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Rant: The day everyone suddenly cared about a 3 year old celebrity feud | Fake Outrage Watch - Vivisector

Rant: The day everyone suddenly cared about a 3 year old celebrity feud

Last Tuesday I scroll online and everyone is screaming about some pop star beef from 2021. Threads everywhere, thousands of comments, people calling each other names over it. I checked the original source - it was a random fan account reposting old screenshots. No new drama, no actual updates, just someone dug up old receipts. But somehow it blew up across four different subs and even hit Twitter trends. My question is this: did anyone actually care about this feud back in 2021, or is this just people wanting to feel angry about something? Has anyone else noticed certain stories get recycled every few months to stir up fake outrage?

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danielm804mo ago

hang on hold up, 2019?? so we've been getting riled up over something that literally started two years earlier than everyone thought? that actually makes so much sense because i remember seeing posts about their "bad blood" back then but assumed it was just random fan stuff. its crazy how the timeline got completely rewritten and nobody even questioned it. people just saw the diss tracks dropping in 2021 and decided that was the start of everything. now im wondering how many other "feuds" we've all been talking about are actually based on the wrong dates.

phoenix_martin404mo ago

Wait that feud was actually 2019 not 2021, the 2021 date was when both artists released diss tracks about each other. People just love getting worked up over old drama they probably never even followed when it happened.

thomasgonzalez4mo ago

Wait WHAT. I actually had no idea the dates were different like that. So 2019 was the start and then 2021 was when they both dropped those songs? That's wild how people just lump everything together like it's one big event. I swear social media loves to take a whole timeline and smash it into one moment. Now I'm kinda curious what those diss tracks even sounded like back then, bet they were fire compared to the drama itself.