The “Drag Race” presenter has been on an intentional three-month hiatus on social media amid the COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter protests, but now that silence has become an absence.
There are 4.2 million people following RuPaul’s Instagram, but there are many more wondering what happened Wednesday night when all of the Drag Race host’s online social media presence simply disappeared.
While the Instagram account is still there, just stripped of all content, his Twitter account seems to have completely disappeared, as is his presence on Facebook.
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Due to how the sites are reportedly darkened, with many fans saying that their Instagram posts and tweets were seemingly removed one by one (before Twitter completely disappeared), it is speculated that perhaps Ru ‘had been hacked, although he did not There is confirmation and Ru ‘made no comment all day Thursday.
This comes immediately after a three-month hiatus on social media that has seen the drag queen absent since March amid the current COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests. That silence was no longer right with some fans.
Now that silence has become an absence, and fans must speculate on what it means. Without an official word from Ru ‘, all that remains are theories. Could it be as simple as cleaning the board to launch something important?
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There is a precedent for this, as Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus have done so in recent years, along with several other celebrities. Some just want a new beginning. Some may be trying to distance themselves from troubled pasts amid recent scrutiny of past content.
Some fans noted that Ru ‘is not the only prominent drag queen to go dark on social media. Former “Drag Queen” finalist Kameron Michaels has also purged her Instagram page, leading some to speculate that there might be a connection between the two movements.
Some fans report that Kameron also announced a hiatus for the plan on social media due to negative comments, so it could be a coincidence. Fans also noted that his profile picture is now black, but that could be a statement of BLM’s intentional solidarity.
While RuPaul may be absent from social media, you can still catch her with all her fabulous every week in VH1’s “Drag Race All Stars”.
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