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The Balenciaga Controversy

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Re: The Balenciaga Controversy

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Post by thepasswordis »

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #30
thepasswordis wrote: post #3

Here’s Balenciaga’s 2023 video showing off their styles for the year. This is from their own YouTube channel. Fair warning: the children shown appear to be dolls, not actual human children, but it is still disturbing: https://youtu.be/Yh_1K9s6UV0 These seem to be adults dressed as literal demons (one of them has horns on their head) many of whom are carrying (probably fake) children, and all marching through the mud.…

> These seem to be adults dressed as literal demons (one of them has horns on their head) many of whom are carrying (probably fake) children, and all marching through the mud. It’s very unsettling. No offense but that’s just a fashion show in a setting involving some mud in the background. It looks a bit like another planet rather than hell. Also there are no children here. I’m still looking for the disturbing part.…

Watch the rest of the video. Eventually the actors are all walking around wearing child carriers containing dolls.

Re: The Balenciaga Controversy

#42

Post by jasonwatkinspdx »

thepasswordis wrote: post #3

Here’s Balenciaga’s 2023 video showing off their styles for the year. This is from their own YouTube channel. Fair warning: the children shown appear to be dolls, not actual human children, but it is still disturbing: https://youtu.be/Yh_1K9s6UV0 These seem to be adults dressed as literal demons (one of them has horns on their head) many of whom are carrying (probably fake) children, and all marching through the mud.…

I mean the fashion show is just the typical haute couture nonsense.

But I did look up the instagram profile you're talking about and saw one of the images in google's cache. I'll save other people the trouble of doing the same: it's a little kid taped into a chair with packing tape, including over their mouth, and they're wearing headphones connected to a laptop showing some sort of tv show.

It's not CSAM but it certainly is intended to ape it stylistically, which I find incredibly poor taste.

Re: The Balenciaga Controversy

#43

Post by navjack27 »

To everyone commenting on this using the phrases:

  Seems bizarre

  Is bizarre

  Disturbing

  Seems concerning

  Fishy

  If someone shows you who they are believe them

  Shame

  Disgusting

  Literal demons

  Very unsettling
Congratulations! You took the bait! Now you are participating in something called moral outrage. All you are doing is exactly what they want you to do. They being Balenciaga. You are free marketing.

Re: The Balenciaga Controversy

#44

Post by p0pcult »

nisegami wrote: post #23
p0pcult wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a society with rule of law, everyone deserves benefit of the doubt, always, until proven otherwise.

No such society exists or has ever existed.

We should aspire to nothing which has not existed previously!

Progress is an illusion!

There is only black and white!

Re: The Balenciaga Controversy

#45

Post by [deleted] »

thepasswordis wrote: post #3

Here’s Balenciaga’s 2023 video showing off their styles for the year. This is from their own YouTube channel. Fair warning: the children shown appear to be dolls, not actual human children, but it is still disturbing: https://youtu.be/Yh_1K9s6UV0 These seem to be adults dressed as literal demons (one of them has horns on their head) many of whom are carrying (probably fake) children, and all marching through the mud.…

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Re: The Balenciaga Controversy

#46

Post by navjack27 »

no-dr-onboard wrote: post #32
syrrim wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They filed a lawsuit claiming they didn't know about a single stray sheet of paper in one of the photos of the shoot, which looks entirely innocent on first inspection, but happens to be a court document for a famous child pornography suit. The existence of this document has been claimed by some observers (shoe, for one), to be the "smoking gun" proving that this is all satan worship rather than strange art. So it is…

I suppose the other thing to consider is the (art book in the photos) by an author who regularly depicts children naked, dismembered, and covered in blood. Please stop engineering doubt. It's absurd to pretend that there isn't a consistent theme of child abuse here. Not a claim on OP, but in general for this conversation: I find it intriguing that the level of grace and benefit that is given to the people involved in…

The theme is child abuse... Except not in the way that you're thinking about it... It's speaking out against it by showing the extreme depiction of it in a controlled art manner.

Re: The Balenciaga Controversy

#47

Post by p0pcult »

thepasswordis wrote: post #41
WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> These seem to be adults dressed as literal demons (one of them has horns on their head) many of whom are carrying (probably fake) children, and all marching through the mud. It’s very unsettling. No offense but that’s just a fashion show in a setting involving some mud in the background. It looks a bit like another planet rather than hell. Also there are no children here. I’m still looking for the disturbing part.…

Watch the rest of the video. Eventually the actors are all walking around wearing child carriers containing dolls.

Won't somebody think of...

...the dolls???

Re: The Balenciaga Controversy

#48

Post by p0pcult »

navjack27 wrote: post #43

To everyone commenting on this using the phrases: Seems bizarre Is bizarre Disturbing Seems concerning Fishy If someone shows you who they are believe them Shame Disgusting Literal demons Very unsettling Congratulations! You took the bait! Now you are participating in something called moral outrage. All you are doing is exactly what they want you to do. They being Balenciaga. You are free marketing.

And, unfortunately, the very dumb in the USA will use this as justification for shooting up LGBTQ nightclubs...or pizza parlors.

Re: The Balenciaga Controversy

#49

Post by donkeyd »

thepasswordis wrote: post #41
WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> These seem to be adults dressed as literal demons (one of them has horns on their head) many of whom are carrying (probably fake) children, and all marching through the mud. It’s very unsettling. No offense but that’s just a fashion show in a setting involving some mud in the background. It looks a bit like another planet rather than hell. Also there are no children here. I’m still looking for the disturbing part.…

Watch the rest of the video. Eventually the actors are all walking around wearing child carriers containing dolls.

What's so unsettling about that? Sure, I understand they did this to cause a bit of a stir, but it's just people carrying around dolls in a dystopian setting.

And even if there were actual babies in there, the most unsettling part is the danger of the person carrying the baby slipping in the mud and falling on top of the baby.

Re: The Balenciaga Controversy

#50

Post by squokko »

I think this is just a corporate version of a pattern that has become very common - people doing more and more outrageous stuff to garner attention in an overcrowded world, and then stepping over the line which is becoming thinner and thinner by the day.

"50% better, 25% less expensive" just doesn't cut it as a marketing message these days.

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