How Selena Gomez slayed Justin Bieber on Instagram

How Selena Gomez slayed Justin Bieber on Instagram

September 22, 2017 by Jessie Mendoza

Justin Bieber’s millions of fans were offended when he threatened to make his account private on Aug. 13, because some Beliebers made nasty comments on  his series of photos with the young model, Sofia Richie, who is rumored to be his current girlfriend.

On the sixth and last picture which shows Justin and Sofia inside a car, Justin posted this message:

I’m gonna make my Instagram private if you guys don’t stop the hate this is getting out of hand, if you guys are really fans you wouldn’t be so mean to people that I like

 

Justin Bieber with Sofia Richie (Image Credit: @justinbieber IG)

That final picture in the series had 1.2 million likes and more than 550,000 comments. Among those more than half a million comments are from Justin’s ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez.

(Image Credit: @selenagomez IG)

Rising to the defense of Justin’s fans, Selena posted the following comment:

If you can’t handle the hate then stop posting pictures of your girlfriend lol – it should be special between you two only. Don’t be mad at your fans. They love you. They were there for you before anyone.

The social media exchange between the ex-lovers didn’t end there. Fans screengrabbed what were supposedly replies from Justin, after Selena’s comment. Justin wrote:

It’s funny to see people that used me for attention and still try to point the finger this way. Sad. All love.

I’m not one for anyone receiving hate. Hope u all can be kind to my friends and each other. And yes I love my beliebers

As if the exchange wasn’t heated enough, Selena posted another comment that will probably go down in online history as one of the best ripostes to an ex-boyfriend:

Funny how the ones that cheated multiple times, are pointing the finger at the ones that were forgiving and supportive, no wonder fans are mad. Sad. All love.

And for her parting shot, Selena had this to say:

I’m done here, I have a whole bunch of cute fan mail to read.

(Image Credit: @ecnr1989)

Though Justin and Sofia have maintained that they are just friends, a lot of Beliebers think that Justin should be left alone as to who he likes to date.

A fan of Justin with username @coldwaterbiebs thinks that Justin’s first comment was directed towards celebrity blogger and columnist Perez Hilton.

When Justin threatened to make his Instagram private, Perez reportedly commented with:

Do it! I think you should make it private and also take a long break from all social media!

Some agree with @coldwaterbiebs’ opinion that Justin’s comment about someone using him for attention was meant for Perez and not Selena. But others think both of the comments were for Selena. Judge for yourself with this post by @coldwaterbiebs:

(Image Credit: @coldwaterbiebs IG)

At this point though, whoever Justin was addressing his comments to, may just be water under the bridge.

Selena has made her point and probably even took a dig at Justin’s attitude towards his fans in a series of posts on her own Instagram account.

The Queen of Instagram (Selena tops IG with 94.8M followers) posted three photos essaying her love for her fans. One post showed a collage of pictures showing Selena interacting with her fans on different occasions.  She captioned it with the following words:

My whole life. You matter most. Thank you for letting me do what I love every day.

(Image Credit: @selenagomez IG)

The collage received 2.2 million likes as of this writing but comments were disabled for the post.

Another photo of Selena smiling and reaching out to a fan while she’s on stage was captioned with “My entire heart”.

The third in the series showed Selena smiling beside a special child who was obviously enjoying her time with the pop star.

The repartee on social media of Justin and Selena gained worldwide attention and was on top of Twitter’s top trending list with hashtags #SelenaEndedJustinParty and #SelenaEndingJustinParty.

Recommended For You

Featured Stories

Topics