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Doja Cat referred to as out Stan Twitter throughout an interview with Apple Music’s Ebro Darden that aired on Thursday, telling the radio host that her disdain for the extraordinarily on-line popular culture subsection of the location was the inspiration of her Scarlet music “Fuck the Girls.”
“It’s me saying fuck Stan Twitter,” Doja stated. “There’s that obsessiveness behind it, all the malice towards women in Stan culture. The condescending-ness of people being like, ‘mother, oh my god, queen, mother.,’ and expecting them to give and deliver and serve for the purpose of serving and not just expressing themselves. And in the same breath they’ll insult that person as well as call them ‘Mother.’ None of that shit is real, that’s where ‘Fuck The Girls’ comes from.”
The new claims aren’t the primary time Doja has pushed again at on-line fandom. Earlier this 12 months, she fell out with some followers over the usually parasocial relationship between artists and their fanbase. “I don’t even know y’all,” she instructed one fan on Threads who requested her to declare her love for her fanbase.
Speaking with Darden, Doja additional sought to dispel criticism that she hates her followers. “You’ll never see a direct quote of me saying, ‘I hate my fans.’ Not once,” she stated. “But it’s a really big misquoted thing where everybody is saying, ‘She hates her fans.’”
Doja additionally addressed the backlash she confronted in October over carrying a T-Shirt that featured a picture of alt-right comedian Sam Hyde. She instructed she didn’t know the problematic implications of carrying the shirt. Hyde was beforehand a co-writer on Adult Swim’s Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace, which aired for one season earlier than it was reportedly canceled over racist and sexist messaging. Hyde additionally donated $5,000 to the authorized protection fund of Andrew Anglin of the neo-nazi website the Daily Stormer, the Los Angeles Times reported.
“You can’t know everything. Me wearing a t-shirt of someone who I thought was funny is an attack on people. It’s not, it’s not an attack. It didn’t affect the world in a way where we now have to look behind our backs,” she stated.
“I also think I’m way too fucking famous,” she continued. “There’s some fans I have who know I don’t put any effort or involvement into whatever the fuck that negative ass shit was. I don’t need to explain myself. I don’t need to prove myself to bunch of people who are just going to project no matter what I say. There’s people who are incredibly dogmatic, it doesn’t matter what the fuck you do.”
