Doja Cat relieved at losing half a million subscribers: ‘I defeated a beast that dragged me down’

His change of artistic direction, style and fan community seems to reveal a real Renaissance for Doja Cat.

No longer followed by 500,000 people, Doja Cat has “defeated a big childYou”

A month after having left most of the internet users inside incomprehension and with anger legitimizing violent insults his fans of “unemployed”From “crazy ” that she ” do not like “, Doja Cat opened up about her meteoric loss of Instagram followers. Indeed, it only took the singer a few days to lose 500,000 fans on the social network, some pages with his effigy were even closed by their creators, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.

In a short-lived Instagram Story posted on Aug. 16, the 27-year-old American revealed it this loss represented for her publicationlosing it of a burden he had been carrying for several years :

“Seeing all these people unfollowing me makes me feel like I’ve won a big beast that had been dragging me down for a long time. It’s like now I can reconnect with people who really matter and who love me for who I am and not for who I was. »

To be admired or locked away?

In an interview given to Harper’s BazaarDoja Cat detailed his analysis of the possessiveness which can suffer from its fans. “My theory is that if someone has never met me in real life, then subconsciously I’m not real to them”she said:

“So when people get involved with someone they don’t know, in a sense they appropriate that person. They think that person belongs to them in some way. And when that person changes drastically, it provokes an almost uncontrollable shock wave. I have accepted that this is what happens. So I put my wigs on and then took them off. I shave my head or eyebrows. I have all the freedom in the world. »

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