Keeping It Real
I’m in L.A. because I want to be on Instagram… The people who work nine-to-five, that is not me… I’m twenty fucking thousand dollars in debt from college… I am not work material. I will never be work material… I could never work a normal job.
Via Instapundit, a peep-hole into an alien subculture.
I’m not a hateful person. I’m a Sagittarius.
Also, open thread.
Question asked, answered.
Via Julia.
I’m not a hateful person. I’m a Sagittarius.
What did I just watch?
Sadly, nothing in the article indicates her politics, so we’ll never know.
What did I just watch?
It’s not really my, er, milieu, but from what I can make out, when not “coming up with ideas for social media,” i.e., choosing what to wear for her next photograph of herself, or bragging about her Gucci bag and dismissing people as “fake,” Ms Taylor is also a rapper.
Now excuse me while I drop some beats.
Sadly, nothing in the article indicates her politics,
I doubt the self-absorption leaves room for much else.
Well of course she’s a rapper. She hasn’t actually been convicted of anything.
If she had, she’d be an aspiring rapper.
So far as I can tell – and it’s quite hard to care – Ms Taylor’s crisis-inducing loss of Instagram access was at least partly a result of referring to a friend’s girlfriend as ‘ghetto trash’ or a ‘hood rat’ or something to that effect. The aforementioned keeping it real.
It’s quite a thing, though, to see an overindulged young woman mimic what I suppose might be called rap-slag culture, resulting in an inadvertent parody of what is, it seems to me, already an inadvertent parody. It’s terribly postmodern.
The Instagram influencer…
Let me stop you right there.
On the upside, it makes blogging seem almost respectable.
It’s all happy-clappy and inclusive until it turns, as it must, into a woker-than-thou shakedown.
On the upside, it makes blogging seem almost respectable.
Almost.
It’s all happy-clappy and inclusive until it turns, as it must, into a woker-than-thou shakedown.
I knew you’d be onto that in a flash. 🙂
I knew you’d be onto that in a flash. 🙂
Er, if you don’t mind, I’m trying to project an air of inscrutable mystique.
Sadly, her account was deleted in error. But at least we’ve learned about the type of person she is.
https://www.thisisinsider.com/controversial-influencers-instagram-account-deleted-in-error-2019-4
“Jessy Taylor, public figure”
rap-slag culture
Band name.
She said she liked the UK because she believes people there are less judgmental and that’s where her bigger fanbase is.
Good luck with that.
Also, she said, “guys are hotter there.”
I couldn’t possibly comment.
She said she liked the UK because she believes people there are less judgmental
Interesting theory.
More seriously – and I appreciate I’m probably on the wrong blog to start a comment like that – I think a lot of Twitter superstars are going to wake up one day and find the platform either gone or busy removing them or their followers from it. Like this hussy with the Instagram account, you can spend years building up a profile and have it yanked on the whim of some panicked employee of the hosting company. And that’s before the government starts putting its beak in with regulations of this industry. Did Miss Hussy pay tax on the $500k she reportedly earned?
The one advantage blogs have, while not getting anywhere near the reach and influence of a Twitter account, is you actually own it. Bloggers should play the long game because when the tech-tonic plates shift, we might be the last ones standing.
Like this hussy with the Instagram account, you can spend years building up a profile…
You’d think there were only so many ways you could photograph your own arse.
$20,000 in college debt? Did she quit after one term?
Every article about this that I saw previously, she appeared rather skanky but not such that I understood wtf this was about. Your link, however does have the bikini shots. She has big boobs. Now I understand.
She has big boobs. Now I understand.
I’m a stickler for context.
Totally balanced individual then.
I think “media influencer” is this year’s “community organizer”.
Basically, finding a job title for people who haven’t actually had jobs.
Sadly, nothing in the article indicates her politics, so we’ll never know.
On the off chance this statement was not sarcasm, I’ll point out that the subject in question is concurrently complaining that her account was targetted by “haters” for no reason, and refusing to discuss her “streams of racist comments” at the same time.
That type of behaviour is the hallmark of the SJW (social justice warrior) type, which defines her political leanings fairly easily.
Totally balanced individual then.
I quite like the juxtaposition of Ms Taylor’s woes with the item immediately below it, which at present is What If the Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Exploded in Space?
In terms of drama, it’s almost equivalent.
Claims to make 500 large over three years, but sill has 25 in college debt. Pick one.
Except for the very few that actually have any knowledge of fashion, music, or whatever, and are capable of actually influencing someone else, it is this year’s “peep show girl”. “Send me a money and you can see my bewbs”. I think they are also supposed to be easy on the eyes, which this one isn’t.
Begone e-THOT.
What If the Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Exploded in Space?
This, only bigger.
I’m twenty fucking thousand dollars in debt from college…
And so she buys a Gucci bag.
What could possibly go wrong when you are this Woke™ ?
Well, it says also open thread…
If you like your bicycle seat, you can keep your bicycle seat.
Turbulence will be interesting, though.
This just in:
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly.
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly.
Why did no one tell me until now? Does it have any cool uniforms or flags?
I might try telling my wife she’s a fascist dictator but I’ll think I’ll leave it ’til after we’ve seen the first episode of GoT.
Mixed messages.
think I’ll leave it ‘til after we’ve seen the first episode of GoT.
No spoilers. Viewing this evening.
Also, for those interested in such things, Bosch season five begins on Friday 19th.
No spoilers. Viewing this evening.
There are tits.
There are tits.
[ Faints with indignation. ]
Except for the very few that actually have any knowledge of fashion, music, or whatever, and are capable of actually influencing someone else…
The venerable It Girl market has been deregulated, with media executives no longer being the starmakers. So much the better for opportunity and diversity. And yeah, most of them will end up with no more followers than any moderately attractive young woman on social media, and with no takers for their curated ranges of branded tchotchkes.
I think “media influencer” is this year’s “community organizer”.
As I’ve told rather a lot of millenials – all girls – cosplay is a not a career. YouTube busking is not a career. It’s an expensive hobby that you might be able to recoup some of the costs on if people like your stuff.
It’s as bad as the 90’s, when I had to keep telling young geeks that ‘game designer’ wasn’t a career either.
European Christians have nothing to be proud of or to want to pass on to their descendants. If they don’t have any descendants, so much the better – they can be replaced by people who aren’t the cancer of human history. Theirs is a shameful legacy of crusades and and inquisitions.
Tearing down monuments is what the good people are doing deliberately these days. So why get upset over an old church burning down? What goes up in its place can be more representative of the French people of the 21st century, an important proportion of whom have no roots connecting them to medieval Paris.
If this wasn’t an accident, and the saboteurs were youknowwhatms, the media and the authorities will go all out to stop the story coming out, with the kind of censorship that hasn’t been seen since WW2. It’ll be the coverup of the century, and it won’t even be necessary. There’s no backlash waiting to happen. If the French can take a priest’s throat being slit at the altar, what’s a little property damage?
If this wasn’t an accident,
Here.
…added that the fire started by accident.
I’ll withhold judgement, not that I expect the truth given the rash of recent French mysterious church and cathedral fires which are all apparently spontaneous combustion events.
Regardless, as much as the fire is terrible, Monte Cassino before and after, and Monte Cassino now. Same with the Cologne cathedral, and countless other historical buildings that got damaged in WWII.
I understand why Coventry cathedral wasn’t rebuilt, but Notre Dame can be rebuilt as long as the French want to, and don’t turn it into some bland mess like the contraption at the site of the World Trade Center.
According to Ace (translation I think) “Some good news: All the works of art have been saved. The treasures of the cathedral are intact, the crown of thorns, the saints
scacrements”
Which I think would indicate that renovations were going on and quite possibly fire was a concern. I’m no authority on French or maybe Parisian regulation but my money would be on more likely a failure of the permitting or regulatory process that failed to prevent a failure by those actually doing the work. Not necessarily fair to blame the government but if the government has significantly burdensome regulations that still fail…well nobody’s perfect. Some people just think they are. Sad either way.
Here in central Florida we had a 2000 year old tree get burned down when some skank bogarted her joint. Or so one of her stories went.
Glad to hear the relics and art were saved.
Theirs is a shameful legacy of crusades and and inquisitions.
I’m not fond of the French, but that’s a bit much.
I’m not fond of the French, but that’s a bit much.
That Eddy person might have been attempting sarcasm. If so, it was clumsy and ill-suited to the moment.
…but that’s a bit much.
I’m hoping he was being sarcastic.
Fire is apparently out and the bell towers and basic structure are saved.
Macron (for whatever that is worth) says it will be rebuilt.
I’m no authority on French or maybe Parisian regulation but my money would be on more likely a failure of the permitting or regulatory process that failed to prevent a failure by those actually doing the work.
I wouldn’t be surprised. Most jobs in France are union controlled. Extended breaks, lunches, and vacations are the rule. You don’t work overtime unless it has been pre-cleared and booked. When your shift is over you’re expected to leave. It wouldn’t be surprising to see an end/beginning of shift issue crop up and create potential safety issues. (To be clear, I’m not saying that’s what happened.)
My friend runs a pharma sales/marketing group in France and while they’re not unionized, he says many of them treat their jobs as if they were.
All the same, it sounds like the emergency teams did an incredible job bringing the fire under control. They are to be commended.
It’s as bad as the 90’s, when I had to keep telling young geeks that ‘game designer’ wasn’t a career either.
Actually, that’s what I was thinking of, as I read the first part of your comment. And yes, game designer is a career, a very real one. As is game developer.
Game player, however, is not a career choice. I knew quite a number of twenty somethings in the 1990s who jumped into the video game meat grinder, saw them work 12-16 hour days for weeks on end, and usually for very low pay, but with the promise of riches “once it sells a million copies”.
I would say that 95% or more of them dropped out within two years. There’s a difference between playing a game for enjoyment, and playing it looking for bugs, filling in bug and performance reports, and playing the same level thirty different times, on twenty different PCs, with fifteen different video cards, over and over and over again.
The attraction usually wore off within a month. And then they started complaining it was too much like work. Well, that’s why they call it work.
The most common complaint was that after playing video games all day, the last thing they wanted to do once they got home was play another one…