Why this zero interaction with fans?

[Othon 33,458]

6 hours ago, Helxig said:

I guess she's just learnt.

At the beginning of her career I feel like she was pretty jaded. She expected to just have a large group of loving supportive fans so she made it her mission to interact with them as much as she possibly could. But after years of being destroyed by the pressure to keep up the standard she had set, I feel like she cracked. After dealing with her mental health, and her drug use, she probably realised that she has to either take a step back, or be completely destroyed and lose her passion for being a pop star entirely.

I miss it too, I really do. But I think her fans, and her continuous effort to interact with and please them, really destroyed her between BTW and ARTPOP. She was trying to be more than human so she wouldn't let anyone down, but she's been hit with the harsh reality that she is human. And it's hitting us too.

She really tried for so many years, but we've just got to drop the expectations and realise that the standards she set for herself from 2008-2014ish were just too high for her to keep up with forever.

I’ve been saying this for years, but it still hurts every time I actually read the words spelled out like this. There’s a bit of an inherent tragedy in being Gaga fan that’s been around since the beginning. I get why she changed and I hope she’s healthier now, but god... It was so amazing being a fan back when she first started out. She cared so, so much. I know we need to, but it’s hard to admit that that sort of thing is really gone forever. 

[SDG91 373]

1 hour ago, OG Gaga Stan said:

I’ve been saying this for years, but it still hurts every time I actually read the words spelled out like this. There’s a bit of an inherent tragedy in being Gaga fan that’s been around since the beginning. I get why she changed and I hope she’s healthier now, but god... It was so amazing being a fan back when she first started out. She cared so, so much. I know we need to, but it’s hard to admit that that sort of thing is really gone forever. 

Yeah, I kind of get what you mean. I was there from the beginning, too. I remember being all excited because she followed me back on Twitter in 2009 

[giskardsb 12,565]

9 minutes ago, SDG91 said:

Yeah, I kind of get what you mean. I was there from the beginning, too. I remember being all excited because she followed me back on Twitter in 2009 

but then fans collected "Gaga follows" like some sort of trophy and used it as bragging rights and put in their profile. It was an ego thing for many of them that meant nothing in real life, and a symptom of how social media enhances the superficial.

[sethrb101 4,523]

9 hours ago, ryanripley said:

she just interacted with fans from paris and she still likes tweets and tweets ppl back

this fanbase has and still bullies her

people took heavy advantage of her (even lying about cancer) to try and meet her

she's a grown woman who has better things to do than sit on twitter all day

she has ptsd triggered by people touching her without her consent

she's changed cus she needed to

pick from the reasons above cus they're all true and if you think it's unfair well, life's unfair and then you die

personally idc for fan interaction that much. i'm here for her artistry, not her approval of me. her tickets are still cheap and her music is affordable and there's a lot to look forward too this side of the year

monsters who can't let go of the past seem to be the ones not enjoying her anymore

I agree with all of this. And like you said massive amounts of fan interaction is not necessary, and she still does it anyway. We as a community (and by we I mainly mean the gross underbelly) cannot take take take from her and expect to receive. She's human and has feelings of her own. She deserves privacy and respect. Especially when she already gives so much.

[ziggymoondust 116]

10 hours ago, Jaume said:

I see other artists being more grateful to their fans and I bet they have haters too but they're clever enough to not care.

Yeah now you can come for me... but I miss the old Gaga. Why can't we get some love from her from time to time? 

 

 

 

i feel like you meant ariana tweeting "i love u" everyday and how she tweets about everything including how gets dicked down LMAO

gaga is transitioning from joanne to a star is born and LG6. i guess thats the reason why shes quite to create a hype like always

[cvntdiva 58]

For me, I don't need her to be like she was back in the day bc I understand why we ****ed that up for ourselves and because she's older and doesn't have time for the bullshit. It just feels weird how it's one extreme to the other when she's in the middle of an album cycle and when she isn't. Like she doesn't even crack a smile walking past her fans in Paris these past days and looks like she's on auto-pilot when she does stop to take a selfie or sign an autograph. But then you think about how she was with us when she was doing Joanne promo and it's the exact opposite. I just don't know what to think...

p.s this fanbase is literally always being mean about something that most likely keeps her away from social media. For example, it's probably not fun logging on to all ur fans making fun of the man you love lol 

[hELXIG 42,983]

5 hours ago, OG Gaga Stan said:

I’ve been saying this for years, but it still hurts every time I actually read the words spelled out like this. There’s a bit of an inherent tragedy in being Gaga fan that’s been around since the beginning. I get why she changed and I hope she’s healthier now, but god... It was so amazing being a fan back when she first started out. She cared so, so much. I know we need to, but it’s hard to admit that that sort of thing is really gone forever. 

I also have a theory that at the beginning of her career she felt really alone and isolated. Money and fame isolated her from friends and family (we all know she had that period of not seeing her family much and not talking to her dad). Living in hotels and planes meant she was sitting around alone a lot of the time, feeling caged up. Lots of her team were probably always talking about work to her. So I imagine going out and talking to her fans for hours gave her an escape and some real human interaction. 

But now she has a much more stable life. The friends and family she keeps around are really close to her, she has a great team who are also friends to her, she has a house with a lot of outside space to keep her happy, she's not so popular and she looks different so she can walk around outside now and have human interactions (going to Starbucks etc.) So she doesn't need that interaction with her fans for hours to make her feel human and less depressed.

[Aga Gydal 3,158]

Online fandom has become more toxic over the years and pop stars who have been around long enough to notice the change prefer to stay away from the cacophony. 

Stan culture is killing engagement completely. 

[mariomania1234 11,368]

Umm what even. She interacts with fans all time? She was just taking pictures with fans on the streets of Paris. She was just saying Hi to a young fan on Twitter. Am I missing something?

[xehanort 100]

cause some stans are poison for her 

[malazam 15,710]

Valium.

[XimLG6 8]

 

It's easy, she is not interested in the little monsters, now she is a Taylor Swift, after her movie, she will become someone else.  You accept it Gaga is not the same as before.
It is so difficult to take the phone 5 minutes and write on twitter, monsters i love you.

She was better with her old boyfriend, this old man from Cristian is an opportunist

[XimLG6 8]

We need to establish communication with her.
It's true she could be sick inside, but how could we help her?
She publishes things on her twitter after she desapears.
When we want to approach to her, there are about 100 bodyguards.

what should we do to tell her that everything will be ok and that she do not worry.

[GypsyBabe 22,836]

Gaga gives more personal time with her fans than most in the business. She acknowledges them 99.9% of the time when she sees them. She stops and takes selfies and people’s letters and artwork and presents. I notice too that when she signs stuff, it usually has the persons name on it. That’s really genuine. Other stars don’t even bother looking at their fans when they see them in public. 

I don’t think she hates her fans at all, I think she hates the way they behave and interact online. All she sees on places like Twitter are her “fans” attacking and insulting other artists, bullying other fanbases, bullying her, making jokes about her dead aunt, insulting her boyfriend, berating her career choices, begging for new music like babies, and joking about her chronic illness. Why would she want to go online and interact with people like that? I wouldn’t. I wouldn't waste a moment of my time on people who are so against my value system. 

It’s unfortunate that really nice and loyal fans feel as though she doesn’t care. But the reality is that the toxic fans who say horrible things for likes and retweets have ruined it for the fanbase. She’s a human being. She has feelings. She is against bullying. She will remain detached from social media until things change, as she should. 

[Judas Society 3,584]

Err...have you guys forget that she still does her paws up in concerts and talk to the fans? Have they forgotten that she liked and replied a tweet from a monster a few days ago?

She's just not doing it like 2011 when Twitter was all about celebrities interacting with regular people. When she did, some toxic fans demanded more from her that they feel like she personally ignored them if she didn't notice them. 

I personally do not feel the constant need to be noticed by her. Of course I would like to meet her someday and thank her for BTW album, for how that album made me love myself. But if I don't get the chance, I'll be happy to know she is doing what she love and I can still enjoy her art. I became a monster because of her work and how she fights for LGBT rights in the beginning and now kindness and love in general.