Hollywood celebrities are showing their solidarity with protestors by spreading #BlackOutTuesday — a social media hashtag that originated as a music industry initiative to give …
Hollywood celebrities are showing their solidarity with protestors by spreading #BlackOutTuesday — a social media hashtag that originated as a music industry initiative to give record label employees the day off but that has since metamorphosed into a generic virtue signal.
But the campaign has drown some scorn from establish media and leftist campaigners.
Stars including Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Katy Perry, Olivia Wilde, and Oscar winners Lupita Nyong’o and Mahershala Ali are using #BlackOutTuesday on their social media accounts or posting images of a monochromatic black box.
But CNN is warning that celebrities sharing the blacked out image with their millions of fans and followers “could be doing more harm than good.”
#BlackLivesMatter activists scolded celebrities for using their hashtag in conjunction with #BlackOutTuesday, claiming that the latter hashtag was drowning out important #BlackLivesMatter messages on social media platforms.
Breaking Bad stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul took to Instagram to show their support for #BlackOutTuesday.
