Bluesky beams at Lizzo, her gaze unwavering from the tranquil blue horizon. As a flood of ex-X users migrate to the burgeoning social media sanctuary post the 2024 election upheaval, Lizzo, the chart-topping artist behind "About Damn Time," revealed on November 13th, Wednesday, that she too had embarked on this digital odyssey – and disclosed her motivations with candor.
In an Instagram post featuring a mirror selfie that flaunted her pristine white bathrobe, Lizzo penned in her caption, her frustration palpable, "I hate the internet." She further elaborated, her Grammy accolades gleaming in the backdrop, "Regardless, I've joined Bluesky, bidding adieu to toxicity in 2024," accompanied by a Story update tagged "#TheGreatMigration."
Lizzo, who hadn't ventured into the realm of X (formerly Twitter) since September 2023, redirected her loyalists to her nascent Bluesky profile, already abuzz with a series of vibrant posts. Her inaugural message read, "I was once Lizzo'd into oblivion, but never again shall I suffer such fate," swiftly followed by, "Wait… has the joy of the internet been rekindled?"
Bluesky has welcomed a surge of over a million fresh faces in the week following Donald Trump's victory against Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, a result that Lizzo and a constellation of musicians had passionately contested. Elon Musk, who acquired Twitter from Bluesky's founder Jack Dorsey and cohorts for $44 billion in 2022, before rebranding it as X, has long championed the incoming president. The twice-impeached leader recently entrusted Musk, the Tesla titan, and Vivek Ramaswamy as co-helms of the nascent Department of Government Efficiency.
Despite her two-year hiatus from X, Lizzo's digital footprint remained vibrant on Instagram and TikTok. Post-election, she posted an Instagram video of herself scripting a heartfelt message, "Sending LOVE to everyone in the WORLD," on a scrap of paper. When the former NFL star Antonio Brown cracked a joke about her pen grip resembling "how she administers her Ozempic shot," the Yitty maven countered with a gallery of swimsuit snapshots, captioning, "Holding life like an Ozempic pen… with grace and defiance."
