{"id":245393,"date":"2025-10-28T02:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245393\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T02:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:42:09","slug":"grimes-slams-disturbing-online-high-school-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245393\/","title":{"rendered":"Grimes slams \u2018disturbing\u2019 online \u2018high school level\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grimes<\/a> has fiercely defended fellow pop star Selena Gomez<\/a> against \u201cdisturbing\u201d online bullying aimed at the latter\u2019s appearance in her new music video. <\/p>\n

Last week, Emmy-nominated Only Murders in the Building star Gomez, 33, released the music video for her song, \u201cIn the Dark,\u201d featured in season two of Netflix\u2019s hit romcom, Nobody Wants This.<\/a><\/p>\n

The clip shows the \u201cCalm Down\u201d hitmaker in three different all-black ensembles, dancing and singing. One scene sees Gomez on a daybed surrounded by sheer curtains, wearing her hair in a sleek bob with bangs.<\/p>\n

In a now-viral X post, a user reacted to screenshots of the Rare Beauty<\/a> founder from the scene, claiming she looked like an \u201cX Files monster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grimes, 37, has since responded<\/a> to the critical message, writing that she \u201cmight have to leave\u201d the internet as a result. <\/p>\n

\u201cWatched this Selena Gomez video, besides a few weird derp shots that ppl were able to clip and super misrepresent how she looks she looks extremely beautiful, is prob one of the most beautiful girls,\u201d the \u201cGenesis\u201d singer said.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine what it wud [sic] feel like if people talked about you this way. Try to imagine the mental fortitude she presumably has,\u201d the electronic pop singer-songwriter added. <\/p>\n

\u201cHow do we not utterly morally castigate someone who has a post like this blows up and chooses to keep the clout at the expense of everybodies [sic] mental health. How do u think little girls feel reading stuff like this about another woman?<\/p>\n

\u201cThis might be vaguely the second gen of women being allowed to be over 30 in entertainment if u can even count the first gen as anything besides a few outliers,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shud not be ok to do high school level bullying. Accounts shud be suspended for body shaming en masse. This is disturbing \u2014 in part because it\u2019s not even true if u actually watch this video.\u201d<\/p>\n

Addressing the original user\u2019s allegations that Gomez looked like she had undergone cosmetic surgery, Grimes said: \u201cIm not rly in the biz of even knowing what celebrities do, i have no context here, but this place is unhealthy as f*** and this being socially acceptable behavior is culture death \u2014 not just for the Selena or the writer but everyone who sees this and engages with this level of dehumanization.\u201d<\/p>\n

I’ve been in the internet for like 48 hours and despite minor benefits I might have to leave. Watched this Selena Gomez video, besides a few weird derp shots that ppl were able to clip and super misrepresent how she looks she looks extremely beautiful, is prob one of the most\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/hGOf38CaX4<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 \ud835\udda6\ud835\uddcb\ud835\uddc2\ud835\uddc6\ud835\uddbe\ud835\uddcc \u23f3 (@Grimezsz) October 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

The Independent has contacted a representative for Gomez for comment.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Grimes, real name Claire Boucher, has jumped on social media to criticize social media. <\/p>\n

In July, the musician issued a scathing takedown of X, owned by her former partner Elon Musk<\/a>, branding the social media site \u201cpoison\u201d and \u201ca prison.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire thing is a theatre. A s****y pale simulacra of a life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Months earlier, she also decried social media, arguing that it is \u201cvery unhealthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like a ghost town of depression, bitterness and pictures of beautiful women doing sext things,\u201d she wrote in April. \u201cI feel like this is a massive moral failure of all the apps. And it\u2019s causing great harm to society.\u201d<\/p>\n