What do y'all think about the Balenciaga SS23 & Adidas collab "teddy" controversy?

What's your take in the Balenciaga teddy bear controversay?

  • It's harmless

    Votes: 23 3.2%
  • It's disgusting

    Votes: 554 76.7%
  • It's just to garner attention - Balenciaga being Balenciaga

    Votes: 94 13.0%
  • I don't know what to think

    Votes: 46 6.4%
  • What controversay? (links in post)

    Votes: 5 0.7%

  • Total voters
    722

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incorrect - she left scientology when she escaped from Tom, she has nothing to do with that cult.
Spare me the MSM media pr she has done to spin this to keep her career. Look at how quiet she is. She hasn’t removed the photos, she hasn’t even spoken out.

Neither has Kim Kardashian, Neither has Alexa Demie, Bella Hadid, only Kanye hmm very interesting!

I think the people here trying to invalidate or the very least downplay the severity of the situation really showed their true colors today about pedophilia and child exploitation.
 
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I don't even know how to start this post. Maybe we should all ask, "Why isn't the celebrities talking about this?" They have an opinion about everything. Isn't child pedophilia big enough to be spoken against? If you have a child, and someone commits a crime against your child, either sexual abuse or anything pedophilia related, are you going to be quiet about it, waiting for the perpetrator to issue an apology? These celebrities are not speaking up because we know who owns them. Kim Kardashian has been quiet about this and she has children. She is one of Balenciaga's biggest supporters. There are large groups of elites who have been running child trafficking and child sexual abuse rings for years. Why now?? They have been able to get away with their symbolism for many years, but they got too comfortable knowing that people were blind to it. They are being bold about their symbols and were expecting people to get on the pedophilia bandwagon. But this time, it didn't work. People are waking up and what do they do? "Oops ... we apologize if this was offensive to you." OMG ... these companies have a lot of resources to work on their brands, from analysts to psychologists, to anything you can imagine that will work on specific themes to brainwash people and make them hooked on their products. We do not know because we are not in the know. All we know is that we are addicted to these brands and we sit here waiting for them to release a statement so they can redeem themselves and we go on with our "tea room" lives as if nothing happened. We need to wake up and stop allowing these elites to take advantage of young women, children or anyone that they can use to profit from. Balenciaga has been in this pdophilia business for many years. Who ever heard of Rachel Chandler?? She was a big attendee at Epstein Island. She has a model agency that would "recruit" children and under age girls to shoot for Balenciaga and other brands. Where did Rachel get these girls from? She had pictures of Epstein house cameras. If you go to ther agency IG, you can't comment on anything. They are trying to shut us down. We need to stop being complacent and stop giving these people our hard earned money. This is not about teddy bears and bondage clothing. Look at how the theme of child sexualization was perfectly aligned throughout the pictures. Open your eyes and stand for what is right
AMEN!
 
Right? Like thank god I’m not the only one that feels this way

That person didn’t allow free speech by recently banning multiple accounts for no reason, or ones that criticized him, and not allowing (Alex) everyone back. Very tyrannical. Makes me worried for free speech. Not very free speechy of him for me!

Also Chanel and Lvmh brands have also pulled as well. Not going to hold it against Bal bc of this!
Alex? Alex Jones should be allowed back on Twitter? Is that who you are referring to?

Weird position to take if you are concerned about children.
 
There are large groups of elites who have been running child trafficking and child sexual abuse rings for years. Why now?? They have been able to get away with their symbolism for many years, but they got too comfortable knowing that people were blind to it. They are being bold about their symbols and were expecting people to get on the pedophilia bandwagon. But this time, it didn't work.

I am starting to wonder if there was something to "pizzagate".
 
Spare me the MSM media pr she has done to spin this to keep her career. Look at how quiet she is. She hasn’t removed the photos, she hasn’t even spoken out.

Neither has Kim Kardashian, Neither has Alexa Demie, Bella Hadid, only Kanye hmm very interesting!

I think the people here trying to invalidate or the very least downplay the severity of the situation really showed their true colors today about pedophilia and child exploitation.
Sorry but I didn't mention her involvement in this Bal disaster. So i will not "spare you' I corrected the mistake someone has made that they infer she's involved with Scientology which she isn't. Thats the only thing I commented on. If you infer that I havent mentioned the Bal situation that makes me involved with the pedo world then you'll get reported.
 
Absolutely appalling, unfathomable and disgusting.

The teddy bear is one thing, the bondage is one thing, the court docket referencing child porn case is one thing, but to see those babies pictured with panda eyes (a clinically recognized indicator of traumatic abuse) in the context of all of this is so incredibly infuriating and gut-wrenching there is absolutely no turning back or apology that would warrant this okay. I don't own anything and will never buy balenciaga and would not be sad if this sub-forum was shut down.
All of this. I'm so sorry but for a company to claim they had no idea this was being done and trying to blame the production company and set designer...gtfo. They can't even be bothered to issue a true apology and are trying to pull a shaggy "it wasn't me" and now suing others. Someone laid eyes on this campaign, my bet would be multiple someones, and they need to be fired. One of the photos also had the little girl laying sideways or face down on the couch with used wine glasses strewn on the table - so disgusting.
 
I am starting to wonder if there was something to "pizzagate".
Oh ... there were MANY things about Pizzagate. Girl, you gotta start digging. You will be horrified by what these people have been doing to children all these years. It's all about the children. Also, when Balenciaga released an apology saying, "We apologize for any offense our campaign has caused." So, whatever Balenciaga did, didn't offend you guys, your executives? It didn't offend the photographers? It didn't offend your PR managers? Are you that much of a sociopath that you don't see anything wrong in that picture? Now, they are pretending to be treating the topic in as uneventful and as if nothing happened. But there is a HUGE discrepancy going on here. They are silent but they canceled their Twitter account. On Rachel Chandler's agency IG page, you can't leave comments. Balenciaga erased their posts on IG. If it's not a big deal, let's have a conversation why you think it's offensive to us, the public, but it's not offensive to you. Instead of staying silent, let's talk about it. But THEY CANNOT TALK ABOUT IT. The dirt will start coming out. We cannot allow them to convince us that there is nothing wrong here. These are innocent children being sexualized. How can people ignore this???????????? I work with people who were sexually abused as children and when they look at those pictures, they know exactly what they mean. I had people tell me their fathers were part of cults that required the sacrifice of children.
 
Who are you and why are you defending this disgusting behavior? Not to mention that you just joined our forum on t November 26, 2022. I would love the admin to check on this member.
I am defending the work to make art and perhaps we shouldn't read too much at face value with Balenciaga. After all, I think that they are a brand imbued with a ton of irony and definitely we can't take everything that they do literally every single time.

After all, the Lays clutch bag is still a play at tropes and our ability to misread semiotics. I definitely have to admit that the advertisement was meant as social commentary about the United States and its current affairs. After all, the misfire happened here in the States and not in Europe.
 
Alex? Alex Jones should be allowed back on Twitter? Is that who you are referring to?

Weird position to take if you are concerned about children.
Either you’re for all free speech or none. That was my point, not him.

I still stand by the safety of children 100%
I'm just going to park this here: (click to read in detail)



Oh and this lotta person has a collaboration with Adidas. Hmm when you connect the dots, you can see clearly how Adidas also involved in this.

The fact that Adidas isn’t getting backlash from this too seems suspicious
 
So she’s willing to just “re-evaluate” not completely drop? Seems like she cares more about her bank account more than the lives of children which is more disgusting considering she’s a mother herself.
She tweeted these 3 over an hour ago, and was lambasted. So the above I guess was more of a "read the room" follow up.

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She tweeted these 3 over an hour ago, and was lambasted. So the above I guess was more of a "read the room" follow up.

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Her answer is so PC. Wow ... they are plotting behind the scenes so they don't throw each other under the bus here. Read the way she presented the issue. They have a lot of passion when it comes to antisemitism messages. Where is the passion? Where is the feistiness when it comes to children??? They are quick to react to everything. I am pretty sure if this message involved race or gender, they would have canceled any brand. She is "being" so generous and kind. Really???????????? Really?????????????? They are afraid of US, the public, because without us they have absolutely NOTHING. They are trying to pacify us. Does she take that long to express her opinions about other topics? Thank you for sharing
 
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