Who had the worst week?
Social media can be an unforgiving beast. Kanye West knows this very well — he thrives on stirring the pot. Justin Timberlake, on the other hand, just wants to feel the love.
Both found themselves on defense this week. West's new video, which features faux naked bodies of various celebs (including Taylor Swift), drew the ire of "Girls" star Lena Dunham. She unleashed a Facebook diatribe saying the imagery "makes me feel sad and unsafe and worried for the teenage girls who watch this." The internet then piled on.
Timberlake's mistake started with an innocuous tweet, praising Jesse Williams' BET Awards speech about social justice and white appropriation. Tweeters thought JT must have missed the point (since he himself is guilty of said appropriation). JT responded with "I really do feel that we are all one ... A human race." Nice sentiment, bad wording. To many in the Twittersphere, it sounded like JT was promoting "all lives matter" rhetoric.
So who had the worst week? Well, truthfully, this was just another day in the life for West. But Timberlake? He's still licking his wounds.
Tom Horgen
