After losing 220k followers on Instagram, is Lizzo the biggest social media drop to occur in 2023 so far?

The fallout from last week’s allegations launched against Lizzo continues this week, and while the singer has released a statement and sought legal counsel from Marty Singer (who has worked on cases pertaining to Bill Cosby, Johnny Depp and Jonah Hill), the court of public opinion has shown no respite towards the singer.

It has hit her also where it (viewer) counts; her social media platforms, with Social Blade demonstrating a loss of 196,380 followers on her Instagram account in the past 30 days. The steepest drop, according to the social media measuring website, occurred on August 3 2023 - this was around the time that the dancers, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez, along with a third dancer, Arianna Davis, made their allegations and legal case against Lizzo known.

Social Blade has also demonstrated two equally steep drops in her Instagram follower count on either side of that day also; a loss of 27,479 on August 2 2023 and then a loss of 41,297 followers on August 4 2023. Interesting to note also is that Social Blade has shown that 71 media items were deleted from the account the day after the revelations from the dancers, and that the Instagram account unfollowed two people the day before the news broke… speculate away who those two were.

There is however the possibility that some of those accounts are “spam” accounts that Instagram have cleaned out as part of their attempt to remove bots and bot farming accounts on the platform, but it seems very coincidental if the number of those accounts were removed the day the news of Lizzo’s misconduct broke.

It isn’t however the biggest drop in Instagram followers this year - longtime PeopleWorld readers will recall the “feud” between Hailey Bieber and Selenza Gomez that affected both personality’s Instagram followers, with Bieber at one point losing over 1 million followers, prompting Selena Gomez to request a “cease fire” regarding the hositlities between both fandoms through her on social media account.