She paced Lisa Thompson, a visually impaired runner, again at Boston this year. Whatever you think about her social media, she is a very good person for helping out a visually impaired athlete.
it's a nice thing to do but she made it all about her. All the endless pictures, the styling up so that we'd look at her first before Lisa..
Sorry I don't see it as generous. If it was it wouldn't be so self serving.
Are you living in reality? You can literally go on IG right now click in the 6th photo (one where she is wearing a black swimsuit) scroll over to the 6th photo and you can see her taking a piss. Like right this moment with your very eyes.
Are you living in reality? You can literally go on IG right now click in the 6th photo (one where she is wearing a black swimsuit) scroll over to the 6th photo and you can see her taking a piss. Like right this moment with your very eyes.
On the one hand, glad somebody is representing the sport in a different, mainstream way
On the other, I can’t get over how manufactured her entire life seems to be. The whole Diplo thing really sent me over the edge - do we think she would have run the marathon with a really good college friend? No. She only did it because it was Diplo and the press around it. Everything she does feels inauthentic and purely self promotional. There is no genuine person there, just a facade intent on being famous for the sake of being famous.
Isn't Playboy the antithesis of everything she supposedly stands for?
Isn't she super-woke?
I don’t know about Playboy specifically but most corporate entities these days are making an effort to market themselves as in tune with postmodern leftist grievance culture. That includes a lot of companies for which it makes no sense, a category I’d throw Playboy in - though certainly in 2023 you could imagine a nudie mag featuring nudes of an obese short-haired POC with a skin disease, sleuth an accompanying article in which she discusses her collection of personality disorders, and the postmodern left lapping it all up.
Whenever society runs out of energy for the excesses of grievance culture (as opposed to legitimate complaints, which make up about 20% of the grievances), companies go latch on to whatever society is all about next.
Isn't Playboy the antithesis of everything she supposedly stands for?
Isn't she super-woke?
I don’t know about Playboy specifically but most corporate entities these days are making an effort to market themselves as in tune with postmodern leftist grievance culture. That includes a lot of companies for which it makes no sense, a category I’d throw Playboy in - though certainly in 2023 you could imagine a nudie mag featuring nudes of an obese short-haired POC with a skin disease, sleuth an accompanying article in which she discusses her collection of personality disorders, and the postmodern left lapping it all up.
Whenever society runs out of energy for the excesses of grievance culture (as opposed to legitimate complaints, which make up about 20% of the grievances), companies go latch on to whatever society is all about next.
Yeah, I guess if the hijab can be made into a symbol of female empowerment, then the objectification of women can also be.
That seems to be the thing with culture wars; there are no principals, just people and companies declaring which side they're on - despite how hypocritical their actions may be.
Jenny from the block wrote: The whole Diplo thing really sent me over the edge - do we think she would have run the marathon with a really good college friend? No. She only did it because it was Diplo and the press around it. Everything she does feels inauthentic and purely self promotional. There is no genuine person there, just a facade intent on being famous for the sake of being famous.
that said, hope she finds what she’s looking for.
The L.A. Marathon paired her with Diplo as a guide. She had no idea until the morning of. Maybe do some research before hating on her.
I ask this as neither a hater nor a fan of her, but just from curiosity.... does she actually make a solid living from all her instagram stunts / race pacing / whatever else? Like does she have any more films coming out? Do companies sponsor her? I see she's repping playboy gear here but is she on their books or is this just a one-shot deal? Is she the athletics equivalent of "famous for being famous?" She doesn't seem to exactly "work" a lot in the standard sense, but she seems to be at least sort of plugged into the Hollywood world, at least a little bit?
What I'm trying to figure out is, how much money do we think she actually makes, and how does she make it? Is she actually out there pulling in $, is she just partying it up on other peoples' dimes, or somewhere in between? As I say, not criticizing or celebrating, I just honestly can't tell. I really can't answer these same questions for most instagram types, so I figured I'd ask about the instagram type who at least was baller in my sport for a bit.
I don't think it's for the money.
She appears to have been born well-off, attended private school, went to an Ivy, etc
"By Presidential Order: The bride’s engagement ring was handmade by the groom’s great-great-grandfather, Simon Sichel, a prominent Manhattan jeweler. The ring was originally commissioned by President Woodrow Wilson for his daughter’s wedding in 1913. Mr. Sichel presented the ring to President Wilson in the White House."
Jenny from the block wrote: The whole Diplo thing really sent me over the edge - do we think she would have run the marathon with a really good college friend? No. She only did it because it was Diplo and the press around it. Everything she does feels inauthentic and purely self promotional. There is no genuine person there, just a facade intent on being famous for the sake of being famous.
that said, hope she finds what she’s looking for.
The L.A. Marathon paired her with Diplo as a guide. She had no idea until the morning of. Maybe do some research before hating on her.
I'm calling BS. Why? Because SHE went on an on about "pacing her friend Diplo."
She was on the Ali on the Run Show. At 37 minutes she says they weren’t friends before and explains that the marathon paired them.
I would only point out that she did not exactly make that clear on Insta. Whether or not she outright lied, maybe not, but she certainly omitted some information by just posting a bunch of pics of her and Diplo and letting the fans make assumptions about the nature of their association. Though that kind of “truth but not the WHOLE truth” stuff is pretty much SOP for instagram influencer types.
hate on Alexi all you want, but she's got an extremely savvy business mind.
she saw that she wasn't going to be the best of the best in track, so went to the mountains or wherever she could win instead of sticking with something that was never going to work out with her lack of speed.
and now she's traveling all over the world on someone else's dime, meeting all sorts of people, having the time of her life, but somehow she's the loser?
Does she has a savvy business mind? Or does she just kind of have access to Vegas pool parties and celebrities and such because she has an upper-class background and all the access that background provides?
Is she traveling "all over the world"? On Insta I see mostly California and Nevada, obviously she was in Boston the other day but that's still just your standard bicoastal jet set travel itinerary, also quite common among the scions and scionettes of the upper class.
Maybe everything you say is accurate, but to the extent she controls the narrative about herself through her Insta posts, I don't think that it's unreasonable to read between the lines a bit and say, "here's a little rich girl who has not been required by circumstance to grow up yet and may never be required to grow up, precisely because she's a little rich girl."
Off-topic but on point a bit, recently the New Yorker ran a story on a rich middle-aged philosophy professor who fell in love with a student and divorced her husband to marry the student. The story was nearly 10,000 words of multi-syllabic navel-gazing psychobabble trying to intellectualize what the professor did while claiming to have new special insight on the nature of love. A facebook comment on the article pointed out that if you're an upper-class graduate professor with tenure at a college in the northeast and you drop your spouse for a much younger person, you get the 10,000-word New Yorker article defending you, but if you are a regular person you instead go on Jerry Springer and get booed. I think there's something we can metaphorize from that to the whole Alexi Pappas situation.
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