They went from the A-list to the naughty record.
Some celebrities are completely happy to have fun an finish to 2024 — after indiscretions, scandals or controversies prompted them to lose a whole bunch of hundreds of followers on Instagram final yr.
Lizzo topped probably the most canceled record, seeing her followers dwindle by 6.7% — or 84,298 — in keeping with search engine marketing platform Ahrefs, which in contrast the variety of followers of over 100 celebrities on the finish of the yr with what number of they’d on Jan. 1, 2024.
The “Truth Hurts” rapper’s repute has been struggling 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.”
In March, she made issues worse by acting at a re-election fundraiser for President Biden, and was criticized by her dancers’ lawyer, who known as her look “shameful” and “a terrible look.”
The Grammy winner took to Instagram to clap again on 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.”
In August she introduced that she was taking a much-needed break from the business. “I’m taking a gap year & protecting my peace,” she wrote alongside a video of herself in a washing go well with, noticeably slimmed-down.
Jack Harlow noticed the second-worse drop in Instagram followers, down 6.4% or 445,263.
The 26-year-old rapper broke into the music scene with the 2020 launch of his single “Whats Poppin,” which earned him a Grammy nomination. In 2021, he made Forbes’ 30 Beneath 30 record and in 2022, even hosted “Saturday Night Live.”
Nonetheless, in 2023, transgressions started piling up.
In April of that yr, he turned heads by releasing a tune known as “Gang Gang Gang,” centered round him studying that two of his childhood associates had been accused of rape and pedophilia.
That summer time, he was criticized for cultural appropriation after he was photographed sporting a silk bonnet, which resembled one black ladies put on, to a soccer recreation.
That fall, he was additionally accused of being homophobic after a tune he recorded with Kayne West was leaked. The observe, “Louie Bags,” had lyrics about his pal and fellow rapper Lil Nas X, who’s homosexual, saying he “would f–k me if I let him.”
Academy Award winner Brie Larson landed in third, shedding 279,494 or 3.9% of her Instagram followers.
The controversy surrounding Larson, 35, began when she performed the lead in 2019’s “Captain Marvel,” the primary female-led solo film within the Marvel Universe — and was bashed by followers of the franchise, who weren’t completely happy when she mentioned its press occasions had been “overwhelmingly white male.”
She obtained criticized for issues like “her line delivery, that she wasn’t muscular enough for a superhero, and of course, that she didn’t smile enough” within the movie, in keeping with ScreenRant — and there was even a petition to get her faraway from the position.
In 2023, Larson reprised her position in “The Marvels” — thought-about the largest box-office flop of the yr, shedding Disney an estimated $237 million — and YouTubers created a number of movies bashing her.
Larson has no time for the haters, and doesn’t Google herself. “I have genuinely never needed to look at the internet to explain to me who I am,” she advised Selection.
Camila Cabello misplaced 2,149,343 of her Instagram followers, or 3.2%, this yr.
The singer, 27, began going through warmth on-line as early as 2019, after screenshots had been posted on Twitter of her utilizing the N-word and making jokes about black and Asian stereotypes on her since-deleted Tumblr account.
The “Shameless” songstress issued an apology, however the Cuban native added insult to harm this summer time, when she determined to contain herself within the extremely publicized and longtime feud between rappers Drake — whom she collaborated with on the tune “Hot Uptown” — and Kendrick Lamar.
Actress Alexandra Daddario tied for fifth place with Cardi B, each seeing a 2.7% lower of their Instagram followers this yr.
Daddario, 38, who noticed a lack of 644,822 followers, wasn’t concerned in any apparent controversy, though she did take to social media in 2022 to defend Meghan Markle from haters.
Cardi B, 32, noticed her following drop by a staggering 4,489,848.
The rapper, who campaigned for Kamala Harris, ruffled feathers following the November presidential election, after she posted a scathing video with a warning for Trump supporters: “Y’all need to leave me the f–k alone. Because I got one more f–ing cigarette in me before I start lighting your asses up. Aight?”
Rounding out the record are pop star Shawn Mendes, who occurs to be Cabello’s ex; rapper Unhealthy Bunny; actress Zendaya; Brazilian comic Whindersson Nunes, and Khloe Kardashian.
The celeb who misplaced probably the most Instagram followers by quantity, not proportion, was Selena Gomez, whose following decreased by a staggering 6,261,182.
The singer and “Only Murders in the Building” star began rubbing her followers the flawed means in Dec. 2023, after she confirmed she was relationship her now-fiancé, producer and songwriter Benny Blanco.
Her followers took to social media to present their harsh opinions of her new relationship, criticizing his appears to be like and saying she may do higher.
Gomez, 32, who introduced her engagement to Blanco, 36, final month, publicly commented in regards to the hate she acquired concerning her companion.
“My own fans, who I adore and feel like have shaped who I am, will say the most hurtful things to me about how I live my life,” she advised Time in Might.
