Yeah all the time, people are just dumb and willing to look past obvious red flags just because someone acts confident. I mean we literally have a name for those people “con man” short for “confidence man” a man who exhudes confidence while scamming people.
And yet, everyone just likes confidence even when it’s an obvious narcissist pos and then two years later they’re all crying to me “can you believe Geoff would do that?” And im like yeah it was pretty obvious and you guys kicked me out of your friend group so fuck you too.
Sykunno during COVID. His English dub anime voice and shyness was obviously an act but I didn’t know that how much it affected his real social life. I thought it was just the but to get a female audience.
MrBeast before 2024. Everyone seemed to be pretty enthusiastic about the guy’s content and I don’t recall him attracting too much drama before the Dawson situation.
Which is something I just couldn’t compell. A guy who’s content is so extremely materialistic became a symbol of le reddit wholesomeness. Basically all his content is just him being a feudal lord sitting on a high horse, throwing money at peasants performing humiliating acts to his amusement.
Fucking disgusting.
Mr Beast has like this haunted look, I’ve disliked his shit from the jump
His dead eyes. His smiling is always just so damned unsettling.
I remember coming across him way before he was famous, when he was just keeping x amount of fidget spinners going for 24 hours and whatnot, and my first thought about him ever was “there is nothing behind those eyes”.
I hadn’t even heard of him until he did that Fortnite collab but he instantly gives off creepy vibes. He seems extremely fake.
I think that’s an age thing.
This was a while ago, but it was a Tuesday night at my bar and Cillian Murphy was there by himself, and he hung out and chatted with me for like an hour, hour and a half. I was a 20-somethiing bartender at the time- there was no one else there really, he had no reason to be nice other than he was just a nice guy. He was a 20-something superstar as well, this was after the Dark night
I have definitely been the only one in the room to realize that the person everybody likes, is a snake.
Were I the first and only person in ghe world to realize this? No, definitely not. But in that particular constellation of people in one specific room at one specific time, I was and it fucking sucked everytime it happened.
There have also been plenty of times where I was the one to figure out late that someone was shitty because I kept believing in the best of them, and that also sucks.
Can’t judge people who don’t catch on early to someone being a shit person.
It happened to me with many disgraced celebrities, but so far the worst one has been Leonardo DiCaprio. After The Beach, he gives me a horribly bad vibe. Strangely enough, it doesn’t happen with anything he did before The Beach.
Whatever horrible thing he did that stained his soul to such a degree, it must have happened between Celebrity and the end of filming The Beach. It’s as if he became 25, went to Thailand, and did something that turned him evil or something.
aka Sergeant Doakes syndrome
I’m having this when it comes to the movie Casablanca. Everyone is like “oh, what a timeless romance”, and all I see is a bromance of two guys who won’t let women go to safety with their families unless they sleep with them.
Me for Bill Gates and Mark Cuban, back when everyone loved them. Bill Gates was basically idolized on reddit, partaking on reddit santa and all that.
The rehabilitation of Bill Gates’s image after he left MicroSoft was mind blowing. Like here’s the most capitalist capitalist in the world, the Elon Musk of the 90s/early 00s, and otherwise progressive people were fawning over him because he did a little philanthropy at the behest of his wife.
It’s like listening to gamers talk about Windows being an OS with such wide compatibility, when the only reason for that is market share forcing everyone else to bend to it and write Windows drivers for everything.
And I still wonder where we’d be in computing if MS hadn’t anointed Intel and their old-timey architecture as the winner of the CPU wars.
Gates was smart but mostly he is just another selfish manipulator with a huge hole in his soul. Home computers were new and he made them less than they could have been to keep his company on top. He lied he stole and in the end tried to convince everyone he was a decent person. Everyone else is just catching up.
Mark Cuban is a difficult one. He has reduced drug prices to the cost plus a profit margin (which is low*) and so its like “Wow somebody cares!” And this has benefited thousands. But then he says I might fund a new venture and sell Cost Plus Drugs one day; So really he doesn’t care, he’s looking for a big buyer to come in and offer a huge payout to stop the big pharma company losses.
Of all the billionaires to worry about, Mark Cuban is way down the list. If we put him under a microscope, we can find things to complain about, but there are so many other better places to direct our wary eye.
They weren’t old enough to remember what a prick Bill was. Him being a retired philanthropist is standard whitewashing
I think from a Utilitarian approach, Bill Gates still falls into a net positive effect on the world. His foundation alone has saved millions of lives by nearly wiping out Polio and Guinea Worm, and severely reducing Polio. And you can try to argue that it isn’t him personally doing these things, but the dedicated people working at his foundation, but it’s his name on it, it’s his money funding it, and if he didn’t exist the foundation wouldn’t exist.
But I get it. Not everyone is a Utilitarian, and he’s done a lot of shitty things that are hard to overlook.
Melinda pretty much made him do it and he’s making sure to profit off his charitable efforts too.
Plus he’s got the whole Epstein friendship to whitewash.
Also his father steered him into philanthropy.
But he did make the turn and has followed up and lived it. I think it’s perfectly fine to give the man some credit.
He certainly stole intellectual property and made substandard software to build his fortune, but when I compare this to someone like Andrew Carnegie these look like pretty minor crimes.
Me for Jack Black
I guess I’m out of the loop, what did he do?
Capitulated to right wingers by firing his supposed best friend and band mate Kyle for making a joke about Trump.
OH GOD YES. He gives me the heeby jeebies
My friend group was in our late teens, we partied hard, we had each others backs… but we were so very inexperienced with the world. Then this one girl brought her new boyfriend… early thirties, soldier, fit, cool, experienced.
I had this instant dislike, his words were… too smooth, his jokes were funny, yes, but also cruel. He radiated a kind of coolness like uranium radiates poison. Everybody was all over him, the lads wanted to be like him, the lasses wanted him. I could not bring myself to like him and got accused of being jealous.
He broke up some lifelong friendships and budding relationships. He ended up getting two of the girls pregnant and went to prison because one of them was underage at the time. I feel vindicated, but I can’t say I’m happy about it. The only good thing to come out of that is that I left that group and went a different way in life.
Gavin Newsom.
The very first time I ever saw a picture of the guy, he gave me “80s movie bad guy who wants to buy the local community center to tear it down and build a shitty hotel” vibes.
He’s overtly sleazy. Like I don’t see how people don’t see snake when they look at him. I have experience with narcs though, I’ve been gaslighted into rejecting reality by them and once you’re through it once, you see the signs from far away. I guess a lot of people don’t have that experience.
So basically years ago Newsom gave you a momentary vibe which matches the way Trump has actually spent two presidencies.
Now let’s all talk about how much we hate Newsom.
Not sure what your point is but since literally nobody likes Trump, he doesn’t fit the topic at hand. People actually like Newsom’s sleazy ass.
Finding out that he did a photo op tearing down homeless camps definitely vindicated my initial bad vibes.
Definitely the suit who is revealed to be secretly behind the terrorists halfway through the movie.
…electric boogaloo!..
I don’t adore anyone, but I try not to think ill of people, either. The self is the lens we see the world through, so if we’re always giving credence to the negative within us, that is what grows and what we see more of.
“If you look for the light, you will often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.” - Iroh
I hate to say it, but this is Mamdani for me. It’s like he’s too perfect and his whole image and persona seems like it’s finely crafted by a media team.
Keep in mind that even good people in these positions have media teams.
Not agreeing nor disagreeing but keeping up appearances is crucial when dealing with people and their trust, if you present with authenticity, someone else with better presentation will catch people’s hearts
Sometimes the bad vibes are from the mere fact that everybody is adoring that person instead of you.
