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Doja Cat Feels ‘Free’ Since Losing 500k Instagram Followers

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0:00 even crazier is if you go into patreon you can see how long people have been giving money in the exact amount over time so you can go on someone like like Kong like we see Kong on there that fool's racked up like thousands of dollars of patreon we're like really it's like he can actually say without me you ain't keeping the JK lights on yeah yeah you're the only one man [Music] you guys been seeing uh what's going on with doji cat lately no what's happening bro well not not physically not like that I remember the red suit she had on that was pretty crazy what was the red suit got a whole like red diamond type of suit she wore was it like the Sam Sam Smith red she gets in trouble a lot so let's show us show us yeah people get mad at her yeah this thing whoa pineapple juice

0:51 yeah it's pretty crazy interesting that's wild interesting you like it not really no what is the theme what's the theme Chinese New Year she's trying to be a red packet yeah she's trying to be her a red envelope She's Somebody's gift so right now she's she's been doing something lately that I actually think is is pretty cool drugs no not drugs what's she doing but uh equally is interesting so um she's probably one of the first major celebrities that I've seen do this where like she's basically losing following on purpose that's cool wait she's doing that for sure she's the one responding to people yeah so like uh she says so she's got a fandom they call themselves

1:42 kittens the same way that like the BTS people call themselves Army right and then she says if you call yourself a kitten or ████ kittens that means you need to get off your phone and get a job and help your parents with the house she doesn't enjoy the fandom at this level and she's uh she's like you guys make the worst fans get the ████ out of here get a job so far she's lost more than half a mil Instagram followers and she says she's never felt like more free like because somebody was even saying to her like how dare you like uh I guess they were saying I love you and she was like I don't love you guys I don't even know you and then they were like on a fire like the fans were starting to say for someone to say that yeah and then the fans were even saying uh like how dare you speak like that to us you would be nothing without us see that's hilarious too entitlement from like fans like that

2:33 and it's it's finally like a celebrity that's actually in the mainstream that's willing to say I don't give a ████ I don't know you it's pretty crazy that is pretty wild yeah she's saying she says here seeing all these people unfollow makes me feel like I've defeated a large beast that's been holding me down for so long and it feels like I can reconnect with the people who really matter and love me for who I am and not for who I was whoa yeah pretty cool it's like fighting against the industry that's the fact because I'm sure there's like a weird level of stardom that some people get where their fans almost want to like I don't say control you but they have almost too much investment well they also don't like when you change and she's been she changes a lot you know is that what like doji cat doesn't look the same way that she did earlier but like so what you know oh people were getting mad at her for like how she changed her appearance they get they'll get mad at

3:23 you because you're not who they followed like originally yeah hardcore fans be about that too and because they also like their whole world will revolve around that fandom so they might like you know their friends know them as a fan of this person and then so I subscribe to this person but if this person changes into something that may be like oh wait a minute I normally wouldn't be a fan they feel like they've been threatened in some way too by the things that they've already you know shared in terms of the interest so that's why so many like and this we we talked about this before this happens in like the K-pop industry a lot too right that's why they have to be a certain way they can't tell people about their relationships because the second they're like oh I actually have a girlfriend it's like all those little girly fans will suddenly be like wait a minute right you betrayed us you're supposed to be yeah you're supposed to be my husband and it's it's just like uh Jackson Wang's fans tripping over Anthony when he was interviewing them like dude it's just friends talking they think they're

4:14 protecting Jackson they're protecting it but like from the snake and then uh Jojo cat says uh my theory is that if someone has never met me in real life then subconsciously I'm not real to them so when people become engaged with someone they don't even know they kind of take ownership over that person they think that person belongs to them they don't treat them like a human anymore they don't see him I think that's the main thing he's like treat them like another human at least yeah for sure that's true yeah I mean we felt that on a smaller scale too where we had weird fans like that would say they're hardcore fans and then like some drama happens and stuff and then like they immediately turn pick sides cause more issues rumors right and it's like when a lot of those weird ones left it became a way better Channel like

5:04 comments but got better like everything got so much better I agree because I like the people that that talk to us that are fans they talk to us like people they'll just send they'll send a stupid video and be like hey what you think about this ████ and I'll be like that's tight and I'll talk to them like we're just people like nothing that crazy but in this level it's like you think at that height you have to be more careful about it but she's actually being less careful and being like ████ it because she says when a person changes drastically there's a shock response that is almost uncontrollable I've accepted that that's what happens I have all the freedom in the world and that's probably her thing it's like if she wants to be who she is and she changes and everybody gets shocked and starts giving her ████ she doesn't have to take that but it's also funny that she is right about she shouldn't be your world yeah for real she's like yeah I'm just entertainment right that's what I actually love about her because it's

5:54 like she's not also so full of herself where some entertainers feel like god-like yeah yeah and I can see why because every they're surrounded by yes people they have people worshiping them whatever in her case she's like go get a ████ job you loser I'm not the most important thing don't worry about me dude it's like like my music like my ████ okay but then go on with your lives and do stuff yeah imagine being a fan of her and she says all that stuff and you take it so personal or you unfollower and be like I hate her now like that's also a weird flip that's weird yeah right like you shouldn't care about someone else that much you should be worrying about you affected by somebody that you've never met definitely her fan pages with the highest amount of followings have deleted themselves oh damn pretty ████ cool I wonder how many of them are actually didn't that work didn't that affect like the the

6:45 income a lot too as far as like she might be too big at this point yeah she's she I'm sure she yeah maybe the despair the disparity is negligible at that amount yeah and also too it's like sometimes you gotta shed some fans maybe that's gonna give her a new life like it and it is it is a new type of news it's a new type of headline for like the dog is that big and on top of that too it's like you don't hear when you're in that place of power you never hear anyone saying hey you know it's mad funny I love my fans I love you guys and you have you have all the reasons to not do that just to let you guys know stop watching JK news go get a ████ job and watch us at your work yeah yeah yeah while you make money get a job so you can get on patreon the funniest thing would be if this starts a trend and all these artists start to say ████ my fans I hate you go get a job do you all think it's gonna like work for them positively too how many of those fans you think

7:35 actually said you know what I am a ████ loser I need to get a job I don't know man I really don't I don't know how that works that's a lot of influence I think these artists are getting just tired because like a fans throwing things on stage just being oh dude the disrespect disrespect now for performers it's like I'm I'm here entertaining you this is essentially a show um there's a boundary that's been crossed I think more so now than ever maybe because social media did close in the Gap because before social media like they were actual like Gods like Superstars were Superstars they were unreachable you can't talk to them like without getting through some middle person or whatever and it was like a huge like mystery behind it all right and they weren't always under the

8:26 Limelight yeah with every ████ thing they did you know what I mean social media is just now if you're if you're like a celebrity celebrity on your social media you're just everywhere your whole your ████ moms in social media like one little thing and it's just like a trickle effect you could tweet something and seven years later dude trouble for it you know like you didn't say sorry to this person oh my God that's true yeah he gets ████ dug up from like way back yeah this is why you gotta do the live streams where yeah you do the NPC stuff that's what that that's the new wave dude I love those ice cream so good this isn't a similar thing but um but it makes me think about it I remember when like Lady Gaga right obviously when she came up into her like pop stardom and stuff like the things that she was doing the way she was doing it was so unique so much Flash and Pizzazz and Flair things that she was wearing the way that she was dressing

9:17 and acting like it was very over the top right and it built a fandom but at the same time the second she got to a place of success she like took a break and decided to go back to like Broadway and sing in like smaller shows and jazzy piano and like doing things that she really really was about because she like found success from it and I feel like that's kind of like sometimes the most ideal approach like in the way that the fan was kind of correct and being like don't you cat you wouldn't be here if it wasn't for us like they're kind of right you know what I mean but at the same time when you as a fan give somebody that power they have the right to use that power you know what I'm saying like you already gave it to them so if they have like a a specific life that they actually want to lead after having been given such fandom from people it's like all the power to them regardless if you end up staying a fan of them or not you know what I mean like you gave them the money like let them make the choices you gave them the attention let them make

10:08 their deal what happened to allowing not allowing but people are allowed to change regardless just as human beings but celebrities aren't because we're just you know we place them on this pedestal of like this is the identity that I uh became a fan of and therefore you're not allowed to change outside that Spectrum but as a human you're like I I want to change through different phases of my life sure and you should be allowed to right it's natural I don't even know if people are allowed to change now because they'll pull up a tweet 20 years ago that you said and then they'll put that against you and be like good you said you'd never change it's so simple you said that once you probably still mean it that's why absolutely you worked with her before right didn't you say you had a shoot with Doja cat oh no no no no no do a Lipa do a Libra do a Libra I don't think dual people would say that to her fans probably not she probably

10:59 wouldn't have to yeah she wouldn't but that's like the difference is that when you say like if let's say you were talking to your fans and you said like I would I wouldn't be here without you I don't think that's talking to every kind of fan I think some fans you would still be here yeah yeah especially like the toxic ones like you could do without them I think and I don't think it would hurt you that much because I think that's a small but very loud percentage yeah they're talking about all the fans from all over the years yeah who came and went but also gave time to share that experience yeah there's still a lot not one ████ that's obsessed and die hard and stalkerish yeah yeah there's still a lot of people support your products you think one ████ and stalker is gonna make their career like shut up bro just like JK like how many people sometimes will comment for the first time in like 13 years and they'll be like hey I've never

11:49 said anything but thanks for still being around you know what's cool on the um account Channel like login end we can see next to their name how many years they've been subscribed and some of them are like 12 years 13 14 like and so I know if they're lying because they'll be like I've been watching for over a decade and I'm scrolling over I'm like that's been eight years liar to your shorts even crazier is if you go into patreon you can see how long people have been giving money in the exact amount over time so you can go on someone like like Kong like we see Kang on there that fool's racked up like thousands of dollars of patreon he can actually say without me you ain't keeping the JK lights on yeah yeah you're the only one man thank you so much you're right we love you

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