Drag Race season 16 star Q quits social media after vile fan abuse (2024)

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Some fans, though, seemingly took their disdain for Q winning to unpleasant extremes, with the queen ultimately deleting her X/Twitter account in the wake of the episode airing. After leaving the social media platform, some fans of the show have condemned the trolls for ruining Q's big moment.

Over the weekend, Q deactivated her X/Twitter account (@URliving4q) without a lot of notice, but very likely due to all the hate messages she had been dealing with for weeks and how much they intensified with this new maxi challenge win.

Plane and Q respectively received mixed reviews for their shady interview and whelming book concept, landing in the bottom two. The latter ultimately sashayed away from the series in fourth place.

Fans here were upset the win didn't go to Nymphia Wind, who's delivered some iconic runway looks up until now but dropped the ball in last week's Snatch Game. The response to Q's win forced the queen to disable her X, formerly Twitter, account to turn off all of the unwanted noise.

Part of the reason Billie no longer enjoys social media? She keeps seeing videos and photos of herself and about her personal life. "Slowly the videos I'm watching and the things I see on the internet are, like, about me.

It's established throughout his many appearances that he is one of the oldest of the Qs, having been around a lot longer than the rest of his people. This explains why he is the first to go through this process, of getting so bored by immortality he almost unconsciously wills himself into death.

In "Deja Q", Q is punished by the Q Continuum by being made mortal; his committing of an uncharacteristically selfless act (sacrificing his life so that a race attacking him will not destroy the Enterprise) garners the return of his powers.

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“Musk's treatment of the platform as a technology company that he could remake in his vision rather than a social network fueled by people and ad dollars has been the single largest cause of the demise of Twitter,” Enberg said.

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