We definitely would all be angry. But that’s the difference between she and us. We are nobodies. We are the fans, and she’s the idol. We’re the employees and she’s the boss. We’re children and she’s the parent. She’s in control. We’re not. We’re playing by her rules. Give me one example where a celebrity treating her fans with anger and resentment ended well. Just one. There’s none. If we mess up, and we probably did at some point, she can’t just tell us to fuck off. This is not how it’s supposed to work, and not how it’s supposed to calm people down. It’ll just raise more anger, more insults, more name calling, more drama. It has been two days without pictures, people started to chill and forgive. How is that a good thing to set up this icon now?
Gillian keeps saying every time she can that she doesn’t read anything about her on social media and in the press, and doesn’t give a fuck. How is being that petty and angry not giving a fuck? If she really didn’t care, she would have never put this icon. But as she does seem to care, I do not think telling her own fans to fuck off is the solution. It never is. She used to talk to us, post messages on GAWS, genuine ones. She used to use words. Tell us what made her happy and what upset her, even when it was her fans’ behavior. People can understand words. When you get a thoughtful explanation on things telling you what you did wrong, and why that or this happened, you swallow back your anger and deal with it more easily. It’s human. When you’re upset and all you get is someone you love and admire telling you to fuck off, you just get more upset and that’s where boundaries start to be crossed.
She’s here now, on Tumblr, where the most part of her fandom is too. She has this wonderful social media tool allowing her a lot more than 140 characters to express her feelings in the best way, with words. But she keeps communicating with hidden petty messages. That is more than upsetting and disappointing. I understand her anger perfectly, but ours is valid too.