Controversial duo Proper Stated Fred. (Ralph Orlowski/Getty Pictures)
English pop band Proper Stated Fred are being relentlessly dragged on-line after their official X/Twitter account posted {a photograph} of a cellphone field that had been repurposed as a defibrillator.
The tweet, which has since been deleted, confirmed a cellphone field that had been retrofitted with a life-saving defibrillator– important gadgets that apply an electrical cost to revive a heartbeat within the case of cardiac arrest.
The caption learn: “Cellphone packing containers refurbed into defibrillators, what a time to be alive.” Adopted by an “eye roll” emoji.
Proper Stated Fred are made up of brothers Fred Fairbrass and Richard Fairbrass; the band fashioned in 1989. They’re arguably greatest recognized for his or her July 1991 hit “I’m Too Horny”, which peaked at quantity two within the charts. Richard got here out as bisexual in 1991.
In recent times, the duo have confronted numerous controversies. In September 2020, they had been broadly criticised – and mocked – for attending an anti-mask protest with COVID conspiracy theorists in London. They had been additionally seen on subsequent anti-lockdown protests.
Richard Fairbrass ended up being hospitalised with COVID in 2021, however was nonetheless against a vaccine.
In January 2022, the controversial group needed to apologise and state that they “bought it unsuitable” after sharing a livestream hosted by a outstanding neo-Nazi, Mark Collett – the chief of fascist group Patriotic Various. Additionally on the livestream was former chief of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke, and a white supremacist author.
The hyperlink was quickly deleted, and a consultant launched a press release saying: “The boys share info they really feel isn’t lined by the mainstream media, it is a uncommon instance the place the band bought it unsuitable.”
The incident led to the band being nicknamed “Reich Stated Fred” and additionally “Far Proper Stated Fred”.
Their defibrillator-as-example-of-wokeness tweet, additionally since deleted, understandably prompted fairly a little bit of hilarity on-line, with lots of people taking to X to joke concerning the duo’s publish.
One individual tweeted: “I like the thought of your man from Proper Stated Fred keeling over on the street and as folks attempt to assist him he croaks ‘Get that woke s**t away from me.’”
One other merely wrote: “Fellas is it woke to not die from cardiac arrest.”
A 3rd referenced their historical past of anti-vaccination activism: “I feel Proper Stated Fred are implying these public defibrillators are being put in due to the COVID vaccine. They’ve been round for over a decade.”
Others instructed that Proper Stated Fred had been simply sore that they’d misplaced a possible venue: “In fact Proper Stated Fred are upset at phoneboxes being repurposed, the place will they maintain their gigs now?”
In a reply to one of many many, many feedback below the now-deleted tweet, @TheFreds tried to make clear their stance, saying: “Solely an unhealthy society wants these. That’s my level.”
Somebody then screenshotted that reply and shared it, writing: “They imagine solely an unhealthy society wants these??? Then when you use that logic, then we don’t want hospitals and stuff then?”
It may all be worse, although. At the least they’ve not offended Beyoncé once more.