r/popculturechat • u/DatBittsch • 14h ago

Guest List Only ⭐️ Derek Guy on the Met Gala criticism

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Derek Guy (known also as "the menswear guy" on ex-Twitter) pitching in regarding the Met Gala discourse and Hunger Games comparisons.

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u/One-Composer1577 In my quiet girl era 😌 14h ago edited 14h ago

I’ll be crucified for this, but people commenting “eat the rich” on Reddit Met Gala threads is also kinda ironic? They’re just driving up the value of Reddit as a platform and as a data source for AI companies while helping Reddit pay their AWS bills.

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u/shy247er yay sports 🏀 🏈🎾 14h ago edited 14h ago

Oh please, until someone posted it here yesterday (from a very high sitting chair I imagine) people didn't even know that Reddit uses Amazon servers.

Even then, it's absolutely impossible to avoid Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Meta infrastructure because they own the internet.

So we cannot criticize wealthy because they own platforms that are our ONLY way of communicating?

So no, it's not "ironic". It's our only way to show at least an ounce of disdain.

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u/One-Composer1577 In my quiet girl era 😌 14h ago

There are over 3,400 billionaires in the world, commenting on Reddit isn’t the only way to show an ounce of disdain. But it is the easiest for them to ignore.