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🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Is Selena Gomez anti-social (media)? Even though the “Only Murders in the Building” star just became the most followed woman on Instagram with 381 million followers, she announced she's taking a break from social media. Her most recent hiatus follows the latest round of fan theories which have once again pitted her against Hailey Bieber. And to add a little spice to the controversy, Kylie Jenner has also been thrown into the mix by fans who are accusing her of shading Selena on Instagram. But really, is there anything to these alleged feuds – or have they been totally manufactured?
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| 0:00.0 | So Arisha, sadly, we both know from experience how easy a silly little nothing can spin out of control and become huge drama |
| 0:15.8 | Yeah, especially when other people get involved and then they wind up taking sides and they pit people against each other, it's terrible. |
| 0:24.4 | The number of times that the smallest, most innocuous thing becomes a full-blown saga? |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.0 | And it's usually because of the internet. |
| 0:35.0 | Like, let's be honest, like that... |
| 0:37.0 | Always. |
| 0:38.0 | It's just a completely unfiltered, unrained in medium that needs to just chill. |
| 0:43.7 | Yeah, I mean, and if there's one thing we can count on |
| 0:46.0 | when it comes to the world of celebrities, |
| 0:48.2 | it's that the media and the fans love to pit stars |
| 0:52.0 | against each other, like they truly get off on it and no one |
| 0:55.9 | knows this better than Selina Gomez ever since her ex Justin Bieber was |
| 1:00.3 | first linked to Haley Bieber. Selina has faced what seems like truly an |
| 1:05.2 | endless stream of accusations that she's feuding with Haley. I mean I feel like it's |
| 1:08.9 | to the point where whatever is posted by either person. |
| 1:14.0 | Someone finds a reason to be like, oh, this is them coming for each other. |
| 1:17.2 | Like, it's got to be too much. |
| 1:19.1 | And apparently it was too much for Salina because she hit a huge social media milestone yesterday, but it wasn't enough to keep her on the ground. |
| 1:27.4 | Yeah, me and my Twitter can relate. |
| 1:29.7 | Mm-hmm, yeah, fully. |
| 1:32.1 | From Wundery, I'm Brooke Sipprin, |
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