Some People Are Infuriated Over Jennifer Aniston’s ‘Tone-Deaf’ Christmas Ornament, Others Come To Her Defense
On Friday, Jennifer Aniston posted an Instagram story to her 36M followers featuring a Christmas ornament that caused one heck of a stir. The wooden ornament had an engraving in a script font which read “Our first pandemic 2020.” But people on the internet were far from impressed.
“Jennifer please,” read one retweet that was liked 556k times and others were claiming that the ornament was tone-deaf. Some were wondering whether the “Friends” star had any intention of celebrating the pandemic with this bizarre ornament, but others stepped in to defend her.
While the debate on this little piece of decoration is still hot and sizzling, one has to keep in mind that Jennifer put no caption along with the controversial post. Plus, there were no indications whether the ornament really belongs to her. After all, Jen has been an avid advocate of health and safety in times of pandemic, so this is not something that’s typical to her.
Jennifer has recently stirred a heated debate on whether posting a Covid-themed Christmas ornament was or wasn’t an insensitive thing to do
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This is the Christmas ornament that got everyone talking, but even though Jen posted it, it’s not clear if it belongs to her
But it was enough to cause serious backlash
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Bored Panda reached out to the Twitter user Kaz, who goes by the handle @joaquinsjoker, who said that her first reaction was laughter. “At first, I even thought that it was fake,” she said. Kaz, who retweeted Jen’s now-infamous Instagram story featuring the Covid-themed ornament, wrote in a caption that “I’ve had enough of rich people…” Her tweet was liked 469k times and retweeted almost 70k times.
“I understand that people’s opinions are divided about it. It could’ve been just a satirical joke. I, myself, am a big fan of satire, but it is a total different story when a famous celebrity makes such a joke, someone who is hardly affected by the pandemic.”
Kaz said she believes that rich people have enough money and they don’t have to be afraid of losing their jobs. “They live in their big mansions, unbothered, can still travel and afford whatever’s needed for medical treatment and hygiene.” In contrast, “some people can’t even afford face masks.”
“Making such jokes when you’re in such a privileged position just doesn’t seem appropriate to me. Apart from the fact that it isn’t even our ‘first’ pandemic. What about HIV or Ebola? It just seems ignorant to me.”
Kaz also said that she was surprised how much attention her retweet got and guessed it was all about the timing.
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And people couldn’t stop roasting the controversial ornament
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But others defended Jen in a series of tweets
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Some people reminded everyone about Jen being an avid health and safety advocate in times of pandemic
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Share on FacebookLaughing at Tiny Dynamite because it was f*****g funny and I'm not an uptight twat. Oh, and my father's parents and 5 of 6 brothers were killed in the camps- one in Mittelbau-Dora, three in Majdanek, and three in Ravensbrück. So throw your "anti-semite" and "jew hater" crap somewhere else.
Load More Replies...These (and other designs) saying the same thing are EVERYWHERE. Online and in stores. It's not likes it a "Jennifer Anniston" thing only. People just have to be offended by something.
Seriously. Outrage/cancel culture is just the worst. And it detracts from real problems we have to solve. Pick your battles people.
Load More Replies...I think its hilarious! My MIL made us ones with toilet paper & covid germs. Its def hanging on my tree!
I mean, a lot of the time it's justified, but this is just ridiculous.
Load More Replies...So we bought a pandemic related ornament, would that make it insensitive as well? Just thought we're supporting an Etsy seller.
Well, I'm sure the Etsy seller was an insensitive hater of ___________ (fill in the blank) and deserves to die in hell or something.
Load More Replies...Really these people bashing Jennifer Over this really need to worry about other things, like their own lives. This is probably one of the only genuine and caring celebrities out there and this is what you choose to focus all your hatred and anger on?? Grow a thicker skin and while your at it grow much thicker skin and get off your computer searching for little things like this to bitch about and bash. There are far worse things going on beyond the computer screen happening people. Get a life and live the life that you are living, not someone else's.
I suspect that they’re focusing their hatred and anger on her BECAUSE they know she listens. People like that have been doing similar s**t throughout the pandemic. Before New Zealand was OK, I stayed off international social media; these days I just straight up tell them that I can empathise about their stress but they’re being unfair as hell about who they’re directing it at.
Load More Replies...ffs its a joke! I got a bauble to "celebrate" 2020 lets be honest this year has been awful so what you going to do? Its a tradition to poke fun at terrible things, in Europe we have cartoons of all kinds of awful things because we have to laugh at it otherwise we would go nuts. some people need to lighten up.
People are too comfortable and need to stir p faux outrage over meaningless crap to make themselves feel better. It's a mental condition.
Load More Replies...Are you f*****g serious? This was a mass produced thing anyone could buy! People are far too opinionated for this.
That's what happens when these keyboard warriors have no real issues in life.
Load More Replies...So an ornament made to look 2020 with toilet paper for the zeros is ok, but this is bad. I don't understand.
This is why the term snowflake has roared into prominence lately... because we can't joke about anything anymore. Isn't that how people deal with stuff, making jokes? Maybe it's just the people I know, but every funeral I've been to has had it's fair dose of jokes and no one says it should stop
You said the p-word! I'm reporting you to the vocabulary police!!!!
Load More Replies...I think it's tacky but that's the humour in it, right?! If somebody lost somebody or was working in a COVID ICU I get why they might be upseting but at the same time, it's a joke, I don't think it's celebrating the pandemic as some suggested.
Clearly, I'm not a celebrity. I have an ornament saying the same thing. It's called humor/sarcasm. And honestly? Humor and sarcasm about the situation is one of the things that helped me through 2020. These ornaments are all over etsy. :)
Ok. I get why people are mad, but sometimes to just get through rough things you have to smile. Maybe she will pull it out every year and say a prayer (is she religious? I'm not..) For the people lost to covid.
Seriously who TF cares? Does it affect your daily life? No? Then it's time to get a life
She's not wrong. The world is smaller then it was before. With everything being global and people being able to go wherever they like in the matter of mere hours.... I would not be surprised if this is the first of many pandemics we will face. Lets hope that people learn from it.
We are moving in the age of Aquarius, if you follow astrology, and what they are saying, is this is a movement to the people. We aren't going t ocare about celebrities anymore, first step is that damn Karashaidan show stopping! People are going to take the power back..... not in the way that happened in storming the capital, but I think a new movement is coming!
My mom got me a "sweet sixteen in quarantine" shirt. Guess I have to burn it now 🤷♀️
I think this is more people want to hate on Jennifer Aniston. She posted something she thought was funny. Like if Tom Hanks posted it people would think he had a good sense of humor.... if Taylor Swift posted there would have been a battle of haters and people who worship her.
Oh, god forbid we try a little humor to get through this tough time. Special snowflakes without lives just have to be offended by SOMETHING. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel now.
The uglies are always mad about something. If you can’t figure out that it’s a joke, it’s a wonder you’ve made it through the pandemic at all.
It’s just dark humor. Dark humor is hilarious. Nobody has a Christmas ornament like this and actually thinks the pandemic was a cute occasion…that’s the whole joke.
Wish I'd have known that we weren't allowed to joke about something we all went through (and kinda still are) before I spent that time last year crocheting a mini toilet roll tree decoration with '2020' written in s#!7 brown, I mean, I still would have made it, but probably bigger
Oh my goodness, if a super popular Instagram diy decorator was doing up a Christmas tree in the spirit of surviving covid and togetherness and all that and tongue-in-cheek had that or many similar ornaments on it, they wouldn't be torn down.
I think it’s almost a memorial on your tree to remember all the lives lost, and all the suffering and out-of-stock items on amazon, so we never forget and we can be grateful looking at that in years to come that our world isn’t as whacked up as it was.
If you look at her face in the corner of the tweet picture, she is doing a shocked face. Maybe this was her intended comment. 🤔
Jennifer Anniston was born during the second deadliest pandemic of the 20th century. This is actually her second pandemic.
She was actually born during the second deadliest pandemic of the 20th century, the Hong Kong Flu. This is her second, not first pandemic.
And yet, Trump & his Trumpettes laughed and called it "Chinese Flu" & "Liberal Hoax" for months, and righties thought it was so "funny-funny-ha-ha". It's meant as a satirical stress reliever, relax. We all mostly survived, let people deal with it their own ways, without criticism.
Puh-leeze! I’m not a fan of Jennifer’s but I’ve got to wonder why all of the animosity toward her? I’ve seen tons of C-Vid ornaments all over ever social platform. Who cares? I hate them but if it’s your jam, go for it. SURELY there has to be something more worthy to bring to the attention of others.
i've seen soooo much darker humor that. get real people, grow a sense of humor. besides its more of a keepsake. something to look back on decades later.
Jen rocks; she's smart and funny! And there are more pandemics coming. Instead of clutching our pearls and withering at Christmas decorations, maybe we should educate ourselves? -- "COVID-19 Might Just Be The First Big Pandemic Of This Century" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/more-coronavirus-pandemics-warning -- "Why the Way We Live Now Will Mean More Pandemics" https://www.bloomberg.com/.../why-the-way-we-live-now-will-mean-more-pandemics-quicktake -- “COVID-19 and global epidemics are becoming more frequent” https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/coronavirus-global-epidemics-health-pandemic-covid-19/ -- “Scientists are seeing an 'acceleration of pandemics': They are looking at climate change” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/10/climate-change-covid-19-does-global-warming-fuel-pandemics/5749582002/ -- “The next pandemic is already coming, unless humans change” https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/04/03/coronavirus-wildlife-environment
I will take three please, where can I buy them? Thanks for the tip Jenn Ann I will be sure to add them to my christmas tree for 2021, because we all know covid is not going anywhere.
Omg the friggin sensative nancys I can't even deal with it. I have an ornament that looks like a snowflake and it says 2020 in the middle and then a bunch of "f***s" around it to make the shape. Super cute. People are dumb.
When I saw the thumbnail it just baffled me...nobody is safe on twitter.
then I suppose many of these people would literally die after any random episode of The Family guy....helllooooo it is a humor
It's just unbelievable that there are so many people out there with nothi8ng to do but bitch about something. GOOD GOD! Its just a frickin ornament.....an ornament! I put ornaments on my tree each year that remind me of something that has happened during the year, good or bad. This is an ornament that does that. Are there that many Karen's out there that just can't find happiness that they need to spread their bullshit attitude with the rest of the world? Unbelievable!
People like those haters are the reason why I stayed off international social media until New Zealand was OK. That kind of lashing out has taken place all through the pandemic and I can understand and empathise with their stress and anger while also pointing out that they’re directing it at the wrong person.
The ornament is just stupid, but seriously: just stop "following" her and do more important things than being offended.
Where does the right to free speech go to when people write this stuff?
They really screwed up when they took "discipline" out of homes and schools..:(We end up with a generation of "entitled,no mannered,no disciplined,and no brains" like we have now,UNREAL.!What shall we BITCH ABOUT NEXT?The "ASSWIPE," provided in restaurants in Burger King, is only "TWO PLY"?Instead of worrying about ABSOLUTE TRIVIAL S**T,why don't you MORONS BORN AFTER 1980 worry about your "future's" with JOBS to provide for your families.If it wasn't SO SAD,IT'D BE FUNNY...:(
Laughing at Tiny Dynamite because it was f*****g funny and I'm not an uptight twat. Oh, and my father's parents and 5 of 6 brothers were killed in the camps- one in Mittelbau-Dora, three in Majdanek, and three in Ravensbrück. So throw your "anti-semite" and "jew hater" crap somewhere else.
Load More Replies...These (and other designs) saying the same thing are EVERYWHERE. Online and in stores. It's not likes it a "Jennifer Anniston" thing only. People just have to be offended by something.
Seriously. Outrage/cancel culture is just the worst. And it detracts from real problems we have to solve. Pick your battles people.
Load More Replies...I think its hilarious! My MIL made us ones with toilet paper & covid germs. Its def hanging on my tree!
I mean, a lot of the time it's justified, but this is just ridiculous.
Load More Replies...So we bought a pandemic related ornament, would that make it insensitive as well? Just thought we're supporting an Etsy seller.
Well, I'm sure the Etsy seller was an insensitive hater of ___________ (fill in the blank) and deserves to die in hell or something.
Load More Replies...Really these people bashing Jennifer Over this really need to worry about other things, like their own lives. This is probably one of the only genuine and caring celebrities out there and this is what you choose to focus all your hatred and anger on?? Grow a thicker skin and while your at it grow much thicker skin and get off your computer searching for little things like this to bitch about and bash. There are far worse things going on beyond the computer screen happening people. Get a life and live the life that you are living, not someone else's.
I suspect that they’re focusing their hatred and anger on her BECAUSE they know she listens. People like that have been doing similar s**t throughout the pandemic. Before New Zealand was OK, I stayed off international social media; these days I just straight up tell them that I can empathise about their stress but they’re being unfair as hell about who they’re directing it at.
Load More Replies...ffs its a joke! I got a bauble to "celebrate" 2020 lets be honest this year has been awful so what you going to do? Its a tradition to poke fun at terrible things, in Europe we have cartoons of all kinds of awful things because we have to laugh at it otherwise we would go nuts. some people need to lighten up.
People are too comfortable and need to stir p faux outrage over meaningless crap to make themselves feel better. It's a mental condition.
Load More Replies...Are you f*****g serious? This was a mass produced thing anyone could buy! People are far too opinionated for this.
That's what happens when these keyboard warriors have no real issues in life.
Load More Replies...So an ornament made to look 2020 with toilet paper for the zeros is ok, but this is bad. I don't understand.
This is why the term snowflake has roared into prominence lately... because we can't joke about anything anymore. Isn't that how people deal with stuff, making jokes? Maybe it's just the people I know, but every funeral I've been to has had it's fair dose of jokes and no one says it should stop
You said the p-word! I'm reporting you to the vocabulary police!!!!
Load More Replies...I think it's tacky but that's the humour in it, right?! If somebody lost somebody or was working in a COVID ICU I get why they might be upseting but at the same time, it's a joke, I don't think it's celebrating the pandemic as some suggested.
Clearly, I'm not a celebrity. I have an ornament saying the same thing. It's called humor/sarcasm. And honestly? Humor and sarcasm about the situation is one of the things that helped me through 2020. These ornaments are all over etsy. :)
Ok. I get why people are mad, but sometimes to just get through rough things you have to smile. Maybe she will pull it out every year and say a prayer (is she religious? I'm not..) For the people lost to covid.
Seriously who TF cares? Does it affect your daily life? No? Then it's time to get a life
She's not wrong. The world is smaller then it was before. With everything being global and people being able to go wherever they like in the matter of mere hours.... I would not be surprised if this is the first of many pandemics we will face. Lets hope that people learn from it.
We are moving in the age of Aquarius, if you follow astrology, and what they are saying, is this is a movement to the people. We aren't going t ocare about celebrities anymore, first step is that damn Karashaidan show stopping! People are going to take the power back..... not in the way that happened in storming the capital, but I think a new movement is coming!
My mom got me a "sweet sixteen in quarantine" shirt. Guess I have to burn it now 🤷♀️
I think this is more people want to hate on Jennifer Aniston. She posted something she thought was funny. Like if Tom Hanks posted it people would think he had a good sense of humor.... if Taylor Swift posted there would have been a battle of haters and people who worship her.
Oh, god forbid we try a little humor to get through this tough time. Special snowflakes without lives just have to be offended by SOMETHING. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel now.
The uglies are always mad about something. If you can’t figure out that it’s a joke, it’s a wonder you’ve made it through the pandemic at all.
It’s just dark humor. Dark humor is hilarious. Nobody has a Christmas ornament like this and actually thinks the pandemic was a cute occasion…that’s the whole joke.
Wish I'd have known that we weren't allowed to joke about something we all went through (and kinda still are) before I spent that time last year crocheting a mini toilet roll tree decoration with '2020' written in s#!7 brown, I mean, I still would have made it, but probably bigger
Oh my goodness, if a super popular Instagram diy decorator was doing up a Christmas tree in the spirit of surviving covid and togetherness and all that and tongue-in-cheek had that or many similar ornaments on it, they wouldn't be torn down.
I think it’s almost a memorial on your tree to remember all the lives lost, and all the suffering and out-of-stock items on amazon, so we never forget and we can be grateful looking at that in years to come that our world isn’t as whacked up as it was.
If you look at her face in the corner of the tweet picture, she is doing a shocked face. Maybe this was her intended comment. 🤔
Jennifer Anniston was born during the second deadliest pandemic of the 20th century. This is actually her second pandemic.
She was actually born during the second deadliest pandemic of the 20th century, the Hong Kong Flu. This is her second, not first pandemic.
And yet, Trump & his Trumpettes laughed and called it "Chinese Flu" & "Liberal Hoax" for months, and righties thought it was so "funny-funny-ha-ha". It's meant as a satirical stress reliever, relax. We all mostly survived, let people deal with it their own ways, without criticism.
Puh-leeze! I’m not a fan of Jennifer’s but I’ve got to wonder why all of the animosity toward her? I’ve seen tons of C-Vid ornaments all over ever social platform. Who cares? I hate them but if it’s your jam, go for it. SURELY there has to be something more worthy to bring to the attention of others.
i've seen soooo much darker humor that. get real people, grow a sense of humor. besides its more of a keepsake. something to look back on decades later.
Jen rocks; she's smart and funny! And there are more pandemics coming. Instead of clutching our pearls and withering at Christmas decorations, maybe we should educate ourselves? -- "COVID-19 Might Just Be The First Big Pandemic Of This Century" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/more-coronavirus-pandemics-warning -- "Why the Way We Live Now Will Mean More Pandemics" https://www.bloomberg.com/.../why-the-way-we-live-now-will-mean-more-pandemics-quicktake -- “COVID-19 and global epidemics are becoming more frequent” https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/coronavirus-global-epidemics-health-pandemic-covid-19/ -- “Scientists are seeing an 'acceleration of pandemics': They are looking at climate change” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/10/climate-change-covid-19-does-global-warming-fuel-pandemics/5749582002/ -- “The next pandemic is already coming, unless humans change” https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/04/03/coronavirus-wildlife-environment
I will take three please, where can I buy them? Thanks for the tip Jenn Ann I will be sure to add them to my christmas tree for 2021, because we all know covid is not going anywhere.
Omg the friggin sensative nancys I can't even deal with it. I have an ornament that looks like a snowflake and it says 2020 in the middle and then a bunch of "f***s" around it to make the shape. Super cute. People are dumb.
When I saw the thumbnail it just baffled me...nobody is safe on twitter.
then I suppose many of these people would literally die after any random episode of The Family guy....helllooooo it is a humor
It's just unbelievable that there are so many people out there with nothi8ng to do but bitch about something. GOOD GOD! Its just a frickin ornament.....an ornament! I put ornaments on my tree each year that remind me of something that has happened during the year, good or bad. This is an ornament that does that. Are there that many Karen's out there that just can't find happiness that they need to spread their bullshit attitude with the rest of the world? Unbelievable!
People like those haters are the reason why I stayed off international social media until New Zealand was OK. That kind of lashing out has taken place all through the pandemic and I can understand and empathise with their stress and anger while also pointing out that they’re directing it at the wrong person.
The ornament is just stupid, but seriously: just stop "following" her and do more important things than being offended.
Where does the right to free speech go to when people write this stuff?
They really screwed up when they took "discipline" out of homes and schools..:(We end up with a generation of "entitled,no mannered,no disciplined,and no brains" like we have now,UNREAL.!What shall we BITCH ABOUT NEXT?The "ASSWIPE," provided in restaurants in Burger King, is only "TWO PLY"?Instead of worrying about ABSOLUTE TRIVIAL S**T,why don't you MORONS BORN AFTER 1980 worry about your "future's" with JOBS to provide for your families.If it wasn't SO SAD,IT'D BE FUNNY...:(
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