Initially through no fault of her own, Nicki Minaj became the glorified leader of the Barbz, her ever-loyal legion of fans.
But despite Nicki’s 103.3 million Instagram followers and 20.5 million Twitter disciples, the Barbz weren’t able to push The Pinkprint to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2014. Nor could they get Queen to the coveted spot — that honor went to Travis Scott’s Astroworld, much to Nicki’s chagrin.
They also weren’t able to buy enough tickets to support the North American run of Nicki’s joint tour with Future. Instead, it was allegedly canceled due to low ticket sales.
“Nicki’s tour could be the most disappointing ticket sales of the year for any artist,” a Live Nation source told PageSix. “These are big arenas with up to 20,000 capacities. Sales for opening night in Baltimore is 2,000 tickets. L.A. is 3,400, New Orleans 1,000, Denver 1,300, Chicago 3,900. Even her hometown Brooklyn is only 5,050.
So here’s a cold hard fact — the Barbz have no credibility. Who are they? Obsessed fans typing away behind their computer screens with seemingly nothing better to do. The lowest of low. Bottom feeders who thrive off negativity. The true definition of a Stan.
And they’re coming for everyone.
When burgeoning rap star Megan Thee Stallion was asked to name her favorite female MCs, Nicki was omitted from her list and several of the Barbz freaked out.
One Barbz wrote in a since-deleted tweet, “It’s funny how these girls come in the game like Nicki Minaj for a second then mysteriously all these other female rappers inspired them.”
Megan noticed the comment and evidently felt the need to address it on Twitter, writing, “It’s funny how you’re making nothing into something…I can’t like the OG female hip hop artist? I can’t show love to more than one woman?”
Interestingly enough, several self-proclaimed Barbz chastised their own kind for the confrontational tweet, but that’s not the norm.
Barbz routinely rally together in an attempt to take down anyone who insults their queen. In fact, this article will probably send them directly into the DX comment section to tell us what horrible people we are for calling out their unwarranted bullshit.
But at this point, isn’t it a bit ridiculous? They hold no power.
While Nicki can’t control their unwavering (and nearly psychotic) devotion to her, what she could do is attempt not to fan the flames. But more often than not, Nicki remains silent, allowing the Barbz’s online harassment of anyone who crosses her to continue, or she simply riles them up.
As reported by The New York Times, the perfect example presented itself in June 2018 when a freelance writer simply tweeted, “You know how dope it would be if Nicki put out mature content?”
That was all it took.
Suddenly, the woman was being attacked from all angles and once Nicki stepped in, it was over. With Nicki’s endorsement, it was like the Barbz had a green light to say whatever they wanted to the unsuspecting woman — and they did.
She received death threats, was told to kill herself and bombarded with constant online harassment on all social media platforms. sent vicious text messages and toxic emails, and she lost her internship at an entertainment blog.
It’s insane.
While celebrity worship can occasionally reach scary levels (Mark David Chapman murdering John Lennon in 1980 comes to mind), having direct access to them on social media appears to make it worse.
In a similar situation involving Beyoncé and the wife of Golden State Warriors’ owner Nicole Curran, The Beyhive (Beyoncé’s version of the Barbz) swarmed Curran’s social media accounts, prompting her to switch her Instagram account to private. But rather than encourage that behavior, Beyoncé issued a gentle warning through her publicist, imploring her fans to “stop spewing hate.”
The moral of the story? Find something better to do with your precious time on earth. Oh, and make sure to look for the Barbz’s comments in the section below.
She has one of the worst fan bases in hip hop. It makes no sense to me that her fans are so devoted. I’m not gonna act like Nicki is completely without talent, but honestly the ratio of fire music to rabid fans has been outta whack for a while now.
Right. Music isn’t the first things fans care abour anymore which is pretty strange because their music is what makes them famous in the first place
yeah talent isnt making u famous no more….thats why cardi’s famous now
But she’s talented. She literally directed her own recent video.
Cardi Directed Her Own Recent Video? That’s Beautiful.
Cardi Has Talent And Hard Work. What Can Nicki Do? Nothing.
Imagine sounding this stupid, cardi can’t even write a bar to save her life. Nicki doesn’t lack talent and has never lacked it, just because someone has a Grammy doesn’t make them suddenly talented. There’s tons of legends in the hip-hop world without a #1 hit nor a Grammy, you’re just an obsessed hater waiting for her downfall but what you need to realize is It will never come so continue waiting.
CARDI Has Real Talent. Where Is NICKI’S Grammy?
I agree. There is definitely talent there, no doubt, but the balance is totally off.
I Agree With What You Say — Except NICKI Has ZERO TALENT.
Celebrity worship is nuts.
What do you expect? The barbz like many of their type are made of extremely over the top gay men, fake wanna be bad bitches and kids that don’t know shit but have a phone in their pocket. Social media creates a mob mentality but it’s all bullshit.
This isn’t about Nicki anyway. It’s her psycho fans. It’s out of hand.
It IS About NICKI. Beyonce Politely Warned Her Fanbase. There IS A DIFFERENCE.
When has Beyonce warned her fans, her publicist spoke out and told them to tone it down.
There’s not way Minaj has 103.million followers and can’t sell out concerts. The bish cancels because of low ticket sales, so she’s fronting in a major way. Buying up fake profiles and paying dumb asses to troll or something because her “fans” are letting her become irrelevant. Odd. Her career is tanking for having so many followers.
It’s baffling. Her “fans” don’t do her any favors by attacking random strangers on the internet for having a different opinion. We live in strange times, man.
RIGHT, this is the social media scam of the century……How you have millions of fans and can’t even sell a platinum album or sell out a concert, lol???
That Is A Perfect Point, Ami.
She never cancelled the tour because of low ticket sales, she’s rescheduling to a different date. The media tries to switch things around that is far from the truth
The whole point of the article is not turning a blind eye to this crazed mob-type celebrity worship. You’re literally proving the point that people don’t realize how fucking out of control social media has made fans. Instagram makes these lonely insecure nut jobs think they’re friends with these celebrities and it’s irresponsible to not use your platform to quell that kind of unnecessary craziness. I’m happy they’re writing about some real shit and not some kardashian nonsense you should be too
Someone with a brain!!! YES!
First off I’m a fan of female rappers music in general .I agree that her fans ( minus me ) do go WAY overboard and a lot of them probably do project their own issues . In terms of followers , while im sure there are undoubtedly fake profiles – not everyone following a celebrity is necessarily a fan – fascination can be a large grey area . I do think it’s kind of weird how people are measuring her talent to fan ratio and I think that sorta falls in the same trolling territory …. also talent is definitely not the only thing that makes someone famous … there’s many many factors that also have nothing to do with talent that are responsible for someone being famous such as an evolving culture , change in generation , trends , etc In terms of Megan paying homage she s allowed to say whoever she wants , but It is hard not to notice the absence of Nicki from a lot of female rappers that get to a level of recognition and it does underline an interesting message that I think speaks more about sexism in general , but it could also be tactical for their career . Let’s just hope it all keeps evolving into better music .
But NICKI HAS NO TALENT. NO PERSONALITY. MEGAN RANKED The. REAL RAPPERS!
Why would you say Nicki has no talent???
Someone with common sense. Barbz need to be stopped they have harassed enough people !! Literally the worst fanbase
Damn Stupid Barbz. Plus NICKI’S BITCH ASS! A FUCCED UP COMBINATION.
Shut Up.
All these celebrity worshippers need a reality check. Is your life so pathetic that you worship another human being? These are mental issues fuelled by social media
They have more credibility then those Eminem Stans. A bunch of white kids that consider Eminem to be the GOAT..
You suck dick as a job
I wouldn’t say it’s just the barbz it’s an epidemic with this new generation and bullying not for just being a Stan, you are obviously just a hater. Rihanna Beyoncé lady Gaga Katy perry Taylor Swift Cardi b(which I’m sure is why you wrote this article since they mostly go after her untalented ass) all have little army’s behind them. I also think you are more upset that the barbz do have an impact and get things done, do some research instead of being a hypocrite for hating on a group or people who hate another group of people lol sitting behind your keyboard as well huh
all them words and said absolutely nothing of substance. didn’t even refute any of the facts the article went over, you just merely assert this site is full of haters, a whataboutism of other artists fanbases of army stands behind them, and say they “get things done” without giving an example and countering the arguments on the facts of low-ass ticket sales and albums failing to hit number 1 despite all the millions of followers on twitter and instagram. kade, you’re just butthurt that this site told the truth about the barbz lol
Yeah we should have known they’d go straight to Twitter and Instagram DMs to spew their hate, and attack. Yeah, that’s totally normal. Nothing wrong with that at all (sarcasm). Get a clue.
The Barbz only distort Nicki from the reality of the real pulse of the people,they give her false reads of the vibes and energies of the true fan base and markets she’s in. It makes her seem out of touch which in Hip Hop makes you WASHED! Minaj is so washed she actually seems unattractive now…Music and scene presence fell all the way off,and she made an amazing song tomorrow it would probably suffer from her energy/persona being attached to it
If you want people to stop spewing hate over the internet, make all people use their government names instead of handles or usernames. We’ll see how tough these losers really are.
It’s easy to talk tough shit over the internet with anonymity. Take that away and everyone becomes accountable.
THISS!!!! ^^^ Exactly.
First of all who reads your blog everybody but if you hate nickiminaj nobody is forcing you to like her . Number two let her barbz be at least there purpose in life is to support and uplift somebody . But you what is yours . Your just a sad low life who has nothing to do but to waste your time bringing someone down who has achieved greater and better things you will ever do so now tell me the difference between you and the people your discribing your visually the same thing .
You miss the point, as expected bc all y’all Barbz fan are close minded, insecure, have no idea when to chill and are pretty much social media terrorists. For you to have issue with what’s clearly being examined on a factual basis, further legitimizes the article…Don’t bother responding. I’m not coming back to this article, nor the comments. Good day…
In the authors defense, nowhere in the article does she spew hate on Nicki. Matter of fact, your non-common sense legitimizes the article. You’re missing the big picture, which is something your so called fan base peeps tend to do with no sense of intellectuality in the slightest… You are the problem. You all need a lesson on social media etiquette. Shoot, y’all need therapy. You’re all social media bullies…borderline social media enforcers with no sense of understanding stuff and jump ugly face head on into drama that is in the first place non existent. I feel sorry for your parents. They dropped the ball and now you’re non moving forward selves are stuck in idiocy. I wish a Barb came at me for dumb reasons face to face. But wait. It won’t happen bc you all hide behind the keyboard thinking you’re earning favor for an artist who doesn’t even know you exist. Get help, get a life…
Your a big fool never in your stupid ass life come for my parents it okay if you insult me but my parents there the battle line is drawn don’t you ever in your life say anything about my parents you dumb bitch. I am sorry if you’res didn’t give birth to you right but mine did some so I will come for you. it is your parents I pity the gave birth to someone with a half brain who can’t think and doesn’t have a purpose in life
Barbz are over the.too gay men and fat black intersectionals. Hate crimes for tbr them all. I’d love to beat the shit out of a sassy barb
If the “sole purpose” of a Barb was to uplift people there wouldn’t be articles like this. And btw – who the fuck do u think you people are? Wave changing social crusaders just cause u know the words to monster? Fuck off you’re all just insecure losers who have nothing going on so you live vicariously through celeb avatars like nicki who represent the confidence and sexiness you’ll never have. Imagine being so insecure you identify yourself FIRST as a nicki fan – not as a free thinking person with their own qualities and life story, but as another drone in a wack army of millions who wanna be identified primarily by their connection to a celeb they’ll never meet. What the FUCK is going on???
Nicki Minaj has always been overrated. Plus a grown woman wanting to be like a doll (a racist and sexist doll at that) is pathetic. Barbz hate away, no one cares.
These sycophants expect too much from birds perpetrating as Queens.