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Hailey Bieber appears to have unfollowed Justin Bieber.
This is a strange case. One that seems to mirror an alleged miscreant unfollowing Hailey on her husband’s account,
Often, a public unfollow is a hint at marital troubles. But the Biebers keep working to quash divorce rumors.
So what does this mean? Fans could not help but notice that it came after (yet another) night of weird posts from Justin.
Who unfollowed whom?
Did Hailey Bieber unfollow her husband?
On Sunday, March 30, fans first noticed that Hailey’s Instagram account was no longer following Justin’s.
The timing of this apparent social media shift could be coincidence.
But, given his activities the night before, perhaps not.
See, on Saturday night, Justin had once again taken to his own Instagram page to post some content that many fans found worrisome.
Obviously, there were no complaints about him going shirtless. Or about him rapping to a new song.
However, some followers observed — with alarm — that the Biebs seemed to be swaying and displaying droopy eyelids in the posts. Given recent drug rumors and other worrisome videos, fans expressed understandable concerns.
Following that, Justin briefly deactivated his Instagram account.
Was it really just a glitch?
Justin’s brief deactivation seems like a likely culprit for why it appears that his own wife is no longer following him on Instagram. (At least, not as of Monday morning — though he still follows her)
According to Page Six, a source reported that the apparent unfollow was a “Meta glitch.” Not a glitch that was meta, but a glitch on the part of Meta, the company that runs Facebook, Instagram, and that chatting app that non-Americans often use instead of texting.
This alleged glitch happened when the Biebs “deactivated and then reactivated his account.”
Yes, if you’re messy or dramatic in a way that leads you to impulsively fiddle with the very existence of your social media account, it can cause problems. Especially if you have hundreds of millions of followers.
Just for the record, that idea that this is a glitch has a lot of credibility.
Plenty of people who follow Justin have checked their own Instagram accounts and seen that it does not show them as following him.
Hopefully, the resources that Meta is no longer expending on responsible moderation means that they can resolve this glitch sooner rather than later.
We should also point out that Hailey has gone out of her way to make it clear that she’s still interacting with her husband in very public social media comments. So, despite Justin’s corny behavior, all is apparently well. Or well enough.