everything tyler joseph tweeted about mental health is fair and valid. you absolutely should prioritize your mental health, you need to find things that can keep you grounded in tough times, and you never know what someone else may be going through. however, the problem is that+

with the context of what he tweeted previously, everything he tweeted afterwards felt hollow. it felt like an attempt to deflect accountability for his tone deaf joke, and an attempt to make people feel bad for being justifiably upset with him. there’s no denying that everything+

going on in america and the world right now is a LOT. it’s depressing. it’s overwhelming. it’s stressful. it’s hopeless. and it’s reasonable to need to take breaks from it all from time to time for your own mental health’s sake. but when you make fun of the people asking you to+

use your platform, and then go on to deflect from the issue and essentially say ‘it’s cool that you guys are advocating for BLM but all i really care about is mental health’ and double down on your insensitive joke, it doesn’t look like you tweeted all that out of a genuine care+

for mental health advocacy. it just looks like you tweeted it to try to save face and make your fans, your rightfully upset fans, feel bad about being upset with you. it’s not cool. i’m glad he ended up apologizing, saying BLM, and sharing the carrd that we have in our bio, but+

at this point it just feels like a PR stunt. i hope that he has genuinely learned from this, and will do better in the future. to anyone who reads this; absolutely prioritize your mental health, & do what you need for yourself when you’re struggling, but don’t use it as a way to+

avoid accountability when you do something that upsets someone. don’t invalidate the way your actions, whether intentional or not, make other people feel. your friends need to be able to be honest with you when you hurt them, and you need to be able to hear them and apologize. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💜" title="Violettes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Violettes Herz">