At this point, we are almost certain that there is a hate train trying to derail Pearl Thusi. In the eyes of social media, she can never do anything right.
The Pearl Thusi hate train is back
Anyway, it isn’t like Queen Sono lives for our approval. She bosses and bodies anything she features in and while our Twitter fingers click away at the keyboard in a frenzy, she continues to bag Ws and Bulletproof 2 is an appropriate case-in-point.
However, this time people who were tuned into the eclectic vibrations of Erykah Badu vs Jill Scott felt justified in their annoyance with the actress.
It is still hard for most music fans to take in the fact that a few hours ago, we witnessed two soul music powerhouses come together, in full view of close to a million fans, to celebrate each other. It was epic.
Pearl Thusi was one of our own celebrities who had tuned in with the rest of us. Hell, even former First Lady of the United States (US) Michelle Obama could not miss a moment of that Badu x Scott magic.
Why is everyone mad at Pearl Thusi this time?
Thusi had other concerns, though. The actress was seen commenting in the feed, suggesting that Scott needed more powder on her face.
The fact that she went as far as articulating those words boggled many and while she is not known that well in the US, South Africans who saw this could not fathom why she would represent us in this way.
Social media tears actress to shreds for comments about Jill Scott
In the grand scheme of things, this is all dramatised. However, for the Thusi hate train, it was all they needed to drum up more backlash to further prove their outlandish claims about the actress.
These are some of the reactions we picked out from social media.
Naturally, Thusi hasn’t — and probably won’t — addressed the backlash.
