It seems like only yesterday Justin Bieber was threatening to set his Instagram to private if his fans didn’t stop “hating” on his new ladyfriend, 17-year-old model Sofia Richie (daughter of Lionel Richie), but that was actually two days ago. Yesterday was when we wrote about how Selena Gomez totally “ended” Beiber with some hard truths about appreciating one’s fans if one does not want to appear to be a spoiled brat (as one possibly is).
How much things change in a day. Bieber didn’t seem happy with how fans reacted to his social media accounts or to Gomez’s smackdown, because he didn’t set his Instagram to private; he flat-out just deleted it:
https://twitter.com/THOTJAI/status/765436031160061953
Strangely, the last thing he liked before he deleted his account was someone’s video about how much Bieber loves his fans. Okay then.
Gomez, on the other hand, posted a somewhat vague apology of sorts via Snapchat, saying “What I said was selfish and pointless.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJKQde1gN1p/
I ain’t mad atchya.
Twitter, meanwhile, was soaking up every ounce of the drama with a #JustinDeactivatedParty:
https://twitter.com/Greedyfrlve/status/765449161617514496
https://twitter.com/LittleeBitOfJ/status/765453272215851008
https://twitter.com/iLove1DAnd5SOS_/status/765451672214761472
bieber deleting his insta got me like pic.twitter.com/MmwW5BrBna
— stephanie marie (@stefinitely85) August 16, 2016
https://twitter.com/xocluelessxo/status/765436897355190272
And some were having a harder time dealing with it:
https://twitter.com/onlybieberveli/status/765458036999725056
https://twitter.com/ThisIsHowWeDoYh/status/765466656374161409
https://twitter.com/BabygirlEly/status/765455598032785409
https://twitter.com/studiobizzle/status/765454411753660416
And there was a piece of good advice scattered amongst the schadenfreude:
you could have just disabled the comments son @justinbieber pic.twitter.com/BMqrJDGmud
— alessandra (@fredoscity) August 16, 2016
Some couldn’t help but give credit:
https://twitter.com/wildforjuarez/status/765441019361923072
https://twitter.com/jeffreybutera/status/765438475852140544
And some of his fans are left to wonder, well, what now?
https://twitter.com/aliza_dauterman/status/765453173209305089
https://twitter.com/iLove1DAnd5SOS_/status/765453000278179840
But some people still know how to look at the big picture:
https://twitter.com/entitledselena/status/765452073513000960
That’s almost certainly fake, but it wouldn’t surprise us if a member of the “Keeping Up With…” family were enjoying all this drama (from afar for a change).
(Via #JustinDeactivatedParty)