Photo Credit: Instagram By: Amanda Anderson-Niles Unless you’ve been taking a break from Twitter and the blogs, then you are full aware that Rihanna and Teyana Taylor. Things popped off after Rihanna posted a video to Instagram of her stylist Yusef Williams seemingly impersonating Teyana’s recent rendition of an Anita Baker song she herself posted to Instagram two weeks ago. The situation isn’t Rihanna’s first time, and of course she’s also taken plenty of jabs at Chris Brown’s on and off again boo Karrueche Tran on social media for the last couple of years. Not only did most of Twitter crown Teyana as the victor of the “war,” but many have began to call Rihanna a bully considering her past incidents with other women. Teyana took things a step further and and told the station she flat-out believes Rihanna is a cyber bully and she seems to be citing past incidents involving Ciara (months ago, a very similar incident happened with Ciara when the singer mocked her “Body Party” acapella) and Karrueche Tran. Teyana also went on to say that she thinks Rihanna’s fans encourage her controversial behavior.
Interestingly enough, a new petition has been created and it’s urging MAC and River Island to drop the singer because of her cyber bullying of other women. The creator D Meadows writes: Rihanna has many young fans that look up to her and bullying is a HUGE problem that we are facing with the youth today. She is known for constantly bullying and picking fights with people over the internet and this is a problem that has been going on for a while now.
By consistently attacking people online about their looks and reminding them how they are beneath her, she is using her platform in a very negative light and does not provide a positive image for MAC cosmetics or any of the other companies that she endorses. She is a poor role model and promotes habitual drug use.
Rihanna openly smokes marijuana and no doubt has encouraged her fans to do so as well. Due to the behavior that Rihanna is exhibiting, her fans and followers have made death threats and are also exhibiting bullying behavior. This is important b/c Rihanna continues to lead the young women of America down a dark path. She continues to demonstrate destructive behavior to the young girls of this great United States of America by using her huge platform for negativity as opposed to promoting female empowerment and uplifting our young ladies.
Because she has such a huge influence over so many, as a result of her bullying and verbal abuse it has encouraged her followers to do so as well. There have been many death threats from people that are a part of her social media gang that she refers to as “The Rihanna Navy”.
Petition Calls For Macbook
At a simple request from her, they will pounce on anyone that Rihanna wants to bring her wrath down upon. She is definitely a cyber-bully as evidenced by her Twitter attacks on Ciara, Karruche Tran and Teyana Taylor, just to name a few.
These attacks can do harm to a person’s self-esteem and can lead to things such as depression and suicide which happens to be an ongoing epidemic in our country amongst teenagers, especially young girls. As someone who knows a person who took their life due to bullying, this not only destroys the life of the person who killed themself, it also changes the lives of the family of the person doing the bullying. Continuously creating a negative cycle that will repeat itself. The effects of cyber-bullying will stunt the growth of our beautiful nation by weakening the psyche of the women of tomorrow who will lead us into the next century.
Is this someone who you want representing your brand? It’s time that Rihanna learns that bullying is UNACCEPTABLE and will not be tolerated!
The petition is new, but the signatures are racking up. This comes just a day after Rihanna’s fans created a petition urging Adidas to drop Teyana for what they claim was mocking domestic violence. Teyana apparently had Rihanna’s battered face as her background after Rihanna changed her Twitter background to her net worth versus Teyana’s.
While the cyber bully label for Rihanna seems to be spreading like wildfire (multiple publications are beginning to question if Rihanna’s actions are those of a bully), her stylist he doesn’t agree with the label. Yusef tells Enstars: “Honestly, I just finished making the wig. I started making the video. It was amazing, no malicious intent towards Teyana. I just think it was uncalled for. Teyana killed that song. “She Rihanna could care less.
It was funny. Thats whats so funny. It wasn’t like that. She doesn’t care, that’s her personality. “Cyber bully is harsh word. She is focused, being Rihanna. She is not sitting around.
She didn’t grab her phone. She is the most kind and giving person.
I just think for that to go the way it went, it was uncalled for.” He then goes on to tell the website that Teyana’s just taking things too far for publicity and she has a new album coming out soon that she wants to promote. Teyana has already denied that this is a publicity stunt and instead says she was just doing the one thing no one has done yet and that’s standing up to Rihanna. Honestly I don’t want neither Teyana or Rihanna to get dropped from endorsements but this should be a good lesson for Rihanna everybody live by a different code you can’t say ish to anybody and get away with it.
As far as Rih’s stylist sir sit your a-s down with this lame a-s damage control. He was Rihanna’s flunkie to shade someone. If Teyana is using this for publicity Rihanna gave her the ammunition so kill that publicity noise. I’m damn sure not buying Rih ain’t worried or too busy because if she wasn’t why make the video why respond.
This man will say anything that favors Rih he works for her so all this is lame what he is saying. Bottom line Teyana tore into Rihanna’s a-s and had her looking stupid in the process and now her flunkies are doing damage control. Rihanna has met her match this time. We all know that shade was for Teyana. We’re not stupid, so he shouldn’t try to insult our intelligence. But this beef has blown up way bigger than the one with Ciara did. People are finally calling Rihanna out for what she’s done to other women.
And she needs to take this lesson and sit down. You can’t say you’re a victim of domestic violence and then you turn around and bully people online. This needs to be a wake up call to her to keep it cute on Twitter.
Her success is not guaranteed. Interesting that you posted about this bogus petition about Rihanna being a bully when Teyana taylor was the one who attacked Rihanna for a video that she THINKS was about her, when Teyana Taylor threatened her with bodily harm, when Teyana Taylor accused her of being permiscuous, and when worst of all she posted the pic of Rihanna’s battered face, but you post this? There is a petition calling for Teyana to be removed from her Adidas and Reebok deals due to making fun of domestic violence, by someone who actually works with victims and you post this, this is how you know which blogs are out for certain artist, by their bias.
I’m a Rihanna fan but I can admit you’re out of pocket here and totally off base. UB posted that petition about Teyana yesterday. A little search and you would have found it. It’s still on the homepage. Maybe you’re not into reading lengthy posts, IDK. But they are not biased and that’s why I come here. They don’t make little shady remarks about people they write about and they actually do post the good news on Rihanna too.
I give them that because they try to be fair. If you’re mad at the petition just say it.
But don’t get mad because they posted it. And a Rihanna fan made that petition, I follow them on twitter. So don’t lie.
Fair is fair. THIS IS SOOOOO DAMN DUMB! Like some have already said, MAC nor any of these other companies are about to get involved in this foolishness between two obviously young and immature girls. This mess will only make these companies sell more if anything. Rick Ross on the other hand rapped about date raping some woman unbeknownst to her, so no company is gonna stand beside someone who raps about committing a crime of that sort risking their own image.
This whole Twitter mess is probably just a ploy. Let’s see how long this plays out.
And Rihanna is the Bully? From TMZ Taylor was hanging out at a recording studio in Burbank Saturday night when another woman made a comment regarding Teyana’s friend Chris Brown.
We’re told Teyana allegedly flipped out — and punched the other woman in the face multiple times sending the woman crashing to the floor where Teyana proceeded to kick her in the stomach and head with her boots. Cops were called to the scene but Teyana had already left the building. We’re told the victim sustained several nasty scrapes and swelling around her face. Police sources tell us they’re investigating the incident — and would like to speak with Taylor ASAP — but so far, no charges have been filed against her.
Attempts to reach Teyana were unsuccessful. Yes, she is a bully. She hit a fan of hers in the head with a mic, pushed another fan for asking for a photo, taunts her ex with Drake lyrics on Twitter, sends her friends to pick on Karrueche (she occasionally joins in), mocked Ciara, and threw shade at Beyonce just to name a few situations. Oh and then there’s that time she sicced you and the rest of the Navy heathens on a young woman on Instagram just because she told her she was worried she might be on drugs. You and your Navy friends told her to kill herself while Rihanna laughed.
Last week a video director asked yall to stop harassing him about the Pour it Up Video and Rihanna told him to shut up and let her fans be. She had an opportunity to tell yall to chill, but she instead told him he had no right to say anything. She encourages your ratchet behavior. So yes, Rihanna is a bully.
And she deserves the criticism she is getting. I swear you Rihanna stans are ridiculous y’all never want Rihanna to take responsibility for her actions. Rihanna is a BULLY. Rihanna opened the door for all this Teyana is not to blame. Rihanna is constantly shading and talking reckless to people like people ain’t going to clap back. The moment somebody claps back at her and comes for the juggernaut all the stans want to cry victim. No ma’am I have said this once before everybody has a different code they live by and you can’t come for someone whether she was joking or not and expect them not to come back even harder.
Did Teyana take it too far maybe/ maybe not but I’m not about to feel sorry for someone who started the issue from the beginning and is known for starting twitter beef’s. You really need to get off of Rihanna nuts stop stanning and making excuses because the person to blame for this petition is Rihannna. Who said bullying had to be physical?
Shall we define the word bullying. Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively to impose domination over others.
The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power. Behaviors used to assert such domination can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets. Justifications and rationalizations for such behavior sometimes include differences of class, race, religion, gender, sexuality, appearance, behavior, or ability.23 If bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing.4 The target of bullying is sometimes referred to as a “victim “. link removed – Wikipedia. I’m not even a Rihanna fan but everbody is overworking this “cyberbully” thing a tad bit too much.
The definition of cyberbully is as followed, the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. I didn’t see where she did that in the video. Funny as it was (and it was funny) it was her hair guy doing it, so it seems Teyanna’s anger is directed at the wrong person. Furthermore if anyone took it too far it was Teyanna, all that threatening to fight, is sad, juvenile and uncalled for. And to put a picture of a battered woman, regardless of who it is shameful and you should be ashamed of that. It does seem like Teyanna is trying to get some publicity for this upcoming album as well.
I personally still don’t know why this chick is famous and listening to her sing that snippet didn’t impress me either. Rihanna has yet to do anything to impress me, instead of a petition to MAC they should have created a petition to make her stop singing or remove her larynx Both of them need to have a tall glass of shut the h.#l up and grow up.
But I will be at the MAC store on 10/03 to get my RiRi line (gotta have my MAC)lol. In all honesty Rihanna can not sing. Have you heard her live? She sucks, but I wont lie her songs are catchy?
Her success is based on her looks, catchy songs, and her fashion sense. No one is saying Teyana is innocent, but in this situation, Rihanna is to blame. AND YES she should take responsibility for that, she might not have put on a wig and sang that song, but she uploaded it, did she not? She laughed, did she not? She took a shot at someone’s self esteem and made a mockery of them, did she not? Call a spade a spade.
Legal definition Cyberbullying is defined in legal glossaries as actions that use information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm another or others. Use of communication technologies for the intention of harming another person use of internet service and mobile technologies such as web pages and discussion groups as well as instant messaging or SMS text messaging with the intention of harming another person. Examples of what constitutes cyberbullying include communications that seek to intimidate, control, manipulate, put down, falsely discredit, or humiliate the recipient.
The actions are deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior intended to harm another. Cyberbullying has been defined by The National Crime Prevention Council: “When the Internet, cell phones or other devices are used to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person.”23 link removed – Wikipedia. This is getting out of hand.
Rihanna knew what she was doing when she had her friend make the video and she posted it on her page. She just didn’t think Teyana would say anything. She was wrong as f-ck. This is just an incident in which someone tried to be funny and they got checked for it.
Happens all the time. Now, it would be best for Rihanna to not say another word about it because she doesn’t want it to turn physical like it did the last time. At some point she needs to understand she is not hard. And she can get her a-s whooped. Next time, actually hit the REPLY button and have some courage. Your obsession with K.
Michelle is laughable. Let me explain the difference for your mentally challenged self. Michelle doesn’t start stuff with people.
Rihanna DOES. People come for K. And she defends herself. Just like Rih came for Teyana and she defended herself. Yet you and all the other slow stans seem to think T was wrong and yall have the nerve to pull that tired “Rihanna is domestic violence victim card!” Oh please! She’s a coward and when she finally gets put in her place yall are on here crying like cowards. Your fave is a wimp and she got DEMOLISHED on Twitter.
Now just accept it. And I can have any opinion I want on that miserable skeezer.
Now what are you going to do about it? Not a damn thang. I said it yesterday, what Rihanna did was juvenile and just plain wrong. And Teyanna had a right to call her out on it if she felt the video was about her. But Teyanna crossed the line. I don’t understand how even the simplest of minds don’t see that.
What some of y’all don’t seem to understand is that what Rihanna did was mock ONE person. Teyanna mocked MILLIONS with that picture. There are women that deal with DV daily, children that witness it, people that lose their lives and family and friends who are left to pick up the pieces. DV shatters lives. Now even if you dislike Rihanna and believe she had a part to play in the incident, DV itself is not something to be made fun of.
Teyanna should have handled it better and Rihanna would be looking like a bully and a fool. But she stooped to her level and looks every bit the fool as Rihanna does. And then to go on the radio and cry because someone posted a video mocking you when you posted a picture of a battered woman’s face? Come on guys, you don’t have to excuse Rihanna’s behavior to say that Teyanna took it too far. Rihanna should have been called out for the “cyber bullying” because that is also a serious situation with many children/teens taking their lives because of it so she should be called out. They are both wrong and I sincerely hope that at the very least, someone will help them to see that and they will issue apologizes and just plain grow up. Troll your obsessed with ri ri.
Your waiting for her down fall. You’re a hypocrite. Once again claiming everyone came for k. Keep telling yourself that. Majority of people gave an opinion.
You’re a true hater of Rihanna. K is no better than her. Put your foot in your mouth because you love violence.
You can’t agree with one person being violet, than ranting about somebody else you’re claiming being violet or a so call bully. You’re just a pot calling the kettle black. And I’ll say what i want. Now what you gone do? A domestic violet person should not be hitting people (being violet towards others) ( in troll voice) (k- Michelle).
Sunshine at least you being fair. Pot meet kettle!!! Girl, I challenge you to go one post without mentioning K. Michelle, I bet you can’t. It just burns you that people on here don’t hate her.
Get her tit out your mouth. I mean every single postso you’re a true K. And you’re waiting on her downfall too. I am a proud Rihanna hater and at least I can admit it while you pretend you’re not a delusional stan and K. Michelle hater. But don’t try to act all high and mighty when you talk trash about that girl like some of us do Rihanna, that makes you a hypocrite yourself.
And no I don’t love violence, but Rihanna does. Yamaha crw f1e driver for mac. I’m not out here starting Twitter beefs or assaulting people and hitting them with mics. That’s your fave. And LOL at you basically cosigning the Rihanna haters. You said: A domestic violet person should not be hitting people (being violet towards others) ( in troll voice) (k- Michelle).
These comments on here are real funny. I mean people on here getting very angry because of some words these chicks had on Twitter?! Teyana is violent and so is Rihanna. Chris Brown too hell!
None of these people deserve to have people defending them because they’re all ratchet and exhibit violent behavior upon each other and others. Teyana one way fighting and acting a damn fool trying to be SEEN and HEARD, Chris one way beating on Ri, throwing chairs outta windows, acting a fool in interviews, fighting other celebs, and Ri another way hitting people with mics and whatnot talking reckless. All three have had violent episodes at one time or another but I guess everybody picking the lesser of three evils. Choosing which one is the least violent or which one has the worst music, or reputation? I don’t get it. People got a right to believe what they want, but Chris hit Rihanna and beat her badly no matter the cause or who started what and THAT NIGHT, SHE WAS HIS victim of HIS physical abuse because he had a choice to WALK AWAY.
Some may argue and say well she hit him first or she provoked him, but we wouldn’t know that unless we were there to witness it, so the pics are all there is to go on. There’s ALWAYS a choice in situations like these people just CHOOSE to give in to their emotions and react due to temporary anger but not think about the permanent consequences that’s coming.
The person(s) Rihanna and Teyana put their hands on, THEY too were VICTIMS of THEIR violent behavior at THAT time, so it’s like the pots calling the kettles black. In MY OPINION, they all got issues with being violent. The only person that may not ever do it again would probably be Chris because he paid a high price for his actions that night, but that’s one of those you live and learn situations. Somebody on here said you can’t control what happens to you but you CAN control your response and that’s absolutely true. That’s a choice and if you make the choice to be physically violent to anyone, you pay a price.
Not everything someone does to you deserves a response or a reaction because often times that’s what people are looking for when doing something petty and childish in the first place. But it takes MATURE folks to understand you don’t have to dignify everything that’s thrown at you with a response and these two are far from mature. Maybe its just me, but I feel none of these women deserve to be defended on here.
Rihanna is a classless industry tramp who has no talent and gets passed around like a blunt and she ain’t no real domestic violence victim because she’s been showing how violent she really is since Chris laid the smack down, Teyana is a hoodrat who has to fight to prove a point, and Diamond you’re an idiot for bringing up K. Michelle’s tacky a-s on here and every damn post you write on. With that being said, Teyana and Rihanna were both wrong and lack class. Both need to have a seat and grow the f-ck up. Yall need to be praising the real women who go out here and respect themselves.
Petition Calls For Mac 2017
And they ain’t got time for no damn Twitter beef or Twitter shade. And they ain’t on TV fighting. Stop praising these hoodrats.
If this is a petition just to draw attention to Mac and other companies that endorse Rihanna ok but to literally force them to drop them no way! Companies have the right to endorse anybody they want and if you don’t like it don’t buy it. Unless something real tragic happen like a celebrity committing murder or something along them lines if they have good content or products I like I am going to buy it. For an example, I really don’t care for Nicki Minaj’s music but her perfume and lipstick are very good. It doesn’t matter if this petition gets a million signatures unless there from Mac purchasers it does not mean nothing.
Petition Calls For Macbook Pro
Its called marketing, supply & demand. Unless Mac sees a noticeable decrease in sales following this scandal instead of the increase they’ve been getting having Rihanna, they’re not going to drop her. That is how most businesses work. Only very few businesses practice societal marketing when it comes to celebrities.
The petition was created by Matthew Taylor and calls for Apple to recall every MacBook Pro released since late 2016 and replace the keyboards with a new and redesigned approach. Interestingly, the petition makes no mention of the 12-inch MacBook, which also features the butterfly keyboard mechanism.
Apple, it’s time: recall every MacBook Pro released since Late 2016, and replace the keyboards on all of them with new, redesigned keyboards that just work. Because, these keyboards don’t work.
Every one of Apple’s current-gen MacBook Pro models, 13″ and 15″, is sold with a keyboard that can become defective at any moment due to a design failure. Taylor notes that the petition is not calling for a forcible recall, but rather one that would allow those who have issues with the keyboard to get it replaced with a different design.
“We are requesting a recall program to provide redesigned, replacement keyboards for those of us who want our keyboards to work reliably,” the petition reads. Reliability since it was originally introduced. Things especially took a turn for the worse when Apple brought the mechanism to the MacBook Pro in 2016. Users have reported issues such as stuck keys, keys double pressing randomly, and much more.
For its part, Apple hasn’t done a whole lot to mitigate issues except replace keyboards when the device in question is under warranty. It’s hard to imagine that this petition will actually force Apple to do anything, but what it could do is shed enough light on the keyboard problems that Apple is put in a PR predicament.
Personally, I have few issues with Apple’s butterfly keyboard, but it’s impossible to deny that there are people out there with major issues. What do you think of the keyboard? Will you be signing the petition or not? Let us know down in the comments!