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Billie Eilish lost 100k followers after coming out (www.thepinknews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Billie Eilish has lost a whopping 100,000 Instagram followers since coming out last month and sharing she was attracted to women.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How is it news that she lost less than 0.1% of her followers?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m encouraged that the percentage was that low.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The percentage was low, but 100k people is still a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Probably a lot of them were bots

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I kinda thought something similar, but in a way I think there's some value in observing homophobia in a community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Yes, but it's just not statistically significant. Unless we see longer-term trends of her follow count, this could easily be a random fluctuation, bot crackdown, etc.