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I have no particular opinion on Yoko Ono, but the comments here are quite funny. πΏ
They're still mad about it 50 years later.
Cute how you think she's relevant enough. I'm curious why you're so upset about a handful of people hating a shit human being.
Same reason I love Jane Fonda
Fonda had shooters
... this appears to actually be a fairly popular/uncontroversial opinion/take, lol.
Is it? Look at these comments, people are mad about something that happened like 20 - 30 years before they were likely born
... I more or less went by 'pro Yoko' and 'anti Yoko' comments, and then compared total updoots vs down doots.
That's why I said 'fairly' as opposed to 'very' or 'extremely'.
Just some napkin math, based on my own subjective interpretation/classification of the comments.
Extremely not scientific.
What gives you that grotesque impression?
What grotesque impression? sp3ctr4l said my opinion was fairly popular but the people in the comments just spit hate on a 92 year old woman claiming she was riding John Lennon despite her being famous before they met lol. By the way John Lennon is a major, grade A asshole too if you look into him at all.
I don't really think you should use lemmy as a proper litmus test of popular opinion. Maybe try comparing lemmy demographics vs world demographics first.
It depends where you live. All the boomers around me know about the Beatles, way less than John Lenon was a member of the band, and no one knows who Yoko Ono was.
I am sorry, but where could that be?
I would understand if not everyone knew Beatles there, that would be in sync with later statements. But "everybody knows, but doesn't know the details" is quite weird.
Is your definition of boomers "members of the baby boomer generation born between 1946 and 1964", or is it "everyone more than 5 years older than me"?
Or do you not live somewhere in the anglosphere?
I'm not saying everyone born and raised in the anglosphere between '47 and '64 know who John Lennon and Yoko Ono are, but almost all of them do.
The Beatles and the events surrounding them are among the foremost cultural touchstones of that generation.
She had frizzy hair.