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Doja Cat’s fandom remains in disarray, and she couldn’t care less. Throughout her profession, the rap artist has actually preserved an unusual relationship with her fans online — one that accepted their assistance however roughly turned down anything beyond that, including their queries into her life beyond music. She’ll enter into the cubicle and tape-record the tunes, however her commitments apparently end there. When a fan on Threads (on which Doja Cat has actually because deactivated her account) asked the artist to state her love for her fanbase, she composed back: “I don’t even know y’all.” Now, they seem like they don’t understand her, either — however she’s revealed them her cards prior to.
Doja Cat’s mindset towards her fans can, sometimes, be off-putting, particularly prior to the release of her latest single, “Attention.” Earlier this year, she ranted on Twitter about her pop-leaning tasks Planet Her and Hot Pink being “cash grabs,” then she hammered her point by insulting fans for succumbing to it. And when she encountered fans in 2015 after being slammed for not stopping to state hey there to them beyond her hotel in Paraguay, she tweeted: “I don’t give a fuck anymore I fuckin’ quit I can’t wait to fucking disappear and I don’t need you to believe in [me] anymore.” It’s absolutely nothing fans aren’t utilized to at this moment.
From the fandom’s perspective, their own commitments encapsulate buying show tickets, protecting her online, and streaming her tunes countless times. Meanwhile, Doja Cat doesn’t believe she owes them shit since she never ever inquired to do any of that in the very first location. During the most recent clash, she slammed her fans for embracing the cumulative fandom name “Kittenz.” When a fan requested for a replacement name because she had actually banned that a person, the rap artist composed back: “Just delete the entire account and rethink everything it’s never too late.” (Representatives for Doja Cat did not instantly react to Rolling Stone‘s ask for remark.)
Some of her fans have actually pertained to see her obvious disrespect as an offense of an unmentioned social agreement (read: privilege) through which they supplied her with the platform and popularity she has actually because weaponized versus them. Now, they’re doing what she asked. Over the weekend, several Doja Cat fan accounts with 10s of countless fans each, like Doja Cat News and The Kittens Room, have actually deactivated their accounts on Twitter. Other pages on Instagram have actually shared that their own departure looms.
“It is with great sadness that the DCBR team announces an indefinite break from the page for the first time in 3 years! We thought a lot about how to say this to you and there’s no other way: Doja’s latest pronouncements on social media left us kittenz very disappointed…. if we can call ourselves that, since even Doja doesn’t seem to like the name of the fandom she herself created,” the Instagram represent Doja Cat Brazil composed. “Every day, we put our sweat on this page to keep it active and it is with great pain that we see the end approaching. What we hope is that Doja rethinks her actions as an artist and has the least amount of consideration for the fans who have been with her since the beginning, supporting and motivating her… because without us, she wouldn’t be where she is.”
But it goes far beyond absence of fan gratitude. The rap artist has actually just recently come under fire for her reported relationship with J Cyrus, a popular online banner who has actually been implicated of declared grooming and sexual misbehavior by multiple women. (Cyrus did not instantly respond to an ask for remark.) Before disabling her remark area on Instagram, Doja Cat responded to a fan specifying that individuals were starting to “unstan” her because of her remarks and debates, writing: “I don’t give a fuck what you think about my personal life I never have and never will goodbye and good riddance miserable hoes.”
Some stans are devoted to supporting Doja Cat through yet another debate — having actually weathered the previous drama surrounding her participation in a dripped video from a Tinychat room reported to be related to white supremacists. In it, the rap artist might be seen stating the n-word while rolling around on a bed. They’ve done it prior to and want to do it once again. But for others, as soon as is sufficient. “Imma say this shit right now and idgaf. If any of y’all so called kittens agree wit the shit Doja been doing lately y’all need to get a fucking mind of your own and stop trying to please her all the time to get a fucking notice,” the user Dojasson composed in an Instagram Story. Other fans have actually reported that the rap artist has blocked them throughout social platforms, consisting of Threads, Instagram, and Twitter.
Some staying fans have actually provided an option, if implausible, theory: the intro of Scarlet, a bloody change ego she started teasing with “Attention.” The Twitter fan account Hellssmouth composed: “Doja does love us, but she is now playing the role of Scarlet, they are two different characters … she doesn’t hate us, but Scarlet does since she’s evil.” Leaning into any theory that would validate presumably obstructing abuse victims as part of an intricate promotion stunt needs a mindful and deeply unserious level of misconception. If that’s the one real last option here, possibly it’s finest to not go down with what seems an undoubtedly sinking ship.
“So sad to see how bad this has all gotten with Doja Cat and her comments,” the Doja Cat fan Dojaverse composed on Instagram, revealing that they would be closing down their account on the app, along with on TikTok and Twitter, at last. “It was fun while it lasted.”
