#backlash in pr

[claymorexpunisher]

#👁️🫦👁️ #damian priest #damian ‘papi punishment’ priest #✨mi amorsote papacote hermoso✨ #✨señor campeón mundial✨ #🏹my world heavyweight (papi) champion🏹 #wwe backlash 2023 #backlash in pr

[thirstyvampyr]

I dont even have an insta account, I'm using a VPN and these fuckers hate it when they can't steal your data so they deactivate any account I make in 24 hours. And then ask for a picture of my face to unlock it, fuck off.

But I did visit barry’s insta every chance I could, it was refreshing to see the old posts. Probably the least fake celeb I've ever seen. His pr team sucks. First the hypersexualisation, the weird ass romance plot and now this? Let this man live on his own terms, he was doing just fine before yall saw he was white boy of the month and dug your claws in.

Idk it’s none of my business but I just don't wanna see him crash and burn because they have him doing too much. He looks progressively more exhausted everytime he pops up with a new photoshoot. Like u can put make up on him I can still see it. Come home barry the kids miss you, spend a few weeks hidden in ireland to rest a little.

#barry keoghan #how very parasocial of me #what if he got backlash because of the stylist and the pr team freaked out and deleted everything #i just want to put him in my pocket and protect him

[privateandshamefulvices]

Crazy to me that most pop history stuff about the Diamond Necklace Affair has the anti-MA backlash portrayed as just completely delusional misogynistic xenophobia, and doesn't at all mention the impact of the botched public branding of Jeanne de la Motte on public opinion.

#obviously misogynistic xenophobia was involved lol #but the pr disaster of having some woman tortured in public #is really just hardly mentioned and it was a significant contributor to the backlash #the affair of the diamond necklace #frev

[ilostyou]

i’m sooo confused by this weird chunk of the internet insisting that taylor is this awful person all because she didn’t like. worship celine dion on stage

#listen celine dion is wildly talented and yes iconic but djkfjdkf ??? the backlash is ridiculous #my hot take is she doesn’t owe her anything she’s just hanging taylor the award 😭 like #it’s not like celine was the one who picked her to win or something she was literally just. picked to read off a paper #and sure it’s a big deal bc she’s not out and about as much bc of her health issues but ???? #people are so cranky it’s ridiculous #just. like. she was clearly excited and literally frenzied lol it seemed (v obviously) that she was just focused on getting everyone up #on stage w her and actually accepting the award smfksnkd it’s not that deep #and for all the people crying pr save backstage with the photo after. boohoo!

[goongiveusnothing]

Well said!!! Also, the harries on that blog! They’re obsessed!! 🤡

unless harry changes up his entire PR strategy, starts saying interesting or culturally relevant things, he's little more than a cultural court jester for teeny girls. if he couldn't get nominated on time's person of the year this year after winning AOTY, then what on earth would he have to do to get it next year? he's not gonna win another AOTY next year. any album he releases will be derivative and likely sell to the young tweens but not expand on his market or actually be commercially interesting or different. he's not gonna manage to say anything interesting about any of the major social issues of our times because he never has in 13 years of being famous. he's still gonna be a zionist, still spending time with transphobes, still getting hair transplants, still saying wishy washy nothings about LGBT rights, still making out with random women every other month, still wearing hideous and culturally forgettable clothing items, still being a shitty actor. why would he be considered groundbreaking when he was totally forgotten about this year too?

that's why his omission this year is actually interesting, because you'd think he had a cultural impact if you just heard the stats. but as those of us on these blogs have been saying, harry's cultural impact is limited to the very small scope of the very small type of fans he has. beyond that nobody gives a shit. nobody outside his cult of tweens is listening to his music, buying his merch, buying his pleasing, talking about his talents or anything he says. he's just like a children's entertainer, beyond what he offers these girls, nothing he does has any impact at all and is instantly forgettable.

#when justin timberlake was at his peak #his music was everywhere #and not just with little girls with glitter feather boas #but with grown adults #and justin's movie career was way more successful #his SNL career with dick in a box had a huge impact #he could also dance #unless harry starts showing real personality #and courage #but he won't #he doesn't know how to exist like that #because he needs everything he does to be a PR scheme #he doesn't know how to exist as a person who just cares #about changing the world #and being brave enough to take positions #that might lose him fans or cause a backlash among the right wing #he's a moral coward

[lily-blue-blue-lily]

just saw a comment on an instagram post of a paparazzi photo of taylor swift and her new bf saying "we're already getting better content from him than joe gave us ever" and i just??? theyre real people?? its a paparazzi photo?? theyre not "giving you content" they are simply just existing???

#i know some people thinks its just a pr stunt #and maybe it is #but still #the way information about t swift and this new bf is literally unavoidable at the moment #my dad was literally talking about it the other day and he knows nothing about pop music or nfl #also swifties reaction to this relationship is actually disgusting #like i thought they liked taylor? #why are they talking about her like shes some fictional character? #and the backlash this poor guy is gonna get if they break up is gonna be unbearable #ive been so done with social media lately #(hence me being almost entirely inactive on here for like a week and a half) #and tbh the way the world is reacting to this relationship has been part of that

[fewwawifwiends]

mclaren really did make their bed and now they have to lay in it. let's not pretend that them signing daniel was not in part due to the pr happy hour they'd have with dts's star (second only to guenther) and that attracted all of us daniel fans to the team and now all the new fans they got are dropping like flies because they've done a shit job of getting anyone to care about the team instead of the drivers individually. and i'm happy to see them trying to salvage that loss.

#feel bad for their social media and pr teams though #they've done nothing wrong and they'll face all the backlash #while anyone who actually had a say in this will sit in their comfortable offices #not really sweating about it #so yeah #am i petty? fuck yes #mclaren #f1 #daniel ricciardo #theo rambles

[kunfetti]

I’m losing my mind over this defense of Cookie by NewJeans. Literally what rock did they find these English professors/native speakers under???

#literally this is a terrible response to backlash #like holy shit where's their PR person #newjeans #addy.txt

[chocobijou]

And when he get on he leave your ass for a white girl...

#song hye kyo #song joong ki #idc he can do what he want but korea is conservative as hell hes getting off too easy #he made this announcement so close to 'the glory' airing too what a weirdo #song song was a PR ass couple #but idk this whole situation is very weird to me #a woman could not have done the same without major backlash #godspeed to song hye kyo when she dates again

[justalildance]

After the article got released, I feel like everyone is now waking up and seeing the stunt for what it is

#stunt #pr stunt #holivia is fake #fauxlivia #the amount of backlash is terrible #and i see so much aimed towards olivia and the stunt

[reunionandthen]

God give the zine mods strength

#the backlash against the latest sapphic fe zine really shows how hypocritical these pr-shppr types are #im not even making a moral judgement they just have no self awareness #like it's hilarious how we can eviscerate these people without even resorting to moral condemnation LOLLLL #talk #anyway im super hyped for the zine and thinkin bout applying maybe??? ive never done before

[claymorexpunisher]

Im so glad they skip over the shots to the head 💀

#backlash in pr #wwe backlash 2023

[thefallenangelsgang]

I'm sorry to everyone who follows me for other shit but I'm going to keep posting about the Watcher situation because marketing fascinates me. I find advertising to be sickening and exploitive, but marketing as a concept is fascinating.

I'm just majorly wondering what the FUCK is going on at Watcher HQ right now. It's still relatively early on the West Coast (almost 8 am at the time I am writing this) but their lack of response is throwing up a lot of interesting markers to me (not necessarily red flags but flags all the same.)

The immediate pull back on response speaks that they knew what they were doing in terms of PR at least initially. They had their employees delete any interactions with dissenting fans, there was radio silence except for clarification on what will remain on the Youtube. Their only mistake was making that Patreon announcement with sneak peaks for the site (I can only guess they were banking that the Patrons were most likely to follow them in the move and sorely miscalculated it). Steven's post was... problematic. But he posted it before all of the backlash started so while it didn't help it wasn't a doubling down when faced with a lot of backlash.

While saving face is almost always a smart thing to do, this silence has gone on a little bit too long. They have lost tens of thousands of Subscribers in 24 hours. Their announcement video has over a 1:4 Like/Dislike ratio. Fans are talking and starting to spin the situation in ways that are actively detrimental to the company. It should be top priority to get a response out. This is crisis mode y'all. They had all day to secure a PR representative if they didn't already have one to try and salvage this and yet? Still more radio silence from the official channel.

That creates the question: are we going to see a response today or have they chosen to wait until the traditional work-week starts again? I can't help but think that waiting is a terrible idea. The fanbase is getting out of hand. They need to salvage what they can and letting the situation fester isn't going to help. Or, the even worse option is that they are going to continue like this isn't happening, which is an EVEN WORSE idea.

Whatever happens I'm watching with a perverse fascination. Its been a long time since I've seen a media blunder like this.

#watcher #watcher entertainment #ryan bergara #shane madej #steven lim

[hbmmaster]

edit: disabled reblogs because this timeline is missing some important events. see the notes for corrections

so okay my current best understanding of what happened here is

a trans woman is the victim of mass harassment

she attempts to report the harassment to tumblr and tumblr does nothing

she posts about her frustration with tumblr staff in a way that directly provokes the ceo of automattic (but not in a way that's actually a credible threat or a bannable offense)

[speculation! this is not confirmed] the ceo is so offended that someone who dares to use the platform he owns would joke about him suffering looney tunes violence that he wants to ban her for this, but since she hasn't done anything wrong he can't do that. but since he's the ceo he can do whatever he wants so he goes through her account(s) showing stuff he doesn't like to the moderation team until he eventually stumbles upon something that actually does technically violate the community guidelines

the trans woman's blog is, for reasons that haven't been officially stated, superbanned in a way that had been previously used when a bunch of black activists were accused of being russian bots. every image she's ever posted is "removed for violating community guidelines" including images that in no way violate community guidelines

tumblr users notice that these innocent images have been removed and make the reasonable assumption that the reason it says these images were removed for violating community guidelines is that something in these images violated community guidelines. people are, understandably, appalled by the implication that a trans woman posting completely normal selfies would be a bannable offense

the ceo, in a move that literally any PR person ever would advise against, personally singles out the woman who was banned, giving explanations of why exactly she was banned that members of tumblr staff would go on to clarify were not the actual reasons. he is technically on vacation while this is happening so nobody is physically there to tell him this is a bad move

miscellaneous other users who posted about this situation are banned for unstated reasons

after getting some backlash to this, the ceo doubles down and digs himself deeper, even following the banned user to another website to harass her

some trans members of tumblr staff release an official statement condemning their ceo's actions, saying in particular that the reasons he gave for why the user had been banned were not the actual reasons, but without specifying why she actually was banned

#hbmmaster

[drmajalis]

Two things can be simultaneously true.

"Rainbow Capitalism" does not in any way signal whether corporations actually care about or help queer & trans people and only serves to generate positive PR and/or free advertising from "outraged bigots." And Corporations openly displaying symbols of pride and queer/trans community serves as modest barometer on the social acceptance of queer & trans people, and business after business pulling back it's pride merch/symbolism because of right-wing backlash is not good and potentially a sign of even worse to come.

#pride #rainbow capitalism #trans rights #queer rights

[goongiveusnothing]

the people aren't buying his weird PR "privileged" speech.

#harry styles #the backlash #brits #grammys #PR exercises in reality programming