If you're not on social media much, you may not have heard of #blockout2024 or #blockparty2024. Basically, people are blocking celebrities and their companies on social media.
There are two schools of thought on this tactic: one side is only blocking celebrities who haven't spoken up or done anything for Palestine, and then when/if they do, they forgive them and unblock/refollow.
The other side (I'm on this team) thinks it should be permanent blocking, because a) we need to stop celebrity worship culture altogether in order to change society. It's the "circus" part of "bread and circuses," only these days there's no bread, only circuses. We need to stop being distracted by rich assholes who don't care about you or anyone, only their own wealth and power and influence. We need to support each other, support indie musicians and artists and so on who are struggling to survive and making amazing content that hasn't been run through some corporate filter to be useful to empire. We need to stop giving our time, money, and attention to the "elite" who serve only the interests of the super rich. And b) if Palestine is your only reason for this movement, which fair enough, someone feeling pressured by this to finally say "hey yeah genocide isn't ok" still doesn't care? They just care about their image and following. Them sharing a GoFundMe when they themselves could fund all the GoFundMes is further proof that they don't really care, or they would be putting their money where their mouth is. They are doing damage control, it's all PR (public relations), their image, their follower count. I don't think that should be rewarded, either, do you?
that's Palestine, Sudan, Congo, top to bottom
Even if you didn't follow the celebrities before (I generally don't follow celebs myself), block them anyway if you're for this, because it still will bork their numbers, especially their ads. Going to their page tells the algo that you are looking for that content, and then you block that content. The algo might try serving you related content - say you block an American football player, then it might serve you other NFL content, and you can block that too. It's wasting the ad dollars on someone who is just going to ignore it.
Another tactic I've seen people mention is, if you go to the store of their company, like the Kardashians have all their clothes and makeup companies and such, and fill up a shopping cart online and then abandon it? That really messes with their ad dollars, because any time you abandon a cart their ad dollars will go into overdrive trying to advertise to you to lure you back - again denying them revenue and wasting their marketing dollars, by serving the ads to you instead of someone who might actually buy.
just days after this all started becoming a movement, I was double checking that I had blocked Ariana Grande who had landed on multiple block lists, and saw this fan group that showed she had SUDDENLY signed an open letter calling for a ceasefire. Feeling the pressure
So my list started off just by looking at other people's recommended blocks, but then I found this article detailing everyone who went to the "let them eat cake" Met Gala, and I took the time to go through making a list of everyone in that article and blocking them too, so I thought I would share that list with y'all because it took some time. So the first names are not necessarily Met Gala names, though some were also Met Gala attendees as I found out later (which is why I was double checking that I had blocked Ariana Grande); they're the names I was picking up from other people doing the block party, and then I started adding people from the Met Gala article.
Beyoncé
Kim Kardashian
Taylor Swift
Tom Brady
Rihanna
Drake
Hailey Bieber
Kylie Jenner
Haley Kalil (the influencer who said "let them eat cake")
Joe Biden
Donald Trump
DJ Khaled
Bill Gates
Oprah
Mark Hamill
Jeff Bezos
Zendaya
Bad Bunny
Ariana Grande
Nicki Manaj
Justin Bieber
Gigi Hadid (*a friend said Gigi Hadid has been vocal about Palestine, but she was on the Met Gala list)
Jennifer Lopez
Chris Hemsworth
Jonathan Anderson
Shou Chew
Shakira
Anok Yai
Lewis Hamilton
Charli XCX
Andrew Scott
Ed Sheeran
Camila Mendes
Michelle Yeoh
Kelsea Ballerini
Chase Stokes
Nicholas Galitzine
Alia Bhatt
Angel Reese
FKA Twigs
Mike Faist
Cara Delevingne
Hari Nef
Demi Lovato
Rachel Sennott
Taraji P. Henson
Karlie Kloss
Ivy Getty
Janelle Monae
Usher
Da'vine Joy Randolph
Lizzo
Maria Sharapova
Michelle Williams (? there are a few with that name but no one that looks like the photo, I was looking on IG)
Meg Ryan
Kaia Gerber
Michael Shannon
Irina Shayk
Camila Cabello
Sydney Sweeney
Cardi B
Allison Williams
Doja Cat
Pamela Anderson
Willow Smith
Jaden Smith
Vittoria Ceretti
Sarah Paulson
Sabrina Carpenter
Barry Keoghan
Gabrielle Union
Dwyane Wade
Lana Del Rey
Dua Lipa
Kerry Washington
Karol G
Lily Gladstone
Amanda Seyfried
Phoebe Dynevor
Brie Larson
Jennie Kim
Queen Latifah
Eboni Nichols *couldn't find her on IG
Kendall Jenner
Lil Nas X
Nicole Kidman
Cynthia Erivo
Serena Williams
Harris Reed
Seth Meyers
Alexi Ashe *also couldn't find her unless a one post account was it
Matthew Macfadyen *could find only what looked like fake accounts
Keeley Hawes
Teyana Taylor
Aurora James
Sofia Coppola
Tom Ford
Hugh Jackman
Elle Fanning
Keke Palmer
Lauren Sánchez
Demi Moore
Eddie Redmayne
Jon Batiste
Greta Lee *don't think I found her either
Tyla
Olivier Rousteing
Kylie Minogue
Penélope Cruz
Emily Ratajkowski
Taylor Russell
Taika Waititi
Rita Ora
Uma Thurman
Adrien Brody
Dove Cameron
Damiano David
Kris Jenner
Corey Gamble
Jack Harlow
Riley Keough
Ayo Edebiri
Josh O'Connor
Dan Levy
Alton Mason
Sarah Jessica Parker
Andy Cohen
J. Harrison Ghee
Jamie Dornan
Tommy Hilfiger
Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger
Rebecca Hall
Eva Chen
Alexandra Daddario
Rosalía
Adam Mosseri
Monica Mosseri
Ambika Mod
Wisdom Kaye
Jeff Goldblum
Jessica Biel
Sam Smith
Donald Glover
Morgan Spector
Mindy Kaling
Jordan Roth
Madelyn Cline
Baz Luhrmann
Catherine Martin
Gayle King
Colman Domingo
Zoe Saldaña
Greta Gerwig *couldn't find her on IG
Rebecca Ferguson
Ben Simmons
Lea Michele
Steven Yeun
Lily James
Luciana Damon
Matt Damon
Anna Wintour
Elsa Pataky
Emma Chamberlain
Gwendoline Christie
Ashley Graham
Someone also suggested blocking vehicles for celebrity content, so:
TMZ
Vogue
Saturday Night Live
E News
