Selena Gomez got a rough meme treatment after some of her reactions at the 2023 VMAs went viral, and now she’s fighting back.
She’s definitely not happy with the internet right now.
Selena Gomez knows better than almost anybody that becoming the internet’s latest meme sensation can be a double-edged sword. Just last month, she joined in on the fun when a photo of her in a blanket became meme gold, but she’s not feeling the meme treatment that she got during the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards. After a pair of negative reaction shots of Gomez went viral during the VMAs, the superstar vowed she would never become a meme again, saying she was being “dragged for being herself.”
The first incident was captured at the beginning of the awards ceremony. The MTV cameras caught a shot of Gomez appearing to cover one of her ears during Olivia Rodrigo’s performance of “vampire.
