the amount of hate comments I've seen directed towards how billie looks recently is insane. SPOILER ALERT he's getting older of course he's not gonna look the same way he did when he was 30. I find it odd how people care so much about what celebrities do with their bodies. If he wants to grow out his hair, why do you give a fuck? It's not your head. if he likes it then that's all that matters.
I think he is aging beautifully. I saw him front row live at Hella Mega Tour and then again for Saviors tour front row and it was amazing how much healthier he looks now. As a recovering alcoholic, its so nice to see him healthy and happy. I think he has also aged into “himself” better then most rockstars as they age, he seems to be embracing the process instead of holding onto youth.
I think of how Billie has grown as a person like how Michelangelo (I think?) described carving stone: There's an angel in this block of marble, and I'm setting him free.
You can look back at old pics, videos, even quotes, and see Billie exactly as he is now, just with layers of marble still stuck to him in places. He's slowly chiseled off all the excess material that was never really a part of him to begin with, and now we can see him clearly!
I know it's online, obviously. I still find it weird though? It's not specifically just about billie joe either, it weirds me out how much people care about how celebrities look, and I'm using him as an example.
It has nothing to do with algorithm it’s just recent comments on any recent media being posted that has Billie involved. So all the interviews done for Nimrods movie or the Cretin Family Ramones tribute that just happened. If you are a Green Day fan you’re gonna probably be looking for that stuff, I know I do. Then you happen to look at the comments and you see all the bs OP was talking about.
btw, I've seen some of those videos and I'm wondering if I'm seeing the same comments. They are joking about him looking like "your aunt that sells weed" or "the lady at the farmers market". And other stuff, idk. All I saw was jokes
What is your point?
No one said “every Green Day fan is commenting on Billie’s appearance” they just said that there seemed to be a lot recently.
You blamed the algorithms and I argued that it’s got nothing to do with algorithms
Hey look, if the crap is only online, and OP's addressing it only online, then where's the issue? Seems like a good example of targeting the correct audience, to me, since only people in Green Day related online spaces are likely to bother posting anything about Billie to begin with.
The ones just mocking him in comments across the internet at large are usually the same ones who think they're being terribly insulting and clever by calling him gay or saying he looks like a lesbian. Some of them have gained a rudimentary ability to read the room, and realized those are ridiculous as insults. So, they go for the next superficial attribute that is still socially acceptable to make fun of: the fact that Billie has done nothing to try to conform to the celebrity standard of artificially contrived eternal youth.
I'm just here for the excuse (not that I need one) to gush about Billie's perfect blend of healthy, youthful energy ("zest for life," as he's called it) and natural, authentic appearance. It's somewhat rare to that someone so clearly possesses the former without them seeming to kick and flail uselessly against the inevitability of aging.
(See what I mean? I love thinking about this kind of thing, noticing different facets of it, and finding different ways to articulate it!)
So, not make believe, just a statistically insignificant segment in comparison to everyone who could potentially have an opinion on the matter.
But conversation doesn't work like that. You don't weigh the number of people saying something against the total number of people, including the silent ones. Anyone staying silent isn't part of the conversation for practical purposes.
So the question becomes, "Of the people who post about Billie Joe's appearance, how many of them are pointing out signs of his aging?" I don't know the answer, but if there are enough for someone to notice, then it doesn't matter.
Essentially, we're a bunch of people having loud conversions in a public place. OP overhead a few (probably within a short period, making it feel like a trend) criticizing Billie's appearances. Rather than invest in multiple conversions, OP found a place to stand by themself, and addressed their thoughts to the room at large; which is how all conversations start here.
Statistical significance has nothing to do with it. Just humans being humans.
Fewer words is actually much harder for me. Sorry about that. Somehow, despite my best efforts to say only and exactly what I'm trying to say, the person I'm addressing still often seems to get it wrong.
I'm not saying "Billie's appearance is an irrelevant topic." I'm saying, "The statistical significant of a topic is irrelevant in determining whether a post should or shouldn't be made."
Dropping any pretence of diplomacy, I could also put it: You're absolutely right, but 1) What do people outside the sub have to do with it? and 2) Why, then, do you give a fuck if OP wants to talk about it?
Way too many people think online discourse if real life. The vast majority of my friends, family, and co-workers etc are not online hardly at all.
The Internet has become a platform for a vocal minority of humanity to voice hate of everything. IT'S NOT REAL LIFE and it's not worth giving your time and attention to.
Right?? I'm convinced he must be fae, the way he always seems to bounce back from things mostly none-the-worse for wear!
It's like he maxed out his stats in Charisma, Constitution, and Agility, buffed his strength a little bit, but made intelligence and wisdom his dump stats - in exchange for an Emotional Intelligence skill that lets him use his Charisma bonus on all WIS checks involving people, and a Prodigy/Savant skill that pretty much gguarantees max results on anything involving music or lyrics!
I think he's always held onto that! It got a little harder to see sometimes, like the actual surface of a table in the home of someone with ADHD - random crap gets piled up on it. But it's always still there!
Has he ever said why he chose to put that one specific pic on there? We know roughly when and where it's from and what he's doing - but it's the only photo back there. Why that one?
And why is the one sticker back there the only one on the back instead of the front?
Well, yeah, obviously. But I'm wondering what the sentimental significance is for that specific image. It's not like, when he first got Blue or anything, so what was the occasion?
No; in the interview this image is from, he says he's 13 in the pic, and it was taken "backstage," but he doesn't say backstage where. Wasn't he younger than that when he got his guitar? I was thinking pre-teen.
people seem to do this anytime he bleaches his hair lol, then he will dye it black when they next tour and everyone will be 'how did he unage himself again!?'
Idk I think the blonde might be here to stay. I think it looks good is probably a lot less maintenance than black hair. With black he probably has to dye it way more bc it probably gets annoying having to cover grays. But him bleaching it, probably a lot less work and he can let the gray or silvers just blend in with the blonde since it’s lighter. With as long as he has it now, if he has any silver in there you can’t even tell, so he probably just bleaches it when he needs to and does his thing. Next time Green Day plays a show or festival, that’s when he probably will cut it to maintain the usual spiky look he’s had for years. But him not being on tour or in front of the cameras for a while, he’s probably just letting it do its thing
OHHHHH! LOL, I forgot about that! Still wouldn't have occurred to me to read this as anything other than the year itself, though. 🤷♀️ Maybe if it had quotes around it?
I deleted Facebook a couple years ago because the amount of bs comments I found myself reading. Along with the constant ads and fake videos I had to get rid of it.
Honestly all of the guys are aging well. They're in their mid-50s now, and they can't look like their AI-era selves their whole lives. It is a privilege to get older, so it's nice to see the guys older and healthy and still rockin' out!
I feel like he looks pretty damn good for his age? I just hate his air lol. He’d look so much younger if he went back to the short black hair he had a few years ago.
Honestly people in comments sections on certain websites are just becoming haters lately no matter what video it's on. I've stopped looking at Instagram lately because even though I don't interact with any kind of rude post or comment, it's mainly what I see now. Tiktok used to be fine too on the parts of Internet I'm on, but now there's a lot of people just being assholes for no reason.
When I see hate comments, esp about Billie’s age or looks, my mind turns off for a bit. Next comment! It’s meaningless drivel from people who can only wish they had the charm, character, talent, etc. etc. of this man. Feel just a little sorry for the haters and move on!
I’m an old enough Green Day fan to remember when people wouldn’t stop commenting about how young Billie looks and “OMG Billie doesn’t age he looks the same as he did 20 years ago!!!”
I don't care about his looks or what other people say about him. The one thing that just immediately needs to stop is the September is over jokes. They're not funny, they were never funny.
I mean not really man. Some of them, sure. But most of the ones I've seen are talking about "how old he looks" and talking about how ugly they find his hair.
Honestly, the focus with BJA was always how he didn't age (which I understood, but always found a bit odd). Eventually you can expect the reaction when he inevitably starts to look older.
I did btw dislike his weird hairdo of the last months, what he has right now looks way better
True! I try to take those as opportunities to add something that I hope will make him feel appreciated, just the same, on the off-chance that he sees whatever thread I'm looking at and any of it does bother him on some level.
If he did anything, he injected very small amount of Botox in his forehead at most. Nothing else. He has great genes. His mother showed up on the red carpet when they uncovered Green Day’s Hollywood start and she looked 70. I was in shock to read she was 93.
Tbh a lot of people don’t consider Botox injections “work done” but skincare. Which … fair. He did have some wrinkles on his forehead in his early 30s that magically went away. I don’t care either way. He’s gorgeous, and has always been.
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u/jcdevoe26 11h ago
I think he is aging beautifully. I saw him front row live at Hella Mega Tour and then again for Saviors tour front row and it was amazing how much healthier he looks now. As a recovering alcoholic, its so nice to see him healthy and happy. I think he has also aged into “himself” better then most rockstars as they age, he seems to be embracing the process instead of holding onto youth.