Contest to Open for Ed Sheeran Flooded With Free Palestine Videos and Fart Memes
An online contest to open for Ed Sheeran's Mexico City show was flooded with protest videos and memes following the removal of Macklemore from his tour. The submissions, which included political statements supporting Palestine and various trolling content, appeared on the site without moderation for several hours. Guitar Center subsequently removed the controversial posts, leaving only sincere musical entries on the platform.
- ▪Macklemore was removed from Ed Sheeran's tour after he expressed support for Palestine on stage.
- ▪Users submitted protest videos and memes to the Guitar Center contest, citing Sheeran's perceived complicity in the conflict.
- ▪Sheeran stated that billionaire Robert Kraft pressured him to drop Macklemore to maintain access to stadium venues.
- ▪All of Sheeran's supporting acts and backing band dropped out of the tour in solidarity with Macklemore.
- ▪Guitar Center removed the unmoderated protest submissions from the contest page by Thursday morning.
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After Ed Sheeran dropped Macklemore from his tour over the singer’s support for Palestine, people flooded an online contest to open for Sheeran’s Mexico City show with fart videos, bouncing WWE butts, and troll posts from usernames like “EdSheeranSupportsAndFundsGenocide.” The posts appeared live on the contest page, where people can vote for submissions they want to see win, and went up seemingly without any moderation.Guitar Center started promoting the “Open for Legends” contest on September 14, the same day Macklemore announced he had been removed from the last 10 shows of the U.S. leg of Sheeran’s tour. Macklemore had called for a “free Palestine” on stage at his previous shows and made statements in support of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, Rolling Stone reported.
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