Serious shots appear to have been fired between Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber.
We think. Maybe. Possibly. Hopefully, at least.*
(*Sorry, but we’re a celebrity gossip website and everything. We feed off drama of this nature.)
A feud has seemingly been ignited between these famous exes after Bieber issued a threat to his Instagram followers.
Ever since he went public with new girlfriend Sofia Richie, Bieber’s followers have been disparaging the 17-year old model, saying really mean things about her online.
In response, Bieber jumped on his social media account over the weekend and told these trolls to zip it. Or what?
Or THIS…
“I’m gonna make my Instagram private if you guys don’t stop the hate this is getting out of hand. If you guys are really fans you wouldn’t be so mean to people that I like.”
It’s hard to find fault with Bieber here, right?
The singer is standing up for his gal pal and trying to put total morons on their place.
(Because, seriously, who hates on a total stranger? Who issues death threats to anyone? Who says they like Justin Bieber, yet don’t like it when Justin Bieber is happy?)
However, Gomez did reportedly take issue with Bieber’s stance.
In an Instagram comment captured by The Shade Room (below), Gomez appears to blame Bieber for any of the insults thrown Richie’s way.
He’s the one who turned her into a public figure, she argues.
“If you can’t handle the hate then stop posting pictures of your girlfriend lol – it should be special between you two only,” Selena seemingly wrote.
She added: “Don’t be mad at your fans. They love you.”
One can debate whether or not Selena actually left this message; or whether someone took advantage of editing/Photoshop to make it look that way.
But Gomez most definitely DID make a post on her Instagram page that paid tribute to her own fan base.
“My whole life. You matter most. Thank you letting me do what I love every day,” Gomez wrote as a caption to the following montage.
This would lend credence to Gomez thinking Bieber is ungrateful for threatening to make his Instagram account private.
From there, another social media account screen-captured comments believed to be from Bieber in response.
“It’s funny to see people that used me for attention and still try to point the finger this way. Sad. All love,” this reply reads.
“I’m not one for anyone receiving hate. Hope u all can be kind to my friends and each other. And yes I love my beliebers.”
Again, it’s worth repeating that these messages were written as Comments on Bieber’s Instagram page.
But if Gomez and Bieber really are engaged in a war of words, we’re pretty sure Selena just came out on top.
In yet another screen capture, Gomez appears to be mocking Bieber’s above response, while firing a game-changing salvo in the direction of her ex-boyfriend.
Here is what she allegedly wrote about Bieber:
Funny how the ones that cheated multiple times, are pointing the finger at the ones that were forgiving and supportive, no wonder fans are mad. Sad. All love.
WHOA THERE!
Selena’s response led to an Internet eruption, as the hashtag #SelenaEndedJustinParty is now blowing up across social media.
It’s very unlike both Justin and Selena to operate this way in public.
For all the stars have been through, they’ve remained almost entirely friendly over social media.
Either that, or they’ve simply ignored each other.
Gomez has never made any sort of public insinuation before that Bieber cheated on her, let alone that he cheated on her “multiple times.”
But has Bieber’s romance with Sofia Richie finally pushed Gomez over the edge?
Bieber only recently began to follow Gomez again in June after having unfollowed her on the social media website in November 2014.
He may not be regretting that decision.
And we may all need to buckle in. Things are likely to get worse between Bieber and Gomez before they get better.