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I think an under appreciated part of how shit smash twitter is the clout Havers. When someone does something fucked up they will only call them out for it when it’s financially and socially acceptable.

Example: Pierce A fucking Wierdo and everyone knew it. It wasn’t until a girl with clout called him out, then all the clout peeps reacted and said how terrible it is and how we need a safe environment for women to talk about sexual assault

Ignoring the fact that pretending that it didn’t happen to girls with 32 followers is creating an unsafe environment where you will only be believed if you are well known. Because no one cares about what happened to you, they care about benifiting from it.

Example again: ally Everyone knew about his relationship with Zac but peeps with clout didn’t care until he admitted it himself. Now ally is the worst person ever who needs to be murdered but yesterday he was the ‘SICK SNAKE PLAYER’

Another example JK: Remember him? The guy who tried to hit some people with a car and didn’t go to jail, yeah why was that? Because there’s only consequences if famous people want there to be consequences.

This is a problem significantly in the smash community but I think it expands further to a culture we live in. One where ordinary people being abused doesn’t matter, but laying a finger on someone with clout will get you death threats and you’ll be canceled

This will never change until we listen to ALL people who make claims with equal level of scepticism. Trying to find the truth of a situation rather than saying this person is an abusing freak or this person is a liar for clout.

I think this is why the term clout chaser is so present because having this much power over peoples thoughts is so tempting. This will probably end up losing me followers but I’ve been thinking about this a lot and no one has mentioned it.