@MishLGee_xoxo@lexiosborne That poster is honestly the worst — history of being a plane stalker, and always posts rude and invasive things. I had her blocked already. Unfortunate that people think they can say whatever they want about people they have absolutely no clue about bc they’re on the internet.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have donated $26M to more than 20 charities this week ahead of their reported New York wedding. The recipients include:
• City Harvest (New York City)
• Food Bank for NYC
• New York Cares
• Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
• Harvesters – The Community Food Network (Kansas City, MO)
• The Store (Nashville, TN)
• Helping Harvest (Reading, PA)
• Rhode Island Community Food Bank
• Feeding America (National)
• ASPCA (National)
• Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (National)
• Grammy in the Schools (National)
• Education Through Music (New York, NY)
• Answer the Call (New York, NY)
• Musical Mentors (New York, NY)
• After-School All-Stars (New York, NY)
• After-School All-Stars (Cleveland, OH)
• MSK Kids, the pediatric cancer program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Children & Teen and Adolescents & Young Adult programs)
• Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone
• Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, MO)
https://t.co/pB1Vz5ZtiN
@gucciandscandal Honestly, wish people would call them out publicly — I’m sure they’d be super pleased if someone tracked/shared their whereabouts 24/7, right? Isn’t that their mindset?
Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.
The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.
In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.
“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.
“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”
Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc
@BKforreal1989 Influencer culture and monetizing social media has killed everything, not just music festivals. The need to create content to persuade people to partake in using a product, or to subscribe to content has cheapened our society, and instead of quality, we got virality. It sucks 😭
my Dad said , "Forcing the Artemis crew to speak with Donald Trump was part of a NASA training exercise to prepare future astronauts for encounters with less intelligent life forms.."
i couldn't agree more....