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Actor Nathan Jones had to remind people that he was just portraying a fictional character after receiving angry DMs over Rictus in Furiosa
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Hearing this, it makes sense how and why people fall down conspiracy rabbit holes. The inability to distinguish fiction from reality.
Fiction is black and white, reality is gray and scary.
Everything happens for a reason in fiction, thus a lot of people believe there's some shadowy organization controlling everything in reality. When really, reality is random and shit happens.
I feel bad for Nathan. He's just an actor doing his job of acting out a story, even if it's as a terrible person. But he's getting toxic hate for it and he doesn't deserve that. Save that for legitimate pedophiles like Victor Salva (who somehow got work for years after his conviction).
Fiction is black and white, reality is gray and scary.
Everything happens for a reason in fiction, thus a lot of people believe there's some shadowy organization controlling everything in reality. When really, reality is random and shit happens.
I feel bad for Nathan. He's just an actor doing his job of acting out a story, even if it's as a terrible person. But he's getting toxic hate for it and he doesn't deserve that. Save that for legitimate pedophiles like Victor Salva (who somehow got work for years after his conviction).
People are so incredible stupid, it just boggles the mind how someone can be so stupid as to do something like this. What exactly do they think movies/tv shows are?
Absolutely. It feels this has gotten so much worse lately. It feels like unless they basically spell it out with large bold letters blinking onscreen with "THIS IS A BAD THING AND WE DO NOT CONDONE IT IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM" people are going to take it as the media condoning it. It's so frustrating.
I just don't understand why actors -or sportspeople or anyone in a public role- are on social media to begin with. Like I'm a nobody and I quickly got to the point where I understood there's no value in maintaining an account just to expose yourself to toxicity, so I can't imagine what you're getting out of it at this point?
I know a social media account can be beneficial for promotion, but surely you have a manager that can have a social media manager handle your accounts so you don't have to? Send them a picture once in a while to post and just go on with your life?
Social Media is never going to be a place where these kind of things don't happen. Even if there's (and there's not) 95% normal people on there that send you messages of encouragement or whatever. The 5% that send you toxic stuff are not going to go anywhere.
I know a social media account can be beneficial for promotion, but surely you have a manager that can have a social media manager handle your accounts so you don't have to? Send them a picture once in a while to post and just go on with your life?
Social Media is never going to be a place where these kind of things don't happen. Even if there's (and there's not) 95% normal people on there that send you messages of encouragement or whatever. The 5% that send you toxic stuff are not going to go anywhere.
I worked in LA and NYC for a few years in my younger days and if I saw a famous person I'd accidently blurt out "hey Joey!" (Matt LeBlanc) or "hi Jean Luc" (Patrick Stewart) and I was instantly mortified but it was nice most of them just said hi back and didn't make a big deal out of it lol
i do like that chris rock joke how movies and shows had to change all phone numbers to the generic 555-1212 because even in the 80s idiots would call any phone number they saw on screen and be like "Hey is Indiana Jones there"
imo this topic isn't really that much different than people saying they can't watch movies from older decades because of words used. Thats how life used to be, its important for everyone to know what history actually was like and not just words on paper. Conversely I'm not super sure about re-interpretations of history under a modern lens, while I can appreciate excising racism, homophobia, misogny, etc, it does make me wonder if kids will not understand how much progress the world has seen if they think the past is more similar to today than it actually was.
i do like that chris rock joke how movies and shows had to change all phone numbers to the generic 555-1212 because even in the 80s idiots would call any phone number they saw on screen and be like "Hey is Indiana Jones there"
imo this topic isn't really that much different than people saying they can't watch movies from older decades because of words used. Thats how life used to be, its important for everyone to know what history actually was like and not just words on paper. Conversely I'm not super sure about re-interpretations of history under a modern lens, while I can appreciate excising racism, homophobia, misogny, etc, it does make me wonder if kids will not understand how much progress the world has seen if they think the past is more similar to today than it actually was.
Nah, this has always been a (very dumb) thing. In the early days of television, actors would get hate mail or even yelled at in person.
I've always thought these types of "fans" are so detached from their own reality that they latch onto whatever entertainment they are consuming and take things a bit too seriously. I think it was Cersei's actress (Lena Headley) who was getting hate mail and death threats for the portrayal of her character as well as getting booed at fan conventions back during the height of GoT popularity.
And I've seen much worse than what happened in Furiosa during that scene. Just absurd that he has to deal with that shit.
And I've seen much worse than what happened in Furiosa during that scene. Just absurd that he has to deal with that shit.
Yeah that's how we get sanitized shit like the recent Avatar show, where they just take out negative traits altogether instead of contextualizing them.
