There's a fine line between being a supportive fan and harassing the artist by being a little too enthusiastic and insensitive.
During her interview with her Boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers shared an unfortunate experience she had with some fans.
"I'm coming from a place of literally - I'm feeling it in my body as I'm saying it, but - people with my picture as their Twitter picture, who claim to like my music, f**king bullied me at the airport on the way to my father's funeral this year," she revealed.
The singer had to remind her fans that there's a time to fangirl and there are times to refrain from fangirling-like in her case, she was on her way to her father's funeral.
"If you're a kid and the internet somehow taught you that that's an okay thing to do," she continued. "Then, of course, I hate capitalism and everything that led you to believe that it's okay to do that."
"I, at one of the lowest points of my life, saw people who claim to love me f**king dehumanize me and shame me and f**king bully me on the way to my dad's wake."
Messed Up
Aside from being harassed on her way to the funeral, Bridgers also revealed that the fans talked about her father's death in an offensive manner.
"A lot of the top comments [were] like, 'Hey, her dad just died, what are you guys doing?'" She shared before directly talking to the so-called fans who wrote the comments, "I f**king hate you, and I hope you grow the fuck up."
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Part of the Job?
Artist experience rude fans all the time, and they also have to deal with the paparazzi invading their privacy.
Bridgers agreed that it's part of the job, however, that does not excuse the fans' behavior.
"I don't have to sit here and be f***ing grateful that that happened and that that's a part of my job," the singer explained how her friends helped her through it.
What was admiration before turned into something sinister and vile, something she can't and won't stand for.
"It doesn't have to be, and it wasn't five years ago, so I appreciate being able to look at two other people and be like, this is dehumanizing abuse, horrible s**t."
According to reports, this is not the first time Bridgers opened up about the offensive behavior of her fans.
"I want to normalize talking s**t about fans," she told Rolling Stone. "There's a way to be a fan without filming me without my permission behind the back of my head, chasing me down the street."
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