“I’m not sure that shaming individuals is an effective way of influencing behavior in a public health crisis,” he says. James Greig, a writer who parsed out the controversy for a Huck Magazine piece, does not necessarily agree with the tactics utilized by GaysOverCovid, objecting in particular to previous posts on the account lauding the police for shutting circuit parties down. (GaysOverCovid did not immediately respond to requests for comment.) Others expressed concern that the shaming tactics used by the account were ineffective and would drive irresponsible behavior further underground, or that it would serve as fuel for the fire of homophobes who viewed the behavior of the Puerto Vallarta attendees as reflective of the gay community at large. “If they believe what they’re doing is right, why be a coward and let us know who they really are.” The post concluded with the hashtag #GaysOverKarens, a reference to a trope of an entitled white woman bullying members of marginalized communities. “For so long they have been hiding the screen, trying to out fellow gays, making our community as divisive as ever,” the post read. Puerto Vallarta attendees, some of whom had been outed by were enraged by the account, with one post on the Facebook page for offering a $500 bounty for anyone able to reveal the identity of the person behind the account.
All about the Benjamins January 1, 2021Ī post shared by GaysOverCovid everyone, however, was laughing at the memes. “Here were all these people flouting all these precautions and it was sort of like karma to watch them get a little bit of comeuppance,” says Zack Ford, a former LGBTQ editor at ThinkProgress who authored a viral thread about the controversy surrounding the Puerto Vallarta event and He says that the demographic that the Puerto Vallarta event attracted - primarily, white cisgender male influencers with conventionally attractive physiques - also contributed to much of the schadenfreude, viewing the story through the lens of “who holds power and privilege” within the gay community. Though no one was hurt during the incident, video footage showing the revelers being rescued surfaced on Twitter, leading to an onslaught of schadenfreude and extensive memeification, as well as comparisons to the sinking of the Titanic. On New Year’s Eve, a boat carrying about 60 of the attendees of the Puerto Vallarta party sank. “I will never understand this lack of empathy.” Meanwhile the CDC begs people to stay home and not travel,” the caption read, accompanied by an image of tanned, fit men frolicking on the beach.
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Privileged enough to be vaccinated two days ago, now this medical professional is on a beach in Puerto Vallarta without a care in the world. In one post, outed a health care worker who had received the COVID-19 vaccine and then traveled to Puerto Vallarta for the party. Since last summer, the anonymous proprietor behind has been doing aggressive sleuthing work, posting photos of gay parties during the pandemic as well as the personal information of many of the attendees. The social-media backlash to the event was primarily fueled by GaysOverCovid, an anonymously run Instagram account with more than 88,000 followers as of press time.