Hardest fandom moment?

[Super 1,041]

2025-2023 i guess

[StrawberryBlond 14,929]

2013 was the worst, that's going to be difficult to top. It just felt like everyone was against her and we were desperately scrabbling for proof that she wasn't flopping or hated. Everything seemed to be going wrong and that entire era was so misunderstood in a deliberate way from the public that it was infuriating. I genuinely wondered if, as much as I didn't want it to be true, if this was the end of Gaga's career as a major league artist, if she was just going to be fall away and become niche and ultimately looked back on as a flash in the pan. Thank God she changed management and got back on her feet to become bigger and better than ever. If you'd told me at the time that, in 5 years time, she'd be playing the lead role in a movie that would have one of the most successful soundtracks of all time and the lead single would be a massive smash that would break records and she'd almost win an acting Oscar, I would never have believed you. It just goes to show that Gaga's talent will shine through and the cream always rises to the top. 

Aside from that, 2010 was also a bit of a tumultuous time because that was when Gaga was at her ultimate peak and when some artists are in that space, tragic things can happen. She had a stalker who threatened to shoot her who she had to get a restraining order against and when we thought she had lupus, I was afraid she would actually die young. I was so worried that she was going to be one of those artists who died at 27. And also, in late 2016-2017, when she was going through fibro and cancelling those concert dates (with a tour that didn't even feel like something she'd usually do), I feared that she'd never perform again like how she used to. And personally, I wasn't keen on the Chromatica era. Aside from the smash of ROM, that era promised a lot but didn't deliver much and let's be real, if it hadn't been for ROM, that era would've been a total write-off and we might not have even got a tour out of it. It seemed that so many fans loved it and I felt a bit left out so I'm thrilled to be truly back in the fold with Mayhem.