After a summer fan controversy that accused Doja Cat of insulting a fan, the star is setting the record straight. The ‘Paint the Town Red‘ rapper clarified the misconceptions around the controversy as it drew much speculation from across the world.
In an interview with Apple Music’s Ebro Darden, Doja Cat addressed the issue directly. The incident dates back to July, when a Threads user asked the Grammy winner to say “I love you” to fans, to which she replied, “I don’t though cuz I don’t know y’all”.
“Never Said I Hate My Fans” Says Doja Cat
Doja Cat also criticized her fanbase for referring to themselves as ‘Kittenz’. Her comments backfired, as many of her popular Doja Cat fan accounts deactivated their pages immediately. Fan comments also emerged criticizing Doja Cat for her alleged insensitivity.
While the rapper did not address the controversy on her social media, she opened up about it during the interview. “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,” the 28-year-old rapper said.
“It’s a really big misquoted thing where everybody is saying, she hates her fans,” she added. Trashing the popular opinion around the controversy, Doja Cat said, “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.”
Labeling it as her “sense of humor“, Doja Cat said she should not have to explain what she said. “I don’t need to have to explain my sense of humor or explain comedy to anyone. If people don’t see the joke, then they just don’t see the joke. It’s not my responsibility to have them understand,” she said.
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The Rapper Says It Is Not Her “Responsibility To Explain The Joke”
In an August interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Doja Cat had explained her approach towards fandom dynamics and online connections. “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 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,” she said.
Doja Cat also playfully addressed the issue during a listening party for her album ‘Scarlet’ in Los Angeles. In a painting she made, she wrote “I do ❤️ u“, seemingly in an effort to make amends with her fanbase.
However, she again chose to clarify that she never had any intention to tell her fans that their love for her is not reciprocated or that she hates them.
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