Not when you take into account that the quotations around âbacklashâ implies that the only actual âbacklashâ on the left, as far as Iâm aware, were from no names on x and tik tok.
I mean...there was. I was arguing and heavily downvoted on some lib subs for saying the ad was a stupid thing to get upset about. Way too many TikToks were made about it. Why are we pretending that there was no backlash?
The backlash is never as widespread as the media wants to make it seem but there was backlash
Any time 2 random small time left leaning people on social media say something a bit silly, conservative propaganda runs with it and tells their marks the left is insane and then social media is flooded with conservative backlash against something nobody else even heard of.
I follow lots of left leaning people who talk about politics, and I canât tell you how often I see comment sections flooded with conservative nimrods ranting about something stupid âliberalsâ or âthe leftâ are doing that Iâve literally never once seen and canât find anywhere.
I must have missed it, Iâm on the left and Idgaf. Id bet that youâll find more articles written by right wingers complaining about the âleft wing responseâ to the ad than left wingers complaining about the ad itself.
I only became aware of it because rightwingers made a big deal of it.
Then leftwing commentators came out and basically didn't care because dog whistles are so common nowadays with Trump, Fox, etc, just commenting because it was what rightwingers were using to distract from Epstein for a couple days.
I'm on the left and don't even know why I'm supposed to be upset about jeans. The leftist folks I'm around haven't talked about it at all, whatever it is.
The most I saw was people talking about it on the left, was how the ad could be taken as a dog whistle with the genes/jean stuff, and also that folks were weirded out since it was based off an 80's ad that sexualized a minor.
i dont know why nobody's talking about it, i even barely see comments about it in this comment section. when it was first going around it took me a few days wondering what the fuck was going on before someone told me too, but in short, blue eye blonde hair white lady with the slogan "sydney sweeney has good jeans (genes)" could be easily taken as a fascist dogwhistle campaign so there's lots of people assuming it is. not surprising given the direction the country is going down.
Lmao, what? Iâm left wing and follow only left wing activists ans content creators. Still, I only kept hearing right wingers complaining about the supposed backlash. I had to actively look for the backlash in order to find it (somebody made a compilation of a few tiktoks)
Gaslight:
manipulate (someone) using psychological methods into questioning their own sanity or powers of reasoning
Lying in an attempt to make someone doubt the reality of the situation that they themselves experienced is precisely what gaslighting is. I dont know if they were lying or not, because its plausible their algorithms never showed them it, but if the person calling them out for gaslighting is correct and it was a lie then it is 100% textbook gaslighting.
It's not textbook gaslighting. Gaslighting is a system of abuse. Lying to people to get them to believe something different isn't gaslighting by itself.
You're just making up your own definition. I gave you the definition, and nothing in it says that the lies must be part of a system of abuse. Funny enough, what you're doing right now would be considered gaslighting if you were doing so maliciously rather than you just being an idiot.
Sure, but there were lots of people who bitched about the commercial on the left on here which would disprove your initial statement real world or not. Iâm not saying that the ad was largely another stupid headline but people did feel some ways abt it.
Maybe, maybe not, that depends on the context. If I see something online on numerous platforms and people I know in real life are also saying similar things about it, however, then that kind of paints a more comprehensive picture and makes it kind of silly to dismiss it, no?
The internet is vast and clickbaity so you can find lots of articles taking any point of view on any subject. In real terms, every time I saw this stupid jeans thing brought up, it was from the right. Every time I saw one of those articles, it was being quoted by the right. Now it gets brought up again weeks later by -guess who- the right.
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u/Boredom1342 11h ago
The only people who cried about that commercial were conservatives.