• Endorkend@kbin.social
    1113·
    1 year ago

    A onlyfans account would be more dignified than shilling for a company responsible for climate change

    That’s a comment on the video this is referencing to. And they ain’t wrong.

        • Armen12@lemm.eeEnglish
          322·
          1 year ago

          Shell doesn’t care and neither does Kari, this is like knocking down a trashcan and calling yourself an anarchist

          • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Well, it should hopefully effect if the video is recommended to other users.

            • Armen12@lemm.eeEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              People gave so many thumbs down to The Little Mermaid based solely on the fact that Halle Bailey was black and starring in it, those thumbs don’t mean much of anything. The comments though are great

      • papalonian@kbin.social
        28·
        1 year ago

        Man that’s really disappointing to see. I literally background watch mythbusters every night as I’m going to bed and I’ve loved the show since I was a kid. Hope the remainder of the crew continues to maintain their integrity.

        • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          471·
          1 year ago

          At least Adam Savage is a good dude. He is actively running his YouTube channel, and often answers various questions including personal ones.

          And I at least know that he has actively tweeted in support of LGBTQ+ rights. I highly doubt he would sell out for big oil.

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
            321·
            1 year ago

            Adam savage was openly supportive of trans people in like the aughts. He’s just been consistently a great guy

          • Agent641@lemmy.worldOP
            13·
            1 year ago

            It probably helps that he’s probably a millionaire and has some tremendous life achievements under his belt.

            • TigrisMorte@kbin.social
              325·
              1 year ago

              Notice how no one spent any consideration for the fact that she is a broke Actor as opposed to a Millionaire. Hate the message not the messenger.

              • spacecowboy
                272·
                1 year ago

                I’m much more broke than she is and far less marketable. She didn’t need to do that.

                • norbert@kbin.social
                  14·
                  1 year ago

                  Seriously, using that logic you can justify anything. There are gradations of “poor” and we all sell a little bit of ourselves to make money but just going all out to shill for oil companies in the midst of a serious climate crisis is beyond the pale.

                  Kari is less a poor exploited worker and more of an eager grifter. I wonder how much of this Kari really believes. Do we sympathize with every hack trying to sell a book or radio show?

              • nednobbins@lemm.ee
                162·
                1 year ago

                Various sites estimate her net wealth between $1.5 and $2 million.

                While that you can argue if that makes her rich, it definitely makes her a millionaire and she’s certainly not broke.

                • TigrisMorte@kbin.social
                  17·
                  1 year ago

                  You have no clue what she owes nor whom. 45 was a billionaire despite owing the Russian Mob billions more than his holdings.

      • FunkyMonk@kbin.social
        191·
        1 year ago

        Thank you downvote pluggis, YIKES, I didn’t need to watch more than a second because I’ve never seen something bomb that low and still be up on YT.

      • Armen12@lemm.eeEnglish
        17·
        1 year ago

        Wow that’s something else, not gonna lie. I know someone else whose supposed to be a historian who now does ads for BP

        These companies are truly terrible

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
    412·
    1 year ago

    Never meet your heroes.

    I really feel that people really puts too much reverence into the words and actions of celebrities, and are disappointed when they are not the person who they appeared to be.

    But, if you take a step back and actually think about it, you see these people on your screen every day, do you know who these people really are? Most of you have never met these people before in your life!

    The person see on your screen in image and text form is not the actual person, but projections of the person behind the screen (a character, if you will). That’s what social media is, and that’s what all media are, you present your character to to the rest of the world and tries to sell the life of that character you made up. Of course, when the projection of the character in front of screen doesn’t match up with the person behind the character (Ellen, Cordon, Brand, now Kari Byron, etc.), of course you would feel cheated.

    Maybe that’s why I’m here. I don’t want anything out of you other than to laugh at my shitty jokes, and I don’t really have anything to sell you other than some dumb movies. It’s rare to find that these days, and that’s really all there is to it.

    After all, you are who you choose to be, so, I try to be someone better, someone you know that you can be proud of, and if you are still reading this, I do expect you to do your best, so I can be proud of you too.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
      221·
      1 year ago

      Met Bill Nye the science douche and yeah… anyone that wants to be as famous as that probably should have expected them to not be a good person.

      • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        1 year ago

        Man he was totally cool when I met him. Probably when you’re famous you have days when you can handle people coming up to you and days you can’t.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 year ago

        I’ve also heard that people are really weird around him. Childhood fans asking really esoteric science questions about their fields.

        • Krauerking@lemy.lol
          7·
          1 year ago

          He came into my class to teach do a guest lecture. Rambled incoherently about space and with bad science then tried to turn it inspirational and gave up after 15 minutes at most and left unceremoniously. It was a waste of time for those of us there to study physics.

          And then he was a guest speaker at an event, absolutely took over and made the night entirely about him. Was a douche about water straight up called me a moron in front of hundreds of people because he asked a question poorly and I lowered my hand.

          A professional friend in the planetary science space who is far to old to be a fan, hates him from a birthday party for ray bradbury so he’s been a douche for a while and not just to fans

      • 🐍🩶🐢@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        I had him for my college graduation and I felt privileged to have someone who had such a large impact on my childhood there. Really great speaker and definitely gave off the cool vibe. I didn’t get to meet him 1-1, but I think a lot of it is subjective, how the person is that day, and the setting. Obviously if someone has done terrible things, especially sexual or abusive, they don’t get a pass.

    • The Pantser@lemmy.world
      20·
      1 year ago

      I met Ben Heck at MRRF and he cooked me lunch. Nice humble guy that does a lot for the disabled gaming community. Now I know he’s not a huge celebrity but he’s been on TV and has had multiple shows.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
      13·
      1 year ago

      Yep. I think the term for it a parasocial interaction.

      None of these people are our friends. They’re just people on our TV screens, or other devices. Many of them are actors and are simply acting in a way that makes them likeable. Some of them are good people, others aren’t. There’s no way of knowing based on what we see on our screens.

      If something on a screen is entertaining, that’s good. You’ve been entertained, you got the product you wanted. But that in no way indicates anything about the people that created the product, good or bad.

      Also if you find out that someone that makes that entertainment product is a shitty person and that negatively affects the entertainment value of the product, just find entertainment elsewhere. That is a normal and healthy way to handle it. People may characterize this to be “cancel culture” but those people are either weirdos or people in show business who have an incentive to continue this idea that the audience is somehow obligated to watch the things they put out.

      • mommykink@lemmy.world
        131·
        1 year ago

        $1.5M is a comically low net worth for someone in her position with the career she had. Imagine hosting the largest show on a network like Discovery for more than a decade and being worth less than a regional fast food chain owner. Your comment put this whole thing into a different perspective to me.

      • mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world
        82·
        1 year ago

        That seems really low for even a minor celebrity. But I imagine there’s some royalty from the show that will keep coming over the next few years.

        I work in tech and between my wife & I, our networth is over $3MM. We’re in our 40s. A big chunk of that is in our house, which we paid much less for and it has appreciated over the last 5 years. This increase in networth due to the house we live in does nothing to improve our day-to-day life, it just makes property taxes higher. I absolutely still need to work to be able to put food on the table. I mean, I can probably afford to not work for a year or so, but if I live until 80+, I still have 40 years of expenses that I need to save up for. so I will need to keep working. There are also some nice things that I want to buy, like a solar panel system, which should help us lower our expenses over the longer term.

  • Spaz@lemmy.world
    172·
    1 year ago

    Can’t wait for her child to grow up and realize their mother shilled for Big Oil and they will suffer more than previous generations thanks to her.