Just this week, Bella Thorne has found herself in the center of a love triangle … or a feud … or possibly a threesome.
We’re not sure which.
And, frankly, we’re not even sure if she knows. Even with these photos, it’s complicated. Let’s take a look.
So, remember this guy? Bella Thorne’s new man?
He’s a rapper whose name is Blackbear.
As of early August of this year, these two were “acquainted.”
Neither of them ever actually confirmed if they were dating or not. But Bella’s 19, and that’s an age where “dating” is a label that you can give or take. You know, depending upon how formal you want your relationship to be.
But that was back in August, and it looks like Blackbear is yesterday’s news as far as Bella’s life is concerned.
We’ll explain who Tana Mongeau is in a moment, but here we see her with Bella Thorne.
That’s not generally how people kiss, but they’re clearly feeling all kinds of affectionate at what looks like a party.
(Honestly, face-licking is pretty standard fare at parties when you’re 19 or so. And they’re both 19)
Both Bella and Tana shared that first photo on Instagram.
But Tana shared a few more.
Before we get into this story, you should take a look. For context reasons.
See! They really do know how to kiss!
By the way, if Bella Thorne is wearing the outfit here that we think that she is, all that she has on under that jean jacket is a fishnet top and a pair of pasties over her nip nops.
If those pasties are even still on. We don’t know for sure!
Regardless, it’s great to see Bella Thorne rocking fishnets again and living her best life.
Sometimes, you laugh while you’re making out. Or having sex.
In both cases, the odds of that are considerably greater if you have an audience.
(These two clearly had an audience)
Anyway, we promised that we’d let you know who Tana Mongeau is.
Tana is a YouTuber. She’s actually only been actively uploaded to her YouTube channel for a couple of years, but she has a boatload of followers.
And no, it’s not just because she’s hot.
(Though yes, successful YouTubers as a general rule tend to be hotter than those who are Twitter-famous or Tumblr-famous. It’s a visual medium, folks)
Actually, Tana is really great. In an age where YouTube stars like PewDiePie keep being revealed to be racist douchebags, she makes a habit of standing up to other YouTubers.
In fact, she engaged in a seriously bitter feud with a YouTuber who used both the n-word and the r-slur regularly in his posts. He defended it saying that it was “for comedy,” but she didn’t back down.
The creepy guy even went to one of her shows just so that he could drop the n-bomb at a meet-and-greet, to her horror.
Anyway, Tana’s awesome.
We don’t know if she and Bella Thorne are, like, dating or if they just hooked up at a party.
(Like face-licking, that’s really not unusual. Again, that’s exactly what being 19 is for. Especially if you’re hot)
The pictures did not go unnoticed. Obviously.
Blackbear, who may have been Bella’s boyfriend or maybe was just a hookup or whatever, was among the people with eyes and internet access who took notice.
It probably didn’t help that Bella captioned her photo “Mmmmm tastes like candy.”
Or that Tana captioned hers “mineeee.”
Like, Tana sounds like she’s laying claim to Bella.
So, Blackbear tweeted an image including a headline about their kiss and a pic of the kiss itself, but in a roundabout way he said that it was “irrelevant.”
From just that, there’s no way of knowing whether he meant that the kiss was irrelevant to his relationship with Bella or whether Bella and Tana’s kiss wasn’t news or whether Bella and Tana themselves were irrelevant to the world or to his life.
But both young women replied to Blackbear.
Tana Mongeau tweeted:
“How irrelevant is it to u if ur tweeting about it tho.”
That’s a fair point. And a relatively gentle rebuttal.
Bella Thorne was a little less delicate:
“You didn’t seem upset when we talked 30 min ago about having a threesome lol.”
There’s no way of knowing whether this is a genuine conflict involving, ugh, hurt feelings … or if these are just three friends throwing some barbs at each other on Twitter.
But whatever’s going on, we wish Bella and Tana the best with … well, whatever they have going on.
Also, every bit of this only compounds or joy that Bella Thorne is done with Scott Disick.
