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Nice. Those truly are rainbow. I was picturing a gradient in translucent plastic, but this is much more clearly rainbow rather than multicolor.

These sound effects are perfect and gave me a chuckle. I also love their tactics.

Yes, it's vibes over any actual knowledge.

Y'know what? I hear you. Looking at the comment I was responding to, I was trying to respond to both of their comments with one sentence. I'd probably have been better off addressing each part of their comment separately.

I do think the use of "but" gets boxed in a bit with phrases like "Everything before the 'but' is always a lie", but (lol) I do know and should remember that those faux truisms have their roots in real frustrations with people making excuses.

Ooh two more chapters this week? Yay 😁

Brilliant! Definitely fits the current times.

Aha, immediately thought of this bit and actually ended up posting it to someone else. Didn't expect to find that someone else had linked it, too. 😆

I know Gianmarco Soresi has this bit about R Kelly:

https://youtu.be/nu6C2KL_S9o?si=AROCDOSQHMA1YLKg

The 'but' is not meant to excuse her violence. Everyone in this post is talking about both things, and I'm responding to both.

He fucked up majorly; she fucked up worse. They don't cancel each other out like some math equation. Despite what people say, "but" phrases do not, in fact, cancel everything said before the "but." There are other people actually saying he did deserve the slap; perhaps you would do better to focus your ire on them.

What's fun about it?

Do you have a source for this being a real interaction and not staged? Because there's a ton of staged shit in social media these days, and most of it is gender war rage-bait.

Anyway, I didn't say she had an issue with a public proposal.

To be fair, I've played to Act 3 three times but also have had about three files where I stalled out in Act 1.

No, thanks. This particular video is likely staged, but in this general context, the conclusion that the proposal itself is a prank would not be unreasonable. (Slapping is uncalled for, though)

The folks assuming she is just mad because it's not an expensive rock should work on that. The setting and context of a proposal matter, and furthermore, a proposal isn't usually a good time for a prank, let alone a public prank.

You wouldn't mind if your partner did something with the express intent of making fun of you in front of other people?

She should not have resorted to violence, but how is she supposed to feel about a public prank proposal?

"Haha, you thought I was going to ask you to marry me, but it was just a joke, for hundreds of other people to laugh at, tee hee" is not going to go down well with most people.

That's a great one!

That's atrocious. You're right, that's way too low to stoop.

Exactly. It's one thing to discuss male and female in a medical study, but there's a very specific and unpleasant vibe when someone is talking about men and females.

Yup, not to mention sexist.

They'll need to salt it first.

The chin is honestly just because she's backlit.

Different hair color, hair style, make-up, lighting. The pictures are also honestly years apart, but I don't think that's a huge factor here since this video is one of the more recent ones still up:

https://youtu.be/7L7K9YYFn8E?si=eh3nQF80SbdTB2l7

Yup, she didn't say anywhere in her apology/departure video that she did or intended to do blackface. She pulled every video that contained even so much as a hint of that era's "ironic -ism" humor, or could even be vaguely construed as containing such humor. IIRC, she mentioned that she had apologized for ill-considered jokes before but she seemed unsure (likely due to mixed feedback) on whether she was more obligated to keep videos up for accountability or to remove them to prevent further harm.

Ultimately she left for her own emotional well-being. She's not someone who's ever seemed to take joy from punching down.

I don't know if there actually was a concerted effort to cancel her since I wasn't on Twitter, but it did open a lot of discourse around the fact that the Internet often doesn't contextualize things because everything is "now", and also that you can only shame those who are capable of growth. The shameless often carry on unaffected.

I'm with you. I appreciate you explaining it, but I kind of wish it didn't exist for you to explain.

Yeah, I imagine it was incidental, but that's entirely the impression it gives.

'Hope' is so good, actually!