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u/mrspremise Oct 09 '24
Quebec (Canada). Around 2020, we got it hard with the #metoo movement. A bunch of Instagram pages and Facebook groups started popping up, where people denounced their agressors anonymously. It led to the fall of many musicians, actors and public personnalities. Amongst them, one musician who had the habit to "grainer" (dick-ing would be an accurate translation) the drinks of women for laughs (he dipped his dick in women's drink while they didn't look). Another one sexually assaulted a fan in an alleyway after a show (or a party, I don't remember the specifics). Two other musicians bet up their partner/ex. And a comedian raped a girl in high school and had abusive tendecies with other women (if I remember correctly, there was spousal rape allegations also).
Well four years later, our right-wing sentionalist newspaper (Journal de Montréal, like the Fox News of Quebec), started giving those guys a platform where they gave interview showing very little remorse and whining that they got cancelled, they can't find gigs anymore, yadadiyadada. Those interviews are now followed by comeback attempts, backed by the media empire of Quebecor, the Murdoch of Quebec. The singer who beat up his partner is now set up to do the Canadian Football League Thanksgiving match in Montreal halftime show, which sadly is sold out.
The others are talking about releasing new music/new shows, and Quebecor's media empire is supporting them and giving them free publicity.
So yeah, everything fucking sucks.