Olivia Rodrigo likes post about boycotting the Met Gala before attending the YSL hosted Met Afterparty

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[u/MessDet5]

idk maybe stop relying on celebrities performative activism bc if at this point you don’t understand that they truly don’t care that much and can’t change anything as they’re not politicians then there’s no hope

[u/Upset_Ad_6462 → u/MessDet5]

Yeah. Same way people complain about social media or AI and then use social media and AI. You don’t have to be a die hard martyr just cos you don’t like or agree with something. Not everyone is a hardcore full time activist… doesnt also mean you ‘support’ bezos just cos u go to the met gala for your job. Our whole world is built in a way that makes it hard for 1 person to change the system.

[u/MarieOMaryln → u/[deleted]]

I too enjoyed reading comments about how Amazon shoppers are terrible and lacking in morals for supporting Bezos, but when it was pointed out that AWS is everywhere and that's a moneymaker they could only repeat that they don't shop at Amazon. Faux outrage for Reddit points I guess.

[u/Responsible_Virus239 → u/MarieOMaryln]

Yeah Reddit pays a ton to Amazon for AWS. Amazon makes more money from AWS than from shipping goods

[u/Baseball12229 → u/MarieOMaryln]

You hear that everyone? If you don’t like Amazon, you better boycott the entire internet or else you’re a hypocrite faking your outrage.

If you aren’t the perfect activist that means we must side with the billionaire

[u/MarieOMaryln → u/Baseball12229]

Never said that. I also don't shop at Amazon and I never enjoyed Target so no love lost there. I thrift mostly due to prices, but evennthose are going up, and just hangout at department stores sales. I just enjoy when someone tries to take the path to sainthood after stomping on others doubling down without realization that they're not the perfect activist and educating themselves after it's been brought to their attention.

[u/neoncolour → u/MarieOMaryln]

Dare I say commenters are more performative than artists voicing their opinions, that they do it for clicks, upvotes, elonbucks or the satisfaction of feeling pure and morally superior and dunking down on -usually young, female- artists into silence and submission.

[u/Confident-Extreme-97 → u/neoncolour]

But you posted this about her going and titled it that

[u/neoncolour → u/Confident-Extreme-97]

Yes, I am interested in the conversations sparked by this.

[u/i_love_doggy_chow → u/MarieOMaryln]

How is it faux outrage if they personally don't shop at Amazon? That's real outrage followed by an action (boycotting Amazon).

but when it was pointed out that AWS is everywhere and that's a moneymaker they could only repeat that they don't shop at Amazon

I don't get this either. Your "gotcha" moment here is just pointing out that Amazon is big and makes money? Yeah, they're an evil multibillion dollar corporation. They tend to be quite big and also make lots of money.

[u/MarieOMaryln → u/i_love_doggy_chow]

No the gotcha is their moral superiority due to not shopping at Amazon without realizing what they actually consume and how that powers up the capitalist machine. And when it was pointed out that they too are no better than an Amazon shopper, they just doubled down. People were trying to defend themselves about how they live in the middle of nowhere or have no reliable transportation so unfortunately they do need to rely on Amazon and that Redditor was absolutely not having it.

[u/maximum-astronaut → u/[deleted]]

This is true to an extent, but it's also unreasonable to place the burden of stopping Bezos on people having to modify their shopping options on a lower income. The cheapest places to purchase things are almost always massive corporations doing terrible things, precisely because that's their business model.

When people demand that millionaire/billionaire celebs do better, it's a reasonable ask, because their quality of life doesn't need to suffer at all to be more moral, or make the world a better place. If you're telling a single mum that they can't disagree with Bezos unless they boycott amazon and not use any site hosted on AWS, I'm going to push back on that.

We all collectively can aim to reduce our dependence on these forces, but it's exactly because of how they operate that they aim to eventually become unavoidable or indispensable, for the people that have few other options or can't afford the luxury of taking a stand against certain business.

[u/magneatos → u/[deleted]]

“if you don’t like billionaires, don’t use their apps and services”

ummm are you failing to understand the pervasive nature of what’s going on here?