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  • 2023-01-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Pink Floyd’s ‘Woke’ 50th Anniversary Rainbow Controversy – Truth... (en)
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  • Pink Floyd’s ‘Woke’ 50th Anniversary Rainbow Controversy Claim In January 2023 Pink Floyd shared a logo to Facebook, triggering an anti-woke user meltdown due to a prominent rainbow. Rating Decontextualized Like this fact check? Reporting On January 19 2023, popular Twitter account @TravisAkers tweeted the following screenshot, purportedly illustrating backlash aimed at rock band Pink Floyd over a 50th anniversary rainbow logo on Facebook: Pink Floyd updated their profile picture to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Dark Side of the Moon, and the replies are... something. pic.twitter.com/e4zNZ2KGOS — Travis Akers (@travisakers) January 20, 2023 Akers attached a collaged image with a Facebook post (Pink Floyd updated their profile picture) on the left. Five comments in total were shown (complete with visible account names), three of which appeared to have attracted a single laugh react from the individual who captured the screenshots. One of the comments visible on the lower left side of the image perhaps hinted at a paucity of annoyed commenters. It vaguely asked about the rainbow, suggesting the claim was perhaps a reach: What’s up with the rainbow[?] Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die Akers’ tweet was viewed more than 12 million times; it was also shared to Facebook by actor Wil Wheaton on the morning of January 20 2023. That evening, actor and commentator George Takei shared Akers’ screenshot, lamenting the furor from the right based on a secondhand claim: The furor from the right over the 50th anniversary post by Pink Floyd as going woke with rainbows is peak MAGA ignorance. It’s a prism of their own making, as it were. pic.twitter.com/MJp2B8cxx9 — George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) January 20, 2023 Takei tweeted a few hours earlier, directing readers to an item on his website about the purported controversy. He published an identical tweet promoting the link on January 22 2023: Who wants to tell them? https://t.co/IplAS4MVrd — George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) January 20, 2023 Who wants to tell them? https://t.co/8wwTFuRS2m — George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) January 22, 2023 Media Bias/Fact Check maintained an entry for Takei’s Second Nexus, explaining that the site sometimes is not factual: In review, Second Nexus reports news with a progressive left bias that utilizes moderately loaded emotional language in their headlines and articles ... Many articles on Second Nexus source tweets and then provides opinionated commentary about the statements. When sourcing to other information they typically use credible sources such as the World Health Organization and National Journal. Editorially, most opinions come from a left perspective with support for the Environment, LGBT rights, and anti-conservative issues. In general, story selection almost always favors the left and sometimes is not factual. Takei’s two links pointed to a January 20 2023 page on SecondNexus.com, Conservatives Are Melting Down Over ‘Woke’ Rainbow In Pink Floyd’s ’50th Anniversary’ Profile Pic–And It’s Just Too Perfect. While the headline teased Conservatives ... Melting Down, the page itself primarily showcased commenters using obvious sarcasm to mock the purportedly offended people, claiming that the sarcasm was sometimes difficult to discern from the actual outrage: Can’t believe Pink Floyd have gone woke. From now on the only classic British artists I’m listening to are Queen, David Bowie, Elton John , George Michael, Judas Priest, Morissey, and Rickie Blackmore’s Rainbow [...] None of the comments in Akers’ tweet appeared on the Second Nexus page, and most potentially sincere comments were mild at best. One such comment described the image as pandering and referencing June, LGBTQ Pride Month : Wow even Pink Floyd is pandering now!? And it’s not even June! Another comment illustrated how difficult it was to determine the intent of the commenter: GO WOKE GO BROKE, SELLOUTS On January 22 2023, the official Twitter account for Pink Floyd promoted a 50th anniversary box set. Comments referencing outrage were visible, but actual sincere objections were not as prominent — the first visible response tweet was a good example, as were other top responses: Pink Floyd, thank you. Reading the panicked comments here from closeted homophobes is another eye opener. Whatever your intent, thank you for great music and thanks for the ingenious way you outed all these straight guys for the sexually confused men that they are. — Phil Hendrie (@realphilhendrie) January 21, 2023 Articles about the supposed conservative outrage over the Pink Floyd rainbow were shared to myriad subreddits, including r/Persecutionfetish : I don’t think these people have ever listened to Pink Floyd in their lives. from Persecutionfetish That iteration featured (again) the same five comments. Other posts linked to articles about the alleged controversy, such as a NME piece about the same five comments in Akers’ screenshot: Pink Floyd fans hit out at criticism of woke ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ rainbow logo from Music Pink Floyd fans are amused that the anti-woke mob are cancelling the band over the Dark Side Of The Moon ‘rainbow’ from offbeat A January 22 2023 post to r/entertainment also linked to music news coverage of the controversy. But the most popular comment on the thread challenged the claim, creating a skeptical subthread: Are people actually mad? Or is it 3 dummies on Facebook? These articles always highlight a couple clowns and act like there’s rioting and boycotts[.] It’s 3 dummies on Facebook. Nobody else cares. These articles just looking to bank off us reacting, cycle of hating – super annoying[.] Journalism industry SLAMMED by redditor[.] It’s three dummies and the media running with it as a chance to sow more disdain and hatred for others. Yeah I feel like these ‘people’ don’t represent anything even remotely close to 0.001% of Pink Floyd’s fans, crazy how these entertainment websites all just literally copy and paste each other’s homework[.] Akers tweeted the screenshots on January 19 2023, not long after Pink Floyd’s Facebook page uploaded its new profile photograph . As of January 23 2023, that post was shared several thousands of times, and had accumulated thousands of comments. By default, comments were ordered by Most Relevant, and reordering the comment section to All [Comments] should have revealed at least a few of the purportedly outraged comments. We were unable to locate any of the comments in the screenshots to verify their existence, but it was possible the virality of the screenshots led their authors to delete them. However, none of the comments we saw represented genuine outrage. Several people commented to that effect in the most popular comments: Came for the entertainment. Blown away by the rush of folks coming in to stomp on the know-nothings. Leaving refreshed and inspired. Like this if you’re super disappointed that the ‘idiot comments’ are not as abundant as you hoped. [519 likes.] ... yup its always been there. Haven’t really come across any comments crying about it. Was a rainbow through a prism if I remember right. But i just wanted to say, it probably feels A WHOLE LOT better than being woke and emotionally manipulated to be angry and offended at everything. I’m not seeing nearly as many outraged comments as I was hoping to see. [1.8K reactions.] CAN YOU ALL STOP MAKING FUN OF THE BOOMERS?!? I came here to read their ignorant comments but I can’t find them under all the ones that are making fun of them! 😭 [8K likes.] Hi! Welcome to the mid-bottom of the comments. I haven’t seen any Boomflakes cry yet, but I bet on all the Punisher skulls it’s right around the corner! Commenters satirizing what they believed was sincere backlash were often castigated by fellow commenters due to an absence of actual objections: Good job Pink. You just lost another fan. I have been listening to this album for the past 50 years since I picked it up at my local record store for 50 cents. I just happened to never look at the album cover[.] I think they should re-release the original album cover and get rid of that darn rainbow /s Edit: ok this has been very amusing but I’m going crazy from the oblivious comments now. This was obviously sarcastic[.] Rumors of an anti-woke backlash on Pink Floyd’s 50th anniversary Facebook profile photograph spread virally after high-profile accounts on social media shared a total of five supposedly offended reactions. Sites such as Second Nexus gleefully declared a meltdown by conservatives took place in the comments — comments which were in actuality populated largely by people who were disappointed not to discover anti-gay sentiment when actually visiting the post. We were unable to locate the comments in question, nor could we find any clearly sincere anti-woke complaining on the thread. Article Sources + Pink Floyd updated their profile picture to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Dark Side of the Moon, and the replies are... something. | Twitter Pink Floyd Woke Rainbow | Wil Wheaton/Facebook Pink Floyd Woke Rainbow | George Takei/Facebook Pink Floyd Woke Rainbow | George Takei/Facebook Media Bias Fact Check | Second Nexus/George Takei Conservatives Are Melting Down Over 'Woke' Rainbow In Pink Floyd's '50th Anniversary' Profile Pic–And It's Just Too Perfect The 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' is celebrated with a new box set available March 24th ... | Pink Floyd/Twitter The 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' is celebrated with a new box set available March 24th ... | Pink Floyd/Twitter The 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' is celebrated with a new box set available March 24th ... | Pink Floyd/Twitter I don't think these people have ever listened to Pink Floyd in their lives.So cringe that I think my soul left my body | Reddit Pink Floyd fans hit out at criticism of woke 'Dark Side Of The Moon' rainbow logo | Reddit Pink Floyd fans are amused that the anti-woke mob are cancelling the band over the Dark Side Of The Moon 'rainbow' | Reddit Now People Are Mad About Pink Floyd's New 'The Dark Side of the Moon' Anniversary Logo | Reddit Now People Are Mad About Pink Floyd's New 'The Dark Side of the Moon' Anniversary Logo | Reddit Pink Floyd fans hit out at criticism of woke ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ rainbow logo Pink Floyd 50th Anniversary Rainbow Profile Picture | Facebook Posted in Disinformation , Fact Checks Tagged basically an outright lie , george takei , imaginary offended people , manufactured outrage , new pink floyd logo , outrage bait , outrage porn , pink floyd 50th anniversary album , pink floyd 50th anniversary logo , pink floyd dark side rainbow , pink floyd woke , travis akers (en)
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