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Megan Thee Stallion’s Social Media Boundaries Include Keeping Instagram Off Her Phone, Hot Girl Prefers Pinterest

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Megan Thee Stallion spoke in her recent Women’s Health cover issue about how being a dark-skinned Black woman has been extra difficult over the past few years. “I feel like everybody was always used to me being the fun and happy party girl. I watched people build me up, tear me down, and be confused about their expectations of me,” she told the outlet. “As a Black woman, as a darker Black woman, I also feel like people expect me to take the punches, take the beating, take the lashings, and handle it with grace. But I’m human,” Meg reflected. Many readers resonated with her sentiment and were happy to hear the black-haired beauty discuss her relationship with social media at an ADWeek event.

“You know what I really like? Pinterest,” Thee Stallion shared, praising the mood-boarding platform that has minimal interaction with others. While she loves the app, the 29-year-old isn’t ready to give out her handle to the hotties. Still, she did fill us in on what kinds of things she’s been saving to her various boards. “I deleted Instagram and Twitter off my phone. I have TikTok and I have Pinterest,” Megan said. “Pinterest is, like, the best app in my opinion right now because I can curate what I want to see.”

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“I can literally get on there and see what I want to see. Like, if I want to see puppies all day, that’s what I see. My Pinterest is makeup, puppies, breakfast [laughs], workout videos, booty shorts [laughs]. I see all the content I like to see,” Thee Stalli added.

Megan Thee Stallion might not keep Instagram on her phone regularly, but the Hot Girl Coach still makes sure to connect with her fans by going Live and chatting with them occasionally. Earlier this week she and some friends stepped out for a tipsy sushi dinner, at which time Meg addressed rumours of a nose job and had plenty to say about her “only best friend” not introducing her to the guy she’s been seeing. Read all about that at the link below, and check back later for more hip-hop/pop culture news updates.

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Megan Thee Stallion Deleted Instagram From Her Phone, But She Explains Why She’s All In On ‘The Best App’ Instead

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This isn’t a revelatory statement, but there’s a lot of both good and bad that comes with social media. It helps connect the world and expose people to creativity they otherwise wouldn’t have seen, but too much time online can be exhausting or even harmful. It’s not uncommon for people to remove popular social media apps from their phones sometimes, and that’s what Megan Thee Stallion is going through right now. There’s one app, though, that she’s huge on, so much so that she deemed it to be “the best app.”

Meg spoke at Adweek’s Social Media Week event yesterday (April 10), and she discussed what her social media usage has been like lately, saying:

“You know what I really like? Pinterest. I’m not gonna tell anybody what my Pinterest is. I got a lot of stuff saved, OK? So I deleted Instagram and Twitter off my phone. I have TikTok and I have Pinterest. Pinterest is, like, the best app in my opinion right now because I can curate what I want to see. […] I can literally get on there and see what I want to see. Like, if I want to see puppies all day, that’s what I see. My Pinterest is makeup, puppies, breakfast [laughs], workout videos, booty shorts [laughs]. I see all the content I like to see.”

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“Barbie” Breathes New Life Into Pinterest

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Barbie hits theaters on July 21 and has quickly become one of the most anticipated films of 2023. In a re-contextualization of the character from the mind of Greta Gerwig, Barbie will leave “Barbieland” and enter the real world to discover the truth about herself. Starring Margot Robbie as Barbie Prime and Ryan Gosling as Ken Prime, the film already has millions hyped. This has only been exacerbated by the efforts of social media and the Barbie marketing team. From the official marketing team, there has been a wave of themed products and related merch. There was also the reveal of a hot pink Barbie Dreamhouse that could be rented on Airbnb. Meanwhile, social media hyped a culture war between Barbie and Oppenheimer, which releases on the same day. Elsewhere, there was the viral moment in which fans discovered that a French translation of an official poster essentially read “she can do everything, he just fucks.”

However, one company that is unexpectedly benefitting from the Barbie hype is Pinterest. Founded in 2009, Pinterest was a quintessential part of early 2010s internet culture. It fitted in perfectly with the photo filter, Hot Topic nostalgia, justgirlythings, “aesthetic” cultural wave that also gave rise to things such as Tumblr’s popularity in the same era. If you were an “aesthetic” person, you likely had a Pinterest and you likely had a plethora of themed “moodboards”. However, Pinterest, despite being reportedly worth a $1 billion, has died off in recent years. Except, it hasn’t because while still just chugging away in the background, it has seen a massive spike in usage thanks to the Barbie movie.

Pinterest Flooded With Barbie Searches

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Per TMZ, Pinterest has been flooded with searches related to Barbie. Compared to May 2022, May 2023 saw a host of searches spike. “Barbiecore” was up 980% while “Barbie Mood Board” was up 1280%. Elsewhere, “Barbie live-action” and “Barbie Margot Robbie” rose 1305% and 1630%. Finally, “hot pink chrome nails” rose 1465%. The world is getting on the Barbification train. “Dua Lipa Barbie” (the singer both has a song in the film and will play “Mermaid Barbie”) saw a 43-fold increase in searches. “Barbie adult birthday party” is up 12-fold.

However, Pinterest isn’t the only place where Barbie has taken a firm hold. While much more fickle in its searches, Tumblr has also seen Barbie trend several times over recent months. However, given Tumblr’s attention span, tastes, and long-standing culture war with “aesthetics”, the site has been much more about the memes than the visual styles of the film. Furthermore, the release of Netflix’s Nimona has aggressively taken over the site in recent days. Despite this, it’s clear that the impacts of Barbie are wide-reaching, even bringing things like Pinterest back into the spotlight.

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