Billie Eilish has lost a whopping 100,000 Instagram followers since coming out last month and sharing she was attracted to women.
Billie Eilish has lost a whopping 100,000 Instagram followers since coming out last month and sharing she was attracted to women.
How is it news that she lost less than 0.1% of her followers?
I kinda thought something similar, but in a way I think there’s some value in observing homophobia in a community.
Yes, but it’s just not statistically significant. Unless we see longer-term trends of her follow count, this could easily be a random fluctuation, bot crackdown, etc.
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I don’t expect a lot of Ellish fans to be homophobic. Entirely not the vibe of her and her music.
I tend to agree with a bot crackdown being the culprit for a lot of them.
It would be neat if there were context, like if other artists had any similar drops. That popular accounts get a ton of bots isn’t that interesting.
I’m encouraged that the percentage was that low.
The percentage was low, but 100k people is still a lot of people.
So am I!
However, I can’t say I listen to or follow Billie Eilish - I only found out about her coming out from reading this, in fact - but even as someone who’s just mildly aware of her, I will say I’ve never assumed her to be straight. My gaydar’s probably better tuned than the average person’s but even so, I feel like her being some flavour of queer was fairly obvious and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if that’s influenced / shaped the kind of audience she has.
Unfortunately, I suspect an artist who’s less obviously queer would lose a larger following for coming out. But yes, Billie Eilish only losing 100K followers is really encouraging still!