Avani Gregg speaks out after fan gets death threats over Twitter joke YouTube: Avani[jwplayer ksH6zuKH]TikTok star Avani Gregg is hitting back at critics after one of her fans purportedly received death threats, which came about as the result of an unfortunate bandwagon Twitter trend that took place in her comment section. In the age of social media, it\u2019s easy to get lost and fall behind when it comes to jokes, memes and trends \u2014 particularly when those trends are all within your own fanbase and happen at lightspeed. Such an instance occurred for TikTok star Avani Gregg on August 25. The drama began after one of her fans called out the influencer for appearing to play favorites among her viewerbase in a bitter tweet. \u201cHi, so me and thousands of your fans are upset with you,\u201d the viewer wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s okay that you like her, but some times you don\u2019t even pay attention to other fans. That makes us very sad and unmotivated. There are other people besides her.\u201d Gregg\u2019s fanbase quickly made a meme out of the fan\u2019s comment, filling up the TikToker\u2019s replies with the copy\/pasted message. Gregg herself even got in on the trend \u2014 although, as it all happened so quickly and she didn\u2019t see the original tweet, she didn\u2019t actually know what it was all about. Shortly thereafter, the fan who had originally posted the comment began to receive death threats and other hurtful messages, leading some viewers to lash out at Gregg for reposting the meme. \u201cY\u2019ALL ACT LIKE I KNOW WTF IS GOING ON,\u201d Gregg hit back at critics. \u201cI thought it was a joke toward Amelie, not towards that girl. NOW I\u2019M GETTING BLAMED? How tf was I supposed to know when I didn\u2019t see the original tweet?\u201d https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CEXnEGEnC22\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link \u201cY\u2019all need to stop,\u201d she continued. \u201cIf it\u2019s getting out of hand, I\u2019ll stop commenting, following and replying to you guys because honestly, I\u2019ve had enough. Learn to love each other and be happy for each other.\u201d i don\u2019t enjoy people feeling like this so i may just unfollow everyone one here for a lil i\u2019m sorry \u2014 avani dicaprio (1990s edition) (@lilpapivoni) August 26, 2020 Gregg even threatened to unfollow everyone on social media for a short time in response to the fiasco \u2014 a scandal that blew up in everyone\u2019s faces within a 24 hour period, showcasing the danger of miscommunication and the speed at which harmless memes can turn into serious online harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Avani Gregg speaks out after fan gets death threats over Twitter joke YouTube: Avani[jwplayer ksH6zuKH]TikTok star Avani Gregg is hitting back at critics after one of her fans purportedly received death threats, which came about as the result of an unfortunate bandwagon Twitter trend that took place in her comment section. In the age of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}