Ellie Kemper

[laurenj]

Jun 2, 2021 10:54:29 GMT -4 Ginger said:

If Ellie follows the advice of her friend Tina Fey, she will just ignore this and move on. She's not cancelled in any real sense. She's not going to get fired from anything and her comedy friends are not going to dump her. The story was corrected and the headline was deemed misleading within a few hours.

What is going to follow her is just the incessant, irritating, unproductive negativity of the internet that deems her problematic.

Mar 10, 2005 14:39:30 GMT -4 pachengala said:

I’m pretty meh about this, feeling kind of wait-and-see, but I will never, ever forget why I hate Chris Pratt with the murder-wasp heat of a fresh-born volcano. Fuck that guy.

LOL. I'm thinking of Oh No They Didn't, where they have to ask each other why every time. "Didn't he...?" "No, but he...." "No, actually, he didn't, but he did..." "Oh, that's not what I remembered..."

Yeah, it creates this vague sense of negativity around a celebrity that isn't really warranted by whatever the controversy was.

Sadly, I think a lot people who suffered at the hands of a Harvey Weinstein or others like him had damage done to their careers in exactly this sort of way. A rumor or two that clung around them in a vague way, but created a negative air whose origins no one necessarily remembered.

This particular story sounds like a typical Twitter mountain out of a molehill. Pile on for a day, create a huge deal out of nothing, and then move on to the next target and forget about the damage done. It's so callous and cheap but it can really impact people.