Rihanna is accused of helping cyberbullies tease a young girl on Twitter. Oh RiRi noooooooo, screams my heart from deep inside me.
Alexis Carter, a 16-year-old Baltimore high school student, wanted to pay homage to Rihanna for her school’s Hollywood-themed prom. She wore a homemade version of one of the pop star’s most famous red carpet looks for her Hollywood-themed prom. When she posted pictures to social media they quickly went viral. She was taunted by cyberbullies who used the hashtag #PromBat to mock her outfit, which is pathetic but unfortunately what we’ve come to expect from assholes on the Internet.
It got worse when the person who inspired Carter to make the outfit jumped on the bandwagon to make fun of her, though:
But what was, perhaps, most disturbing to Alexis was a tweet from her now former idol, Rihanna, who posted a photo of herself wearing the dress (with caption “IG”) alongside a photo of Alexis in her dress (with caption “Real Life”) and a sad face. In another tweet, Rihanna posted a photo of the teen alongside the bat-like logo of the Wu-Tang clan.
As you can imagine, after this the shitshow visited upon Carter got a whole lot worse. Rihanna has 35 million followers on Twitter and most of them are willing to act like total jackasses if they think it might help get her attention.
What’s strangest to me in all of this is I remember how many jokes people made about Rihanna when she wore the original outfit. People either loved it or hated it with the passion of a thousand burning suns. Either she doesn’t remember all the haterade the outfit received, she didn’t know about it in the first place (another case of celebrity bubble syndrome) or didn’t give a fuck about it (WITH RIHANNA ALWAYS GO WITH THAT OPTION). I don’t know. The mysteries of Rihanna’s social media whims are like the Nazca Lines. We may never fully understand them. [Fox Baltimore]
George Clooney maybe did or did not cheat on ex-girlfriend Stacey Kiebler with Amal Alamuddin. [Radar Online]
Kim Kardashian is going to make $21 million off of her wedding. On a semi-related note, I was able to talk a manager at KFC into honoring an expired coupon for a free pot pie yesterday. So we’re all big winners at life this week! [In Touch Weekly]
Rita Ora showed side boob because she is happy about things. [E Online]
A woman working at the batting cage where Justin Bieber allegedly tried to take a woman’s cellphone says the victim’s story is total bullshit because she watched it all go down. #THEBIEBSISINNOCENT #FREETHEBIEBS [TMZ]
You can buy celebrity person Lil Kim a baby gift if you wish to do so. You could skip that and make an investment in my fund to purchase the original car from Smokey and the Bandit. But I’m not telling you how to live your life. Whatever you decide. I won’t be mad. [Contact Music.]
Here is the latest on the “landmark ruling” in the Jason Patric custody case. [Hollywood Reporter.]
JIOUOASIGHVa;;;;asiplkjv**!OmmmMG THIS PIC OF LADY GAGA‘S PUPPY AHHHH [Instagram]
Michael Sam will continue to make nutjob Conservative assholes collectively lose their shit thanks to a new reality show he’ll star in. It will be on Oprah’s network, OWN. Hahahaha I cannot wait to read all of homophobic America’s stupid tweets about this hahahaha. I BATHE IN YOUR ANGER, BIGOTS. [CBS Sports]
The Top Ten Things Buzzfeed Is Most Excited About Today are actually all this hat Anne Hathaway wore. [Buzzfeed]
Now we will all watch one of my favorite videos and songs of all time, Steve Perry‘s “Oh Sherrie.” This song is so good, man. So freaking good.
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