Doja Catdoesn’t want her fans to think she doesn’t like them.
After sparking controversy over the summer for refusing to tell fans she loved them, the “Paint the Town Red” rapper said her words were misconstrued at the time as she attempted to set the record straight in a new interview withApple Music’s Ebro Darden.
“One thing that I do want to set straight is that you’ll never see a direct quote of me saying, ‘I hate my fans.’ Not once,” said Doja Cat, 28. “But it’s a really big misquoted thing where everybody is saying, she hates her fans.”
Doja Cat.Apple Music
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In July, after a Threads user asked the Grammy winner to say “I love you” to fans, she reportedly replied, “I don’t though cuz I don’t know y’all.” She also reportedly criticized her fanbase for referring to themselves as “Kittenz,” eventually leading several popular Doja Cat fan accounts to deactivate their pages at the time.
Since then, the “Kiss Me More” performer feels many people think she simply told fans she doesn’t like them — which isn’t the case. “I never said that, but I do like to play with that as a meme. It’s definitely something, and I know that people who get it, get it, and I’m fine with that,” Doja Cat told Darden.
Ebro Darden and Doja Cat.Apple Music
“I don’t need to have to explain my sense of humor or explain comedy to anyone,” she continued. “If people don’t see the joke, then they just don’t see the joke. It’s not my responsibility to have them understand.”
“My theory is that if someone has never met me in real life, then, subconsciously, I’m not real to them. So when people become engaged with someone they don’t even know on the internet, they kind of take ownership over that person. They think that person belongs to them in some sense,” she told the outlet. “And when that person changes drastically, there is a shock response that is almost uncontrollable… I’ve accepted that that’s what happens.”
Around the release of Doja Cat’sScarletalbum in September, the pop rapper held a listening party in Los Angeles. There, she created a painting that read, “I do ❤️ u” — seemingly walking back on the initial statement she made on Threads.
source: people.com
