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Cbasketball games have a long and rich history of offering content for memes.
Once, it was Selena Gomez Pay a lot more attention to the Los Angeles Lakers Justin Bieber. Now, Beyoncé looks pained, while her husband argues with the wife of the owner of the Golden State Warriors.
The advantage of viral internet images is that they allow viewers to project their own moods and thoughts. They are fun and perfectly harmless – until a group of crazy fans pushes them far too far.
In a Wednesday video, Beyoncé looks at Nicole Curran as she looks at the pop star to talk to Jay-Z. The clip became viral and, according to ESPN reporter Ramona Shelburne, members of Beyoncé's fan base (known as Beyhive) responded by sending death threats to Curran.
I just talked to Nicole Curran, Warrior Owner Joe Lacob's wife, about "the incident" with Beyoncé last night. She was in tears. She said she received death threats all night on social networks this morning, and that she turned off her GI account just to stop it.
– Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne)
June 6, 2019
Curran told ESPN she asked the couple if they wanted her to bring them something to drink and she leaned over to hear Jay-Z's answer.
"There was no hostility," Curran said. "I was trying to be a good hostess."
Nevertheless, the dismayed look on Queen Bey's face was enough to smother her fans.
Beyonce's reporter reacted to Thursday's overreaction by simply saying, "It will not bring joy to the person you love so much if you spit hate on his behalf."
But Beyoncé, in particular, remained silent. You think that if your fans misinterpreted a viral video of you and started sending death threats to someone, then you would like, I do not know, tell them to stop?
There is something wrong in celebrity culture when, on the one hand, fans are willing to send death threats to appease the feelings of a star. Second, the star does not say anything when his fans turn their enthusiasm into hate. What happened to Curran is no different from any other type of vicious cyberbullying.
"I've never experienced cyberbullying like this," Curran told ESPN. "I can not believe our players are going through that, that kids are going through that."
Beyoncé is a great artist, but she's not a goddess. Fandom is fun, but it's not a religion. And just as viewers have the responsibility of being nice online, Beyoncé also has a responsibility. It's time to tell his fans to hold on.
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