I could be and probably am very off base here. But I sometimes feel like all of these 'controversies' are actually stoked mainly for attracting eyeballs and clicks to 'news' stories about them. And in some instances to help sell films. Meaning perhaps a few nutters that nobody should be paying attention to anyway say something about black Ariel. Then some folks find those tweets or Insta posts and go HAM with counter memes, tweets, posts, e.t.c. Then we all go click on some website to read bout the hubub.
The phrase 'perpetual outrage machine' comes to mind. Not sure who coined it, so if that is a loaded phrase, forgive me. But were there really all that many people upset about the flute playing? So that then I'm bombarded with the counter memes about folks I would never know about in the first place?
We need an 'ignore' button for most the internet these days it seems.
Apologies if I'm off base here. Maybe because I haven't had cable in so many years I'm very wrong and Fox nightly went off on all this, and CNN did the 'they're saying all this' stuff. It just all starts to feel like a ploy to get me to pay attention to things I would normally never even know.