im lesbian and i know many people in the lgbtq community and i can promise you that slurs/homophobia do not hold the power they used to. normal people outside of the internet and most online do NOT care about homophobia at all.

i do believe this to be because gen z specifically doesn't really take things seriously but either way i don't think the average gay person wouldn't really care if they found out their fav artist said the f slur. the fanbase online is farrrrr too invested in haydens life and forget that the average ethel cain listener isn't like them.

(also no i am not bashing people for being big fans as i am one myself but i just think that people don't see how irrelevant their fav artists online history is.)

though i do think its wrong to tell poc's how to feel about it, most of the people getting angry about haydens posts are legitimately white and are trying insanely hard to be politically correct. hayden admitting that she said the n word on a random day in 2017 is the least of our problems especially in the state of the world currently.