While you were yapping on Twitter and Fantano was hanging around on 4chan, Halsey was out attending protests for women's rights, universal healthcare, LGBTQ+ rights, and BLM, getting hit with rubber bullets and aiding protesters. Take your slacktivism somewhere else.
@theneedledrop halsey: “this man rated my most open album abojt my trauma and struggles”
meanwhile…
anthony fantano: “n-word, n-word, n-word, r-slur, t-slur, f-slur”
@theneedledrop@oliviarodrigo this is what you’re a huge fan of? Someone who makes fun of a woman with cancer? if you don’t denounce him by the end of the night you’re truly a disrespectful POS
I’m certain my least memorable song will be remembered more fondly and for more time than anything you ever do with your life will be. Everything you say is more “whiny” and “edgy” than I was at any point on that album. But at least I had the excuse of going through chemo.
Who cares he gave a bad review? I care that a pay for clicks reaction YouTuber can facade as a pro critic and say it’s “main character syndrome” for an artist to lament her medical suffering on an album (surprise!) about her own life. He’s a raised-by-4chan edgelord bully. Yuck.
Being a woman dealing with serious health issues often means being afraid of telling the truth about the pain you’re in because you’re afraid of not being believed or seeming attention seeking. He validated that fear to thousands of women.