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[–] weedazz@lemmy.world 133 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] kernelle@lemm.ee 77 points 2 years ago

Rip Kari's integrity

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 68 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Liome@pawb.social 181 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Kari Byron recently starred in Shell's video that's supposed to convince everyone that fossil fuels are great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEGNbYVwVEk

[–] macwinux@lemmy.ml 60 points 2 years ago

That's really, really, disappointing. What a shame.

[–] cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago

wow, that disappointing

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

More than 17k downvotes* vs. not even 1000 upvotes 🤘

[–] Armen12@lemm.ee 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Shell doesn't care and neither does Kari, this is like knocking down a trashcan and calling yourself an anarchist

[–] mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago

Britta is the worst.

!Sorry, I immediately thought of Community. Or, is that what you wanted?!<

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, it should hopefully effect if the video is recommended to other users.

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[–] casmael@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Jesus fucking Christ it’s 17 minutes

[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 years ago

Reported.

Thanks for linking. Gross

[–] Armen12@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

Wow that's something else, not gonna lie. I know someone else whose supposed to be a historian who now does ads for BP

These companies are truly terrible

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Gross, thanks.

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Never meet your heroes.

I really feel that people really puts too much reverence into the words and actions of celebrities, and are disappointed when they are not the person who they appeared to be.

But, if you take a step back and actually think about it, you see these people on your screen every day, do you know who these people really are? Most of you have never met these people before in your life!

The person see on your screen in image and text form is not the actual person, but projections of the person behind the screen (a character, if you will). That's what social media is, and that's what all media are, you present your character to to the rest of the world and tries to sell the life of that character you made up. Of course, when the projection of the character in front of screen doesn't match up with the person behind the character (Ellen, Cordon, Brand, now Kari Byron, etc.), of course you would feel cheated.

Maybe that's why I'm here. I don't want anything out of you other than to laugh at my shitty jokes, and I don't really have anything to sell you other than some dumb movies. It's rare to find that these days, and that's really all there is to it.

After all, you are who you choose to be, so, I try to be someone better, someone you know that you can be proud of, and if you are still reading this, I do expect you to do your best, so I can be proud of you too.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 21 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Met Bill Nye the science douche and yeah... anyone that wants to be as famous as that probably should have expected them to not be a good person.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Man he was totally cool when I met him. Probably when you're famous you have days when you can handle people coming up to you and days you can't.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've also heard that people are really weird around him. Childhood fans asking really esoteric science questions about their fields.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 7 points 2 years ago

He came into my class to teach do a guest lecture. Rambled incoherently about space and with bad science then tried to turn it inspirational and gave up after 15 minutes at most and left unceremoniously. It was a waste of time for those of us there to study physics.

And then he was a guest speaker at an event, absolutely took over and made the night entirely about him. Was a douche about water straight up called me a moron in front of hundreds of people because he asked a question poorly and I lowered my hand.

A professional friend in the planetary science space who is far to old to be a fan, hates him from a birthday party for ray bradbury so he's been a douche for a while and not just to fans

[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Einstein was an extremely grumpy cousin fucker also

[–] solstice@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I knew ghandi. He was a prick. I saw him sucking down a pork hot dog hitting on Mother Teresa.

[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] solstice@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It's a Robin Williams joke from his special live on Broadway not long after 9/11. Legendary set

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[–] Nurgle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Rumors are he allegedly sucked even back when he still worked at Boeing.

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[–] jadedwench@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had him for my college graduation and I felt privileged to have someone who had such a large impact on my childhood there. Really great speaker and definitely gave off the cool vibe. I didn't get to meet him 1-1, but I think a lot of it is subjective, how the person is that day, and the setting. Obviously if someone has done terrible things, especially sexual or abusive, they don't get a pass.

[–] applebusch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

So... You didn't meet your hero.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I met Ben Heck at MRRF and he cooked me lunch. Nice humble guy that does a lot for the disabled gaming community. Now I know he's not a huge celebrity but he's been on TV and has had multiple shows.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ben Heck seems cool as heck

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

He's a friend of a friend of mine. He always seemed grumpy when I ran into him while the show was going. It was a grind. He's much more chipper these days.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yep. I think the term for it a parasocial interaction.

None of these people are our friends. They're just people on our TV screens, or other devices. Many of them are actors and are simply acting in a way that makes them likeable. Some of them are good people, others aren't. There's no way of knowing based on what we see on our screens.

If something on a screen is entertaining, that's good. You've been entertained, you got the product you wanted. But that in no way indicates anything about the people that created the product, good or bad.

Also if you find out that someone that makes that entertainment product is a shitty person and that negatively affects the entertainment value of the product, just find entertainment elsewhere. That is a normal and healthy way to handle it. People may characterize this to be "cancel culture" but those people are either weirdos or people in show business who have an incentive to continue this idea that the audience is somehow obligated to watch the things they put out.

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I do love that your username is a celebrity.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No, like all real celebrities on other social media platforms, I, actual Hollywood superstar Margot Robbie, also use my real name to promote my movies on this obscure technology forum.

After all, why would a celebrity ever lie to you about who they are?

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Since I'm still definitely an idiot and love a few celebs out there still, I would be legitimately so happy if that were true and MR was a secret tech nerd.

[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Plot twist, it's her mom's account.

[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hot neird mom I feel like that's gonna be a porn category soon

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[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 37 points 2 years ago

Yikes. I really used to like her in Mythbusters.

[–] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it ok if i report this video for disinformation on youtube?

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

I mean you may as well

[–] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Can't wait for her child to grow up and realize their mother shilled for Big Oil and they will suffer more than previous generations thanks to her.

[–] UnknownQuantity@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A girl has to eat, but fuck...

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Her net worth is north of $1.5 million. She doesn't need the work to eat.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

$1.5M is a comically low net worth for someone in her position with the career she had. Imagine hosting the largest show on a network like Discovery for more than a decade and being worth less than a regional fast food chain owner. Your comment put this whole thing into a different perspective to me.

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

That seems really low for even a minor celebrity. But I imagine there's some royalty from the show that will keep coming over the next few years.

I work in tech and between my wife & I, our networth is over $3MM. We're in our 40s. A big chunk of that is in our house, which we paid much less for and it has appreciated over the last 5 years. This increase in networth due to the house we live in does nothing to improve our day-to-day life, it just makes property taxes higher. I absolutely still need to work to be able to put food on the table. I mean, I can probably afford to not work for a year or so, but if I live until 80+, I still have 40 years of expenses that I need to save up for. so I will need to keep working. There are also some nice things that I want to buy, like a solar panel system, which should help us lower our expenses over the longer term.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Well that's a shame

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A onlyfans account would be more dignified than shilling for a company responsible for climate change

That's a comment on the video this is referencing to. And they ain't wrong.

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