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Can y’all pleeeeeeeeeeease deplatform SAn celebrities. They are only in our faces due to the strength of the attention they get online. Them being dragged is sold as engagement to brands. You want a new gen of mainstream celebrities? Trim the grass and burn the shed!
Simple steps to deplatforming (cuz it’s not as dramatic as people make it seem)
- Unfollow.
- Mute
- If they trend and you want to comment, quote/reply to a tweet about the topic from someone else. Not directly on their account
- Don’t even like a tweet that directly @‘s
- Unfollow.
- Mute
- If they trend and you want to comment, quote/reply to a tweet about the topic from someone else. Not directly on their account
- Don’t even like a tweet that directly @‘s
- Don’t read articles about them either. Platforms who give them a platform must see they don’t bring in the numbers. Rather find who did/do a screenshot or summarize it in a post of your own not tagging the publication or the celebrity.
When they get bolder with the attention seeking to try and get their engagement back up just ignore them. Like that Bantu knots thing with Minnie it just half of AKA’s tweets are a good example of how they’ll trigger you with nonsense then just not address it. Scroll wena.
- You don’t necessarily have to stop watching their shows or streaming their music if you don’t want to. It’s about traffic and engagement as a personal brand largely determined by social media. Every celebrity and influencer gets paid/hired based on this. They WILL feel it.
- Spam them. That creating fake celeb hashtags to sell atchaar is clever. Now take it up a notch. Next time bo mang mang tweet kaak, spam their mentions with nothing but your atchaar. Not even a “
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">”, just business. Steal their traffic and engagement to benefit your bank account
....when that tweet gets embedded on a website for a story then guess who gets free advertising and traffic to their business?
- Also, this is important, go and unfollow them on Instagram too. That’s the big money stuff. I know y’all don’t see half their posts anyway so just unfollow or mute.
- if you don’t want to unfollow on Instagram then that’s also fine. But just make sure you do NOT engage with their paid for/sponsored post. No likes. No comments. No saving. This will reduce how much they can charge brands for said posts in future.
And what will you do with all this extra space on your feed? Go directly and follow any emerging celebrity/personality/artist who you may have heard about and think is cool but just haven’t given them that follow click. Fill your feed with people who inspire you, not trigger.
This only really works if it’s done in the masses tbh. So it’s like a group project and that’s why many people call deplatforming useless. But we do not have the luxury of an entertainment/creative industry with enough opportunity to go around.
A lot of us only give a select group our attention cuz isn’t like we have time every day. But if we want new talent on major platforms who are responsible, ethical or just deserving of their fame then we must create them. Eventually (not immediately) it will shift
And bonus tip: stop wasting your data on dragging them. I get you guys are trying to educate them sometimes. But when they get to the brand/tv/international deals, they go there with just numbers and not the comments.
I remember a certain actress getting dragged for not being able to act. Couple weeks later they showed her twitter analytics in a meeting of that same day of dragging saying she knows how to “spark engaging conversation amongst black youths”. That’s what they ALL do.
Bonus tip no. 2: if you think someone can’t act/doesn’t deserve a brand deal/is being irresponsible with their platforms then email or @ the company/brand/channel paying them! Then they’ll see your real comments. Go straight to the source. Their contract won’t be renewed
Conscious consumption is a chore. Definitely. But just like washing dishes, if you don’t do it daily then your whole house is gonna stink. So, although consumers don’t have all the power, we have enough. You aren’t obligated to cheer for celebrities who can’t even do their jobs!
