Justin Bieber was the most hated child of the 2010s, here's how bad it got and how it almost cost his life. 🧵Thread:

Justin Bieber was the most hated child of the 2010s, here's how bad it got and how it almost cost his life. 🧵Thread:

Since Justin's early rise to fame, you could count as many dedicated haters, as dedicated fans. Not only young boys Justin's age, but grown men too were the first to terrorize him (online and in the real world too).

People critiziced his appearance, his voice, misgendered him, questioned his sexuality and depicted his death in the most creatively cruel ways.

From photoshopped pictures, to parody songs, online games to physically harm & unalive him, trends to mock his fans, and even real-world physical attacks.

When Justin made guest appearances on TV shows or movies, his character was always brutally beaten and/or shot to death.

The public simply loved fantasizing about horrible things happening to him since he was a kid, into his 20s, and you can still see it happen today. Everyone still loves cooking up conspiracy theories about him getting abused, not out of concern, but excitement.

As if what he went through in front of the whole world wasn't already enough, they need to keep feeding these theories to satisfy their long standing wish young Justin gets even more harmed

Beyond that, even before he got into any kind of trouble and the DUI arrest, people yearned to see him in a criminal light. His first times losing it with paparazzi, or any kind of faux pas, made international headlines as if it were actual crimes.

People had been waiting to see him spiral and fullfil the childstar curse of a trainwreck. Why? To make him finally "deserving" of the insane levels of harrassment they put him through since day 1.

Every detail of Justin's identity was torn apart on a global scale in a magnitude that no other kid has ever faced. He was the most googled person of 2010, and the most followed on every social media platform throughout his adolescence.

Despite adoration from mostly female fans, millions of records sold, and sold out world tours, Justin was his peers' (boys his age) #1 punching bag still.

By late 2012 to 2013 he suffered a drastic change in the way he presented himself and it came off rather inauthentic (because it was)

Obviously motivated by all the harrassment he faced for being 'too soft', and not 'masculine enough', he was trying really hard to rebrand into a polar opposite persona.

But far from being 'tough' he just came out like a bratty teenager and it just fueled the hate even more, with now apparent 'reasons' to justify it.

To this day people fail to recognize his 'bratty' behaviour as a direct response to the hate he faced as a child. Pre-puberty, growing up in the limelight, he was getting destroyed before he was given the chance to build himself a personality

Nothing he ever did was ever as scandalous or ill-intended as the public made it out to be, every misstep was blown out of proportion, out of context and twisted into a villain narrative where everyone forgot he was barely even of age.

Adults around Justin failed him, he was overworked, unprotected, with no emotional support, and given early access to drugs and places that no teenager should set foot in.

By 2014 he was completely swallowed by depression and 'became a shell of who he used to be' (his words). Security regularly checked his pulse at night to see if he was still alive.

Eventually, Justin wrote 'purpose' title track about this period of his life. And it was basically a su'icide letter turnt around. "Feeling like i'm breathing my last breath, Feeling like i'm walking my last steps"

By 2015 Justin had made the decision to turn around his life and become healthier. He made big progress, and went out of his way to apologize again and again for the mistakes that ultimately affected him the most.

In 2017 he cancelled the remaining dates of the purpose world tour for mental health reasons, after a string of incidents where he felt like he was a circus animal and that nobody wanted to connect on a human level and treat him as a person.

His life long battle with receiving bare-minimum decency to be treated and approached like a human being instead of either a God or a mannequin took an intense toil on his emotional well-being.

The message he wanted to share with his music, and the meaningful conversations he hoped it would evoke among fans was a lost case for the most part, he realized and it made him incredibly depressed. (once again).

People with a history of trauma like Justin have a long life battle with emotional baggage and his depression will sadly never completely fade.

Everyone loves to compare to other celebrities with tougher skin and impeccable social dynamics, but those people weren't in Justin's shoes and everyone has unique struggles. (Even before becoming famous)

Justin doesn't come from money or privilege, and his parents didn't give him any kind of resources, - emotional or otherwise - to navigate life. To the contrary, they were rather bad role models unfortunately.

In 2020 he revealed he suffers lyme disease, which causes a variety of mental and physical symptoms. He also had his face paralyzed in 2022. Chronic lyme is triggered by stress hormone cortisol, and so is paralysis.

He was never perfect and will never stop doing and saying the wrong thing sometimes, mostly out of ignorance or impulsiveness, but he was also never deserving of all the hate that was hurled at him and he will never be.

The consequences of what the world put him through will forever shape the way his body reacts to camera, flashing lights and mobs. His brain will never be the same while everyone who participated is free from all they did and all they said.

Meanwhile Justin is still tied to all the mistakes he made in the name of trying to be someone he was not, to appease the people wanting him dead every day of his developing years.