AboutAGirl
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First off, I didn't say the people that are fans of him didn't like his music. I noted that his popularity comes from most of the haters. If his fans actually like his music, than more power to them. My point was mostly along the lines of his popularity is getting bigger and bigger the more people trash talk him. And some of the popularity comes from people actually liking his music. But the amount of haters is unfortunately a lot bigger than the number of fans he has, you can at least agree to that.
He had to become popular before anyone would have bothered to hate on him, because it's his popularity that they hate. Nobody in their right mind goes around hating on random 16 year olds singing love songs.
I straight up don't understand how being hated could be what's making him popular. He's not a satanic artist reveling in degeneration or something. Radio stations don't play his music because people hate him, people don't buy his music because people hate him. The hate gives him a mild publicity boost, but since he clearly had to become popular before the hate would begin, fans drawn in by hate-inspired publicity can only possibly be a fraction of his fanbase. Speaking of publicity, do you ever see anything on TV about how people hate Justin? 'Cause I don't, I just see regular publicity for a pop star. I can't even remember any Daily Show or Colbert Report clips bashing Justin.
I know a lot of Justin Bieber fans, and hate has nothing to do with their being fans. I know in youtube comments it might seem like hate is the main thing Bieber-mania traffics in, but if you cue into his main demographic the hate is no more prevalent or influential than with any other popular artist.
Case in point, if trashing an artist was all that someone needed to do to gain fans, Rebecca Black would be as popular as Justin Bieber. But she's not. She's famous but she's not actually popular. She's an artist who is actually popular because people hate her. She wasn't a recording artist, she was a punchline. That's the difference. Justin might get hate but he's never been like that at all.