{"id":640760,"date":"2013-01-31T15:53:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=214334"},"modified":"2013-01-31T15:53:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:53:05","slug":"kenyans-reading-celebrity-tweets-is-more-depressing-than-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/640760","title":{"rendered":"Kenyans Reading Celebrity Tweets Is More Depressing Than Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People on YouTube are calling this clip racist. It&#8217;s not. But I can see how one might think that if they just kind of watched the first few seconds and didn&#8217;t really think about it.<\/p>\n<p>Depressing is really the right word here. Watching people in a poor, developing country read the meaningless, inane bullsh*t spewed out by first-world celebrities is sad. I don&#8217;t know any of these Kenyans, but I think I&#8217;m safe in assuming that the woman reading Paris Hilton&#8217;s tweet about swimming, jet skiing, and working on her tan in St. Tropez doesn&#8217;t know much about swimming, jet skiing, and tanning in St. Tropez.  <\/p>\n<p>Remember that campaign that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/people-in-haiti-read-firstworldproblems-tweets-2012-10\">saw Haitians reading #FirstWorldProblems<\/a>? Yeah, it kind of feels like that. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of funny sometimes, I guess. But it mostly serves as a stark comparison between the first and third world. I don&#8217;t know if Jimmy Kimmel meant for it to come off like that, but it does. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ttSQYQuNYDM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you want something with more funny and less sad but in the same spirit, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/nick-offerman-reads-more-asinine-tweets-after-four-month-hiatus-2013-01\">Nick Offerman reading inane celeb tweets<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/more-celebrities-are-back-to-read-your-hateful-tweets-2013-01\">celebs reading mean tweets about themselves<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=c_8WWsFhYq4:WitKTSmQsr8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=c_8WWsFhYq4:WitKTSmQsr8:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=c_8WWsFhYq4:WitKTSmQsr8:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=c_8WWsFhYq4:WitKTSmQsr8:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=c_8WWsFhYq4:WitKTSmQsr8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=c_8WWsFhYq4:WitKTSmQsr8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=c_8WWsFhYq4:WitKTSmQsr8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=c_8WWsFhYq4:WitKTSmQsr8:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=c_8WWsFhYq4:WitKTSmQsr8:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/c_8WWsFhYq4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People on YouTube are calling this clip racist. It&#8217;s not. But I can see how one might think that if they just kind of watched the first few seconds and didn&#8217;t really think about it. Depressing is really the right word here. Watching people in a poor, developing country read the meaningless, inane bullsh*t spewed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}