Hi IVYYY
So I want to talk about the fact that rich brian is trending on twitter.
With the hashtag #richbrianisoverparty. Before I start this video,
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So to quickly recap the situation
Last night 88rising hosted an online concert with a bunch of asian artists and these artists include rich brian and other k-pop groups like
Loona and i'm pretty sure CLC. What I can gather from this hashtag
Is that a bunch of kpop fans have dug up old tweets from Rich
Brian, and these kpop fans are calling rich brian out for being homophobic and using different slurs
So I want to talk about cancel culture, if it really works
What it means to be a fan of someone and can you be critical as a fan?
So let's jump right into it. First, I want to describe what cancer culture is. So according to
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I think we can agree that Rich Brian hasn't been cancelled as we can see a lot of rich brian's fans defending him
And the people coming after him as k-pop fans. And if we look at some of the tweets within this hashtag
We can see that Rich Brian's fans are calling out kpop fans for being hypocrites
As a lot of kpop artists have done blackface and other offensive things
So with this in mind, I think it's important to understand cancel culture through the lens of fans
So personally I believe cancel culture is productive when fans or consumers stop supporting that artist or company
So what I mean by that is if someone does something very outrageous and fans stop supporting them
I think that is totally normal
But in this case we can see it's not the fans that are creating this hashtag and trying to cancel Brian.
It's people from a different fandom. And so I think the effect is not the same. In this case,
we just have fans defending the artist and bringing up different reasons why they will still continue supporting this artist
However,
I do not think you can justify his actions just because he was very young. What he said was wrong and it stays wrong...
No matter how old he was.
I think it's generally common sense that you don't say offensive things and especially you don't post them publicly to the internet
But maybe that's just me. Personally, I am a fan of Rich
Brian, but i'm not saying that the things that he has done in the past are not questionable.
For example,
he did have his stage name to be something else that was more offensive and he has used the n-word in his viral song
Dat $tick. So we can see that Rich Brian is not free from controversy.
But I think this clip that i'm about to show you really shows that Rich Brian has shown growth. "Rogue Wave.
"On you N-words, no fail when I hit him every time I see a pig, I don't hesitate to kill him"
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"I was like if I have a song that blows up and like
I'm like this this this kid and like I say that n word would people be like, holy shit
that song is so cool
And he said the n word. And I think I
let it slide like that's what I was thinking and like I was basically just trying to make people kind of like
Less sensitive to the word and making the word, you know, like just taking the power out of that word
But then I realized like i'm totally not in a position to do that. Like I was like I fucked up like
Yeah, I just don't say it anymore."
We can see that Rich Brian really has changed for the better and has understood the repercussions of his actions.
And my last point is how can we be critical about the things that we love?
And as someone who listens to Rich Brian, I think this is very important
so to be a critic means that we hold artists accountable. To be a good critic is to
Look at the things that you actually enjoy and evaluate them in a more nuanced way
So I have a quote here that i'm quickly going to read
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I think this last line is really really important especially with some of the fandoms that we see today.
To be a fan of someone does not mean that you do not hold them accountable
But in fact the opposite if you really love this person or this group
Then you should be able to say hey, I don't think this is correct and try to bring that to their attention
you should not try to sweep it under the rug and ignore it. Just because your
favorite k-pop artist is problematic doesn't mean that you cannot support them, but you can bring these points out
Let me know what you guys think about this Rich Brian situation. Do you enjoy his music?
What do you think about cancel culture? Let me know. Thank you so much, and bye byeee
