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The original post was in r/PeterExplainsTheJoke.

From what I gathered reading the comments, it seems like the prevailing opinion about Ed is that he is a generic, mainstream pop artist. And reasonably, that's kinda fair, given that the average listener mainly knows his hits, which are hits for a reason, namely being pop. A classic chicken and egg situation, but that's how the industry works. Frankly, I still can't stand Perfect since it was played ad nauseam on every radio station all the time. I myself fell in love with Ed's music by chance, stumbling into some (relatively) lesser known songs, not his hits.

BUT one thing is being a casual listner and not even have the information to appreciate Ed's talent as a songwriter. Another is hating on a popular artist who is also a human being, due to prejudice, stereotype, or just his popularity. Some of those comments made me extremely sad and angry. People are really prone to being extra rude for no reason. I have no idea how artists cope with the constant hate they're exposed to, I'd crumble into pieces and hide away.

Posted first by someone else in r/dontyouknowwhoIam. The word supposably will never not remind me of Claire's Cheescake Factory boyfriend

Nothing but respect for her and encouragemebt for Ariana to get better and stop this bodychecking madness (and actually recover, but that's another issue)

I get that a likely possibility is that she wanted to emphasize her lyrics, not the melody, since belts and vocal athletics could have been distracting.

But algorithm-compliance is something that didn't even cross my mind, being frankly ignorant about the matter. I just knew that songs have to be suitable for social media reels and content in order to be more widely known and therefore streamed, and that their length should be less than 3 minutes / 2:30 minutes...but that's about it. Any opinions?

ETA: this is NOT MY OPINION. Genuinely curious because I don't have enough info to form mine. If anything, I don't think Ariana even needs to care about Spotify because she's one of the reasons many even have it in the first place, but who knows

I'm emotional writing this and will probably write something making more sense later, but I don't have anyone to say this to without having them worried/triggered, so here we are.

I don't know where to begin. Aside from the amazing production and less than amazing vocals, the main character in this album is pain. I'm not only talking about obvious, specific lyrics. It's the album as a whole that strikes me as beyond concerning. I can't her anything but the suffering of a woman who hates where she got in life, REGARDLESS, let me specify this, of how she got there. Meaning, some are appalled by the homewrecking scandal and that can be rightful, but who's to blame the people or herself isn't my point here.

Anyways, I'm saying that I do hear a victim crying for help (whether that's fair or not to say). If anything, a victim of herself and the life she threw herself into, the public being a consequence of it. Being familiar with EDs, I was so very moved by some lyrics which, at least to me, clearly point to that.

And what's even more saddening to me is that all this sadness will probably be lost on listners who will stop at the "breakup" content, while here the breakup is from fans, fame, and (hopefully not) life. Big Feelings, Bad Thing, a s Never Get Over Me don't really leave much room for interpretation, but, at least to me, it sounded like not one of the other songs was purely about romance (and gossip about Ethan, Ricky and whoever) or lack thereof. When you read the lyrics with a watchful eye, you'll find sadness/regret/anger which, in light of her current health state, leave me absolutely speechless.

I didn't want to buy into the Petal death imagery, because while apparently evident, it had to be absurd too, right? Wrong, now I can't unhear meanings about death, giving up, fighting a fight her body is now showing.

Despite (or maybe because of) Ariana's wrongdoings, at least for me, her pain is evident and I can't help feeling so very sorry for someone so broadly loved and hated, and yet evidently so misunderstood.

TLDR: I see lots of pain in these lyrics, and I'm honestly very, very sorry for Ariana, whatever she did or whatever brought her here. I'm genuinely scared by the death imagery and lyricism I previosuly refused to buy into. Maybe Bad Thing, Big Feelings, and Never Get Over Me leave a little space for some romance or lack thereof, but the other songs are all so dark, at least to me. Long rant, hope it makes sense

A video she just posted in her story. Apparently, the nip slip was intentional😂

I feel so wierd for writing this. Definitely not in my bingo card. I don't know what to think myself, honestly a bit of laughter and light-heartedness around/after that particular photo dump was well needed

This picture comments itself. I want to be empathetic, because she must be going through hell in the depth of what's obviously going on.

But this is plain selfishness shoved in our faces. We get it, you're tiny, but if you choose this picture as worthy of attention between thousands, you're frankly not doing any good.

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Sorry if this is overreacting. I just can't with all the INTENTIONAL harm she's doing as a literal beauty influencer. She has all the right to live in her body and post herself, but there's a difference between "regular" photos, bodychecks and whatever this is.

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(No hate to Amanda, the bigger lady, in any way. I just mean that she's not being posted alongside ariana solely because the picture looks good and that's despicable).

This is from an article I just read, and there are also other appearing these days from "inside sources" like slugs after it rains, all somehow putting her in a better light.

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This one had me raise my eyebrows to the sky. A person who is "just stressed" doesn't let herself get to a point where she could be hospitalized, and, even if that were the remote case, she wouldn't post bodychecks continuously. Or, you know, constantly purposefully exposing her shoulders and collar bones, or only be seen eating gum, black coffee and lollipop even with a birthday cake in front of her.

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Of course she must be in enormous amounts of stress, not to mention all kinds of trauma (this articole also deals with that horrible Nickelodeon trial), but this is a cover-up an it couldn't be any more obvious.

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It's all just so triggering. First, the "don't comment on my body" narrative, which from a certain standpoint I can understand, having struggled myself. Then, the obvious bodychecks, and, before that, the "I'm the healthiest I've ever been" narrative. Now apparently these are the normal effects stress has on a normal body. I simply can't. It would cost her nothing to admit she's struggling or at least to avoid spreading these news and denial.

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And before someone attacks me, yes, we are responsible for our own triggers and maybe I'm being too entitled or fragile. And yes, ariana is allowed to live and work in whatever body she has at a certain time. But she could easily choose different tour outfits, or stop posting photos where she's clearly being proud of her thinness. And for goodness sake, stop promoting all those narratives where she's fine, which I can't stress enough, because, pun unintended, now apparently she's "just stressed" and that's stressing me out enormously.

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I used to be sorry for her for everything she's been through, because more often than not we are responsible for our own problems and that's a human thing. But now I find her plain insufferable, because SHE KNOWS perfectly where online her photos are being used as an inspiration to lose weight. It's just all so disgusting and unfair, especially when, on the other hand, so many people will deny the obvious or, lucky for them, not pay attention. And God forbid one points out how awful all of this is, suddenly you are the culprit and the kind of person who masks hate for concern. Now, I quite frankly do hate her, and I hope it's a phase because I hate hating. The concern is for what she is causing, knowingly, and masking it herself with health and healing.

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Sorry for the long rant. I have nowhere else to say this withiut being bullied.

Also, if you want to read the article:

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https://theblast.com/807704/ariana-grande-quiet-on-set-trauma-claims/

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Disclaimer: I don't absolutely mean it in an offensive way, I'm genuinely sorry and writing this to see what anyone else thinks

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The VS Fashion show is questionable in many respects, but it's also a MAJOR TRIGGER for anyone who struggles with body image.

I myself have battled EDs all my life, but there isn't one single woman I've talked to who, not having problems with food and their bodies, didn't find it somehow upsetting. Especially in the 2010s, it was a celebration of perfection and unattainable beauty standards, and that's just a fact (not saying that naturally tall and slim people don't exist, but VS takes all that to an extreme, adding dangerous glamour).

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Even back in those days, it seems it was knows that Ariana had an ED, even if it surely wasn't as "concerning" as it was now, and not everybody knew.

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So now I'm thinking about how horrible it must have been for her to walk a runway where, as tiny as she objectively was, she was still not as "perfect" as the models (NOT claiming she was ugly in any way. I just mean that, when you have an ED or a difficult relationship with your body, that can be a very bad experience in your mind).

Maybe it's a coincidence, still after that, around 2016, she was almost at Wicked-level thinness.

Someone in her shoes must have faced an incredible amount of pressure to look very good at that runway, as any female singer did.

Of course her job was to sing, but can you imagine knowing that every eye in the media is looking at your body right next to the epitomes of thinness and beauty? (Again, not at all equating the two)

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Of course things are different for male singers, but that's another story for another subreddit. This might sound random, it just came to me seing how thin she is, and knowing that VS fashion shows are absolute nightmares for ED victims. Thoughts?

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Justin was a menace at Coachella. I'm not a great fan of his but it's undeniable that he gained back lots of traction with an objectively emotional performance.

What few know though (outside of this sub, I imagine) is that ***Ed*** wrote most of his hits.

Granted, Justin Bieber is not bad as a singer, but without Ed's melodies and lyrics, would he really have gotten to where he is now?

The thing is that last year, with Play, Ed experimented and tried new sounds and styles, risking so to speak but still delivering (with some upd and some downs, granted).

Bieber won, mostly, thanks to Ed's past work. I don't think that his new most popular songs are what made people vote him, because quite frankly, as a neutral listner, I myself haven't happened to bump into one of those even once, and they don't seem to have that much media exposure. I might be wrong of course.

I might be biased, but personally, I find it hard not to find these results off-putting.

TL;DR: Justin Bieber is likely to have won thanks to past hits, written by Ed, who lost the AMA 2026 awards. I understand it's not unfair so to speak, but it still isn't really pleasant, to me at least. Also, if you want to write something rude, this post isn't meant for you.

Thoughts?

This comes from the perspective of someone who's been teaching herself Spanish, HUMBLY poiting out something I just noticed.

In Spanish, the show seems a bit more vulgar so to speak. Words which are vulgar in English, but not really unspeakable, get translated in Spanish with heavier words (for example: butt becomes "culo", which is nearer to ass tone-wise; or bitch, when intended as jerk or jokingly, becomes "puta" regardless; and countless others).

Now, in my country, shows are notoriously dubbed toning down unpleasantries (himym would be ok for, say, a 16 year old), yet it seems like many shows, HIMYM included, do the opposite when it comes to their Spanish dubbing.

(TLDR:) No offense, really, just trying to understand: is the Spanish version purposefully a bit more adult-friendly? Or is it lack of equivalent, mid-tier words in Spanish on the lower end of vulgarity? Thanks!

We know that Ted is a character in his own story, and that he can be an unreliable narrator sometimes. This scene (for context, the one where Ted is recalling telling Tracy about Robin's mother eventually coming to her wedding) is also obviously very emotional for him, and it's about the very reason why he's telling his children the story in the first place.

So, is this Ted, as he sometimes does, projecting events in his story? Is he imagining that Tracy said those words, acknowledging that she won't be able to attend their own daughter's wedding?

Or was she actually already sick by that time, and that dialogue actually took place?

Personally, I'd always taken for granted the latter, but a while ago, when I rewatched that scene specifically, I became unsure. What do you think?

(Specifying this because many people around here aren't exactly nice: if you want to reply something rude, save it for yourself, otherwise thanks for your answer)