'It doesn't inspire little girls'-Katy Perry's 11-minute Blue Origin Space Travel becomes meme and messaging disaster | Today news

Pop-Superstar Katy Perry boarded Blue Origin’s new Shepard rocket last week for an 11-minute suborbital flight and immediately became the Internet’s favorite punch pocket. The mission was promoted as a ‘step forward for women in space’, and instead caused a fierce setback about climate hypocrisy, performative feminism and celebrity in the name of empowerment. While the flight was framed as inspiring, many people did not buy it. One X user wrote: ‘When my daughter was 13, she designed a cube satellite, launched + launched … so forgive me if I was not impressed with Katy Perry’s 11-minute-up-perfect selfie-up-spacious trip at all. It doesn’t inspire little girls. Real science inspires little girls. ‘ Another one pitched the narrative of female progress and pointed out the irony: ‘Crazy how Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez go for ten minutes’ space’ is supposed to inspire women, but the women who have already worked at Nasa are a check -in notes who are fired and removed their bios from the site. ‘Environmentalists also joined. “Really insane that Katy Perry went to space that had the same carbon footprint as someone’s entire lifetime in 11 minutes and came back and said ‘we should take care of mother nature’, as the first step doesn’t take a return to space ????” one user placed. Meanwhile, the meme makers of the internet have not wasted time. A still of the former boy band One Direction’s Drag Me Down Music video circulated with the heading: ‘Katy Perry was the 1st pop singer to go to space’, you forgot about these divas, “referring to the orchestra’s spaceces music video. Another posted an image of ‘the boys’ character’ who has a good place in space, and put the 2 astrones in space for 9 months for 9 months that Katy Perry cost. minutes. “What was meant to be a powerful symbol of inspiration has instead become a symbol of tone-deaf elitism for many. While critics continue to call out carbon-heavy Joyride and his messages on the surface level, Perry’s silence only strengthened the noise. From Perry, Empowerment – and more about how from touch empowerment messages can be if it is launched from 100,000 feet above the reality.