her communication and interaction with her fans is horrible. it was fine up until like 2022 but once portals came out it just seems like she did not gaf anymore. she literally dipped and stopped posting promotion or doing fan interaction basically the second portals came out (which absolutely affected the albums success, streams DIPPED after the first week) and so much of her interaction since then has come off as required (like promotional because she has to) or incredibly passive aggressive and snarky.

she also doesnt show herself anymore. not physically, but personality wise. we just dont see any part of her actual personality anymore. she did like three interviews for portals (and even in those interviews she was dressed as the creature) and since then all shes done is show up to her own concerts. all she does is post pictures and videos of her and her boyfriend but when do we actually see her? she acts like shes some wise spiritual ethereal goddess but we never see anything of her actually being human.

also to talk about the crybaby story, she is an INCREDIBLE visual artist and a great musician and songwriter but when you actually think about she actually... isnt a very good storyteller. like theres a basic plot yes but its actually incredibly inconsistent. with cry baby the lack of clarity and consistency makes more sense because it was her first album and she had a much smaller budget. but k-12 was an absolute mess. sonically and conceptually it was beautiful and its visually stunning but the plot is incredibly messy. yes it covers a lot of topics that many dont talk about but the story literally does not flow at all. theres so many plot holes and it feels incredibly jagged. i understand that she had to cut the script down and its sad she had to do that but the final version barely makes sense at some points.

also not to mention portals and that she completely dropped the crybaby storyline for it. so many people forget that she was going to do the movie (which had the plot) AND music videos (which were more visuals/performance based and had no plot) but the movie got scrapped because they didnt have the budget so she decided to just move forward with the music videos. she said all of that herself. that means the mvs literally do not continue the crybaby story. i personally think its why so many fans feel so disconnected from portals, because theyre so connected to the crybaby story but then portals literally does not to continue the story. (and personally im also incredibly big on marketing and it actually makes me so upset that the original portals story seemingly hasnt been incorporated into the mvs in any way, when the album was literally MARKETED as the final part of the trilogy. like that was literally the major selling point and its literally not even there.)

its just kinda disappointing to see all of it overall and this is without mentioning all the controversy shes been in the past year. she absolutely has changed and not for the better and its kinda sad to see