{"id":12391,"date":"2024-05-15T23:42:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=12391"},"modified":"2024-05-15T23:42:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:12:54","slug":"why-are-individuals-blocking-famous-people-on-social-media-platforms-all-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/why-are-individuals-blocking-famous-people-on-social-media-platforms-all-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are individuals blocking\u00a0famous people on social media platforms all around the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Calls for social media users to blacklist well-known celebrities and their companies in protest of their alleged silence on Israel&#8217;s attack on Gaza are quietly gaining traction online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;Chop Chop&#8221; movement, also known as #Blockout2024, is a way for supporters of the celebrities to express their annoyance at them for not using their platforms and power to draw attention to the Middle East&#8217;s humanitarian catastrophe. The initiative aims to &#8220;curb specific revenue streams and fame&#8221; of certain celebrities, according to one TikToker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/literarycore\/status\/1788667371055612081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1788667371055612081%7Ctwgr%5E955c145a5f953f1b8fe3bae64e80dea05f3bf7e5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-6661076121164016249.ampproject.net%2F2405022220000%2Fframe.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Social Blade, a social media analytics website in the US, users are sharing lists of celebrities to unfollow and block on social media sites like TikTok, Instagram, and X, which has led to a noticeable drop in followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for social media users to blacklist well-known celebrities and their companies in protest of their alleged silence on Israel&#8217;s attack on Gaza are quietly gaining traction online. The &#8220;Chop Chop&#8221; movement, also known as #Blockout2024, is a way for supporters of the celebrities to express their annoyance at them for not using their platforms &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[15902,15901],"class_list":["post-12391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-blocking-famous-people","tag-why-are-individuals-blocking-famous-people-on-social-media-platforms-all-around-the-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12393,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391\/revisions\/12393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}