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Celebrity "I Take Responsibility" Video is a viral video featuring a series of famous public figures, primarily film and television actors, saying that they "take responsibility" for past racist actions. Part of the "I Take Responsibility" campaign, the video became the subject of mockery online (similar to Gal Gadot's "Imagine" Video).

Origin

On June 10th, 2020, the YouTube account Confluential Films uploaded the video.^[1] The post received more than 2,900 views in less than two days (shown below). The video features 14 celebrities saying that they "take responsibility" for turning a blind eye to racism and making racist actions in the past. The participants include Sarah Paulson, Aaron Paul, Debra Messing, Julianne Moore, Kesha, Mark Duplass, Bethany Joy Lenz, Justin Theroux, Kristen Bell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Stanley Tucci, Piper Perabo, Ilana Glazer, and Aly Raisman.

Spread

On June 11th, Twitter user @MarlowNYC tweeted the video with the caption, "regret to inform you the celebs are at it again." The tweet received more than 2.7 million views, 33,000 likes and 22,000 retweets in less than 24 hours (shown below).

regret to inform you the celebs are at it again pic.twitter.com/pfORBiqvrX

— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) June 11, 2020

On Twitter, people mocked the video and the celebrities that participated, accusing them of performative "wokeness" (examples below). For instance, Twitter^[2] user @BrandyLJensen tweeted, "i love how a few of them went full Actor here." The post received more than 3,400 likes and 260 retweets in less than 24 hours (shown below, left).

Over the next few hours, people continued to mock the celebrities in the video (examples below, center and right).

Several media outlets covered the video, including Uproxx,^[3] USA Today,^[4] Vulture,^[5] Complex,^[6] eBaum's World ^[7] and more.

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