Social media has not been very kind to many celebrities in 2024. From one of those being celebrated A-listers, they were now being scorned and included in the the naughty list.
Some celebrities are not that happy to celebrate an end to 2024 — after indiscretions, scandals or controversies caused them to lose hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram last year.
Lizzo topped the most canceled list, seeing her followers dwindle by 6.7 percent — or 84,298 — according to SEO platform Ahrefs, which compared the number of followers of over 100 celebrities at the end of the year with how many they had on 1 January 2024.
The "Truth Hurts" rapper’s reputation has been suffering since she was sued by her former backup dancers, who accused her of sexual harassment and weight shaming. Lizzo, 36, slammed the allegations as "false" and "outrageous."
The Grammy winner took to Instagram to clap back at the hate.
"I’m getting tired of putting up with being dragged by everyone in my life and on the internet," she wrote.
"All I want is to make music and make people happy and help the world be a little better than how I found it. But I’m starting to feel like the world doesn’t want me in it. I’m constantly up against lies being told about me for clout & views . . . my character being picked apart by people who don’t know me and disrespecting my name. I didn’t sign up for this s–t — I QUIT."
Jack Harlow saw the second-worse drop in Instagram followers, down 6.4 percent or 445,263.
The 26-year-old rapper broke into the music scene with the 2020 release of his single "Whats Poppin," which earned him a Grammy nomination. In 2021, he made Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list and in 2022, even hosted "Saturday Night Live."
However, in 2023, transgressions began piling up.
In April of that year, he turned heads by releasing a song called "Gang Gang Gang," centered around him learning that two of his childhood friends were accused of rape and pedophilia.
Academy Award winner Brie Larson landed in third, losing 279,494 or 3.9 percent of her Instagram followers.
The controversy surrounding Larson, 35, started when she played the lead in 2019’s "Captain Marvel," the first female-led solo movie in the Marvel Universe — and was bashed by fans of the franchise, who weren’t happy when she said its press events were "overwhelmingly white male."
The celeb who lost the most Instagram followers by volume, not percentage, was Selena Gomez, whose following decreased by a staggering 6,261,182.
The singer and "Only Murders in the Building" star started rubbing her followers the wrong way in December 2023, after she confirmed she was dating her now-fiancé, producer and songwriter Benny Blanco.
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