How do we know that life is stranger than fiction? Because multi-platinum-selling rapper and singer Doja Cat is calling out Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp (Will Byers) for being a “snake” and a “weasel.” Get comfortable, cause this one’s weird.
So Doja Cat, the woman behind the #1 hit “Say So,” is a Stranger Things fans, as are so many of us. Specifically, she’s a fan of actor Joseph Quinn, who played Eddie Munson in season 4; on May 30 she wrote on Twitter that he was “fine as shit,” and fair enough.
Apparently, Doja Cat wanted to take her interest a little further. According to Vanity Fair, Doja Cat tried to find Quinn’s socials but couldn’t, so instead she reached out to his 17-year-old costar Noah Schnapp on Instagram. “Noah can you tell Joseph to [hit me up],” she wrote. “Wait no. Does he have a girlfriend?”
Schnapp then provided Doja Cat with a link to Quinn’s Instagram. And we know all of this because Schnapp shared his conversation with the 26-year-old rapper in a since-deleted video on TikTok, where he was 30 million followers. (Quinn is 29, FYI, just so you have all the information.)
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That did not sit well with Doja Cat, who responded with a video of her own on Instagram live. “I think that to be fair, first, let’s try to be chill about it,” she said. “Like Noah is a kid, but, I don’t even know how old he is, but like there’s no way he’s over 21. When you’re that young, you make mistakes, you do dumb shit. I’m trying to be super fair…You’re supposed to do stuff like that so that you know not to do it in the future. I did my share of fuck-ups so that I don’t fuck up again.”
That said, she considers what Schnapp did “unbelievably socially unaware and wack,” saying that she felt violated to have their private conversation shared that way. “That’s like borderline snake shit. That’s like weasel shit,” she said. “I’m not saying that encapsulates his entire personality. I wouldn’t imagine he is. Maybe he is, like, a whole snake. But I didn’t see him that way. I made an assumption that he was gonna be chill about it and he went and shared information that I didn’t feel comfortable with him sharing.”
So…the irony here is that Doja Cat accounts for Schnapp’s minority when talking about his behavior, but apparently didn’t think it was inappropriate to ask a 17-year-old to set her up with his 29-year-old coworker in the first place. That seems to be the tack Twitter is taking now; feel free to peruse for further hot takes.
This is all very silly, and it’s passing, and it’s already over, and there’s no need to get angry or blast anyone about it. Hopefully it made you smirk for a second before the weekend. Go in peace.
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