im not sure its racist but it does seem like a really dumb idea
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
i think i'm mostly offended by them describing it as "super kitschy"
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
for some reason that feels a bit off in ways pertaining to this thread, idk
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
i don't know if it's racist but i'd say there's a difference between the million tupac RIP tribute shirts and a shirt that turns his face into wallpaper
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
i feel a bit off looking at it but i cant really put my finger on whats fucked up about it
xp the disembodied head aspect definitely comes into play!!
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
i think it's maybe just the reductive bubble head thing, like lowering a fairly tragic figure like tupac to the level of a fictional joke character like george costanza or something.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
the model isn't helping that feeling
― goole, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
do you think there would ever be a "kitschy" disembodied kurt cobain head wallpaper shirt?
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
tupac crop top -> biggie crown top -> rugrats crop top
hmmmmmm
― j., Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
i could see a disembodied dave grohl head wallpaper shirt but that's because he's juuuust a bit bacony.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
but even that, probably not. that would be on etsy, not sold through a huge retail store.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
tbf, disembodied kurt cobain head evokes a very different image
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P5aavwpJ1Cg/TlInp4IJ_pI/AAAAAAAAAVM/bhyWZIX-eis/s1600/reception-miky-t-shirt-10109719_576284_1000.jpg
― deej loaf (D-40), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
http://tshirtmafia.co.uk/164-215-large/kurt-cobain-forover-27-t-shirt.jpg
lol wow
― deej loaf (D-40), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
jesus the entitled #gamergate fuckwads in the flavorwire comments bitching because they won't get to watch kiddie's tv at the convention so fuck you pc social warriors breitbart bleepbloop
― You've been yelped (stevie), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
#ressentiment
― Vomits of a Missionary (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/_RebirthOfSlick/status/519847201011683328
omg
― deej loaf (D-40), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=539562929478172&id=273380906096377
The posting in FB about the event being cancelled and ensuing comment amusement.
Also, they've already found another venue and this event is back on, apparently.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
I can't see the pic on that tweet and it's driving me nuts! can you explain what happened?
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
Good prank, tho.
― Opus Gai (I M Losted), Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
This:
http://i.imgur.com/NAhi8Ka.png
After this: http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/10/black-teenager-pepper-sprayed-home-burglar%20
― pplains, Thursday, 9 October 2014 02:57 (nine years ago) link
Omfg
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, 9 October 2014 03:35 (nine years ago) link
The Nickelodeon thing means there's an open lane to write a proper book
― ILOVEMASONNA (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
white female friend changes facebook cover photo to
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10177454_10205001526063038_225353347860812822_n.jpg
― the late great, Sunday, 12 October 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
try again
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10177454_10205001526063038_225353347860812822_n.jpg?oh=62e39b721d30f3ac343839df162bf33a&oe=54B15C47&__gda__=1421903856_0dc096a028d3b9c931daf0996c54062b
question is not "is this racist" but what is best way to tell friend this is uncool
― the late great, Sunday, 12 October 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
re: the pepper spray incedent from up thread, see 7:45 in the following
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFHpvPwq2i8
and to think 15 years ago this idea was thought so absurd as to be used as satire. dave was always two steps ahead of things
― i'd rather be arrested by you folks than by anybody i know (art), Sunday, 12 October 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
I dunno man, I don't think that's quite true - this shit had always been going on, it's just that social media now makes it much easier to get the word out
― 龜, Sunday, 12 October 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
TLG - maybe she just really likes Oprah?
― 龜, Monday, 13 October 2014 03:11 (nine years ago) link
maybe
― the late great, Monday, 13 October 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/michael-essien-forced-respond-internet-4428143
i'm thinking yes
― Terrific ribbon, Moe (stevie), Monday, 13 October 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
yr gonna have to explain this one to me
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Monday, 13 October 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
pvmic
― ILOVEMASONNA (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 13 October 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
re: the tupac shirt, at A3C this weekend I stood behind someone wearing this jersey (except black instead of red):
http://picture-cdn.wheretoget.it/gzk9ip-l-610x610-t-shirt-biggie-smalls-shirt-biggie-smalls-jersey-dope-illest-hip-hop-biggie-smalls.jpg
― example (crüt), Monday, 13 October 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
ok so oprah heads all good i guess
― the late great, Monday, 13 October 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
what exactly is the racist part of that
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Monday, 13 October 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
oprah heads sound suspect to me idk
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 13 October 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
was bojack horseman racist
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 13 October 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
tbrr i don't think i would actually call that person out on the oprah thing, it just made me go hm
― the late great, Monday, 13 October 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
bojack horseman just kinda sucked, maybe it got racist after the first episode, no one will ever know
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 October 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
yeah I don't think the Oprah thing is per se racist. I mean at worst it strikes me as in the vein of campy Arnold from Diff'rent Strokes photos (i.e. it's "lol 80's media and hair" more than "lol black person"), at best maybe she just likes Oprah.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 13 October 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
idk strikes me as lol oprah
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 13 October 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
its just weird
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 13 October 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
bojack horseman sucked for sure, and its main character is way too similar to archer
there was a discussion here years ago about white ppl using pictures of black people in lolzy ways in twitter profile pics etc
probably itt but i have no idea what to ctrl-f for aside from j0rdan
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 13 October 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Ah I remember that
Whiney called out a dude for using a picture of a 70s basketball player in a way that was like "lol afro" and then all the white people on ILM spent hundreds of posts trying to separate their uses of rapper profile pics from that
― 龜, Monday, 13 October 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
still not sure if my T.O.P. profile picture was racist, though i felt validated when my mother mistook him for me
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 13 October 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
yeah it shouldn't be difficult to see why it's questionable enough to go in this thread, unless you're oh haha never mind
― grayson m'razz (wins), Monday, 13 October 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
― 龜, Monday, October 13, 2014 6:02 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
looks like it was just you v whiney but idk i didn't keep reading. i dont think its weird to use a rapper as your avatar if you are a fan of rap music any more than it was to have a poster in your room of an artist or athlete as a kid (or a "print" as an adult, ha)—it's the LOL dynamic that makes it weird ... i dont really think this is angsty white guilt parsing per se. a person who only used white athletes in their avatar would prob seem a lil suspect too
rolling "Is This Racist?" thread
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 13 October 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
thanks for finding that, i had the hubris to try opening a 9400 posts here and then chrome took ten minutes to crash
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 13 October 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link