[dailyhudsonwilliams]

feel like this blog needs a disclaimer at this point but to be clear i am ten toes down for hudson and i am not entertaining transparent internet discourse or smear campaigns or whatever flavour people cook up to try and demean and degrade a 25 year old actor of color

this is all i am going to say about the current furore so if you come into my inbox being weird i will just block you :)

[whatdidpipersay]

This!

First of all, teenagers do stupid shit all the tome even when they know it's wrong, because they're literal teenagers.

Secondly, to me it looks like they were taking every horrible thing they could think of (a cross upside down, AIDS, swastika etc. ) and were being edgy, without any thought to values or ideologies. Because they were drunk kids!

[actuallysara]

HUDSON WILLIAMS | Peloton

[whatdidpipersay]

Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie Don’t Need Brand Deals to Matter (aka The Capitalist Misreading of Success)

I'm HudCon down. I'm Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie down. And I'm glad they get to make money, they absolutely deserve it. BUT. But. Fans celebrating their brand deals not because we get to enjoy them looking pretty in their ads and commercials, but because the deals provide ammo for proving their fave is somehow better, more talented, or more successful, or that their team is smarter, rubs me the wrong way. Big time. Like their brand deals are the ultimate sign of their success.

Actors and artists should get paid, of course they should. But a brand deal says nothing meaningful about their art or their talent. It says an artist or an actor is marketable, digestible, and profitable. That’s it. This mindset reflects an extreme capitalist culture, where worth is measured by monetization. It’s a system designed to value what sells over what resonates or what has cultural impact.

Art stops being about expression and starts being about extraction when success is framed through sponsorships and partnerships. Fans start acting like shareholders who cheer for monetization.

This is truly late‑stage capitalism at work. Value is measured by revenue, and legitimacy is granted by corporations. Visibility is mistaken for substance.

When I see fans pitting Hudson and Connor and their brand deals against each other, I want to scream. If the highest praise you can give them is that a company wants to profit off them, you’re not celebrating their art or talent. You’re just proving how thoroughly consumerism has hollowed out your idea of worth. Brainrot of epic proportions.

They, or art in general, don’t need corporate validation to be meaningful!

[whatdidpipersay]

Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie Don’t Need Brand Deals to Matter (aka The Capitalist Misreading of Success)

I'm HudCon down. I'm Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie down. And I'm glad they get to make money, they absolutely deserve it. BUT. But. Fans celebrating their brand deals not because we get to enjoy them looking pretty in their ads and commercials, but because the deals provide ammo for proving their fave is somehow better, more talented, or more successful, or that their team is smarter, rubs me the wrong way. Big time. Like their brand deals are the ultimate sign of their success.

Actors and artists should get paid, of course they should. But a brand deal says nothing meaningful about their art or their talent. It says an artist or an actor is marketable, digestible, and profitable. That’s it. This mindset reflects an extreme capitalist culture, where worth is measured by monetization. It’s a system designed to value what sells over what resonates or what has cultural impact.

Art stops being about expression and starts being about extraction when success is framed through sponsorships and partnerships. Fans start acting like shareholders who cheer for monetization.

This is truly late‑stage capitalism at work. Value is measured by revenue, and legitimacy is granted by corporations. Visibility is mistaken for substance.

When I see fans pitting Hudson and Connor and their brand deals against each other, I want to scream. If the highest praise you can give them is that a company wants to profit off them, you’re not celebrating their art or talent. You’re just proving how thoroughly consumerism has hollowed out your idea of worth. Brainrot of epic proportions.

They, or art in general, don’t need corporate validation to be meaningful!

[whatdidpipersay]

Carina Adly MacKenzie has some balls joining a rewatch podcast or whatever it is with Aisha Tyler when a few weeks ago she was hoping for the young newbie stars to be sidelined from their show because she is a hardcore François fan.

So yeah that's one rewatch thing I'll be skipping.

[hudsonswilliams]

[whatdidpipersay]

I have my own well. You can see it.

I have my own well. YOU CAN SEE IT!

[shaneposting]

this won’t be articulate but. i’m really tired of the way that fandom as a hobby/concept gets conflated with unpleasant behaviour and harassment of actors/creators by fans. and how this inevitably leads to a denigration of fandom as a hobby and a real ‘yuck. look at these weirdos, these loners, these perverts’ attitude towards people who enjoy it.

like there will be a thread that starts off as ‘people shouldn’t be harassing the actors from heated rivalry’ (correct and valid) that will very quickly morph into ‘yes and this is why people shouldn’t be enjoying heated rivalry on any level more intense than watching it once and moving on’ (incorrect and invalid and nothing to do with the original topic). and in no time at all there’s this idea that everyone who considers themselves a fan of the show is a monolith and we are all equally involved in and responsible for the harassment of the people who worked so hard to make it. and ofc throughout this process there’s a lot of misogyny and sex negativity and etc etc

and i hate it. i hate when a fandom blows up and people who have never stepped foot in these spaces start shitting on people’s communities and hobbies and acting like it’s strange and disturbing to be into a tv show. it gives off a real childish ‘you act too autistic for me to be polite to you’ vibe that makes me feel Bad

(this post is brought to you by me after reading a reddit comment in which someone has referred to their friend as ‘having psychosis’ for the crime of [checks notes] making heated rivalry fanart as an adult in her 30s)

[whatdidpipersay]

With how good the soundtrack for Heated Rivalry is, it really should be a punishable crime to make edits to Taylor Swift songs.

[holllanov]

shane initiating kisses

[ilyrozanov]

i think that was the closest our lines blurred between who we were in that moment and where they are in that moment. It was really beautiful, actually. i think we said a lot of things like, "i can't believe we've done this." i remember a lot of "i love you"s and "wow-i can't believe we've done it. i can't believe this happened."

[shaneshollanders]

Heated Rivalry ep. 5 "I'll Believe in Anything"

[8124-2481]

Connor and Hudson for GQ

The Naked Ambition of the Heated Rivalry Boys

[shaneshollanders]

Heated Rivalry ep. 5 "I'll Believe in Anything"

[whatdidpipersay]

I cried.

[creamsiclemelt]

this is n o t enough

[shaneshollanders]

[unicorncastiell]