Someone said they were confused why celebs are cosplaying the working division because if they catch Ed Sheeran at their Starbucks , it would " bankrupt [ their ] whole Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . "
Gwyneth Paltrowonce toldElle UK, “I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.” Lately, however, many celebs — including Gwyneth herself — have seemingly not shared the same sentiment.
Here are 14 times celebs got called out for “cosplaying the working class”:
1.To promote her new snack brand at Walmart in 2023,Charli D’Amelioput on a blue vest and worked the register.
Not even Walmart deserve this layer of discourtesy . Should be illegal .
Yassssss roleplay being a hard worker while making tik toks for a living 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Iwlp0mODAF
2.In the 2023 Netflix docuseriesBeckham,Victoria Beckhamclaimed to have grown up working class — only to be called out by her husband David.
3.In 2022,GrimestoldVanity Fairthat her then-partnerElon Musk— aka therichest person in the world— “does not live like a billionaire” and “lives at times below the poverty line.”
She continue , " To the point where I was like , ' Can we not hold up in a very insecure $ 40,000 house ? Where the neighbor , like , shoot us , and there ’s no security system , and I ’m eat peanut butter for eight days in a row ? ' "
A few weeks later, Elon Musk toldTED, “For sure, it would be very problematic if I was consuming billions of dollars a year in personal consumption. But that is not the case. In fact, I don’t even own a home right now. I’m literally staying at friends’ places — if I travel to the Bay Area, which is where most of Tesla engineering is, I basically rotate through friends' spare bedrooms.”
He continued , " I do n’t have a yacht , I really do n’t take vacations , so it ’s not as though my personal consumption is high . I mean , the one exclusion is a plane , but if I do n’t apply the plane , then I have less hours to work . "
Both of them receivedcriticismfor comparing choosing to live cheaply to actually living in poverty.
I usually love when two weirdos get together and are weirdos together in lovemaking but I ’m going to need grunge to close up about how Elon “ live below ” the poverty line when the dude is a billionaire and there is kids starving in every community in the “ rich ” country in the world
did grimes really say that elon sometimes lives BELOW the poverty line , its the whiteness and priviledge behind that 💀 🤢
4.Kid Rock isknownfor his “working class persona.” In his 1998 track “Cowboy,” he sang, “I’m straight out the trailer.”
However, according to theDaily Beast, he was reportedly raised by millionaire parents on a six-acre estate in a wealthy county in Michigan.
5.On New Year’s Eve in 2020,Blake Sheltondebuteda new song called “Minimum Wage.” The chorus goes, “Girl, your love can make a man feel rich on minimum wage.”
Ahead of the song ’s dismissal , he toldCarson Daly , " I ca n’t speak for everybody else , but I had a large 2020 . Even though a fate of bad stuff bechance in person for me , I got engaged to Gwen Stefani , and I do n’t care what else hap besides that . That made it a great class . "
In light of the recordunemploymentand financial losses many people faced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many peoplefeltthe song was out of touch.
The irony of listening to a millionaire Blake Shelton telling about “ beloved on minimum earnings ” at the end of 2020 might be suffer on its target audience#NewYearsRockinEve
blake shelton singing “ your love could make a man feel rich on minimal wage ” just cements the fact that racy mass have absolutely no fucking clew
In reaction to the criticism , Blake toldCMT , " I just sense like these days , there are people out there who do n’t want to know the true statement . They just need to hear what they want to hear , and they want to pick a fight . No matter what your design is , no matter what the truth is , they desire it to be something that they can be upset about so that they can get on social medium and endeavor to grab a headline . With ' Minimum Wage , ' at first I thought , ' Wow , I guess I just , I ’ve omit something here . ' And the more I read into this , I realized this was really not real . Whatever this recoil is is just four or five people that probably do n’t know anything about country medicine . They clearly had n’t heard the song or read the lyrics . If they had , they could n’t sense this style about the song . It ’s literally a love song about how if time are loaded and you ai n’t fetch much money — as long as you have love and you ’re happy — at the end of the day , that ’s all any of us can really desire for . You vex it if you get that . That ’s all that matters . And if that ’s offensive to you , then we ’ll just have to harmonize to discord . "
6.In 2020, Kourtney Kardashian Barker and Travis Barkerstageda photoshoot in an Indiana truck stop.
7.In 2019, Kim Kardashianposteda series of Instagram pictures of her family taken at Shangri-La, music producer Rick Rubin’s recording studio in Malibu.
Some commentersaccusedher of “pretending to be poor.”
8.In 2022, followingbacklashto her private jet usage, Kylie Jenner shared aTikTokof herself taking her daughter and two of her nieces to Target.
Some fansaccusedher of trying to seem “relatable” as “damage control.”
9.To promote her Cloud Macchiato drink in 2019, Ariana Grandeposedin a Starbucks uniform for since-deleted social media posts.
A since-deleted (andmemed) viral tweetcalledher out, saying, “Don’t you love when billionaires cosplay as the working class?”
10.Ed Sheeranworkeda Starbucks shift to promote his albumAutumn Variationsin 2023.
He faced some similar backlash to Ariana’s.
do n’t you have sex when billionaires cosplay as the work course of instruction . lmaohttps://t.co/KDYlIrsZk0
I do n’t understand why celebs cosplay the work class bc if I see Ed Sheeran at my Starbucks that would just ruin my whole dayhttps://t.co/MSIdWmQkqJ
11.In 2021, Kacey Musgravesfulfilledher “lifelong dream of working in a snowcone stand” by handing out free treats to fans in Nashville. Sharing pictures on Twitter, she called herself an “essential worker.”
It ’s called being an ~essential~ workerpic.twitter.com/RgGkNCMyh2
In the replies, fans called her out for comparing herself to actualessential workersduring the pandemic.
Babe this ai n’t it . hoi polloi have worked inexhaustibly and lay on the line their lives to keep working as an essential prole . You are not an of the essence doer , do not undermine the voiceless work and sacrifice in reality essential workers have done . Please re pass judgment and delete this post
can celebrities stop cosplaying as the working classhttps://t.co/pZ4tmI3Lku
12.In 2019, vloggers Catherine Paiz and Austin McBroom, aka The ACE Family, released a video called “WORKING AT A RESTAURANT FOR 24 HOURS.” On Snapchat, she said, “Guys, we are literally working right now, at a restaurant. Austin has been making food for the past hour, and I’ve been taking orders.”
They faced backlash on Twitter.
they should ’ve just sat there and eat their food . coming to “ work ” in a kitchen is not humble or “ cOoL ” . that ’s literally some hoi polloi ’s livelihood and they have the brass to make it seem like a charity project . i ’m sick ! and i ’ve seen a lot of youtubers do this too
who are these people even
13.In 2021, Terry Crews did an Amazonadwhere he worked in one of the giant online retailer’s warehouses to promote its job openings.
Many commenterscalledhim out for partaking in the commercial in light of reports of the company’sunsafe working conditionsand workersreportedlybeing denied bathroom breaks.
14.And finally, in 2015, Gwyneth Paltrow faced backlash over her “food stamps challenge,” with manycriticizingher grocery haul as unrealistic and impractical for actual SNAP recipients.
This is what $ 29 gets you at the grocery store — what family on SNAP ( i.e. intellectual nourishment stamps ) have to live on for a week.pic.twitter.com/OZMPA3nxij
Timecalled her challenge “poverty tourism,” andVoxsaid that it “fails to capture the grim reality of being a low-income American.”
In aGooppost , Gwyneth said , " As I suspected , we only made it through about four days , when I in person broke and had some volaille and fresh veggie ( and in full transparency , half a bag of mordant licorice ) . My linear perspective has been always altered by how hard it was to consume wholesome , nutritious food on that budget , even for just a few 24-hour interval — a challenge that 47 million Americans face every day , hebdomad , and year … I know hunger does n’t always touch on us all directly — but it does touch us all indirectly . After this week , I am even more grateful that I am able to provide high - tone solid food for my nestling . permit ’s all do what we can to make this a basic human rightfield and not a privilege . "
She also encouraged fans to donate to the organization she promoted through her challenge , theFood Bank for New York City .
