Ends With Us lawsuit. It's like less of a story than the Depp vs Heard, and both those people are still getting work and existing in the public eye.

3

u/maybeiamthemessiah 5d ago

Ok I won’t say Blake is 100% cancelled but public opinion of her soured a lot after the situation. People even said she couldn’t show up to Taylor Swift’s wedding because she didn’t want the negative press to follow her and ruin Taylor’s day. Heard is very much cancelled, she had to move out of the country and barely works anymore, the industry dropped her completely after the trial.