Lizzo is addressing what caused her to leave Twitter once and for all.
As fans know, the "Truth Hurts" musician took to the platform on Sunday night (January 5) to announce her break from the app for good. "Yeah I can’t do this Twitter s—t no more.. too many trolls," Lizzo tweeted. "I’ll be back when I feel like it." While the pop star didn't elaborate her reasons for leaving Twitter at the time, after an Instagram Live she held for fans the day after, it's all beginning to make a lot more sense.
"I just want to say that I, you know, I just took a DNA test and it turns out I quit Twitter. I quit Twitter. I’m off it. All social media is not created equal," the "Good as Hell" singer told fans on the stream, according to JustJared. “I would love to be on Twitter ’cause I could connect with you people who positively support me … not to mention spreading my own positive messages. But now I’ve gotten to a point where I’m not just dealing with Internet bullies, I’m dealing with seeing a lot of negativity on the Internet dealing with everyone.”
With the added criticism she receives about her image and her body weight, paired with what seems to be everyday negativity online, Lizzo says Twitter hasn't brought her much peace recently. "When I see how, not just insensitive, but hateful and hurtful we are towards each other—when I just log on every day and see something devastating and something tragic every single day," she added. "Even from my well of positivity, I feel it and it doesn’t feel good."
Despite Lizzo's rocky start to the new year, she has a lot of excitement to look forward to with the upcoming 2020 Grammys, where she's the most-nominated artist with eight nods in total this year.
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