Whether you think her behavior is due to drug addiction, mental illness, or both, the fact of the matter is that she's sick. She has an illness. And yet, people meme on her like it's hilarious that she's in this state. What are we doing here?? Why are we literally making memes of a person's illness?
I've always tried to err on the side of assuming the best, but these posts lately are really concerning (first one is deleted, middle was edited). I am not saying Britney needs a new conservatorship, especially not one under her father, but these are a sign that she may need to get checked for psychosis and I hope someone's in her corner right now. We shouldn't pretend that going around declaring herself as a literal biblical angel and saying she's seen heaven is just normal posting for Britney.
I feel like the "strong sense of justice" is something I've seen a lot of LSN autistics glamorize, and I've never really been able to relate to that. Because that sense of justice applies to myself, too, and if something happens where I don't follow it perfectly or can't follow it perfectly, I can end up in a spiral. I've gotten better about not freaking out at others for it, although every now and then I can still have an outburst because I don't realize I'm doing it. Point is, it's not pretty.
Yellow from Deltarune is a character whose entire personality is "justice", but sometimes to a detriment. He ties up his own friends/allies, even when he can acknowledge that they didn't mean any harm, because they're "criminals". He also expresses extreme self-hatred when he thinks he's hurt someone he loves (albeit it's played for laughs), and again when he thinks that same person did something to hurt him, and he doesn't know how to reconcile that strong feeling of "I have to enact justice" vs how much he cares about him.
That is what my "strong sense of justice" looks like. It doesn't make me a perfect, flawless fighter, it makes me miserable.
I'm not saying she was ever actually fat, but to say she's never been called fat is reductive. EVERY female celebrity gets called fat.
Britney Spears has been called fat. Demi Lovato has been called fat. Taylor Swift has been called fat. Selena Gomez has been called fat. Miley Cyrus has been called fat. For fuck's sake, there was once a screenshot going around of someone saying Anya Taylor-Joy should take Ozempic! Pretty much every female celebrity in existence has been told to lose weight. This is a well known fact.
So in the Petal music video, where there's a note saying she "could stand to lose a few", I do fully believe that's something she's heard many, many times in her career, and may have contributed to where she is now. Please stop saying "no one ever said that".
I couldn't be further from those who think Britney is a manipulator, lies about her situation, etc., but there is one incident where it really does seem like she lied and tried to avoid responsibility. And that's the incident with Halsey, which happened after she released her music video sampling "Lucky".
Shortly after the release of the Lucky music video (iirc a couple hours, as someone who watched it all go down in real time), Britney Spears tweeted this out:
>For obvious reasons I'm very upset about the Halsey video. I feel harassed, violated, and bullied. I didn't know an artist like her and someone I looked up to and admired would illustrate me in such an ignorant way by tailoring me as a superficial pop star with no heart or concern at all. I have my own health problems which is why I took down my IG account yesterday. I will definitely be putting it back up to show I CARE. I'm speaking with my lawyers today to see what can be done on this matter. It feels illegal and down right cruel.
So what's the deal with Halsey's MV for "Lucky"? It tells the story of how, when Halsey was a kid, she looked up to the big popstars like Britney, but now that she's a famous popstar herself, she's realizing the struggles that her old favorites faced like being constantly gossiped about, the pressure to push through no matter what happens, and leaving the biggest struggles for behind the scenes. Normal, right? What was Britney offended by? She was vague, but most people are pretty sure it had something to do with the shot where Halsey takes off her wig to reveal a shaved head. If you're not familiar with Halsey, you might be thinking "well gosh, I can see why Britney might be upset about that, the head-shaving incident was a really vulnerable time in her life and it's not something to take lightly like ooh yeah I shaved my head before too-"
Halsey had cancer. The scene references shaving her head while going through chemotherapy. It's not making fun of Britney or downplaying her struggles, it's drawing the parallel of a shaved head that relates to a secret hidden from the public (for Britney it was everything going on behind the scenes leading up to her breakdown, for Halsey it was the fact that she hid the details of her chemo/illness from the public for a long time).
Needless to say, this resulted in Britney's response getting backlash. About an hour later, Britney deleted the tweet aaaand...denied she'd written it.
>Fake news !!! That was not me on my phone !!! I love Halsey and that's why I deleted it [rose emoji] !!!
Now, the writing style of the original tweet IS different from Britney's usual writing style, but that could be easily explained as her having a representative write it for her (given the legal threat it contained). It's certainly more likely than someone hacking into her phone, doing NOTHING but posting that one singular tweet, and then Britney getting control of the phone/account back almost immediately after.
She had understandable reasons to assume and be uncomfortable initially. What I don't like is the way she insisted it was someone hacking her instead of saying sorry.
...that they turn around and laugh, like those aren't genuine mental illnesses. Like okay, let's say she does (I don't actually think that, but for the sake of the post we're going to entertain it). If you're laughing at her for experiencing "BPD symptoms", having a "narcissistic collapse", etc. you're laughing at someone for experiencing symptoms of a mental illness. The people accusing her of it often don't proceed to wish her well or say "I hope she gets help". (Not saying 100% of the time, but often). They treat it as a joke, as another thing to hate on her for, and as usual it gets treated like "evil person disorder".
I'm not saying it's on the same level by any means, but I've seen similar behavior with the way people talk about Britney Spears. The way a lot of people will go "oh yeah, she's probably having some kind of mental breakdown...LMAO! IT'S SO FUNNY TO WATCH!".
Treating BPD/NPD this way hurts more than the person you're trying to hurt. People with BPD/NPD are seeing these posts and comments, including people that know they have a problem and are trying to change, and already feel bad enough about their situation as it is. How do you think that's going to affect them, if they see a hundred people saying how hilarious it is to witness someone potentially going through the same things they're struggling with?
(This isn't about any specific posts/places, just something that crossed my mind after that line in the Petal MV).
I cannot show my gratitude enough to whoever discovered this. I've been obsessed with Heartless lately so I really wanted Max, but I didn't have the budget to try more than once or twice. So when my local store finally restocked them, I pulled out the guide, dug around for one with the 8, AND I GOT HIM!! Believing something I read on the internet finally paid off lol
Memes must be your own work. Screenshots accompanied by text within the image, that was not added by you, are not allowed in any capacity.
I know this rule cracking down on the white-background images was certainly long overdue. I tried to let it slide in the beginning since the posts were still gaining a fair amount of traction, but it's gotten to the point where it's beginning to compromise the quality of the subreddit.
Eventually, Red is going to have to tell Pink that she's from a different timeline.
Eventually, Pink is going to have to find out that the sister she remembers growing up with is gone forever, and has been replaced by someone that looks like her but is a complete stranger (no matter how well the new Red gets along with her eventually).
Which means Pink is going to have an existential crisis at best (i.e. "I didn't exist before?? Am I not supposed to exist??"), or at worst hate Red for taking her "real" sister away. Either way, why do I feel like this is going to end with Maddox finding Pink while she's vulnerable and convincing her that he'll "put everything back to normal" if she hands over the pocketwatch?
They're spending pretty much the whole movie panicking at the changes they made to the world...but they can't go back and un-change it without functionally murdering Pink (since in the original timeline she was never born). So how in the world are they actually supposed to fix this??
I guess evil Chloe isn't really a huge spoiler anymore given the trailers but. thought I'd be extra safe regarding the title.
A piece I think we're all missing when talking about Chloe's turn to a villain is that she only trusts Red so much. She seems like she trusts her a lot right now, but there's only so close they can possibly be. Yes, they've been friends since the first movie...which isn't as long ago as it was in real time. It's easy to think of Chloe and Red as having been friends for years now because that's how long it's been since the last movie came out.
In movie time, Rise of Red was like, YESTERDAY. CHLOE AND RED HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR A DAY. Which means Red sentencing Chloe's mother to death was also yesterday...it's really not going to be all that hard if someone wants to turn Chloe against her when the trauma from witnessing that is still fresh. My guess is going to be that Max/whoever else gets involved starts with bringing that up, and just piggybacks off of that to convince her to be a full-on villain.
...Give villain-Chloe a "Perfect Princess" reprise about how she's not going to be a perfect princess anymore, ending with Red blaming herself asking "what have I done?"
I hate to say it, but it's absolutely increasingly true that some people have begun using "concern" as a shield so they can't be criticized for making fun of her body. I swear to god, I saw someone (not here) call her "Ariana Hambre" and my blood is still boiling days later. She could die, this isn't funny.
Nothing about this smile seems genuine or happy. She looks like she's struggling to hold together. I won't speculate too much, I just hope things get better for her soon.
Maybe I'm preaching to the choir on this sub, but I have to get it off my chest because it pisses me off. Ariana and Ethan were both two, consenting adults who BOTH made a JOINT decision. People need to stop saying that "she" destroyed Lilly Jay's family. THEY BOTH did, not just her, and she's given all the responsibility for "dating a married man". Ethan absolutely could have said "Ariana I'm not going to date you, I'm married and have a baby", but he didn't. Plus, he was also dating a married woman, but I have seen absolutely ZERO people going "ew, I can't believe Ethan Slater broke up Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez's marriage". Because they can recognize that sounds dumb. Just typing that felt ridiculous, but that's what people say about Ariana.
I am not saying the cheating, or the way she responded to the backlash for it, was okay. The lyrics of Yes And make me cringe. What I am saying is that I fear a lot of people seem to care more about having another reason to hate Ariana than they actually care about empathizing with Lilly Jay and her baby.
I have my beliefs about what comes next but the thought of "what if I'm wrong? What if there IS nothing and I just don't exist?" keeps me awake at night. My chest feels tight and I feel lightheaded every time I try and think of the world moving forward and I'm just not there anymore. No matter what I do, no matter what I leave behind, someday this whole planet might not exist anymore, I'll be gone forever. I'm terrified of dying. I don't want to die.
Might be tooting my own horn a little with that first word, but I digress.
So, I've been working for months on scanning and uploading a bunch of random stuff to the Internet Archive. I post a lot of different things, but recently I decided to fast-track anything Nickelodeon related, since this community was what inspired me to take on the monumental task of archiving my collection.
Here's 40+ items I think would be of interest to this sub:
Rugrats: The Long Weekend (full book)
Ren & Stimpy Pick-a-Winner Card Game (instructions, cards, box art)
Manuals for Nick-O-Matic Design Factory, BrainBender, and The Rugrats Movie Activity Challenge
Liner notes for the CD Ren & Stimpy: You Eediot!
Rugrats: Rescue Dil card game (cards and instructions)
Full set of cards from the 1998 Blue's Clues game
Ren & Stimpy's Crock O' Christmas (CD case insert and disc, no music files)
Are You Afraid of the Dark? board game, all cards along with some misc. pieces
Assembly instructions pamphlet for a Rugrats Burger King treehouse toy
Shake Your Doodles: Allegra's Favorite Songs (Allegra's Window) liner notes
Dil & Teddy friends forever Rugrats sticker
The Ren & Stimpy Show comics: June 1995, March 1993, December 1995, September 1994, August 1995
Taina: The Original Television Soundtrack (CD, case, liner notes, no music files)
Picture of the Encore Software/Infogrames version of the CatDog: Quest for the Golden Hydrant disc
Magazine with an article about the debut of The Brothers Garcia
Some ads for the chapter books including The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo: Takeout Stakeout, and the first The Journey of Allen Strange book
Nickelodeon GaS magazine: October 1999 and November 2000
As a bonus, here are some other things that aren't really retro, but may still be of interest to fellow Nickelodeon history fans:
Every single card from Trivial Pursuit for Kids: Nickelodeon
Manuals for Spongebob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab and Tak: Mojo Mistake
SpongeBob AOL promotional disc (just the disc, no files)
Nickelodeon Magazine Presents SpongeBob SquarePants: Thar He Blows!
Nickelodeon Video Game Survival Kit and Nick Gamer Magazine (promotional booklets advertising Jimmy Neutron, Fairly OddParents, Tak, and SpongeBob games)
Reupload/repost all you want, you are free to use these on Wikis, blogs, etc. but please please attribute! You can probably imagine this was easily dozens of hours of work, this was all scanned and edited by hand one at a time by one person.
These are not all the Nickelodeon items in my scans folder, those will probably be uploaded in the coming weeks/months, but it's definitely all the big stuff.
