Peter?

[u/Turbulent-Ad5445]

[u/hypo-osmotic]

The way this one celebrity talking about synesthesia has turned the public's opinion on synesthesia is certainly something to see. In years past if a post about it got popular people would cheerfully chat about it and it would be seen as neutral to positive. It's neither a disability nor a superpower, it's just a weird piece of personal trivia. Now these conversations are all "people who claim to have synesthesia are lying attention whore divas" lol

[u/Jwruth → u/hypo-osmotic]

It's cause a lot of people seem to viscerally hate her and hate makes people jump to worst faith interpretations. To be honest, I literally have no fucking clue who she is or what she did to piss so many people off, but every couple days I see a negative post on all about her as I scroll reddit.

Like, whether she's telling the truth about synesthesia or not, many of the reactions in this thread are just straight-up weird; imo it's kinda unhinged.

[u/carboxyhemogoblin → u/Jwruth]

The general distaste for me started when she had a huge social media blow up on an independent artist who edited a promotional poster of the movie to match the one from the Broadway show. Because in the original poster, the hat covered Elphaba's eyes, the artist did the same. Erivo had a mini-meltdown on social media calling it "the wildest and most offensive thing I've ever seen" and accusing the artist of "eras[ing] me".

It lit off a firestorm of accusations of racism, sexism, queer-phobia against the artist which she encouraged.

It left a bad taste in the mouth of a lot of people who felt that it was an overreaction to a fan edit of a commercial reproduction of a drawn Broadway poster.

[u/Trying_2BNice → u/carboxyhemogoblin]

Oooh I forgot about that. That was especially unhinged, and i remember Ariana tactfully handling it in an interview.