What’s up?
It’s Emile Ennis Jr. here with Clevver News and Timothée Chalamet found himself involved
in the backlash Virgil Abloh is currently facing on Twitter.
But before we get into everything going on, we want to make sure we’ve made our stance
clear.
At Clevver we all stand with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and all of
the other black people who have tragically lost their lives due to the color of their
skin.
We’ve linked some resources and places to donate down in the description below and we
will continue to cover these stories and have these conversations because this is only just
the beginning.
Alright, so here’s what’s gone down in regard to Virgil Abloh on Twitter.
Many celebs have been using their platforms and their voices to speak out about racial
inequalities and the Black Lives Matter movement after the tragic death of George Floyd.
Many celebs like Ariana Grande, Kehlani, Halsey, Timothée Chalamet, and more were spotted
out at protests over the weekend.
While many other celebs like Chrissy Teigen and Janelle Monáe have shown their support
by making donations to go towards bailing out those arrested for protesting.
But one donation in particular caught the attention of many fans.…
Virgil Abloh, who is the CEO of Off-White and the artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s
menswear collection, posted on his Instagram Stories that he had donated $50 to protesters
in need of bail money.
Virgil began trending on Twitter as fans were frustrated with his small donation in comparison
to other celebs who were donating hundreds of thousands of dollars.
One person shared this video and wrote quote “Me looking for those other zeroes”
Another chimed in and said quote, “@virgilabloh really?
$50 is what you believe it’s worth.
Ok”
And many others pointed out how small the donation is in comparison to the price of
the Off-White clothes he sells.
This fan wrote quote, “Now we can buy 1/4 of a shoe he sells lol Keep that to yourself
bruh”
And another replied saying quote, “For $50 I don’t think u can even look at the shoe,
them things be going for $500 plus”
And things escalated to the point where someone changed Virgil’s Wikipedia page to say “Virgil
“Cheap As**” Abloh and Virgil “50$” Abloh.”
Virgil also received some heat for posting about and focusing on the looting of one of
his friends’ stores rather than the bigger issues regarding racial injustice.
Virgil later hopped on IG stories to clarify that the concept of matching $50 was to inspire
others to do so and he has actually donated much more.
He didn’t share the exact amount yet, but says he plans to share that info with his
followers.
And celebs like Seth Rogan and many others matched Virgil’s donation.
Virgil has since deleted his IG story explaining his $50 donation, and fans are still tweeting
the hashtag #CancelOffWhite.
Alright, so where does Timothée Chalamet play into all of this?
Well, his name came up when Virgil posted a screenshot of what appeared to be a phone
call with Timothée on his Instagram page writing quote, “humanity needs our ideas
the most.”
Many people took to Twitter to share Virgil’s post writing things like “Don’t worry
guys timothee chalamet and virgil abloh are on the case how much can these guys get off
on themselves”
And this fan added quote, “He’s acting like chalamet is an avenger or something”
But others were quick to point out that Virgil’s post was taken out of context and is actually
a screenshot of Timothée on the phone with the Minnesota District Attorney demanding
justice for George Floyd and his family.
Virgil just shared a screenshot of the phone number from Timothée’s story, he wasn’t
sharing anything about a private phone call between the two of them.
In fact, Timothée has been very involved with protests sharing on his IG stories that
he attended the peaceful protest in Santa Monica Sunday.
At the protest, Timothée carried a poster bearing the names of George Floyd, Trayvon
Martin, Breonna Taylor, and other victims of police brutality.
And many of Timothée’s fans took to Twitter to share their thoughts on him attending the
protest.
One person wrote quote, “Just when I thought I couldn’t like @RealChalamet even more,
he goes out to protest, my equal rights king”
Another fan added quote, “fucking proud of him, thank you for doing this @RealChalamet”
And this person tweeted saying quote, “honestly the fact that @RealChalamet is going to protests
and helping the cause is inspiring, all u other people with a huge platform who refuse
to mention the BLM movement, fuck all of u. this matters, go sport ur fucking bikini somewhere
else”
I’m very curious to hear what you guys think about all of this, please share your thoughts
down in the comments below.
If you want to hear about which celebs are demanding justice for George Floyd, click
right over here for another Clevver News video.
I’m your host, Emile Ennis Jr., bye guys.