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we're all at our limit right? can i assume that or
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i feel like the boeing whistleblower case should radicalize more people. a major airline company is producing planes with less and less regard for safety and it's starting to get noticeable. man takes them to court, which would reduce profit at the cost of public safety. he fucking dies the night that boeings legal team asks him to stay an extra day. if nothing happens about this, i hope it gets through to people that america would literally kill you for a few extra cents
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‘show me the meaning of being lonely’ > ‘it’s gotta be you’ is the funniest sequencing lmao you’re like trying to stop crying and then you get jolted out your skin
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backstreet boys fans have it in for their own favorite group or something because this isn’t what howie is MOST known for come on now
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fuck you you absolute piece of trash
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what if all executives died
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And, in truth, as excellent as their 5-part harmonies were, they weren’t the first group to do it (of course lmao) and won’t be the last. I thought they would always be timeless to me, but maybe this experience has lifted those rose-colored glasses for me too. I still think they’re the best of their stripe, but not quite as irreplaceable as I had once considered them. In fact, the piece that is staying with me the most is this video of Nick performing his song Falling Down as a dedication to his sister Leslie two days after her passing - because it is just so haunting.
me having a very sad spiral about the backstreet boys and abuse in the entertainment industry under the cut - but the tldr is that no children should work in this industry ever
TW: Discussions of abuse/SA
I went down a Backstreet Boys rabbit hole - I was such a huge fan as a kid and they defined how I listen to and appreciate music. I’ve been staying at my family home and the CD for their first album has just been sitting out on a table in my old room for some reason so I think seeing it repeatedly made me want to get some nostalgia in (although I had firmly closed that door after Brian went full QAnon).
But god!!!! Oh god - the horrors. Nick Carter is doing a lot of gross darvo countersuing of survivors who are taking him to court for assaulting them - and just going down a rabbit hole of reading about his life and these court cases and… like obviously, there is no inevitably that people will become violent abusers, but he… was never really set up for success. So much abuse in his life, such a strong family disposition towards substance abuse, a horrific clip of all the members after being newly signed completely wasted and actively still drinking at lou pearlman’s house - nick was 13 - and then such deep-rooted parental issues. There’s a clip of Aaron Carter and their mother on tiktok live where she is just tearing Nick apart for not supporting the family (when, again, his money and fame is what was exploited from the get go), Aaron says how his love was conditional on Aaron going to therapy and their mother losing weight, their mother complains about how Nick chose not to sing on the last track of Millenium, which is like an ode to their moms (I never realized he was absent from it, honestly), and then their mom talks about how Nick told her the day before Aaron was signed to their record label that she shouldn’t allow it because Lou Pearlman had molested him (Nick). And Aaron is surprised to hear this, and their mom frames it as Nick being jealous of Aaron and wanting to ruin his chances, but there is a Vanity Fair article where his mother confirms that something did indeed happen and they stepped in.
It’s just such a sad, sad, sad situation. Both Nick and Aaron were survivors of immense abuse, but they were also both predators as well - and their IMMENSE power is something forever at the forefront of all my thinking on this even if I am literally weeping over how horrific it is that they were so brutally exploited as children and how lasting the consequences of that were.
Their sister Angel sums it up really well here - the way the influx of money and fame into a vulnerable family just tipped it all over.
There’s a more recent clip of him and Brian arguing and he snaps at him and goes “I’m not afraid of you anymore” and Brian goes “You were afraid of me before?” like kind of incredulous, and all the comments on the YouTube video of that clip are like lmao such a funny exchange, but there’s one commenter that points out that that coming so out of left field makes it seem like a kneejerk trauma response, especially as it’s something Aaron also said to Nick in their reality show years ago. When Nick was a minor, Brian acted in loco parentis (which is bonkers - Brian himself was 18), and so I think they (all) have a very very weird, intricate web of relationships with each other, with money at its center. I’m sure they loved each other and all that, but unconditionally loving someone and loving someone you seek to profit from are vastly different. This is the same concern I have with KPop members as kids moving into dorms.
Anyway, I… need to not listen to the Backstreet Boys. Not even just to avoid supporting them - it’s just not good for my heart. It’s too sad.
Children should not work in entertainment! This conversation is had a lot in KPop discussions, but the Carters are another distinct example of the potential consequences. Who was looking out for these kids? Like watching the music videos for Get Down or Quit Playing Games With My Heart - Nick is just an entire child. Spunky little twangy bundle of charisma. How tragic that things turned out this way. It didn’t need to happen - intentional choices were made.
I know - from these interviews - that Nick has tried to get mental health support for himself and his family. There still is clearly so much work to do. He has done so much harm and continues to do harm and he needs to be held to account because at the end of the day he is absolutely not remorseful at all about what he has done to his victims. And I’m like will he ever??? Not be horrible about this? How can an extremely wealthy 44 year-old man who has been told constantly that he’s cute and that everyone wants him and will do anything for him since he was 13 like wake the fuck up, I don’t know. Fame is a disease. But all abusers have this mentality where they manipulate the situation to absolve them of wrongdoing - famous or not.
Okay that is the last I will ever think about the Backstreet Boys lol. 8 year old me, we are laying this hyperfixation to rest, buddy.
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me having a very sad spiral about the backstreet boys and abuse in the entertainment industry under the cut - but the tldr is that no children should work in this industry ever
TW: Discussions of abuse/SA
I went down a Backstreet Boys rabbit hole - I was such a huge fan as a kid and they defined how I listen to and appreciate music. I’ve been staying at my family home and the CD for their first album has just been sitting out on a table in my old room for some reason so I think seeing it repeatedly made me want to get some nostalgia in (although I had firmly closed that door after Brian went full QAnon).
But god!!!! Oh god - the horrors. Nick Carter is doing a lot of gross darvo countersuing of survivors who are taking him to court for assaulting them - and just going down a rabbit hole of reading about his life and these court cases and… like obviously, there is no inevitably that people will become violent abusers, but he… was never really set up for success. So much abuse in his life, such a strong family disposition towards substance abuse, a horrific clip of all the members after being newly signed completely wasted and actively still drinking at lou pearlman’s house - nick was 13 - and then such deep-rooted parental issues. There’s a clip of Aaron Carter and their mother on tiktok live where she is just tearing Nick apart for not supporting the family (when, again, his money and fame is what was exploited from the get go), Aaron says how his love was conditional on Aaron going to therapy and their mother losing weight, their mother complains about how Nick chose not to sing on the last track of Millenium, which is like an ode to their moms (I never realized he was absent from it, honestly), and then their mom talks about how Nick told her the day before Aaron was signed to their record label that she shouldn’t allow it because Lou Pearlman had molested him (Nick). And Aaron is surprised to hear this, and their mom frames it as Nick being jealous of Aaron and wanting to ruin his chances, but there is a Vanity Fair article where his mother confirms that something did indeed happen and they stepped in.
It’s just such a sad, sad, sad situation. Both Nick and Aaron were survivors of immense abuse, but they were also both predators as well - and their IMMENSE power is something forever at the forefront of all my thinking on this even if I am literally weeping over how horrific it is that they were so brutally exploited as children and how lasting the consequences of that were.
Their sister Angel sums it up really well here - the way the influx of money and fame into a vulnerable family just tipped it all over.
There’s a more recent clip of him and Brian arguing and he snaps at him and goes “I’m not afraid of you anymore” and Brian goes “You were afraid of me before?” like kind of incredulous, and all the comments on the YouTube video of that clip are like lmao such a funny exchange, but there’s one commenter that points out that that coming so out of left field makes it seem like a kneejerk trauma response, especially as it’s something Aaron also said to Nick in their reality show years ago. When Nick was a minor, Brian acted in loco parentis (which is bonkers - Brian himself was 18), and so I think they (all) have a very very weird, intricate web of relationships with each other, with money at its center. I’m sure they loved each other and all that, but unconditionally loving someone and loving someone you seek to profit from are vastly different. This is the same concern I have with KPop members as kids moving into dorms.
Anyway, I… need to not listen to the Backstreet Boys. Not even just to avoid supporting them - it’s just not good for my heart. It’s too sad.
Children should not work in entertainment! This conversation is had a lot in KPop discussions, but the Carters are another distinct example of the potential consequences. Who was looking out for these kids? Like watching the music videos for Get Down or Quit Playing Games With My Heart - Nick is just an entire child. Spunky little twangy bundle of charisma. How tragic that things turned out this way. It didn’t need to happen - intentional choices were made.
I know - from these interviews - that Nick has tried to get mental health support for himself and his family. There still is clearly so much work to do. He has done so much harm and continues to do harm and he needs to be held to account because at the end of the day he is absolutely not remorseful at all about what he has done to his victims. And I’m like will he ever??? Not be horrible about this? How can an extremely wealthy 44 year-old man who has been told constantly that he’s cute and that everyone wants him and will do anything for him since he was 13 like wake the fuck up, I don’t know. Fame is a disease. But all abusers have this mentality where they manipulate the situation to absolve them of wrongdoing - famous or not.
Okay that is the last I will ever think about the Backstreet Boys lol. 8 year old me, we are laying this hyperfixation to rest, buddy.
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The 1997 Nickelodeon Big Help-A-Thon photographed by Jeff Kravitz (October 1997).
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congress wants to ban THIS????
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are yall not embarrassed to be saying shit like “sorry for not caring about the suffering of other people in the world but i have stuff going on in my life” like… you can simply keep that to yourself bro you dont have to do this uwu validation shit. nobody’s holding a gun to your head forcing you to mainline aljazeera 24/7
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Pro Palestine protest is taking place in Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, as the Oscars 2024 kicks off
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royal trio vs shujin trio
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