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Post by Au$tin on Feb 3, 2019 23:32:14 GMT -5
On the flip side, though, people on Twitter should stop being the literal scum of the earth.
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Post by Fat Ass Kelly Price on Feb 3, 2019 23:33:51 GMT -5
Point is she shouldn’t be taking it so deep. It’s freaking twitter. Like really? Let people talk. On some level, yes. But when you’re flooded with tweets about ODing and being a crackhead after an innocuous tweet, it’s going to be frustrating. Furthermore, I fail to see how I’m supposed to be upset at her for a reasonable reaction to people being shitty behind a keyboard. It’s not even about Demi tbh. This is just one of the things I hate about social media these days.
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Post by spooky21 on Feb 4, 2019 2:37:10 GMT -5
I personally don't find her tweet innocent. The dude was detained by ICE and will in all likelihood get deported if the claim is true. This is not a funny event in his life. People on social media, being as mean as they are, are making fun of it and creating memes. She publicly goes and kiiis about it, saying those very memes are the funniest thing about the Superbowl.
That is laughing at someone's else misfortune.....in the same way people were laughing at her misfortune.
If 21 Savage gets deported, he's literally will be barred from the US for the rest of his life, the country where he has now built his life and career for 13 years. Not only that, he likely won't be able to travel to a significant number of countries because he has been criminally indicted/found guilty of immigration fraud in the most powerful country on earth. The loss of freedom to travel and work sucks. As a performer, doubly so.
This isn't funny stuff for his life.
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Post by SHOOTER on Feb 4, 2019 3:05:55 GMT -5
As someone else said, I cannot correlate the two since the punchline of the 21 memes has nothing to do with deportation but I also feel like there’s a significant difference in poking fun at someone suffering from the ramifications of a legitimate disease vs. someone suffering the consequences of lying and breaking the law. Yes, deportation is very serious but if 21 knowingly overstayed his visa, what did he think would happen should he get caught?
And for all the “Demi knowingly did drugs” arguments, that is true but addiction and mental health are mitigating factors in those instances that aren’t easily controlled. I’d like to hear 21’s excuse for not having a visa as well as not being honest in general about his origins and background (unless it was purely to avoid his lack of a proper visa coming to light).
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Post by spooky21 on Feb 4, 2019 3:21:57 GMT -5
As someone else said, I cannot correlate the two since the punchline of the 21 memes has nothing to do with deportation but I also feel like there’s a significant difference in poking fun at someone suffering from the ramifications of a legitimate disease vs. someone suffering the consequences of lying and breaking the law. Yes, deportation is very serious but if 21 knowingly overstayed his visa, what did he think would happen should he get caught? And for all the “Demi knowingly did drugs” arguments, that is true but addiction and mental health are mitigating factors in those instances that aren’t easily controlled. I’d like to hear 21’s excuse for not having a visa as well as not being honest in general about his origins and background (unless it was purely to avoid his lack of a proper visa coming to light). I don't think one needs to correlate the two to recognize that this is a big misfortune is his life and perhaps have some compassion for it. He's 26 which means he would have come to the US in 2005 as a minor at 13. God knows what kind of circumstances led his family to overstay their visa and that he couldn't correct it legally when he became an adult. However, this is the story of millions of immigrants in the US right now. He has managed to build a life here and it will mostly all be striped away and lost if he gets deported and barred from the US. I just find it curious that she would openly participate in it given her circumstances and how social media has treated her in the past. Odd lack of empathy. ETA: Crime was probably why he couldn't apply for legal residency. Reports are saying he was born in Dominica, an island in the Caribbean and former British colony. Haitian dad was a crack dealer. 21 Savage moved to the US a young kid and spent most of his young life dealing drugs and doing crime on the streets in Atlanta. 4 brothers and 6 sisters. Doesn't sound like life has been kind.
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Feb 4, 2019 3:54:45 GMT -5
Mia Khalifa dragged her hard
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Post by Khia on Feb 4, 2019 5:15:19 GMT -5
Mia Khalifa dragged her hard ...and people are dragging Mia hard for this tweet, rightfully. She really could've kept that take to herself.
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Post by Fat Ass Kelly Price on Feb 4, 2019 7:17:41 GMT -5
As someone else said, I cannot correlate the two since the punchline of the 21 memes has nothing to do with deportation but I also feel like there’s a significant difference in poking fun at someone suffering from the ramifications of a legitimate disease vs. someone suffering the consequences of lying and breaking the law. Yes, deportation is very serious but if 21 knowingly overstayed his visa, what did he think would happen should he get caught? And for all the “Demi knowingly did drugs” arguments, that is true but addiction and mental health are mitigating factors in those instances that aren’t easily controlled. I’d like to hear 21’s excuse for not having a visa as well as not being honest in general about his origins and background (unless it was purely to avoid his lack of a proper visa coming to light). I don't think one needs to correlate the two to recognize that this is a big misfortune is his life and perhaps have some compassion for it. He's 26 which means he would have come to the US in 2005 as a minor at 13. God knows what kind of circumstances led his family to overstay their visa and that he couldn't correct it legally when he became an adult. However, this is the story of millions of immigrants in the US right now. He has managed to build a life here and it will mostly all be striped away and lost if he gets deported and barred from the US. I just find it curious that she would openly participate in it given her circumstances and how social media has treated her in the past. Odd lack of empathy. ETA: Crime was probably why he couldn't apply for legal residency. Reports are saying he was born in Dominica, an island in the Caribbean and former British colony. Haitian dad was a crack dealer. 21 Savage moved to the US a young kid and spent most of his young life dealing drugs and doing crime on the streets in Atlanta. 4 brothers and 6 sisters. Doesn't sound like life has been kind. Again. The punchline wasn’t his unfortunate circumstance, unlike the punchlines of prior life events for her. It’s literally “wtf, 21 savage is British?!” I’m not sure how that warrants a dragging or correlates to anything concerning the ICE and deportation element of the story. No one was making fun of that. And the meme she shared illustrates that very clearly. Beyond that, I am curious to know the details concerning his detainment. As mentioned, he came over when he was barely a teen. Who knows if he even fully understood his legal status at that time, and he certainly had no choice in the matter. And it’s perplexing how he’s gotten to this point (international travel, arrests, etc) on an expired visa that was seemingly just discovered.
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Post by Fat Ass Kelly Price on Feb 4, 2019 7:33:21 GMT -5
This is a joke at the expense of 21 concerning his detainment and deportation [twitter url=“
Not a meme of him writing raps with a quill.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 11:58:59 GMT -5
twitter: has a cute kii that trends
Celebrity: openly partakes in the kii
twitter: HOW DARE U SPAWN OF SATAN YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED even though literally no one was offended until a famous person said something!!! WE'RE GOING TO DRAG YOU NOW FOR FORGETTING THAT CELEBRITIES AREN'T ALLOWED TO KII
Celebrity: deletes tweet to clean up her mentions and move on (alternately, apologizes for tweet)
twitter: YOU ARE A BITCH AND A COWARD FOR DELETING YOUR TWEET INSTEAD OF APOLOGIZING AND ACCEPTING YOUR DRAGGING LIKE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO (alternately, YOU ARE FAKE AS FUCK AND NO ONE BELIEVES THIS SORRY ASS LIE YOU CALL AN APOLOGY EVEN THOUGH IT'S WHAT WE DEMANDED FROM YOU) SO WE WILL CONTINUE TO DRAG EVEN HARDER
Meanwhile, stan twitter: OMG YOU HAVEN'T GIVEN US A SONG IN 23.78 DAYS YOU ARE SO FUCKING UNGRATEFUL I'VE BEEN DEFENDING YOU AGAINST THESE ASSHOLES AND YOU CAN'T GIVE ME A RETWEET BITCH YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE ENOUGH HITS TO ACT LIKE THIS YOU'RE SUCH A FLOP
I guess this is why I'll never be famous. Y'all would have me in the corner with Chrisette Michele for telling you all to suck my left tit and kiss my right ass cheek before I even get a whole album out.
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Post by Fat Ass Kelly Price on Feb 4, 2019 12:08:37 GMT -5
I would literally only use Twitter to drop promo tweets. Nun else.
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Feb 4, 2019 12:39:44 GMT -5
twitter: has a cute kii that trends Celebrity: openly partakes in the kii twitter: HOW DARE U SPAWN OF SATAN YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED even though literally no one was offended until a famous person said something!!! WE'RE GOING TO DRAG YOU NOW FOR FORGETTING THAT CELEBRITIES AREN'T ALLOWED TO KII Celebrity: deletes tweet to clean up her mentions and move on (alternately, apologizes for tweet) twitter: YOU ARE A BITCH AND A COWARD FOR DELETING YOUR TWEET INSTEAD OF APOLOGIZING AND ACCEPTING YOUR DRAGGING LIKE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO (alternately, YOU ARE FAKE AS f**k AND NO ONE BELIEVES THIS SORRY ASS LIE YOU CALL AN APOLOGY EVEN THOUGH IT'S WHAT WE DEMANDED FROM YOU) SO WE WILL CONTINUE TO DRAG EVEN HARDER Meanwhile, stan twitter: OMG YOU HAVEN'T GIVEN US A SONG IN 23.78 DAYS YOU ARE SO f**kinG UNGRATEFUL I'VE BEEN DEFENDING YOU AGAINST THESE ASSHOLES AND YOU CAN'T GIVE ME A RETWEET BITCH YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE ENOUGH HITS TO ACT LIKE THIS YOU'RE SUCH A FLOP I guess this is why I'll never be famous. Y'all would have me in the corner with Chrisette Michele for telling you all to suck my left tit and kiss my right ass cheek before I even get a whole album out. 2019 POTY
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 13:06:30 GMT -5
Demi’s Twitter is generally a steaming hot mess so her deleting it is for the best anyway. Completely separate from this situation.
Regarding 21, her intention may not have been malicious but as a celebrity, she shouldn’t have publically joined in on any of it point blank. Her isolating her humor to just him being British is also a messy save. That’s just a tidbit from a much larger, serious situation and something to maybe laugh about in private because she is s celebrity and a “peer”. I think the immediate reaction most people had was humorous but that changed once the deeper ramifications of it were thought about.
She didn’t mean harm so I do feel bad that she got herself in this mess. She also shouldn’t have responded to Wale because that made her look even worse.
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Feb 4, 2019 13:30:20 GMT -5
There is so much hypocrisy in all of this and people remain deaf on certain issues but love to yell when they see a village mob. You can look at every account that had something negative to say about Demi yet, they were the same ones creating the very memes that she was laughing at dealing with Sir 21 Savage.
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Post by stunnedout on Feb 4, 2019 13:57:42 GMT -5
There is so much hypocrisy in all of this and people remain deaf on certain issues but love to yell when they see a village mob. You can look at every account that had something negative to say about Demi yet, they were the same ones creating the very memes that she was laughing at dealing with Sir 21 Savage. I think celebrities (particularly ones with messy pasts) should tread lightly when it comes to publicly speaking about or making light of other celebrities and their misfortune. She could've sent that thought as a text to her group text, not to the world. It was insensitive, especially when I'm sure she didn't want any celebrity with a large platform to make light of her overdose.
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Post by Fat Ass Kelly Price on Feb 4, 2019 15:02:07 GMT -5
So today we learned that a celebrity having a different nationality than expected = overdose. Got it.
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Post by mcbg1 on Feb 4, 2019 17:33:54 GMT -5
I personally don't find her tweet innocent. The dude was detained by ICE and will in all likelihood get deported if the claim is true. This is not a funny event in his life. People on social media, being as mean as they are, are making fun of it and creating memes. She publicly goes and kiiis about it, saying those very memes are the funniest thing about the Superbowl. That is laughing at someone's else misfortune.....in the same way people were laughing at her misfortune. If 21 Savage gets deported, he's literally will be barred from the US for the rest of his life, the country where he has now built his life and career for 13 years. Not only that, he likely won't be able to travel to a significant number of countries because he has been criminally indicted/found guilty of immigration fraud in the most powerful country on earth. The loss of freedom to travel and work sucks. As a performer, doubly so. This isn't funny stuff for his life. Have you seen what he looks like? He is trash.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 21:34:00 GMT -5
I personally don't find her tweet innocent. The dude was detained by ICE and will in all likelihood get deported if the claim is true. This is not a funny event in his life. People on social media, being as mean as they are, are making fun of it and creating memes. She publicly goes and kiiis about it, saying those very memes are the funniest thing about the Superbowl. That is laughing at someone's else misfortune.....in the same way people were laughing at her misfortune. If 21 Savage gets deported, he's literally will be barred from the US for the rest of his life, the country where he has now built his life and career for 13 years. Not only that, he likely won't be able to travel to a significant number of countries because he has been criminally indicted/found guilty of immigration fraud in the most powerful country on earth. The loss of freedom to travel and work sucks. As a performer, doubly so. This isn't funny stuff for his life. Have you seen what he looks like? He is trash.
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Feb 5, 2019 2:11:22 GMT -5
Have you seen what he looks like? He is trash.
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Post by Choco on Feb 5, 2019 10:20:42 GMT -5
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Feb 5, 2019 12:15:08 GMT -5
I cannot with the dragging of her. She clearly made a point that the memes of 21 was funny, not his situation.
Meanwhile, the mfs who are so upset at her, are the same ones who created the damn pictures. There was no reason to bring up her issues, but Social Media can't help themselves with comprehension.
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Post by Choco on Feb 5, 2019 12:23:57 GMT -5
I actually thought the meme was funny.
People on Twitter find a new reason to be outraged every hour. I think the fact that she even acknowledged the thing at all made it worse. Maybe clear up the whole thing i.e. "not making fun of deportation, but the fact that this very American rapper is actually (and surprisingly) British". But deleting just means the haters won.
Plus deleting problematic tweets in the age of the screen capture? Own up to it. The screen grabs will live on forever anyways.
Not that I'm defending or understanding why people use her past struggles to get under her skin though. I've kinda just accepted that people are trash and the sooner you understand that and ignore the haters, the better.
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Post by mackattack on Feb 5, 2019 15:32:04 GMT -5
Twitter is full of a bunch of hypocrites. It’s all “mental health is important” until it’s time to bully someone for laughing at something that everyone was laughing at. They were on an Ariana witchhunt like two months ago for not taking mental health seriously enough, they’re still mourning Mac, yet Demi’s OD is a laughing matter? What the fuck? She literally did nothing wrong, it’s just blatant misogyny that they try and use fake woke logic to justify.
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Post by Caviar on Feb 5, 2019 20:07:36 GMT -5
Black Twitter is a toxic environment.
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Post by Choco on Feb 5, 2019 21:08:39 GMT -5
Black Twitter is a toxic environment. Cancellation culture is really getting out of control.
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Post by pnobelysk on Feb 5, 2019 23:44:31 GMT -5
Yeah Demi owes us nothing at this point. If she wants space from this then she gets space.
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Feb 15, 2019 10:05:19 GMT -5
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Post by Caviar on Feb 15, 2019 15:40:28 GMT -5
Stay strong Demi.
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Post by Soundcl🕤ck on Feb 15, 2019 15:42:56 GMT -5
People are awful!!! Especially those trolls on Twitter.
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Post by aussie1 on Feb 15, 2019 23:24:25 GMT -5
So sad wishing her the best.
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