Posted on 11/03/2022 1:07:19 PM PDT by DFG
VANCOUVER, BC — This week, the Society For Prevention Of Cruelty To Celebrities (SPCC) launched a nationwide campaign to raise awareness about public figures buckling under a new expense that seems targeted specifically at them. The commercial advocates for compassionate viewers to donate $8 per month to sponsor a celebrity's verified blue checkmark on Twitter.
"Hi, I'm Sarah McLachlan. Please say you will be the answer for an innocent celebrity who is suffering right now from this cruel tax designed to reduce the status of high-status people – the $8 monthly charge for a verified blue checkmark on Twitter." Sarah McLachlan delivers her appeal directly into the camera in the new commercial, gently cradling a scraggly and ill-kempt Stephen King as he moans quietly over the soft crooning of "In The Arms Of An Angel."
The commercial pans over several other destitute Twitter celebrities, including Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who holds out her hand with a poochie lip as the voiceover summarizes options for a one-time gift, monthly pledge, or ‘The AOC Package' – where you "pledge to make everything on Twitter free because, like, shouldn't it be about free speech anyways?"
As the commercial progresses, McLachlan enumerates the needs of wealthy online figures, including shelter, care, and being rescued from bullies who are making them pay a marginal amount for a marginal dose of online status. She even called out to "any widows who may be listening" by asking them to "step out on faith" and give their last $8 to a helpless Twitter celebrity stuck out in the cold.
Since the commercial's airing, $16 has been raised.
*grin*
For the less than the cost of one cup of coffee a day, you can help an unemployed journalist continue to feel relevant...
LOL - good one.
(I have a theory - one of the reasons Musk bought Twitter was to ‘right’ the obvious injustice to the Bee when they were banned (and to protect the rest of us who are NOT white liberal elite scum)
Awww... Sarah is such a sweetheart!
I can’t wait to see the commercial, is it 2 minutes long like the others and showing depressed, sad, unhealthy liberals tied to trees or poles?
But is there mournful music playing in the background? That would make all the difference.
That was me. I simply cannot imagine life without the sage guidance of Barbra and Cher.
saw her live on stage in Young frankinstien she was awesome
I volunteer to pay the $8/mo for “Meathead” Rob Reiner so long as I can be his Archie Bunker.
I thought it was her being funny but noooooooooo....the Bee!!!!!!!!!!!
Sarah or Sally?
I’ll bite!😂 As long as I get to edit!
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