Thank you for the thoroughness with which you went through this. It’s alarming how well this worked. I, too, didn’t really care about or participate in the backlash against Blake Lively, but I believed that it was organic and founded.
The thing I can’t believe is that they thought they could beat Blake Lively!?! She’s a movie star married to one of the most powerful men in Hollywood and friends with the biggest star on the planet!?! Why don’t they attack Rita Wilson next!?! And what did they hope to accomplish? The movie was a hit! And I watched it last night and even if it wasn’t hit the finished product is top notch so everyone involved would have kept on working if it had flopped.
But there is actually something very enlightening here—his movie before this was also a hit and its title is “5 Feet Apart”. The movie came out in 2019. This movie is actually about the “6 foot” social distancing guideline that was so important during the COVID lockdowns!?! I don’t know how many times I heard an expert claim to not know where the “6 foot” guideline came from and there was a movie about it in 2019!?! WTF???
This is insane. They completely had me fooled with the smear campaign. I think reddit tends to be more skeptical as a network so seeing people jump on the smear campaign there really had me fooled.
A good lesson to take everything with a grain of salt and I hope Blake gets the justice she deserves. It definitely looks like the working environment was not great at the very least.
All I can say is a heartfelt: god damnit, what the fuck. This is worse and more cruel than the melodrama of Gossip Girl, which only mirrors the gravity and intensity in which a woman of power, wealth, and beauty is scrutinized, objectified, and targeted. The facade of “woke” really jars me—I cannot believe he went on Ted Talk only to eat his own words, literally. I wish more women felt safe enough to come forward about disturbing behavior…unfortunately these details prove there is good reason so many stay quiet—to avoid this sort of deliberate social manipulation. Thank you for objectively trying to cover this shit show.
Just to answer one of your annotated questions. Did the PR group have ppl on the inside to boost content "organically"? PR companies have hundreds (probably thousands if they are bigger) of accounts on YT, IG, Reddit to create and comment. They craft the narrative and then have their accounts comment on content they created to boost engagement for the algorithm. Also, they create multiple pieces of content with similar headlines so that the algorithm thinks something is a trending topic and starts to boost it. YT, IG, Reddit--they don't want to miss out, so if a topic is starting to get more clicks and views, they boost it. After a while, others see that the topic is getting traction, so they start making content too.
There's a great book (that is so relevant to this whole situation), Trust me, I'm lying (Ryan Holiday) that details how it's done. It's fascinating, but also horrifying.
How did Blake’s team get these texts and screenshots? Like the ones from Justin to the crisis people? Subpoena? Would t she have to know exactly what to ask for? I don’t get how it works. And also, would t these texts have been deleted?
One of the X- housemasters [Mr. Bradley - RIP ]. from Upping-the-Hamm (he used to be married to Swedish model) -
used to come to these life drawing sessions where he employed a very 1960s technique.
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He used to stare at the model (life drawing / naked / anatomy etc. ) Class - stand with both feet fore the easel and his right arm behind him with the drawing implement / charcoal - and would just stare and stare and stare and stare and STARE at the model while scribbling frantically in almost mastabatory styled motions without ever LOOKING at the page or piece of paper fixed to the board.
.
Actually a very GOOD exercise in immediacy and drafting to use one's inner "Eye".
.
I used to call them scribblo-grams - but were very revealing as to what Mr Bradley was really looking at and thinking about.
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In retrospect I wished HE was MY housemaster when I attended boarding school instead of the housemaster I had that allowed me to be gang raped / sexually assaulted at the age of thirteen by seven other OLDER boys armed with an industrial vacuum cleaner .
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Bradley was cool guy - Hodgekinson was a total cunt and when he dies (prolly not long now) - will also be put on the list graves I MUST piss on and resist the temptation to exhume and skull-fuck and then crush into dust.
I used to prosecute my own IP - mainly utility patents - some initial filings / submissions were over a hundred pages long some after much editing and throwing out of useful theory I could reduce said documents to the order of sixty pages.
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Really the best thing to do when given a LONG legal document to digest is to always keep one's pencil(s) SHARP.
.
But I however after abandoning my OWN day-glo sharpie and highlighter phase moved onto much more traditional and prescient materials.
.
When one takes a Stanly knife or razor blade to a pencil and instead cut it longitudinally DOWN the wooden composite drawing implement - one can extract the graphite lead (as in element Pb 82 not Winner in an Athalon Bi- or tri or high or lower numerated such "Lons".).
.
One then mounts each page of such a legal document to a board and easel and then with tongue firmly pressed to inside lower cheek (just below) lower lip - one then smears the lead in broad strokes with the whole palm of one hand - carefully ensuring that one does not fracture or snap the pencil lead into multiple fragments. However if such fracturing does occur one is obliged to carry on as if nothing happened with the pencil lead fragments wedge between the various interstices of one's respective digits phalanges or fingers.
.
More advanced applications thereof can be transacted using conte pencils that range in Earth tones from yellow ochre all the way to burnt Sienna.
.
Each page of the mounted legal documents being artfully yet a trifle autisticly smeared accordingly.
.
Given the length of some of these legal and papery submissions - thusly being split and mounted individually - one can further invite FEE PAYING students to a sixty easel LIFE drawing class - utilizing a real life (naked) model - whose aspect may range anywhere from a Quentin Crisp striking classical poses (with amazing hair) OR that wannabe "Muse" that you got to buy you a Gimlet and the busfare home at the Chelsea Arts Club.
Thank you for the thoroughness with which you went through this. It’s alarming how well this worked. I, too, didn’t really care about or participate in the backlash against Blake Lively, but I believed that it was organic and founded.
The thing I can’t believe is that they thought they could beat Blake Lively!?! She’s a movie star married to one of the most powerful men in Hollywood and friends with the biggest star on the planet!?! Why don’t they attack Rita Wilson next!?! And what did they hope to accomplish? The movie was a hit! And I watched it last night and even if it wasn’t hit the finished product is top notch so everyone involved would have kept on working if it had flopped.
But there is actually something very enlightening here—his movie before this was also a hit and its title is “5 Feet Apart”. The movie came out in 2019. This movie is actually about the “6 foot” social distancing guideline that was so important during the COVID lockdowns!?! I don’t know how many times I heard an expert claim to not know where the “6 foot” guideline came from and there was a movie about it in 2019!?! WTF???
This is insane. They completely had me fooled with the smear campaign. I think reddit tends to be more skeptical as a network so seeing people jump on the smear campaign there really had me fooled.
A good lesson to take everything with a grain of salt and I hope Blake gets the justice she deserves. It definitely looks like the working environment was not great at the very least.
All I can say is a heartfelt: god damnit, what the fuck. This is worse and more cruel than the melodrama of Gossip Girl, which only mirrors the gravity and intensity in which a woman of power, wealth, and beauty is scrutinized, objectified, and targeted. The facade of “woke” really jars me—I cannot believe he went on Ted Talk only to eat his own words, literally. I wish more women felt safe enough to come forward about disturbing behavior…unfortunately these details prove there is good reason so many stay quiet—to avoid this sort of deliberate social manipulation. Thank you for objectively trying to cover this shit show.
Wow, I feel like this is completely insane. The machine that is PR is the most standout to me, along with all the other awful stuff
Wrote a little piece on this situation myself, it's called Women Who Practice Misogyny and the Men Who Love Them: https://thereluctantgraduate.substack.com/p/women-who-practice-misogyny-and-the
Looking forward to your piece, you always deliver such good takes!
Just to answer one of your annotated questions. Did the PR group have ppl on the inside to boost content "organically"? PR companies have hundreds (probably thousands if they are bigger) of accounts on YT, IG, Reddit to create and comment. They craft the narrative and then have their accounts comment on content they created to boost engagement for the algorithm. Also, they create multiple pieces of content with similar headlines so that the algorithm thinks something is a trending topic and starts to boost it. YT, IG, Reddit--they don't want to miss out, so if a topic is starting to get more clicks and views, they boost it. After a while, others see that the topic is getting traction, so they start making content too.
There's a great book (that is so relevant to this whole situation), Trust me, I'm lying (Ryan Holiday) that details how it's done. It's fascinating, but also horrifying.
So fascinating! I will have to read.
Interesting they post so many items of content with certain topics to make the algorithm think it’s trending. I can see that.
The PR glee in their own manufacturing is so disturbing!
How did you get hold of those docs?
How did Blake’s team get these texts and screenshots? Like the ones from Justin to the crisis people? Subpoena? Would t she have to know exactly what to ask for? I don’t get how it works. And also, would t these texts have been deleted?
One of the X- housemasters [Mr. Bradley - RIP ]. from Upping-the-Hamm (he used to be married to Swedish model) -
used to come to these life drawing sessions where he employed a very 1960s technique.
.
He used to stare at the model (life drawing / naked / anatomy etc. ) Class - stand with both feet fore the easel and his right arm behind him with the drawing implement / charcoal - and would just stare and stare and stare and stare and STARE at the model while scribbling frantically in almost mastabatory styled motions without ever LOOKING at the page or piece of paper fixed to the board.
.
Actually a very GOOD exercise in immediacy and drafting to use one's inner "Eye".
.
I used to call them scribblo-grams - but were very revealing as to what Mr Bradley was really looking at and thinking about.
.
In retrospect I wished HE was MY housemaster when I attended boarding school instead of the housemaster I had that allowed me to be gang raped / sexually assaulted at the age of thirteen by seven other OLDER boys armed with an industrial vacuum cleaner .
.
Bradley was cool guy - Hodgekinson was a total cunt and when he dies (prolly not long now) - will also be put on the list graves I MUST piss on and resist the temptation to exhume and skull-fuck and then crush into dust.
.
Such is the life of young boys.
.
.
I used to prosecute my own IP - mainly utility patents - some initial filings / submissions were over a hundred pages long some after much editing and throwing out of useful theory I could reduce said documents to the order of sixty pages.
.
Really the best thing to do when given a LONG legal document to digest is to always keep one's pencil(s) SHARP.
.
But I however after abandoning my OWN day-glo sharpie and highlighter phase moved onto much more traditional and prescient materials.
.
When one takes a Stanly knife or razor blade to a pencil and instead cut it longitudinally DOWN the wooden composite drawing implement - one can extract the graphite lead (as in element Pb 82 not Winner in an Athalon Bi- or tri or high or lower numerated such "Lons".).
.
One then mounts each page of such a legal document to a board and easel and then with tongue firmly pressed to inside lower cheek (just below) lower lip - one then smears the lead in broad strokes with the whole palm of one hand - carefully ensuring that one does not fracture or snap the pencil lead into multiple fragments. However if such fracturing does occur one is obliged to carry on as if nothing happened with the pencil lead fragments wedge between the various interstices of one's respective digits phalanges or fingers.
.
More advanced applications thereof can be transacted using conte pencils that range in Earth tones from yellow ochre all the way to burnt Sienna.
.
Each page of the mounted legal documents being artfully yet a trifle autisticly smeared accordingly.
.
Given the length of some of these legal and papery submissions - thusly being split and mounted individually - one can further invite FEE PAYING students to a sixty easel LIFE drawing class - utilizing a real life (naked) model - whose aspect may range anywhere from a Quentin Crisp striking classical poses (with amazing hair) OR that wannabe "Muse" that you got to buy you a Gimlet and the busfare home at the Chelsea Arts Club.
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SMEAR RESPONSIBLY !
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wow. this was an amazing read thank you