This story has it all — jilted lovers, legal drama, modern celebrity and onscreen breakdowns.
And yet upon closer inspection, it also has absolutely nothing at all; perhaps less than nothing.
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Without getting lost in an examination of modern internet celebrity, let’s just assume that heavily auto-tuned singer Trisha Paytas having 2.6 million YouTube followers makes any earthly sense whatsoever.
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It’s truly tempting to get hung up on that one contextual fact, but we simply must move on — there’s a lot of absurd ground to cover here. Besides her vocal stylings, Trisha deals in emotional outburst videos. We only just discovered that’s even a genre, but apparently the people love it.
They’re like the moments in life you try to forget about by remembering how much good surrounds you, except recorded and blasted out into the public sphere for consumption, ridicule and with any luck, some revenue.
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The 28-year-old posted a breakup video on Saturday, after her Snapchat friend allegedly saw Trisha’s boyfriend, Sean van der Wilt (oh come on now) kissing someone at a club.
Is her video, “he cheated. i’m done,” a sly commentary on the fragility of trust and connection in the internet age, or is it merely a sobbing, bizarre mess?
Definitely that second option.
This was followed by the twist that this mystery homewrecker is actually a guy.
Which led to this natural question: “is sean van der wilt gay?”
See what we mean? There’s a lot, and also literally nothing, to process here.
Trisha, for her part, wasn’t processing very well. Shocking — we’d never expect someone who bleeds every thought and emotion out onto the internet to be ill-equipped to handle big change.
She posted her next video as something of a desperate plea to return to Sean’s good graces.
We’ll save you the experience of actually watching it and just give you this detailed analysis: Wow.
Having done all she could do (it must have been tempting to hold back on just one more video), Trisha waited for a response.
That response came in the form of a new legal matter:
“Sean is suing me,” Trisha tells us, now in a near-manic state.
And to close out the rollercoaster that is Trisha’s life, her next video — “I’m a chicken nugget” — is the best advertisement we’ve seen for therapy we’ve seen in a while:
In total, she’s posted another five videos about her mental state over the ordeal that have something of a cathartic arch to them:
These culminate in Trisha herself coming out as gay:
Either Trisha is an internet marketing genius, masterfully orchestrating a “breakdown” while watching the view-based revenue pour in, or–
On second thought, we’re just going to choose to believe that premise. The alternative is far too bleak.
h/t PerezHilton
SnorlaxationKH
Trisha mostly dabbles in entertainment and risque type content, like favorite sex toys and positions, and sweet treats, and her own singing.
Also having been on television for a short while, it’s not surprising, AT ALL, that she has a large following on youtube, so really, no one should be shocked.
As for this situation, what exactly could he even sue her for?? Slander/Libel? Being gay isn’t exactly a damning aspect of someone’s character anymore (and never should’ve been). Her ‘is he gay’ video was originally titled “he IS gay”, so it’s possible that was what triggered it.
But if you’re out in public, cheating on your gf, then it’s no surprise that he’s getting called out on it. It is surprising that she’s made so many videos about it though.
Chris
If she does not have his permission to be part of her entertainment programming and if he is not a public figure, he may have grounds to win a law suit. People have some rights to privacy and she had violated her ex-boyfriend’s rights to the max. What is more, Queerty has just taken part in that violation.
Bob LaBlah
Lawsuits mean nothing if the person sued does not have any assets beyond basic means of support. Why this “thing” and her antics are considered news is beyond me. Queen Latifah’s new show appeared tonight on Fox but this shit here gets priority?
Eiswirth
I didn’t know Lindsay Lohan’s boyfriend was gay.
Xzamilloh
@SnorlaxationKH: It’s only slander if it isn’t true.
@Bob LaBlah: Eh, I watched it. It’s a more boring continuation of Empire that I don’t think is gonna last long.
Captain proton
I think I’ll head on to Rawstory.com – I haven’t been horrified by trump’s actions for at least 14 hours. time to change that.
ErikO
She’s a mentally ill narcisist that looks like she uses a lot of meth.
Jack Meoff
@Xzamilloh: Is Empire still a thing? They stopped airing it here because the ratings were so bad.
Brian
If Sean van der Wilt was her boyfriend, doesn’t it say more about Sean van der Wilt than it does about her?????
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Not with THOSE nails, sweetheart
Queerty, I tried to quit you
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
She did almost the same routine with the last (actually whose counting) “serious” relationship with the old broadway/tv actor dude. Who was already cheating on his wife (or GF) with miss piggy here. Yeah classy.
To lose one relationship to covert homosexuality is a misfortune; to lose two to alledged pansy philandering looks like carelessness.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Yes I hate that I even know this shit
Help me kill myself
CaliKyle
@PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID: No way. Not as long as you keep coming up with phrases like “pansy philandering.” Those who entertain, remain. Wasnt that a rule in Hunger Games? Or maybe Game of Thrones.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
For the purposes of alliteration only. So suck it, sweetie
Herman75
She seems more mentally ill and very clever at the same time. Hope she isn’t doing meth.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Looks so much prettier without that heavy makeup. You only got that dewy fresh skin for an instant so why u wanna cake it in powder and shit. She’s a good actress and lowkey compelling at the lachrymosity
Terrycloth
Typical woman ..drama ..can’t live without it
Bob LaBlah
@Xzamilloh: Queerty is once again playing games in the comment section. I tried to answer you but I won’t be toyed with. This site is getting sillier every day and stupid articles such as this prove it.
brandon_ortega
She didn’t out him, though. One of his friends posted a public Instagram story outing him and Trisha found out and made a video about her learning about it.
She’s commenting on it, but she didn’t out him.
heath0043
People actually follow this twit???
Donston
More mentally lop-sided, narcissists who use their romance and sex life as a way to feel special and different and powerful and victimized. It’s getting old.
Xzamilloh
@Bob LaBlah: Oh, you don’t even have to say anything about the comment section.
Bob LaBlah
@Xzamilloh: What they’ve obviously done is program certain words into your profile that prevent the response you want to give. Lets face it, this article is simply abominable and they know it. It has to be embarrassing to show that is how low their desperation for an article has fallen and people talk about things they foolishly decided to pass on.
Ogre Magi
She looks like a Pathfinder goblin
http://static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Mogmurch.jpg