With on-brand candor, 50 Cent took to Instagramon February 17 to address the torrent of negative comments about his weight at the Super Bowl halftime show. The “Candy Shop” rapper wrote, “I call this teasing me, They’re just teasing me because they know i can drop the weight. that’s why i laugh with them. Fat shaming only applies when your ashamed of your fat. LOL,” with 50 adding shrugging and laughing emojis.
Despite the trolls, the rapper had many Twitter supporters slamming the rude body-shaming comments. “People tried to clown 50 Cent during the Super Bowl saying he got fat knowing damn well most of them aren’t in the same shape they were in 20 years ago either,” a fanpointed outthe day after the Big Game. Another replied tongue-in-cheek to the business-savvy 50’s Instagram post,musing, “I put money it’s movie role you gained weight for that’ll be another chess move and everybody be like ‘Ohh.'”
Perhaps one Twitter user summed it up best when he reflected upon the hypocrisy of the Twitter opinion mob, writing, “Loool you lot are so fake. Twitter: mental health, bullying is bad, we will cancel you if you offended us.. Also Twitter: haha 50 Cent is fat as f***.” Sadly, we wish his comment wasn’t as astute as it was about Twitter’s often-unhealthy nature.