Demi Lovato has been criticized for her use of social media during the Capitol riots.
However, this is not the first time that the 28-year-old has used Twitter bizarrely, such as when Taylor Swift supported Kesha during her sexual assault trial by donating $250,000 to Kesha.
Lovato tweeted: "Take something to Capitol Hill or actually speak out about something and then I'll be impressed."
So, perhaps unsurprisingly, her use of the social media website during the Capitol riots was taken by some as being tone-deaf.
"My heart is broken. It makes me sad to believe how naive I was to think this couldn't possibly happen, and yet it did. Here we are," Demi tweeted during the domestic terrorist attak. "For everyone in my comments saying, 'Where's D7?' or wanting me to sing instead of speaking up about what needs to change in this country..."
"...this is why I post as much as I do," Demi continued. "This is why I care. This cannot happen any fucking more. I'm angry, embarrassed, and ashamed." Then, Demi added, "I'm in the studio working on something special after today's assault on democracy."
While Demi's tweets might have been well-intentioned, the focus they had on the singer herself and her creative endeavors did not go down well on the social media website because they were posted in the midst of the riots.
One Twitter user wrote: "Girl just open your f*cking purse and donate some money...it does a lot more than writing and releasing songs then keeping the proceeds or profit made..like [sic]."
A second added: "using black issues to make money off a song? thats sick [sic]."
Meanwhile, a third turned the singer's actions into a meme, writing: "White people burning down the Capitol and your solution is to record music."
A fourth meanwhile begged the singer to "read the room" and not release a song about the event.
A fifth then joked about the potential contents of the song, writing: "why i just know demi lovato in a studio somewhere rhyming democracy and hypocrisy [sic]."
The singer has yet to respond to the backlash surrounding her tweets on the day of the riots.
Last week, Demi Lovato was hospitalised after a suspected overdose. Seen as an idol for many, fans and celebrities alike immediately rushed to their social accounts to fill Demi's accounts with messages of love and support.
However, while the majority of tweets and Instagram uploads were messages of support of love for the singer, fans also began to speculate what the cause of the overdose was.
One person, in particular, ended up on the receiving end of a lot of abuse. Dani Vitale, a backup dancer and friend of Demi's, was blamed by a lot of her fans and seen as the reason for the singer's recent relapse.
According to Demi's fans, Demi and Dani attended a party together on the night of Demi's hospitalisation. Several fans took to Twitter to call Dani a "bad influence" and saying Demi should "cut [her] out of her life." Not only this, but Dani's Instagram comments were also flooded with the snake emoji.
Now, however, Dani has responded. Taking to Instagram Sunday, the dancer reminded her followers:
"I care about Demi just like all of you do. I have not said anything about this situation now because her recovery has been of the most importance. I was not with Demi when the incident happened, but I am with her now, and will continue to be because she means to the world to me just as she does to all of you. Like all of you, I have nothing but love in my heart for her.
"There is no need for any negativity towards the ones who care about Demi at this time. There is too much of it in this world as it is."
Vitale, who is part of Lovato's Tell Me You Love Me World Tour, said she understands fans are concerned about the singer.
"I know you're all feeling lost without her at this moment in time," she added. "Remember that you have always been a community of Lovatics who LOVE. Please remember that when you take out your phones and start typing. Remember that we all love her more than we can ever put into words. Please continue to send her love during her recovery."
One of Lovato's best friends, Dead Boys actor Matthew Scott Montgomery, also broke his silence on Lovato's relapse via Instagram Stories Sunday.
"It's been an incredibly difficult few days, and this year has easily been the hardest I've ever experienced," he wrote. "I couldn't figure out what felt weirder—posting or not posting about this." With Lovato in the hospital, he added, "I will miss hearing my best friend's laugh, maybe my favorite sound in the world, in the audience for these final shows as she continues to recover."
Montgomery dedicated his final shows to Lovato, thanking his followers for their "love and support during this very hard time."
Demi Lovato has taken to social media this week to brand gender-reveal parties as transphobic.
According to The Independent, the 28-year-old actress, singer, and songwriter took to her official Instagram account on Thursday to share a post with her 99.7 million followers on the platform.
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The post in question read: "It's both insincere and incorrect to pretend that gender reveal parties are not transphobic. You can't have your proverbial pink-blue binary cake and eat it too."
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"This is not about political correctness, it's just... correct. We condemn gender reveals not because of our identity, but because of our reality."
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The post continued: "Gender reveals require not just the invalidation of transness, but the impossibility of transness. The assumption is that the baby is cis. Cisness is understood as the default and everyone else is understood as derivative of it.
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"The idea goes: while we might 'identify' as trans now, we were 'originally born' cis, and we later 'became' trans. When in truth, everyone is just born. And we all become after the fact.
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"Even though we might have grown accustomed to other people gendering us, that doesn't make it right. Only individuals can determine their own gender."
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Lovato herself captioned the post: "The refusal to acknowledge this stems from a misunderstanding of what transphobia is.
"Transphobia is not just prejudice or violence against an individual trans person, it is a belief system that presumes non-trans people to be more 'natural' than trans people. Only individual people can self determine their gender."
However, a number of other social media users clearly appeared to disagree with Lovato's opinion, and promptly took to the comments to share their own thoughts on the idea.
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For instance, one person wrote: "Gender reveals are about the surprise of having a girl or boy at [the] baby stage. If the child chooses later to change then it's their choice."
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A trans commenter wrote: "As a transwoman I really do not care about a color, and baby showers are fun.
"NO ONE is defined by a color so sorry that a baby shower (before I'm even born lol) doesn't hurt me, I promise I did, do not care that when I was in my mother's belly she had a blue themed baby shower for me like truly....this is why people can't stand us."
"If you ask me how a stranger should treat a transperson, like any other person. That's it. Don't stress about colors, parties, politics, or religion. Let me do me, and you do you, and we're all good. [sic]"
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Another person added: "No. They are just celebrating their damn baby stop putting restrictions on everything for the sake of being 'woke!'"
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Meanwhile, someone else chimed in: "Demi, no! This is incredibly unfair to say to happy expecting parents."
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Another person wrote: "You can't condemn how parents decide to well be parents. That is hypocritical to all you extreme liberals. Live and let others live. Stop thinking you know what's best for other people."
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Another Instagram user commented: "What's wrong with a baby being the gender they were born though? If in 10 years they feel they are not what they were born, that's different."
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Finally, someone else chimed in, writing: "I never comment on posts like this because I feel whatever you say is taken offensively these days but I just cannot agree on this at all... This is just too much."
This post comes not long after Lovato celebrated the US House of Representatives passing the historic Equality Act, which aims at safeguarding the rights of American members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Championing the bill, Lovato wrote to her many followers: "This is an incredible step forward but now we need our Senate to follow suit!!! [sic]"
One of the great things about being a celebrity on the internet is that it's so easy to tweet out whatever you want and stay in touch with all your fans. Unfortunately, one of the terrible things about being a celebrity on the internet is that it's so easy to tweet whatever you want... and not all your fans are going to like it.
Take the recent Kanye West fiascos, for example: first, he alienates half his followers by declaring his admiration for Donald Trump and claiming that slavery was "a choice", and then he manages to offend the other half by using a photograph of Whitney Houston's bathroom as Pusha T's album cover.
But you don't have to be as extreme as 'Ye to tick off your fans, as Demi Lovato found out this weekend.
On Sunday, the Sorry Not Sorry singer clearly had some time to kill and decided to answer a few questions from fans on the social media platform. At first, this seemed like a pretty sweet thing to do, and hundreds of people flocked to ask her things such as, "Do you want to get another tattoo?" and "Have you ever tried bungee jumping? If not, would you like to try it?"
Unfortunately, things took a bit of a turn when one fan asked, "[What's the] funniest prank you’ve ever pulled?"
In a now-deleted tweet, Lovato responded to the question by detailing an incident in which she "hired a lady of the night" in order to "surprise" her bodyguard, Max. Apparently, the sex worker entered the bodyguard's room "without permission" and proceeded to touch him without warning - something that Lovato found hilarious.
Understandably, though, not everybody else saw the funny side and pointed out that this was technically assault by proxy, as the bodyguard had not wanted - nor asked for - anyone to enter his room and touch him inappropriately.
"I'm... not okay with this," wrote one Twitter user. "Like, this is legitimately a sh***y thing to do. That is sexual harassment on Demi's part, and sexual assault on the other woman's part. I am beyond disgusted by this."
And others pointed out that incidents like these are the sort of things that trivialise sexual assault against men:
"What I learnt today: According to Demi Lovato a sexual assault against a man is funny. CAN WE ALL UNDERSTAND IN 2018 THAT A SEXUAL ASSAULT AGAINST A MAN IS NOT A NORMAL THING AND WE SHOULDN’T LAUGH ABOUT IT?? NEWS: A MAN HAS FEELINGS TOO, A MAN CAN BE SEXUAL ASSAULTED TOO."
The singer wasn't going to take that sort of criticism, however, and implied that people were too easily offended by her tweet:
A few hours later, she tweeted again - this time to say that what she did was "a simple mistake" (though it isn't clear whether she was talking about hiring a prostitute or sharing that fact with the whole world):
Finally, however, after a lot more criticism, she apologised. Again, though, it seemed like the apology was more about offending people than actually partaking in a so-called sexual assault.
Many fans have been left unimpressed by Lovato's original tweet and the way she subsequently responded to fans telling her that what she'd done was wrong, but the singer herself seems equally unhappy with the criticism she received. At the time of writing, the last tweet she wrote says, "people DON'T know my full story" - so she may still have more to say on the matter.
Are you ready to hear about the latest celebrity feud? In one corner, Demi Lovato: singer, actress, and passionate advocate for mental health. In the other corner, Perez Hilton: celebrity gossip blogger, television personality and guy who's somehow still a thing in 2018. (Wow. Who knew doodling on tabloid photographs would lead to such a long career?)
Okay, so here's what happened: At a concert in Las Vegas, Demi Lovato performed her many hit songs which I am too lazy to look up right now. One of them was "Sorry Not Sorry," an anthem in which she defiantly taunts her haters.
The day after the concert, Demi revealed that that performance had a special meaning: ""The other night I got to sing SNS directly to one of USA’s most notorious bullies," the singer tweeted. "It felt so fucking great. That’s what the song is all about!!! Sorry not sorry that you were in the audience watching me kill it."
The Twitter-verse buzzed with speculation over the identity of this mysterious bully. But Demi refused to name names, tweeting, "He’s remaining nameless because he doesn’t deserve the relevance that he doesn’t have anymore." (Ouch.)
Luckily, Perez Hilton figured out exactly who she was talking about: Perez Hilton. What are the odds? On Twitter, the blogger complained, "@DDLovato claims to be an anti-bullying activist. But she sure is coming across like a bully to me! This is my response to her tweets against me!" Then he links to a four minute YouTube video, in which he fires back:
"Is Demi Lovato a bully?" asks Perez. "In the past, she's said a lot of bullying things toward many people, most notably, Taylor Swift." In an interview with Glamour magazine, Demi Lovato did slam Taylor Swift for bashing Katy Perry. Also, she accused Taylor's squad of not promoting a healthy body image. Does that count as bullying? And if you call a bully a bully is that bullying? This is getting confusing. Anyway, Perez continues:
"Demi Lovato has a lot of issues, from her bipolar issue to her addiction issue, substance abuse, to her food issues to her place in Hollywood. She's not Taylor Swift. She's not Selena Gomez, and it must not be easy for her. So I'm not going to respond to her negativity with more negativity."
Isn't it a little late for that? It seems like a low blow to randomly bring up Demi's struggles with an eating disorder and substance abuse. Also, it's odd Perez Hilton is so pro-Taylor Swift, when just a few months ago, he accused her of being a 'media bully.'
As the video goes on, and on and on on, Perez gloats how the show was "far from sold out" and how he "didn't pay for a ticket." In addition, he thanks Demi "for the write-up," although she never mentioned his name:
"I love that she just tweeted this about me...I will just say thank you. I appreciate the write-up. It's been getting a lot of attention and I'm honest, I love atten-tion! And I didn't pay for the ticket, thankfully! If I had to pay to go to see Demi Lovato in concert, I would not have. Simple as that...you would think ten years into her career, Demi would have thicker skin, but she doesn't, and I'm thankful for that!"
In response, Demi's fans declared Perez Hilton to be "over."
One person posted a screenshot of the two sniping at each other on Instagram. Under one of Demi's photos, Perez commented, "So sad that you're STILL talking sh-t about Taylor Swift. It really comes off as jealous and desperate." Demi replied, "ew, get out my feed." You know I'm starting to get the feeling these two don't like each other.
The singer then joked about all the things she did to keep herself busy during the lockdown.
"I got into painting, photography, meditation, tested the limits of post mates unlimited. Also, I didn't know this could happen but reached the end of Instagram four times," she said.
"I binged seven seasons of Pretty Little Liars, got unengaged, then went looking for aliens in the desert. So basically the same as everyone else."
While Demi has yet to respond to Max's comments on her post, hundred of her fans have.
One of Demi's fans took to the comments to argue: "Mentioning she broke up isn't mentioning you. By posting this publicly it's your lame attempt at attention."
Another fan wrote: "You know damn well she does not need to do anything for clout. And weren't you the one exploiting it in the very beginning? For Clout? Boy, have several seats and stop reaching."
Last month, Ehrich took to Instagram Live to speak-out about his break-up from Lovato - accusing the singer of using him as a "pawn" in "a calculated PR stunt".
You can watch clips from the live-stream in the video below:
During his live stream, Ehrich - looking like he was at least trying to cry - said: "Stop using me as a pawn and a PR stunt. Stop."
He then appeared to address Lovato's fans, saying: "Stop breaking into my Airbnb. Stop harassing me. Stop harassing my mom, my family, the people around me - to 'scare' us."
Adopting a sarcastic tone, Ehrich continued: "Just like, make art. I'll support you.
"You're all great, you're awesome. Literally just like, leave me alone. And stop using your millions of dollars to write false, fake news about me."
It is still unclear whether Ehrich was addressing Lovato directly or the media in general.
He added: "I'm a person. I'm a living, breathing person with feelings, with blood in my arms. If y'all wanna villainize me, literally say whatever you wanna say at this point."
"It's just the craziest thing," Ehrich said, adding: "This is the most bizarre experience that I hope no one ever has to experience, ever. 'Cause no person deserves to feel this way. Pete Davidson didn't deserve to feel this way."
Comedian Pete Davidson dated singer Ariana Grande back in 2018, and the pair were briefly engaged between June and October of that year before calling off the relationship.
Referring to Lovato's latest single, 'Still Have Me', Ehrich said: "I was in love. The whole world should frickin' know it. I thought I found the real deal. Now I found out that I was used.
"But I hope the song's No. 1 because, you know what, if that's what someone wants in the material world — here you go, you have it. I hope this makes you happy. Enjoy. You just lost someone who loved you fully, completely, infinitely, for everything."
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