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Gal Gadot’s ‘Imagine’ Video Was The Beginning of the End
Five years since the video dropped, celebrities have become even more politically useless.
Exactly five years ago, the world united in squeamish horror against the dozen famous people who decided that the best way to deal with the rapidly worsening pandemic was to sing a John Lennon song on Instagram. Nobody wants to revisit the month of March 2020, but in honor of “Imagine‘“s wood anniversary, I bravely rewatched the entire three-minute video, which, to creator Gal Gadot’s credit, is still available to view on her Instagram page as long as you’re willing to scroll past many “I stand with Israel” posts to get there. But despite the immediate, visceral backlash it received — for its smarm, for its tone-deafness, both literally and metaphorically, for its fundamental emptiness (what’s the point of rich people making it about themselves if they’re not contributing any money to solving the problem?)
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