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Folks In This Online Community Are Boycotting These 40 Things, Brands And People Until The End Of Their Days
Boycotting something is a good way of showing your principles and what you believe in. For example, in 1980, the USA didn’t send their athletes to the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow to show they don’t support the Soviets invading Afghanistan in 1979 and 60 other countries joined the boycott.
This is a boycott on a huge scale that affected many parts of the world and went into history. But all of us have our own principles and morals that may lead us to refuse some things in our life.
Bored Panda went to Reddit and found a couple of discussions where people were talking about what are the things they are boycotting till the day they die. Redditors came with some interesting answers and we compiled a list of the most intriguing answers. So enjoy and feel free to let us know your thoughts. Maybe there are things that are missing in this list? Sound them off in the comments. Also, don’t forget to upvote the answers you agree with the most.
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A circus with animals.
Anything where animals are used for 'entertainment' for humans. E.g. donkeys having to have huge people sat on them whilst they traipse uphill. Makes my blood boil :(
PETA. Tells us how to take care of our pets while abusing animals themselves
Multi-level-marketing schemes. They’re s**t companies that attract s****y, and sometimes desperate people, and train them on how to profit off of their friends and families. They destroy lives and I refuse to support them.
btw Reddit is the reason I found out how predatory mlms are. The anti-mlm community, especially here on Reddit, has done a great job informing people who might otherwise be vulnerable to these schemes on what they really are
Watch the Loula Rich documentary on Amazon (not sure on spelling) the audacity of the company directors is astounding. Very interesting to see how they were able to build such a vast business, and how quickly the MLM collapsed. They were still millionaires tho when it collapsed and most of the people affected were never compensated or reimbursed. Owners of MLMs should be banned from starting new businesses and companies forever.
I have been boycotting Carnival cruise line ever since I found out they are dumping plastic into the Bahamas. They even admitted to it and received a 20 million dollar fine.
Facebook. It divides and dumbs down people, contrary to what it should do.
The sun newspaper, and anything else Rupert Murdoch related.
Nestle. Bill Cosby. Ticketmaster. Wells Fargo.
All should be in jail.
TikTok. Never used it, never will.
I remember when it was first introduced to the world with its horrendous clickbait, cringey advertising and marketing, really skin crawlingly cringey "singing and dancing" videos from questionably aged girls. People swore it'd never catch on, but those same people are the short-term-memory idiots fully buying into it now.
But it goes deeper than that. I hate TikTok because of what it's done to the other media sites, particularly Instagram. It's created a culture of sensationalist, narcissistic, egotistical behaviour, as that has become today's sell point. And as a result, Instagram for example have now tried to turn their own platform into TikTok v.2. I use Instagram for my mates, nothing more. I don't want f*****g reels thrown in my face all day, "celebs" talking s**t about products they never actually use, people making fake videos for views, clickbait thumbnails, sponsored ads at a ratio of 1:3 posts, and even a f*****g shop.
tl;dr: TikTok and today's online culture in general is cancer.
Jake Paul.
Giving a s**t about the royal family.
When the Queen dies we should just quietly retire the lot of them. Bunch of freeloaders.
Murdoch Media - News Corp, Faux News etc.
Just a reminder - Hitler started his political career calling all the news he didn't agree with "Fake News" (technically he called them the "Lying Press"). Then he blamed all the countries problems on a minority community of immigrants. Then came the policies whereby citizins could turn in other citizens for not being patriotic enough (hyperpatriotism). It's the fascist playbook.
Nestle.
I may inadvertently grab one of it's products, but when I see the name, i always put it back.
Nestle is a pimple on the carbuncle of the words a**s. Capitalism sucks.
The Oscars. Screw the Oscars. That Hollywood circle jerk has absolutely no business telling anyone what cinema is. 2017 Boss Baby got nominated for best animated feature, but Your Name didn’t? Excuse me? Wtf?
Then 30+ people die in an arson attack on an animation studio in Japan and not so much as a single word during the in remembrance section? If that happened to Pixar… they would have given them a full-on twenty minute segment.
Any company or brand that puts advertisements on boat billboards that trawl the beach and f**k up my horizon line. That's not a fair spot to try to capture my attention.
Cosmopolitan magazine. When I was 15 in the early 2000’s I consciously decided to never purchase or read any of their magazines or any magazine like it. I felt all they did was prod at young girls/women’s insecurities and encouraged a woman’s self loathing/dissatisfaction to flourish.
What's funny about Cosmo (and lots of other mags) is that it's pretty much the same magazine, year after year! "Look Good!" "Turn on your Man!" "Latest STDs to Worry About!" "Another Forgettable Celebrity Profile!" "Are Your Arms Too Fat?" "Secrets of Makeup Artists!" "Dating Mistakes You Made this Month, Dumbass!" The same stuff, for decades. Source: I am old
R Kelly. Kills me I can never hear Ignition Remix ever again. Such a banger.
Hobby Lobby.
The owner of this tripe shop is now being forced to return stolen antiquities to the countries of origin.
Susan G. Koman Foundation - they employ alphabet soup & lawyer speak to defraud millions. NOTE: THEY DO NOT FUND RESEARCH NOR DO THEY HELP PATIENTS! THEY ARE AN ADVERTISING COMPANY. THEY ADVERTISE CANCER AWARENESS (because someone may be unaware of cancer s)
MADD - same as Koman, they promote anti-drunk driving awareness.
K-Cups. I think the Kuerig is a good product, but the disposable k-cups are so wasteful. I have a Kuerig, but I use a reusable pod that you can put ground coffee into.
I used to try and boycott amazon. Never ordered anything from them, didn’t go on sites like goodreads or IMDB, didn’t shop at stores they had shares in. Then I discovered AWS. Tried to run a custom script that would block any site hosted on AWS, but that made using the internet nearly impossible. The final nail in the boycott coffin was when I needed to use it for a web development class.
Now that Amazon has bought MGM, I’m not sure how anyone will ever be able to participate in society without filling Bezos’ pockets.
Was going to add this if it did not appear. They treat their employees like slaves with no rights whatsoever
Chris brown.
Not just for the Rihanna thing he’s been a piece of s**t well before and after that. But yes also for the Rihanna thing.
Casino. My family was addicted to gambling a couple of years ago and it destroyed a lot of relationships.
Caskets, headstones, and burial plots.
Caskets are a waste. We are such an amazing collection of elements which should be recycled back to Earth.
Cremated remains contain about 48% Phosphate, 25% Calcium, 11% Sulfate, and 4% Potassium. This is pretty close to the chemical proportions you'd find in fertilizer for flowering plants.
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I want my corpse to be laid in a boat and pushed out to sea, then my family can take turns shooting fire arrows at it as it drifts away. A proper viking funeral.
Wow a viking funeral, how fun would that be! Shooting arrows at you and all.
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They do have you over a barrel cost-wise, but it really means a lot to me to have a place to visit my dad since he passed away. I get to talk to him and even though I really don't believe in any kind of traditional afterlife, I do feel a connection to him there. The burial/grave isn't really for the person who passed (duh, they're gone) but for those they leave behind.
I plan to be cremated. I wanted to donate my body to science, but there's so many people doing that now, there's no place that needs them. So, yeah, blast that furnace & then scatter my ashes wherever - then have a big party!
Me too and be returned to the Caribbean shore, where I was born
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I think that they thrive off of people's grief I have experience this myself when my dad died myself and my brother had to make the arrangements neither of us had done this before we where handed a catalogue of coffins that they had for sale and your grief is raw in the end we got the cheapest not because we were mean money wise but, because our Dad was being cremated so that coffin was going to be burned or given back to the funeral directors. )0(
"Green burial" is more environmentally friendly than traditional burial or cremation. It involves a shallow grave and no casket.
Not a popular opinion here, but I've always thought cemeteries to be a waste of good land that the living could use.
And sealing bodies into metal boxes and putting them in concrete-lined holes in the ground (or above-ground mausoleums) wastes useful nutrients. Humans are biological animals, not some super-special species that's "too good" to be part of Earth's recycling program.
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"Caskets, headstones, and burial plots." *ME* and undertakers, fancy florists, outrageously expensive medical care. Custom memorial CRAP; jewelry, urns, t-shirts, buying a star in the universe. OH, AND bloodsucking life insurance companies, my daughter's ins. co. took over a year to pay off.
Cremation is the way to go! There is a company that will put your ashes in a biodegradable container that contains seeds for trees so you can fertilize a future tree. Love that idea of adding back to the planet!
Difficult one. I personally don't care at all about what happens to my body. But I lost my little brother when he was 7 and it was great comfort to myself and my parents to be able to choose a casket that suited him, and have a plot and gravestone dedicated to him that we can still take care of.
This is why I wanna donate my body when I'm dead. I won't be using it so I don't think I'll mind if Jow Schmoe uses my legs or something in a transplant, or if those students dissect me and study my innards.
Best option: donate your body to your local medical school, or to a "body farm," which is a setup to allow forensic scientists to study decomposition.
I don't understand this one. Having burial plots is a good idea so that people don't start burring bodies where ever they want. A casket is pleasant at a funeral so that people don't have to look at the decomposing body (might not be much, but still.) And the headstone is a monument for the person where loved ones can visit and feel a "connection" With that said, a pine box is a good enough casket, don't spend a shitton of money on something you bury and never look at again. And the headstone could be made of cheaper materials like concrete.
Funerals. I don't want my family going broke and stressing over the right thing to do/wear/say. I won't ever know the difference, just save yourself the stress.
Anyone who profits off the dead and grieving are awful. I understand someone has to do it, but they charge exorbitant amounts for the above mentioned items. 4K+ is robbery.
I sometimes see that in other countries you are allowed to keep an urn with ashes in your home, I live in Germany and it's not allowed, you have to pay for all the funeral crap. I hate it.
I intend to be cremated, but I want a headstone for all my admirers to come and weep, lol.
Starbucks.
They are f******g farmers in the a*s for coffee beans and underpaying them meanwhile making millions of dollars from coffee.
Autism Speaks. Among other things, they way they treat autism like it’s some kind of horrible personality disease is unforgivable.
Walmart . I worked there and hate it with a passion
The pay and working conditions were miserable when I worked for Walmart. I had people who worked for mine and other departments who were on food stamps and WIC benefits.
Microtransactions in video games. Literal cancer.
Kat Von D makeup. Even now that she’s supposedly not part of it anymore, I’m not risking it.
She’s a trash human being, her husband is a trash human being, she’s anti-vaxx (and yes I saw her “apology” video and denial video, I’m not buying that either.) Her makeup line was all I used for a very long time cos the quality was great, but after I found out how s**t she actually was, I stopped using it.
Bank Of America ! F**k those f*****g f*****s.
I had been trying to close my late husband's account there at BOA. Red tape and run around at every step of the process. Once they finally had the "OK" from the corporate office on the phone to release the funds to me, the office manager had the audacity to ask me if I wanted to open an account with BOA. I laughed all the way out of the bank with my cash in hand.
Lulu Lemon.
Disgusting corporate brainwashing tactics and lack of size exclusivity. Also price. I've never once set foot in a store. I read an article about its corporate "retreat" before it ever opened in my country. My mother loves it so I hear all about the price.
I love my old navy leggings.
Mac Donald's and Coca Cola. Very original, I know but to be fair, I don't lose much and these companies make me sick.
Whenever I eat McDonalds I kind of feel like I'm giving up on life.
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Celebrity culture. Literally never understood it, I just must be missing that part of the brain that feels the need to know the in's and out's of a persons life who you've never met but enjoy their work. I think Christian Bale is a fantastic actor and I enjoy his work but I couldn't give two solitary sh*ts about what he had for dinner or the brand of clothes he wears. It's bizarre.
And who gives a flying f**k if some female actor "steps out in a tiny bikini on boyfriend's yacht during their Mediterranean vacation"...GTFOH with that crap!
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the Kardashians weren't allowed to compete due to an unfair advantage :D
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Exxon. Don't forget Exxon. The Valdez spill caused catastrophic damage and they avoided cleaning it up and paying for the clean up every way they could. They never gave full restitution. When I was very pregnant, I pushed my car (the gauge was broken and I ran out of gas) to get to the next station so I didn't have to buy from Exxon. I'm committed!
I lived in Alaska when the exzon-valdez spill happened. I still have a small vial of crude oil and sea water from the clean up efforts. The oil is still in a blob, and has barely broken down at all.
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Environment Hypocrites, those who bleat on about how we can save the planet by doing this and that and there they are wasting resources at every opportunity, private jets here and there, the protestors who blocks the roads talking about pollution and then leave enough litter and trash/rubbish behind to fill several trucks. It isn't just the average person in the street that is just doing this but 'celebs' too
Most of what the general public sees, hears or reads is green washed. The people doing the real work are not going to be in the news unless they are murdered trying to protect something special on this planet.
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Joe Rogan. I was never a really big fan of his commentary on UFC fights but the two seem to pair up nicely. Since he got over Covid with relatively mild symptoms, he's advocating this as proof that you don't need to get a vaccine or wear a mask. Considering his celebrity status to the macho sector, this makes him the absolute most dangerous individual in this mess. I never want to hear or see him again. Now, when I watch old UFC fight videos, I turn down the sound and put on some music so I don't have to listen to him.
Digital Advertising. Why do I have to watch a video or see an ad before playing a game that is supposed to be free?
Things I try to boycot/avoid: Israelian products, animal products, fast fashion, Ali baba, animal testing and single use plastic
A lot of boycotts, if they aim to completely shut some business down, and then actually caused that to happen, would harm many ordinary and even desperately struggling people. Walmart, Amazon, McDs, major banks - do you think there's no ordinary people who work at those and similar places? No ordinary and desperately struggling people who rely on these firms for products and services?
Thus keeping bad practises in place instead of changing them? A competitor with healthier work environment and guys wages would need employees too...
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Anything and everything to do with Blizzard and their games. Bunch of sexist, homophobic trash humans
I can agree to the TikTok thing it helped my brother's psychotic ex almost ruin his life
The news nowdays. A good 95% is "famous person eats cheese sandwhich" or "famous person drinks water". How about things people actually care about? * apologies for grammer mistakes as english is not my first language*
Chipotle. Ate there once as it was a business lunch and had to go. The food is blah, bland, boring. My son worked there as a cook and he said all of the food is premade and prepackaged. Even the salad. When I last looked it up, there wasn't a Hispanic or Latino on the BOD. I love Mexican food, make it at home and go to authentic restaurants. This isn't Mexican food.
All 60 Proctor & Gamble products. Read about how Iams pet food killed and sickened pets multiple times. No apology let alone covering the vet bills for it. I know. I miss my cat. (Yes, they have sold their interest in Iams now.)
Sad that people are downvoting the drake one when there is evidence he is a p*do
Because from what I heard it is a bit out of proportion... He acted awkward but a "pedo" is something different to me. Be effin careful with saying s. o. is a Nazi, a pedo or stuff like that otherwise it looses its meaning, which we should always be aware of.
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This isn't an airport. You don't have to announce your departure.
Load More Replies... Celebrity culture. Literally never understood it, I just must be missing that part of the brain that feels the need to know the in's and out's of a persons life who you've never met but enjoy their work. I think Christian Bale is a fantastic actor and I enjoy his work but I couldn't give two solitary sh*ts about what he had for dinner or the brand of clothes he wears. It's bizarre.
And who gives a flying f**k if some female actor "steps out in a tiny bikini on boyfriend's yacht during their Mediterranean vacation"...GTFOH with that crap!
Load More Replies... the Kardashians weren't allowed to compete due to an unfair advantage :D
Load More Replies... Exxon. Don't forget Exxon. The Valdez spill caused catastrophic damage and they avoided cleaning it up and paying for the clean up every way they could. They never gave full restitution. When I was very pregnant, I pushed my car (the gauge was broken and I ran out of gas) to get to the next station so I didn't have to buy from Exxon. I'm committed!
I lived in Alaska when the exzon-valdez spill happened. I still have a small vial of crude oil and sea water from the clean up efforts. The oil is still in a blob, and has barely broken down at all.
Load More Replies... Environment Hypocrites, those who bleat on about how we can save the planet by doing this and that and there they are wasting resources at every opportunity, private jets here and there, the protestors who blocks the roads talking about pollution and then leave enough litter and trash/rubbish behind to fill several trucks. It isn't just the average person in the street that is just doing this but 'celebs' too
Most of what the general public sees, hears or reads is green washed. The people doing the real work are not going to be in the news unless they are murdered trying to protect something special on this planet.
Load More Replies... Joe Rogan. I was never a really big fan of his commentary on UFC fights but the two seem to pair up nicely. Since he got over Covid with relatively mild symptoms, he's advocating this as proof that you don't need to get a vaccine or wear a mask. Considering his celebrity status to the macho sector, this makes him the absolute most dangerous individual in this mess. I never want to hear or see him again. Now, when I watch old UFC fight videos, I turn down the sound and put on some music so I don't have to listen to him.
Digital Advertising. Why do I have to watch a video or see an ad before playing a game that is supposed to be free?
Things I try to boycot/avoid: Israelian products, animal products, fast fashion, Ali baba, animal testing and single use plastic
A lot of boycotts, if they aim to completely shut some business down, and then actually caused that to happen, would harm many ordinary and even desperately struggling people. Walmart, Amazon, McDs, major banks - do you think there's no ordinary people who work at those and similar places? No ordinary and desperately struggling people who rely on these firms for products and services?
Thus keeping bad practises in place instead of changing them? A competitor with healthier work environment and guys wages would need employees too...
Load More Replies... Anything and everything to do with Blizzard and their games. Bunch of sexist, homophobic trash humans
I can agree to the TikTok thing it helped my brother's psychotic ex almost ruin his life
The news nowdays. A good 95% is "famous person eats cheese sandwhich" or "famous person drinks water". How about things people actually care about? * apologies for grammer mistakes as english is not my first language*
Chipotle. Ate there once as it was a business lunch and had to go. The food is blah, bland, boring. My son worked there as a cook and he said all of the food is premade and prepackaged. Even the salad. When I last looked it up, there wasn't a Hispanic or Latino on the BOD. I love Mexican food, make it at home and go to authentic restaurants. This isn't Mexican food.
All 60 Proctor & Gamble products. Read about how Iams pet food killed and sickened pets multiple times. No apology let alone covering the vet bills for it. I know. I miss my cat. (Yes, they have sold their interest in Iams now.)
Sad that people are downvoting the drake one when there is evidence he is a p*do
Because from what I heard it is a bit out of proportion... He acted awkward but a "pedo" is something different to me. Be effin careful with saying s. o. is a Nazi, a pedo or stuff like that otherwise it looses its meaning, which we should always be aware of.
Load More Replies... This isn't an airport. You don't have to announce your departure.
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