“There’s nothing worse than a bully you b***h,” one TikTok user recently commented on a video of the 26-year-old model Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin). It seems that this user hated bullying so much that they wrote the same message, accompanied by a plethora of other similarly imaginative insults, beneath nearly everything Hailey has ever posted, going back years. The comments are written without a hint of irony or self-awareness—instead, this user truly believes they’re in the right. And it’s all done, according to them, in defense of their “queen”: the 30-year-old pop star Selena Gomez.
Over the last few weeks, the Internet has been abuzz with people proudly labeling themselves as either “Team Selena” or, in the clear minority, “Team Hailey.” (#TeamSelena has 1.8 billion views on TikTok, while #TeamHailey has just about 10 percent of that.) If you’re not up to date on the drama between these two women, lucky you. Now let me fill you in.
