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I thought that singer's apology video was just PR spin...
I saw the clip from 2012 where he said some really bad stuff, and his new apology felt too clean, like his team wrote it. But then I found a podcast from a few months ago where he talked about working with a group from the community he hurt, and he named specific people and projects. That detail made it feel real, not just a statement. Has anyone else had an apology they doubted turn out to be okay?
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mark_green2mo ago
That 2012 clip was so bad I thought his apology was written by a robot lawyer. But hearing him talk about the actual people he works with now, like that youth center in Detroit, changed my mind. It's hard to fake that kind of boring, specific detail.
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tessap732mo ago
Yeah, the boring details are what make it real. Anyone can give a smooth speech, but naming a random youth center? That's just someone talking about their actual Tuesday. It shows the work is happening off camera.
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phoenix_martin402mo ago
You're right about the boring details being key. But what if the robot lawyer wrote that part too, feeding him local facts to seem real? That would be the next level of fake.
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keith27420d ago
mark_green, you say it's hard to fake boring specific detail... but that's exactly what a good PR team would do. They'd plant those little facts to sell the story. I've seen too many celebrities get caught with their "organic, grassroots" work being stage managed. That youth center could be a photo op he did once, and now his team is feeding it to every podcast host. People forget that even the "real" details can be manufactured if you have enough money and time. I'm still not buying his apology until I see some real change, not just better storytelling.
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