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Originally posted by WIG-SNATCHER
From experience, however, shading Rihanna is much more fun than shading Beyonce. The BeyHive takes everything to heart and will drag your family AND friends, for making a simple joke about Bey. Rihanna stans usually laugh with you and throw their own little shade. Some Beyonce stans are so aggressive and insecure sometimes.
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You have to understand the Hive's history to know why they go at people so aggressively and so forcefully. It goes all the way back to 1999. When DC hacked two girls and replaced them with 2 unknowns and hacked one of the unknowns in 6 months, the media, the fans, haters, they all blamed Beyoncé for the rotations. It wasn't Bey's fault. She never wanted that. These were two girls she grew up with. Her best friends. Her sisters. She never wanted them to split. I'm not going to go into the specifics, but yeah. Everyone blamed her for those things. The media lashed back at her, but in returned, she gave everyone Survivor. Happy happy happy.
Fastforward to 2006. New sound, new album, new Beyoncé... People weren't so pleased with it.
They weren't as accepting to this new sound of her lead single. They didn't like a more "racy" Beyoncé. So, what do the haters do? They make a petition for her to rerecord the video in the disguise as fans, which in turn gets to Bey and she denied that petition. And her real fans make a petition against that petition. Then comes along Dreamgirls. She was one of the major stars of the movie, but haters again, went to her messageboards, on youtube, on the Academy messageboard, on so many places on the internet, they were rampant, spewing hate and all this other stuff. Then to add salt to the wounds, her domestic singles didn't fare so hot on the charts. That gave the haters even more fuel to add to the fire, especially on her message board and on her Youtube videos. They were trolling and making hate threads about her in her very own messageboard. Rihanna fans then popped up on the board, trolling and pitting her against Rihanna, making hateful Bey threads, praising Rihanna's success, bashing Bey in various threads. Then comes the Jay-Rihanna affair rumors. This is just a small piece of what was happening in 2006-2007. Everyone wanted to rip at her matted lacefront and get reckless. So in turn, the Hive fought back, very aggressively and very viciously.
I was one of those members, mainly on youtube, fighting and fighting almost every single person who stanned for another female artist in the industry. I don't necessarily agree with what some of the Hive does, but there certainly is a reason why they are the way they are. They protect and defend Bey to no ends. She's a sweetheart, she ignores the negativity and hate that gets thrown her way. But stans see everything. They read so much into every single line and every single word. And them knowing that she's just never gonna address anything, never going to say anything negative about ANYONE, they take it upon themselves to do so and most of them don't take any prisoners.