In September 2024, the Fb web page America’s Final Line of Protection posted a meme claiming the musician Child Rock had canceled six live performance dates with nation star Tim McGraw. The meme consisted of a photograph collage of Child Rock and McGraw paired with textual content stating:
Child Rock Cancels Six Live performance Dates with Tim McGraw: “I am Not Getting Booed for His Wokeness”
The caption that accompanied the meme learn:
McGraw’s latest “daring political assertion” put him within the crosshairs of a boycott.
(Fb web page America’s Final Line of Protection)
Some readers appeared to interpret the rumor as a factual recounting of real-life occasions. For instance, one commenter wrote: “Severely, why cannot these so known as actors and musicians simply preserve their ‘pie holes’ shut with regards to the political enviornment!” One other wrote: “I really like how Child Rock stands up for his rules!!!!”
Nonetheless, there was no credible evidence that Child Rock had canceled any deliberate live performance with McGraw. No such live performance appeared on the “Tour” part of Child Rock’s official web site — both the model available on the time of writing or the newest earlier model archived by the Web Archive’s Wayback Machine, which was dated Aug. 5, 2024. Likewise, no joint Child Rock-Tim McGraw concert events appeared on the model of McGraw’s official tour web page available on the time of writing or on the newest archived version, dated Aug. 17, 2024.
Equally, a Google seek for the quote attributed to Child Rock within the meme, “I am not getting booed for his wokeness,” returned no relevant results.
Slightly, the rumor about Child Rock canceling a number of concert events with McGraw originated with the Fb publish from America’s Last Line of Defense — a part of ALLOD, a community of internet sites and social media pages that describes its output as being satirical in nature. The account’s Intro part reads:
The flagship of the ALLOD community of trollery.
Nothing on this web page is actual.
The meme additionally featured a field in its decrease left nook that included a “Satire” ranking, in addition to a disclaimer stating: “Nothing on this web page is actual.”
Neither the meme nor the caption specified which of McGraw’s political statements had allegedly upset Child Rock. Nonetheless, per week earlier than the America’s Final Line of Protection publish, McGraw made headlines for expressing support for ladies’s rights in a Sept. 21, 2024, Instagram publish celebrating the birthday of his spouse, fellow nation musician and actor Religion Hill.
Within the caption of that post (archived), McGraw wrote:
Our women couldn’t have a greater function mannequin of their lives as the way to be an extremely robust girl. And the way to consider in themselves and be in control of their lives (each side of their lives)! Let’s honor the ladies in our lives with respect and ensure that we battle for his or her rights proper alongside them!
America’s Final Line of Protection and its associated accounts and web sites have a historical past of constructing up tales for shares and feedback.
Snopes has beforehand addressed comparable satirical claims about Child Rock’s interactions with different musicians that originated from accounts affiliated with America’s Final Line of Protection, together with the assertion that he refused to let Taylor Swift onstage with him and a rumor that Beyoncé supplied him tens of millions of {dollars} to hitch him on stage at his concert events.
For background, right here is why we alert readers to rumors created by sources that decision their output humorous or satirical.
