I was also lucky to not care about Harry Potter but it's such an awkward thing. It's like us being heavily into Animal Crossing but then later it's found out that the creator did some awful thing. Now do we suddenly stop liking it? It's just an awkward situation all around.
I don't think Van Gogh did anything "cancellable" that we know of, though. Just because he was mentally unwell doesn't mean he was a bad person (imagine cancelling Britney Spears for her knife dance). Van Gogh also never had the privilege of knowing his fame, because he died well before his art took off. I think it's better to not separate the art from the artist in this case because viewing his art with his life in mind might give you better insight into his paintings.
being mentally ill is not problematic nor comparable to being a raging bigot
It's less this and more virtue signaling. If it's not something they like they are all for making sure everyone else is shamed for liking it, but if its something they do like they'll act like it's nothing to get upset over.
About the Harry Potter thing, I felt it was unnecessary to stop using or even throwing away a product you previously purchased before the creator speaks controversial opinions. It’s even more unnecessary and rude to bully or harass people who still use the product after the creator has came out to be a bigot. I don’t really like Harry Potter that much, but I’m not going to let JK Rowling’s views change the way how I think when I watch a Harry Potter movie. And I still allude to Harry Potter in a few ways (like comparing Umbridge to another universally hated character that deserved the hate from the fandom of the art the character came from).
Yes! If we “cancelled” every creative person with a mental illness, we wouldn’t have any art left. (and I say this as a creative person myself)being mentally ill is not problematic nor comparable to being a raging bigot
I only eat their Chunky Monkey, and that’s because it is the only brand selling straight banana ice cream. Banana is my favorite ice cream flavor and that doesn’t include banana related flavors, such as 7-Eleven’s banana cream pie ice cream.
I think Friends is OK. I even remember watching the spin-off Joey lol. I felt sad that Matthew Perry died but I also remember that prior to that, the most recent thing he did was write in his memoir that Keanu Reeves should have died like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger. That rubbed me the wrong way. Like, I get he had drug problems, but that was just uncalled for. However, I think two things can be true at once— I can be upset by what I assume was his personality and find his death tragic.
I think it depends on your mindset and personality, or how much the opinions of others really bother you. A lot of people are afraid to say the wrong thing or like the wrong person now. I think that's a shame. Nobody needs to be apologetic to anyone else for liking art.
I’m sort of the same way with singers and musicians. Before that awful musical movie Music was released and brought with it a ton of backlash for negatively portraying autism, I really didn’t care either way about SIA and only liked two of her songs. Now that it is well known she doesn’t respect the autistic community and has had a rather shady relationship with Madeline Ziegler, I don’t like SIA. I’ll continue to like the only two songs by her just because I liked them before all this had happened. I can also sort of do the same with Tom Cruise before he went head first off the deep end.
THANK YOU. OMFG. i really don't think it's that worth it to be hyped up over, same with halo top. they're not that good. tasty, yes, but $10 for a container of ice cream??? bffr
The only Sims game I enjoyed was My Sims for the Wii specifically. They had a DS version with the same name that had a totally different feel. It wasn't even the same game. I wasn't interested in any other Sims games. I think My Sims has a very similar feel to Animal Crossing which is likely the main reason I enjoyed it so much.
Literally a lot of the cozy games are either buggy or empty. I like the genre and everything but if I see one more farming sim, I'm gonna scream. Very few bring anything new to the table and it's just boring.
i just saw a bit of a video on these today and how people were getting violent over them. personally i think they’re kinda ugly too but that’s just my opinion.wait i think i'm stealing someone's comment here but the stanley cup craze is sooooo weird, you do not need 200 stanley's, i'm not convinced u even need 1 tbh they're kinda bulky and impractical
it sucks when we're finally ditching single use plastic bottles but replacing it with buying a dumb amount of £50 water bottles
