I'm honestly getting so sick of rich people and e-celebrities and everyone being amongst poor and lower-class people on the Internet and pretending to be "just one of the little people" or whatever without contributing anything in return for the content leeched off of us.
You've got ineffective YouTube "comedians" who do the absolute bare minimum for their earnings. Break down any observational comedy video in the last seven years and it's essentially just "I add some half-assed jokes and maybe a pun over this viral video and then that's it". The comedian gets millions, no credit to whoever they lifted content from, and the viewer gets an ad that you can't even skip or use an Adblock for because it's IN THE VIDEO.
And incumbent celebrities doing social media trends are even worse. I don't care if you have a Vine, or a TikTok, or a tumblr, or an overly-polished YT channel with an entire filming team that's helping you look "casual and relatable". You are not one of us and you cannot become one of us. Go back to making terrible movies or music or whatever you do.
"But Codi," I hear the replies from the masses that feel like they have to defend these celebrities that they'll never meet, "they ARE just individual people at the end of the day!"
That's great to hear. When are they gonna ACT like individual people, though?
People at the bottom always talk about how badly they wanna help other people at the bottom, and how they fantasize about benefitting their loved ones and the environment and all that if they had the extra income for it. And yet it's always the same: someone from the bottom gets rich, talks about how they "won't forget where they come from" in whatever flimsy acceptance speech, and then do NOTHING to help their hometown. How many celebrities from Michigan have donated THEIR money to Flint? How many celebrities that cry "No Borders" have done THEIR part to stop ICE?
Why are the lower classes always encouraged to scrape what little money we already have together to help ourselves when there are richer people, trying to "relate to the fans" on social media, that we can harass into helping? Forget the billionaires, they aren't people and cannot be redeemed; I think that ANYONE who makes over six figures a year should be helping the communities they profit off after doing the absolute bare minimum in the name of "entertainment".
So, go copypaste this message onto whatever celebrity page, account or handle you follow, if you're with me:
"Don't donate to charities. Donate to petitions set up by individuals and families that need help. Go outside your McMansion, find the nearest group of homeless people, and treat them to dinner and a job deal. Advocate for the environment so we can have solar panels and greener fuel, so you can help us save the world from catching on fire. If you don't, it WILL be on your head. You don't need the newest piece of fashion or redundant technological equipment, you need to look out for the rest of the world -- because you would not be where you are without us. Get it together, and act like the human you want to be seen as."
/end rant
