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Selena Gomez Quits Social Media ... Again

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | January 10, 2024 |

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | January 10, 2024 |


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Speaking as someone who couldn’t name more than two Selena Gomez songs if asked, I’m just as shocked as you are that I end up writing about her what feels like every other day. But the girl just keeps doin’ stuff. This time, she’s taking yet another break from social media after the whole Kylie Jenner/Timothée Chalamet kerfuffle.

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I have ridden the wave of Selena Sympathy and have ended up thoroughly over it. This is the pattern: she goes out in public and acts a fool (seemingly completely unaware of how visible she is), people notice, and it ends up on the internet, she responds to the stuff on the internet, and mess ensues, and once that happens, she throws up her hands and backs off.

The last time this happened was when she way overreacted and said she’d “never be a meme again” because she made a face at the VMAs that went viral. Then she went on a rampage when her fans were confused by her relationship with Benny Blanco. She loves to complain about how she can’t be herself without mess ensuing.

But, girlfriend, what if that’s because you’re messy?

I have no doubt the thing with Jenner started because the internet has long assumed a feud between the two since Jenner is good friends with Haley Bieber, and Gomez’s fanbase simply cannot get over the long-dead relationship between her and Justin Bieber. The supposed “lip readers” were probably just looking for mess, and mess is easy to find when she’s out in public acting messy all the time!

“Noooooo I told Taylor about two of my friends who hooked up. Not that that’s anyone business,” Gomez commented on an E!News post about the drama. Her people also told PEOPLE that she “never even saw or spoke to them.”

Fine! Fine. I really, truly, do not care. This could have been another silly celebrity interaction that the world forgot about with the next news cycle. But Gomez is the one who legitimizes things like this by commenting, by sending her people to comment, by announcing she’s taking a break from Instagram to “focus on what really matters.” Kris Jenner taught her youngest daughter better than to respond to stuff like this. No press is bad press. Chalamet didn’t even seem to know what was happening until a paparazzi cornered him on the street. It’s not that deep.

So, yes, Selena, please do take a break to focus on what matters. Make it a long one, for your sake, but mostly for ours.