Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez captured young viewers’ hearts through Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place and later Hotel Transylvania and Hulu’s Only Murders In the Building while simultaneously developing her pop music career.Selena Gomez
This week, she made headlines for her commentary on three TikTok videos featuring Hailey Bieber and Kylie Jenner and for responding to body-shaming backlash online.
Selena Gomez Kylie Jenner
Kylie Jenner is an acclaimed reality TV star, entrepreneur, and fashion designer who enjoys an immense social media following and is considered to be one of the most influential women globally. Kylie Cosmetics, her beauty line founded in 2015 has become a billion-dollar empire while being widely admired for its kindness and generosity towards others. Kylie has often spoken out against bullying as an advocate of positivity promotion.Selena Gomez
Kylie Jenner is the youngest child of Kris and Caitlyn Jenner and considers Kim her other mother. Kylie enjoys spending time with close friends who she considers her family; Kylie wants a family and farm. Growing up with sisters has always been important to her.Selena Gomez
Gomez began her acting career by appearing in children’s movies and television shows for children. Her breakthrough came in 2007 when she secured the lead role on Disney Channel show Wizards of Waverly Place; this propelled her popularity and she went on to star in several more movies as well as beginning her music career; recording soundtrack songs for movies as well as Princess Protection Program’s Princess Protection Program show soundtrack, guest starring on Drop the Mic with Method Man comedy show as well as singing in Blue Ocean song video by Jaden Smith.Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez Hailey Bieber
Selena Gomez seems to have enjoyed an eventful career as the face of a major beauty brand, daughter of Hollywood icons Alec Baldwin and Stephen Baldwin, wife of an international pop star, and popularizing trends such as glazed donut nails and monochromatic dressing with her fashion sense. However, fame can sometimes prove unforgiving; one day you could be celebrated as an iconic style icon, the next you may be subjected to calls out for privilege by Nepo-Babies.
Selena has long been recognized for being kind and generous; yet, her relationship with Hailey Bieber has become the source of much online drama. Reports claim the two have fallen out over Justin’s romantic interest; whether or not these allegations are accurate, Selena and Hailey’s responses show what true friends they are.
Kylie Jenner and Hailey Bieber recently posted a TikTok together in which they zoomed in on their eyebrows, prompting speculation that it was meant as an insult towards Selena Gomez who has recently faced body-shaming for paparazzi photos of her wearing swimwear. Both Kylie and Hailey denied such claims while not directly responding to public perception that they were mocking Selena’s struggles with depression.
Selena Gomez
Gomez stands out in an age when female rivalries can often pit women against one another for simply wearing similar nail polish or wishing their significant other happy birthday, by choosing to avoid online drama and feuds with her former flame or his current one. Although no stranger to online gossip sites and drama herself, Gomez has taken great care to avoid speculation regarding any possible conflicts between herself and her ex or his new spouses or any potential feuds between herself and them.
But recently, Gomez has become the subject of several online slights that fans believe indicate she and Hailey Bieber may be engaged in some sort of feud. It all began when Kylie Jenner posted two cryptic Instagram photos that many believed to be an indirect jab at Gomez – one featuring “This Was An Accident???”, sitting directly over her eyebrows; and another featured an extreme close up of both sets of eyebrows simultaneously – that many fans took as indications they may be feuding.
Both videos have since been deleted, yet the internet still talks about them. Following Browgate, Selena’s follower count skyrocketed and searches for her beauty brand Rare Beauty tripled while those for Hailey’s Rhode Skin plummeted; searches for Selena went into decline while searches for Hailey’s Rhode Skin saw an abrupt decrease. Meanwhile, Gomez has seen her Hulu show climb into first place ratings-wise during its season premiere, and her music streaming numbers hit their highest mark ever.
Selena Gomez TikTok
TikTok (known in China as Douyin) is a widely popular video platform where users can upload and share videos. Users have the option of adding music, text and other effects to videos for an enhanced viewing experience as well as commenting and downloading the content provided. Owned by ByteDance tech company, this fast-paced trend incubator platform helps brands connect with new audiences quickly.
App is also home to thousands of creators with millions of followers who create dance challenges on popular songs – these challenges provide businesses with a way of reaching more users while increasing engagement on the platform.
Some challenges have even become cultural phenomena, like the #TumbleweedChallenge started by a TikTok creator who encouraged viewers to post videos depicting themselves rolling like tumbleweeds – this challenge quickly went viral and amassed over 80 million views!
Selena Gomez recently opened up about how challenging it can be to find friends in Hollywood, emphasizing the need to surround herself with “level-headed” individuals as evidenced by her selection of Hailey and Kylie as friends.
TikTok remains a contentious environment despite these improvements, however. The app’s advertising practices have caused concern regarding minors’ mental health and it has been accused of supporting pornography and inappropriate content. TikTok has made efforts to address these concerns by hiring teams of moderators.
