We can add Jelly Roll to the list of people who have had enough of the Elon Era of Twitter. The singer, fed up with how sh-tty people are on the platform, has decided to peace the F out, calling Twitter “the most toxic negative app to exist ever.” He also called it a “safe place for everyone to say mean sh-t to each other.” Well, he’s not wrong! Just prior to Jelly’s decision to leave, people had been giving him a hard time over pictures he posted with Jack Black while backstage at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Over the weekend, he had to contend with crazy conspiracies after he complained about the music industry and earlier this year, he took a social media break after commenters were bullying him about his weight.
“This is for sure the most toxic negative app to exist ever — PERIOD. Lol,” Jelly Roll wrote on X Oct. 20. “This place is different man, I always heard it was the Wild West on here but man it’s insane. It’s a safe place for everyone to say mean s–t to each other with no consequences. I’m out lol.”
Shortly before the “Save Me” singer’s announcement, he had been posting photos from his appearance at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, where he performed “Mama, I’m Coming Home” as a part of his Ozzy Osbourne tribute. After sharing a backstage photo with his band and Jack Black with the caption, “This is crazy,” one commenter replied, writing, “Jack Black looking real uncomfortable.”
“Jack Black hung out with us for 10 hours in the green room,” Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord, replied, “Coolest most comfortable dude I’ve ever met in my life lol.”
The singer’s announcement comes just days after an Oct. 18 tweet of his gained attention when he wrote, “Learned a lot about how slimy the music business is this week, don’t worry yall know I’m going to expose it soon. This whole thing is smoke and mirrors yall. All that s–t Russ be talking about is REAL!”
He later replied to the tweet on Oct. 19, adding, “Man yall made a mountain out of a molehill with this one. All these weirdly over dramatic comments about selling souls and satanic weird s–t is just weird . lol. I’ll be talking about all this on my wife’s podcast soon.”
Jelly Roll’s Instagram account is still active with the singer boasting 3.4 million followers.
This isn’t the first time Jelly Roll has taken a break from social media.
“My husband got off the Internet because he is so tired of being bullied about his f–king weight,” Jelly Roll’s wife Bunnie XO said in an April 22 TikTok promoting her April 24 episode of her Dumb Blonde podcast. “That makes me want to cry because he is the sweetest angel baby.”
Bunnie, whose real name is Alisa DeFord, shared that the online critics affect her husband.
“He doesn’t show it to you guys but I’m gonna have a very vulnerable moment here,” she continued. “It hurts him. The Internet can say whatever the f–k they want about you and they say ‘well you’re a celebrity, you’re supposed to be able to handle it,’—no the f–k you’re not.”
First off, I had no idea that Jelly Roll was married to Bunnie XO, so I learned something new today. Anyway, I don’t blame him! His fans can still interact with him through other platforms, so why does he need to deal with all of that negativity? I still check in with accounts that I respect and follow because I like to read what they have to say, but I don’t engage very much anymore beyond just “liking” a Tweet. It’s not worth the headache of the bots or the Blue Check Bro a-holes who apparently have literally nothing better to do all day beyond harassing strangers online. And a lot of the protections against harassment have been lessened or taken away. It’s easy for someone like me to make my account private to help prevent unwanted engagement and just lurk. I can only imagine how annoying it is for journalists or celebrities (the ones who manage their own social media accounts) to have to deal with the constant toxicity. I don’t blame Jelly for leaving. Good for him.
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Tbh at this point anyone who is still on Twitter is complicit in Musk’s project to destroy democracy, to give us Trump and fascism.
This.
I disagree. Most Twitter users hate Elno. Every attempt at subterfuge from him is first noted on Twitter. App the mainstream outlets get these stories from Twitter users. The fact that you know he’s trying to undermine our democracy is bc of Twitter. Added bonus: Twitter is draining his money
Respectfully, no. Musk bought Twitter because it gave him the biggest platform in the world. As you point out it’s still huge despite what he’s done to it, and the only reason it’s still a huge platform because people continue to use it. If I go on and on about the evils of animal agriculture and how it’s destroying the planet, but I continue to eat meat, I’m not only a hypocrite but I’m also complicit.
Not sure is “Elno” is a typo or intended but I love it.
I would miss the history lessons and sass from @dieworkwear if I left. And I really enjoy the local news places. But there’s a lot of hate over there. Lots of paid hate and lots of bots.
I finally deleted my account and left that Nazi hellscape that Musty has turned it into and haven’t turned back.
Not just turning your back on nastiness but on that spoiled rich brat and his attempt to undermine our democracy.
I have never, ever been able to get interested in Twitter and I’m glad for it.
Seriously, quit social media and see if your happiness in life increases. Mine has. I have no desire to go back to it.
Since most media are not on Threads I just kept both accounts. That way I can follow conversations.
He is not the only one.. I am really interested to see what’s going to happen with Elon and his South African apartheid cohorts that have all blatantly been interfering with the elections and pushing propaganda and lies after the election. I mean Royal say, after Kamala Harris is president because we all know diaper don is will have pardons waiting.
Jelly’s latest album is now #1 on the Billboard charts. Awesome for him and a nice FU to his critics.