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There Are No Girls on the Internet

Nicki Minaj’s fans are terrifying - Best of TANGOTI

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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Society & Culture, Technology

4.4820 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

If anything happens to me, talk to the Barbz. 

In this episode from 2022, we talk to Kimberly Foster about being the target of Nicki Minaj’s most toxic fandom.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Just a quick heads up, today's episode talks about pretty intense harassment.

0:04.7

My first instinct was they always get away with this and they're just not going to do it this time.

0:16.3

There are no girls on the internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

0:24.4

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:30.1

So I have been following the way that rapper Nikki Minaj uses social media for a long time.

0:35.9

So you probably already know, last week was kind of a doozy.

0:39.7

Nikki Minaj got into it with fellow rapper Meg the Stallion,

0:43.1

after Meg dropped her chart-tapping single hiss.

0:46.3

That includes the line,

0:47.8

These Hoes Don't Be Mad at Megan,

0:49.5

these hoes mad at Megan's Law.

0:51.9

Megan's Law refers to the law that makes information available to the public

0:55.5

regarding registered sex offenders. And while Meg never mentioned Nikki Minaj directly,

1:00.9

people thought this could be a reference to the fact that Nikki Minaj's husband, who was

1:04.8

convicted of attempted rape in 1995, received a three-year probation sentence after failing to

1:10.6

register as a sex offender in 2020.

1:13.3

So, Nikki took to Twitter and launched into an anti-Meg the Stallion rant.

1:17.6

I do not have time to break down everything she said here, like Nikki was tweeting nonstop for days,

1:24.0

but she made light of Meg being shot and even praised right-wing provocateur Ben Shapiro.

1:30.5

So one thing to know about Nikki Minaj is that her most loyal fans, the Barbes, are kind of

1:36.3

scary, like I'm almost afraid to be talking about them now. They have a history of online harassment

1:41.4

and doxing people in support of their queen, Nikki Minaj,

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