heโs literally about to go on tour.. his tour starts in TWO DAYS.. so can someone PLEASE make it make sense how deliberately deactivating his own instagram and pretending he got hacked would benefit him in ANY way right now?? ๐ญ
like do these ppl fr think ben went,
โhmmmโฆ i need more attention immediately before my tour, so Iโm going to deliberately remove one of the accounts through which I can turn attention into actual tour promotion.. YES! that will do it!โ
like do you not see just how STUPID and NONSENSICAL that sounds??
like people i beg.. letโs put our braincells to good use here..
this is quite literally one of the WORST possible times for him to voluntarily make one of his main social media accounts disappear.. heโs been consistently posting on there and now, two days before his tour starts, he suddenly loses the ability to use an account with 72k followers to promote it, post reminders, share dates, ticket links, repost venues, post rehearsals, countdowns, tour updates etc..
and before anyone goes โwell he still has tiktokโ.. YES?? ๐ญ nobody said instagram is the only platform he has.. he actually has more followers on tiktok than he does on his main instagram AND he has the mylovestaysontour instagram account too, although that has significantly fewer followers..
BUT you do realise that his audiences across those accounts are NOT necessarily the exact same group of people, right?? there are people who follow him exclusively on instagram.. people who follow him exclusively on tiktok.. people who follow both.. people who probably donโt even know the tour account exists..
having more followers on tiktok doesnโt magically transport all 72k people following his main instagram over there ๐ญ if someone follows ben on instagram but doesnโt follow his tiktok or the tour account, then while his main account is unavailable, he has lost that direct way of reaching that person.. THATโS the point..
and if anything, the fact that he has multiple platforms makes deliberately removing one of them even MORE pointless if the supposed motive is promoting his tour ๐ญ because wouldnโt you want ALL of them available?? tiktok + his main instagram + the mylovestaysontour instagram acc. gives him more opportunities to reach people than tiktok + the smaller tour account..
and again.. people keep saying โattentionโ like that word alone somehow explains the motive but WHAT attention is he actually gaining from this??
that he got YOU to talk about some more about him?? that you made another post calling him an attention seeker and saying he supposedly did this to sell more tickets?? okay.. and then WHAT???
how does YOU talking about him translate into him selling more tickets?? where is the connection between โbenโs instagram disappearedโ and โtherefore iโm going to spend money to see ben on tourโ??
like congratulations i guess?? you talked about him.. the same people who already talk about him practically non stop and about everything he does.. are talking about him AGAIN.. how does that materially benefit him??
attention isnโt some magical currency where every mention of someone automatically turns into money, streams, new fans or ticket sales.. especially when a huge portion of this supposed โattentionโ is literally people who already dislike him calling him an attention seeker and accusing him of faking being hacked..
most normal/casual followers probably have absolutely NO idea any of this discourse is even happening.. unless youโre actively in these fandom spaces watching people discuss his account, you might not even know what happened.. you might just notice his account isnโt there, IF you happen to look for it..
meanwhile, the one place where he could actually turn attention from his instagram followers towards something useful for his career is.. HIS INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT.. THE ACCOUNT HE NOW DOESNโT HAVE..
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