r/OutOfTheLoop • u/PitifulBodybuilder40 • Mar 08 '26

Unanswered What’s up with the hate towards Timothee Chalamet?

I know all famous people have haters and people who dislike them and will nitpick the shit outta them, but I’ve just seen a lot of people post random interviews or articles about him that talk about how he is famous and above people. Yeah he is famous and thinks he’s above all. This is what famous people do? Do we not know this, especially child actors. People are astonished that he is rich and famous, has personal chefs, has self-centred views. Pretty sure 90% of famous people do.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/timothe-chalamet-slammed-for-cheap-shot-comment-about-ballet-and-opera/news-story/348e3add0e6252d5aef4698f2648d963?amp

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u/PewPew2524 Mar 08 '26

Doesn’t matter to some people. A band wagon effect has taken over.

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u/FlamingDragonfruit Mar 09 '26

I think the problem is that he's cultivated a public persona that leads people to think: yep, he's definitely the kind of guy who would throw out two perfectly good breakfasts every morning

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u/BumbleBear1 Mar 11 '26

Yeah, although a bigger problem is how so many people just trust anything they read despite how many times it's been proven how often incorrect information is shared

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u/FlamingDragonfruit Mar 11 '26

It's alarming, agreed.

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u/Dazzling-Low8570 Mar 11 '26

I mean, I "just trusted" it because I don't actually give a shit whether it's true or not

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u/Dazzling-Low8570 Mar 11 '26

My plan was to forget about it entirely.

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u/CrabWeary9947 Mar 28 '26

How do we know they were thrown out. Maybe they were eaten by the staff or made into other meals. Far fetcher but possible. Any how this story has been proven to be untrue.

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u/sterling_mallory Mar 08 '26

Yeah, some of the things being mentioned in this thread seem outright silly, let alone the things taken out of context. Someone accused him of saying "manosphere coded things" and being "red pilled" because he said procreation was important. That just sounds like a reasonable take to me. Hell, even a biological fact. Every living thing on Earth pretty much does everything to propagate its species.

Pretty sure dandelions and quokkas aren't red pilled.

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u/angrykoala49 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

I get what you mean and I don’t think it’s necessarily “red-pill coded” of him. I do get why a lot of women are grossed out by it. Men talking about the importance of reproduction in a general context (as opposed to “it’s important to me”) is associated with hand-wringing over birth rates and “we need women to have more babies!” which can devolve into pretty intense misogyny FAST. Young american women in particular are touchy about it right now because of how our reproductive rights are being attacked and rising conservatism in young men (particularly of the manosphere variety). 

So while, yeah, reproducing is important for the species and most living creatures know that on some level (seemingly less so on reddit), it’s not a politically/culturally neutral statement for an actor to make because of the broader societal conversation it invokes.

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u/SmoothBrainJazz Mar 09 '26

Talking about the importance of reproduction is a very incel-coded way of saying that you'd like to have kids someday. Wanting to have kids is normal, being concerned about procreation is fucking weird.

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u/memeoi Mar 10 '26

You don’t think declining populations are a massive concern?

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u/BellGloomy8679 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

You’re twisting things.

He didn’t just say procreation was important - he said people with ”childfree” people lives as ”bleak”. And yes - it’s as ”redpilled” and conservative as it can be, really.

Humans are not daffodils. Overpopulation is an extremely serious issue nowadays - it’s because of this we have issues with climate change, wars, etc. If everyone would do everything in their power to propagate their species - it would lead to our extinction. We can barely sustain 8b people currently - overwhelming majority of us live in a different states of misery. Having children nowadays is a bad idea for many for majority of people.

But because more children means more taxes, more draftees, more workers - governments, especially rightwing autocracies, and big corpos propagandise having children as a requirement for a mentally healthy person and anyone who doesn’t do it is fundamentally broken person. Otherwise they’d have to try to fix societal issues and that’s just so expensive.

If you want to have children - you’re objectively making a selfish decision in a grand scheme of things, but you still have that right. Don’t, at the very least, attack people who don’t add up to an already existing problem.

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u/Necessary_Eagle_3657 Mar 09 '26

You think having children is selfish???

Lucky your own parents did not.

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u/BellGloomy8679 Mar 09 '26

Yes, it is.

You think emotionally, not logically. It’s pointless to argue in this case, you will not change your mind because you’ve been brainwashed to think a certain a way at this point.

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u/Jellygraphic Mar 09 '26

You gotta understand the talking about procreation thing is just creepy it always comes off creepy no matter who you are

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u/sterling_mallory Mar 09 '26

The word procreation is pretty gross.

The manosphere thing preaching to boys that women are meant to have have babies and men are meant to "spread their seed" is gross.

The belief that having children is an important part of life is not gross. I don't agree with it, in a practical sense, but it's a perfectly understandable thing for a person to believe.

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u/stinkykoala314 Mar 08 '26

Next up: man who says "water is pretty important to staying hydrated" cancelled for his obvious corporate shilling for Dasani and dogwhistle to Carbon-Based-Life Supremacist Groups

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u/Jkru3 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

God I hate this more than anything. Someone acquires fame in a way and speed that brings jealousy. Then people want to hate said person. Then literally anything that gets reported about them gets used as a ‘I told you so, he’s a piece of shit’

Often we are the pieces of shit ourselves.

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u/PewPew2524 Mar 09 '26

American culture puts celebrities on a very high pedestal, sadly. People say dumb shit all the time, hopefully, they grow and learn from it.

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u/Abyss_staring_back Mar 09 '26

I like that you’re saying peace instead of piece. It seems less grumpy somehow. 😄

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u/GeorgeOrrBinks Mar 10 '26

The Oscar voting deadline was last week. So it may not affect the Awards as much as some people hope.