Ohkaaaayyy peeps, I’m ready to articulate my thoughts on the blocking celebs deal. First of all, whoever came up with the idea thank you so much. You are an absolute star.
For the uninitiated, celebrities and influencers that refuse to speak up against Is-not-real’s massacre must not just be unfollowed, but blocked. This hurts their revenue and makes them think seriously about how they are using their platforms. It’s a small step, but at this point, something that we can collectively do to make a difference. Let us begin this piece with why following celebrities is so problematic to begin with.
Influencers and stars on social media peddle a certain kind of ideology, a certain lifestyle, and their goals seem seriously skewed at times. Once I caught myself swiping through a fashion influencers airbrushed reels with the most perfect cars, bags, dresses, hair and makeup and even though I could care less about the above, I found myself feeling a twinge of.. jealousy? No, it was more self-pity. Or wait, was it admiration? Was I suddenly looking up to this person because they had 192k likes or something? Long story short, I got off my insta binge feeling decidedly bad about my life and like I had just wasted a chunk of my very precious headspace and time. Ew.
It took me a few minutes to get out of that fancy shmancy Insta page, but because I’m a mature woman and I know better, alhamdulillah, Allah guided me away from it. Guess who is glued to these accounts? Guess who gets their morals, their values and their aspirations and their #goals from these accounts?
Yep. Our children!
How scary is that! A child that follows a person like Kim Kardashian or Shahrukh Khan isn’t simply following them. They’re painting themselves with a culture that aligns to the celebrities. The routines, the jokes, the clothes, the style, the recipes even – they stick. Make no mistake about it, social media feeds are raising this generation of children. Of course these people do not speak up against the barbarism, no way, it’s politically incorrect and they may lose the brand.
Maybe that’s why the Muslim world has largely behaved like boiled cabbage in the face of the brutal geno-cide. Maybe the sparkle of the celebrities has so numbed our minds that we believe getting a Coke or a Loreal brand ambassador contract is true success. Maybe we have forgotten to see the misery that lies beyond the pomp and glory of celebrities.
So yeah, I’m all for cancelling and blocking out celebrities! Historically, art, film and drama has had a huge impact on the culture of a people and this effect has only been magnified manifold through the advent of the nefarious social networks.
It seems like a God-send to help Muslims regain their lost culture and for our youth and adults to find themselves again, to pursue things of value and meaning. Not just the celebs, the so called mental health gurus that have harped on so much about ‘healing’ and ‘processing’, these very Twinkle Toes types refuse to acknowledge the pain of the Palystynians. They have blown away their own carefully stitched cover and the hypocrisy has been exposed. The white supremacist agenda can make anyone gag.
So cancel the people taking you away from the way of the Prophet (SAWS) and the righteous Caliphs and the Sahabas. This is another positive that has come through Is-not-real’s plundering of a sacred land – that we can finally follow people that matter.
Please follow people like Hiba Masood, Maryam Amir, Shaykha Haifaa Younis and not just influencers, but honest people with just a handful of followers on social media trying to do their best, producing meaningful content. Your follow would mean much more to them than it would to someone with millions of followers.
Yep, best thing since sliced bread, canceling the celebs. Notice how I mention bread, but not sourdough bread? (IYKYK) We just need another blog on that don’t we? ‘Til next time y’all.
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