Phoebe Bridgers has a message for bullies who consider themselves her fans: Grow up

Phoebe Bridgers is understood for having a method with phrases, and he or she has a couple of selection ones for abusive followers.

The “Movement Illness” singer just lately opened up about a number of the much less savory sides of fame in an interview with Them, and her Boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker backed her up.

The paparazzi have been hounding Bridgers as she walked by means of a Los Angeles Worldwide Airport terminal with comic and “Promising Younger Girl” actor Bo Burnham this January. She had introduced the dying of her father with an Instagram submit days earlier than, and he or she was en path to his wake.

“I’m coming from a spot of actually — I’m feeling it in my physique as I’m saying it, however — individuals with my image as their Twitter image, who declare to love my music, f— bullied me on the airport on the best way to my father’s funeral this 12 months,” she revealed.

Rumors of her late-2022 break up from “Regular Individuals” actor Paul Mescal had been floating round for a couple of months when the airport pictures with Burnham went viral.

Fans had been (too?) invested in the Bridgers-Mescal pairing, per the Daily Beast, since witnessing their blooming love story via a 2020 Instagram live video — preserved on YouTube — where Mescal interviewed Bridgers. Their chemistry was reportedly palpable.

It was the pandemic, people were locked inside their homes, and there was a love story happening remotely right before their eyes.

So when the “I Know the End” singer was spotted alongside Burnham, Bridgers said, her father’s passing didn’t stop fans from ruthlessly responding.

A quick search for “Phoebe Bridgers Bo Burnham” on Twitter pulls up an endless feed of social media comments condemning the two together, complete with gifs of people gagging and screaming.

“When you’re a child and the web someway taught you that that’s an OK factor to do, then after all I hate capitalism and all the pieces that led you to imagine that it’s OK to try this,” Bridgers stated. “I, at one of many lowest factors of my life, noticed individuals who declare to like me f— dehumanize me and disgrace me and f— bully me on the best way to my dad’s wake.”

Within the movies of the 2 on the airport, Bridgers is heard asking somebody off-camera to please go away her alone.

“It’s not like they didn’t know my dad simply died,” she continued. “Loads of the highest feedback [were] like, ‘Hey, her dad simply died, what are you guys doing?’”

“I f— hate you,” Bridgers stated to those that harassed her but in addition use her face as a profile photograph on-line, “and I hope you develop the f— up.”

Fortunately, Bridgers stated most people she encounters “mild up her life” and remind her what she loves about her job. However she doesn’t have to smile and bear it in relation to dangerous habits from followers.

“My two greatest mates” — her bandmates — “are serving to me with the boundary of I don’t have to take a seat right here and be f— grateful that that occurred and that that’s part of my job. It doesn’t should be, and it wasn’t 5 years in the past, so I recognize having the ability to have a look at two different individuals and be like, that is dehumanizing abuse, horrible s—.”

“It’s abuse,” Dacus confirmed. “We’ve talked about this to ourselves, however I’m glad you’re gonna say it to individuals who really need to listen to it.”

Boygenius dropped their debut album, “The Report,” on Friday by means of Interscope Information.