Grey is a salt pillar on Twitter too, but she's not as spergy as Tara about it.
Tara Strong / Tara Lynn Charendoff - Narcissistic “Queen of the Bronies” who suffers from GOTIS and Trump Derangement Syndrome; got an Uber Driver fired for disagreeing with her on politics
- Thread starter Darwin Watterson
- Start date
Indeed. Chris is a notable example, but he is by no means unique. Here you have a woman who's successful, rich, and (by most standards) gorgeous, and she gets her kicks by riling up legions of internet bronyvirgins. It's not remarkable that Tara has this fandom, it's remarkable that she revels in it.
Aw man, why'd you have to go and ruin the fantasy like that?
I'm thinking at this point, we could count on one hand how many of our favorite voice actors/celebrities haven't become pillars of salt this past year. But at least it's a good sign she's not spergy about it, there's nothing more obnoxious than a salt pillar who shakes their salt in your face.
She goes to cons all the time. She may not be a celebrity in terms of being mobbed by paparazzi in the streets, but she's pretty much goddess-tier in that realm of nerdery.
So she hates Trump. Fucking half of the U.S. does. The other half hated Obama.
This is pretty low as salt quotient goes.
Seems pretty happy and successful to me.
REEEEE REEEEEEEE SOMEBODY DOESN'T WORSHIP TRUMP OMG THEY'RE SO SALTY THEY'RE SO SALTY I'M NOT THE SALTY ONE!!!! YOU'RE THE SALTY ONES!
That explains why their fans are so forgiving, but why to the actors/authors themselves get so easily riled up? Is it because in a weird way, being connected to your childhood, they feel they have the ability or even obligation to tell you how to behave? As if they're a surrogate parent? And by voting for Drumpf/not being progressive enough, you are disappointing a "parental figure" in their eyes?
Trump is their dad really.
It's an extension of the idea that, because they're famous, celebrities assume people really want their opinions on everything, as opposed to just whatever show or band they were in. Also, just like some teachers start treating everyone they talk to like a student, some actors who focus on children as an audience start assuming that everyone in their fandom is young and impressionable.
Rowling pretty obviously gives a shit what people think about her, despite having fuck you money. She really shouldn't.
I think she'll eventually regret sucking so much SJW cock. I actually agree that Dumbledore was pretty much gay as fuck but she doesn't need to go overboard about that shit any more. There was no point even making it canon. Just let the spergy fans have their headcanons and ignore it.
It's more along the lines of "this person is willfully alienating portions of their fanbase, the people who actually put them where they are, by shaming them based on who they voted for for president."
Whatever their personal opinions are, it's guaranteed that a lot of their fans happened to support Trump, either because they actually liked him or because they thought Clinton was worse. Seems a bit ungrateful tbh.
So basically, you should immediately abandon all personal opinions the moment you're famous. You're not allowed to have opinions.
If you have fuck you money, you're allowed to have opinions. It is actually an incredibly tiny minority of morons who get so assblasted by the fact a "celebrity" has an opinion they disagree with that they actually boycott everything they're in.
Well at least the topic's not full of bronyholler, so there's that at least.
CowReserach Inc.
kiwifarms.net
I think it's more the fact hat since you have money and fame, any sort of flat-earther, anti-vax, trump-is-literally-hitler opinions make you look even more insane than usual, because it's not like you don't have the resources or free time or even well meaning fans available to keep yourself properly informed. Like many other celebrities with crazy opinions.
Trump-is-literally-Hitler (as opposed to just being a really dumb guy who beat an evil cunt) is embarrassing, but unless your career is based on political astuteness, or the appearance of it, like Stephen Colbert, you actually aren't harming yourself that much by hating Trump. Most people do. Even a good chunk of his actual supporters don't really think he's that smart and just sort of semi-support him because they like the fact he pisses off people they hate even more.
CowReserach Inc.
kiwifarms.net
When celebrities post stuff that looks similar to something your typical Stormfronter would post when Obama was in office, I think the bar has moved.
I too would like to know the answer. I remember a few months ago when Christopher Sabat threw a tantrum because of Trump. And the Twitter feed of Jamie Marchi almost reads like John Flynt's.
Nobody said anything about boycotting everything somebody's in. That's stupid.
Nor did I say that if you were famous you couldn't have an opinion. There's a difference between expressing an opinion and alienating big groups of the people who give you money and are responsible for making you famous in the first place because they don't agree with you about something.
On one hand, you've got something like "in my opinion, Trump is a horrible candidate/president, and I don't think I could ever bring myself to support him. But everyone's entitled to their own opinion, and the freedom to express differing opinions is part of what makes this country so great."
On the other hand, you've got "Trump is literally Hitler and you're a sociopathic, puppy-killing monster devoid of basic human emotion if you agree with even one thing he says."
Far too many famous people, including Tara here, unfortunately fall into the latter category.
Similar threads
Pretendian, Claimed To Write My Immortal, Currently Writing Fanfic Of Own Life
