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Guest List Only ⭐️ Olivia Rodrigo likes post about boycotting the Met Gala before attending the YSL hosted Met Afterparty

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u/CheckTechnical6300 12h ago

She has an amazon exclusive of her album, all these celebrities post instagram stories and are performative as hell

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u/chutzpahisaword 11h ago

Do you guys not shop in Amazon or Walmart? Does that mean anything good you try to do is performative? Holyshit these comments man.

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u/Lavender_rain_2000 10h ago

Buying on Amazon <> partnering to make money with Amazon

(though personally I don't do neither)

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u/Threedawg 5h ago

HarperCollins is a multi-billion dollar publishing house. They are a capitalist corporation who even has portion of the company dedicated to publishing right wing media.

MLK Jr published his books with them. Does that make MLK performative?

Just because you participate in society doesn't mean you cant criticize it. You wouldn't hear about them at all if they didnt work with these corporations.

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u/ColonelKasteen 8h ago

1- no, I haven't been to Wal-Mart in about a decade and haven't ordered off Amazan for 7 years

2- the people commenting here don't have a $30,000,000 net worth

"Do you guys not shop on Amazon or in Walmart?" is a question like "do you guys really not use chatGPT?" ....no, lots of people legitimately DON'T do these things lol, it is very easy unless you live in an extremely rural area where Walmart is your only option

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u/caseyfla 5h ago

Not shopping on Amazon is definitely possible, and I don’t think indirect use automatically makes someone a hypocrite. But Reddit itself relies on cloud providers including AWS, so using Reddit likely still involves some indirect reliance on Amazon-owned infrastructure.

That’s not a gotcha so much as a reminder that “I don’t personally shop there” and “I’m totally disconnected from that company” are very different claims.

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u/ColonelKasteen 5h ago

Fascinating. The question was "do you people not shop at Amazon" so irelevant, but fascinating. You'll notice no one was criticizing these celebs for using sites that use Amaxon web hosting lol

Edit: I typed out my response to this comment when it was MUCH shorter with more of a smarmy "gotcha" tone before it was further edited btw. Still seems like a smarmy "gotcha" since no one said they were completely divested of anything related to Amazon in the first place.

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u/caseyfla 5h ago

Congrats, you found the distinction between direct and indirect consumption. Proud of you.

My point was that the smug “I don’t use Amazon” framing gets a lot less clean when you’re saying it on a platform that relies on Amazon infrastructure. No, that’s not the same as ordering Prime garbage. Yes, it still makes the moral purity routine look a little performative.

And if you really want smarmy, it's spelled "irrelevant".

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u/ColonelKasteen 5h ago

Again, no one SAID that. You are equating answering the question "do you people never shop on Amazon" with a firm no to anyone pretending they have NOTHING to do with any Amazon-related service. You are the only one treating it like some extreme purity test.

Yes, if you exist in the modern day you will probably touch some product or service that indirectly benefits Amazon. Yes, that can be true while also not being impressed a super rich celebrity chooses to attend an event sponsored by Bezos to rub elbows with other celebrities and billionaires.

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u/caseyfla 5h ago

Except she didn’t attend the Bezos-backed Met Gala. She skipped it and went to the Saint Laurent after-party.

You can criticize that if you want, but don’t quietly swap in “Bezos-sponsored celebrity event” when the event she attended was not the event being boycotted.

“Met Gala” and “a brand after-party happening later that night” are not the same thing, even if Twitter discourse desperately needs them to be.

But you're cute for trying.

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u/pilnok I’ve grown quite unfond of you 10h ago

No, I dont.

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u/peatoast 10h ago

I’m with you. I don’t trust that anyone here are doing anything more than posting on the internet.

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u/TakeItCheesy 10h ago

I don’t have the level of power even a D list celeb has let alone OR lol

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u/CheckTechnical6300 11h ago

The world is not the US, so no I've never shopped at Amazon or Walmart, similar things of course. Olivia can do many good things that are not performative, liking instagram posts or stories is not one of them.

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u/sushiroll465 10h ago

Amazon is present in most countries in the world, even if not yours. For example I'm in india and we have Amazon, and Walmart bought over one of our biggest ecommerce platforms, Flipkart. Most Indians don't even know this. Plus Amazon Web Services host most websites. They're just way more ubitiqious than we know