More celebs speak out in support of Britney Spears following release of documentary

[diocharl]

#FreeBritney
- Sarah Jessica Parker (@SJP) February 7, 2021

Following the premiere of the Hulu/FX documentary "Framing Britney Spears" which gave the general public an all-encompassing look into the many trials and tribulations of the iconic artist, ranging from the sexist treatment she received from the media at the start of her career to her

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[marthasback]

it's been frustrating to see a bunch of the free britney accounts taking to positive attention from the documentary and using it to attract followers under the guise of "educating" people. I've seen so many ~viral~ tweets from the same few accounts that are just footage of people saying cruel shit about Britney 13 years ago... like why is that what we're digging up? Trying to get celebrities in trouble for being 'mean' to Britney when she was vulnerable is fine, but what's the end goal here? Diane Sawyer's head on a stake isn't gonna free Britney, neither is reviving a clip of Sarah Silverman being an asshole to Britney at the VMAs in 2007.

The second photo isn't even Britney, but when pointed out the tweet remains, probably because it got lots of RTs. Some of these accounts value attention over telling the absolute truth.

The fact that nobody did anything.
WE ARE SORRY BRITNEY pic.twitter.com/bMMA3I4nnb
- Britney Fan 🌹 (@BritneyHiatus) February 7, 2021

[pussyriot]

I think its a lot of Gen X just learning the specifics about her story. Most of them wouldn't have been old enough to remember how we used to treat celebrities, so learning all this stuff would be jarring.

[marthasback]

I really think that has to be it. A lot of people are like "how did we let this happen to Britney" with the photos of the Paparazzi, but I don't think they realize that if Britney's papz were at a 10, every other A-list star was at an 8. And the reason that they were at a 10 was because she was giving them material twice a day. She was everywhere, probably because of mania, but nobody knew that back then.

[skyler_white_yo]

There was also a sentiment back then of “oh hey let’s see what wacky stuff she does next, get your popcorn kids” by entertainment shows and tabloids. It was spun more of an entertainment story, than a story of a woman who needed help. I admit to being one of those popcorn watchers, then when the South Park episode about her came out, it really snapped me out of that thinking and how horrible I was for forgetting that she is a person and not a character in some weird Celeb show.

[marthasback]

The January 2008 coverage is when things turned I think, when people realized "wait... of fuck something scary is actually going on"

I do think that for the 2 years of complete hell the media put her through, when the writing was on the wall the tone did shift rapidly. By March everyone was rooting for her to do well on How I Met Your Mother, by August/September the press was giving her over the top praise in comparison to how they treated her a year prior (her first VMAs were for Piece Of Me, objectively one of her worst videos). For as much as the media wanted her to lose, the reason that the conservatorship became so lucrative so fast is because the media also wanted her to win. IDK if that makes sense. It's complicated is what I am trying to say haha

[heyignatzmouse]

omg yeah papz were so disgusting back then.
I remember them trying (succeeding?) to get that up skirt photo of emma watson when she turned 18.
the brazen shit they used to get away with ugh

[trendsnational]

I'm not sure I understood your comment. Gen X was alive to see it, do you mean Gen Z?

[pussyriot]

yes, oops... Gen Z

[kashiyaek]

(i saw you meant gen z) this is a bit of a tangent but i'm late gen 7 myself and partially experienced it too but not "fully" if that makes sense. i was 10 when the blackout album came out, as a little kid i would go through all the gossip magazines, tv shows etc so i got the entire kfed fallout, her publicized struggles, the insane paparazzi and so on but i wasn't really able to give it a place until the piece of me music video came out (which also made me a baby fan LOL i would wait all day for mtv to show the video). even then i was still too young to really fully understand it. and sadly the britney i came to know was always plagued by struggles and all kinds of troubles ): im always... i guess amazed? when i see older videos of her and how vibrant and carefree she was. i've never known her like that, so it took me until i was older to realize the entire scope of what she was dealing with.

[chexlemeneux]

This is so weird to me because when I was watching the documentary I kept commenting to my boyfriend how much I envied her beauty and talent and sweet personality when I was a kid (I’m 30), and to this day my memory of her is from that time, when she was at her peak. It makes sense younger ppl don’t have that image of her in their minds

[the_pinkdress]

I don’t think that ~as a society~ we really know how to talk about and understand celebrity in all its complexities... idk. Also, I don’t think we’ve reconciled with the culture of the early-mid 2000s and the way it can clash against and converge with the very different emerging culture of today.

[lolitalockheart]

I'm not gonna have the words for what I wanna say but I don't get why people even want apologies from people like Diane Sawyer etc because the culture of misogyny is gonna exist regardless. No one knows how to handle how misogyny and ableism are culturally ingrained in us, and it sorta feels like they think without Diane and all the other interviewers Britney would have been okay.

[dreamdate]

Wait, what? Britney would ABSOLUTELY have been okay if she was not provoked constantly by the media and the people around her. The culture existed in very ugly ways then and they do now still, but people who fostered that and fed the flames that ultimately led her to have the breakdown she did should absolutely apologize. Every last one of them, from the host of Star Search (is he dead idk) asking an 11-year-old if he can be her boyfriend to Diane to Matt Lauer for pushing this woman to tears asking questions we knew the answer to, to the paparazzi for stalking a woman and her newborn baby everywhere they went, and to all of us who just consumed this without a care in the world. We can't just rest on the idea that bc an idea will always exist that we just need to accept it or work around it. We must always try and correct it, always.

[lolitalockheart]

Yeah, I totally agree with you and am pissed at them too, maybe I just have mixed feelings. I just feel that all the apologies they give about the past will just be an empty gesture and just serve save their own neck. The culture itself won't be changed imo. I'm definitely not advocating for accepting or working around all that. I just don't know how to correct it bc the people responsible for it don't actually care and benefit from it.

[pwrpuffgrl]

Trying to get celebrities in trouble for being 'mean' to Britney when she was vulnerable is fine, but what's the end goal here?

Honestly? Expose them. Yes, it won't solve Britney's situation but because of the way they treated her and the nasty things they said about her, that could've impacted her mental health, they deserve to be dragged to hell in 2021.

[rhenna_navi]

I don't care, I still want Diane Sawyer's head on a stake, it's about more than just Britney.