Loren Gray explains why she \u201cappreciates\u201d hate messages in her DMs Loren Gray, YouTubeTikTok star Loren Gray is a massive presence on the platform, once hailed as the site\u2019s most-followed creator \u2014 but being a social media celeb isn\u2019t always a cakewalk, as she revealed in a video on May 21. Gray is a huge face on multiple social media platforms, boasting over 19 million followers on Instagram and 43 million followers on TikTok, where she once reigned as the most popular account before being overtaken by Charli D\u2019Amelio. Despite her status as a TikTok sensation, Gray receives a sizable amount of mean comments online, which she exposed in a collaboration with BuzzFeed Celeb on YouTube. In the video, Gray read through her message requests on Instagram \u2014 messages from accounts that must be approved by the recipient before engaging in a conversation. While many of these message requests were compliments, Gray admitted that she does receive a slew of negative comments, as well, one of which she read aloud for viewers. The message in question was simple: \u201cI hate you Loren.\u201d However, Gray\u2019s response was decidedly surprising, with the TikTok star claiming that she actually \u201crespects\u201d and \u201cappreciates\u201d critics who keep their comments private between the two of them. \u201cSometimes, people will send hate messages to my DMs,\u201d she explained. \u201cWhich I actually think is quite nice, since they\u2019re keeping it between us, and not like, publicly commenting. \u2026.I really appreciate it. It\u2019s to the point, and she didn\u2019t do it publicly. She made it private, and she wanted to let me know how she feels. I respect it.\u201d That wasn\u2019t the only surprise to come out of Loren\u2019s BuzzFeed collaboration; she likewise revealed the shocking amount of proposals she receives in her Instagram requests, and even admitted that a fan had proposed to her in-person during her live tour \u2014 an incident that she described as \u201ckinda awkward.\u201d (Topic begins at 2:30) Gray is far from the only TikTokker who deals with hate and over enthusiastic fans, by far; fellow stars Charli D\u2019Amelio and Addison Rae have spoken out at length against hateful comments and harassment, with Gray\u2019s DM expos\u00e9 acting as the latest testament to the double-edged sword of being an online entertainer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Loren Gray explains why she \u201cappreciates\u201d hate messages in her DMs Loren Gray, YouTubeTikTok star Loren Gray is a massive presence on the platform, once hailed as the site\u2019s most-followed creator \u2014 but being a social media celeb isn\u2019t always a cakewalk, as she revealed in a video on May 21. Gray is a huge […]<\/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-54425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54425","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=54425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}