Given Rihanna‘s talent deficiencies, the model has consistently crutched on a multitude of platforms to maintain relevancy.
One of the most notable has been Instagram.
Whether posing in the streets after a night of partying or throwing jibes at her chart rivals, RiRi has managed to use the ‘gram as her most powerful press tool. Indeed, her antics on the social media site seem almost designed to be headline grabbing — and it works.
As such, many were confused when the star abruptly blocked her profile from the public early this year. We weren’t, though.
From where we stand, it was a masterclass in press manipulation. For, when there’s nothing to promote, why be in folks faces? Lay low and reserve it until when needed.
And it appears that’s exactly what the diva has done.
This evening she reactivated her profile, much to the delight of her 12 million followers. The timing of the “return” and the inevitable articles it’ll spurn (such as the one you’re reading) has many speculating about whether it hints at the imminent release of Rih’s much delayed 8th album? Time will tell.
In the meanwhile, check out the 26-year-old’s first pics back below…
#RIHunited #badgalback @instagRam A photo posted by badgalriri (@badgalriri) on
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Sam and his crusade of shade towards Rihanna…. lol smh.
What did she do to TGJ I don’t get it. Lmao.
But this can mean a couple of things for Ri’s return to Instagram. New album and a possible controversial album cover of her showing something….. maybe a n1pple or two.
Lol @ her return to IG getting a post. Ha power….
I hate the set of pics of her with the camera because she looks like my mom in her 20s in them and that’s just creepy.
The Bish is back!! Bring the new, new Rih!!
#WeReady
@Sam ZzZzZzZzZzZ at the same ol tired Riherpes shade from 2006 when Bush was in office.. And which new album is that u speak of? There is no new album here. We have a better chance of finding a cure for Riherpes aidss infected vag than getting a new album from her.. Sit _/
On behalf of the entire blog…No one likes you, sincerely, The Critic x
But luckily, unlike you, I didn’t come here to be liked by forum homosexuals who are rejected by society. My family likes me, so u can take all ur likes and keep them 🙂
Are you sure your family loves you? Cus I don’t think so. The only thing I’m sure they taking care of is making sure you take ur meds cus from your comment you’re sick. Only God knows the HATE that’s brewing inside of you.
But DEATH at @TROLL111 saying her mom looks like Riherpes.. I have heard it all. The navy is truly delusional
I hate to admit that I’m deeply missing Rihanna. She needs to hurry up and release that single so she can do her annual X factor live show performance
YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS RIHANNA NAVY !! WE GOT OUR GURL BACK ON INSTAGRAM.. LETS GET THIS MONEY LMAO.. I AM EXCITED.. I CAN’T WAIT FOR THIS NEW ALBUM as well!!
Well she needs as much social media as she can to promote this flop of an album… *sips tea*
She waited too long to make her return. Beyonce and Kim are the queens of IG now.
@beysus I doubt you’re a real Beyonce fan. You’re in almost every post throwing ancient outdated shade and starting trouble with other fan bases even when there’s no need.
Please…. And anyway it’s the truth. How many Navy stans asked “When will Beyonce outsell Unaflopagetic?”???
You’re not the navy,so stop acting like one. I expected better from a fellow Hive member. And the worse thing is you can’t defend yourself when they drag you.Sorry to say this but honey YOU CAN’T DRAG!
– That’s all and still I love you BTW.
Ummm I’m not… And defend myself from what??? The facts speak for themselves…
Damn u just slayed Beysus BRWAAAHAHAHAHALOLOL chile!!!
B**** shut up… The Flop Classic certified yet???
I missed her on insta, beyonce’s too boring.
Can’t wait!!! #r8
Taylor’s album is gonna sell about 1.3 million in its first week:)
so? the girl has been doing non stop promotion every single day. those numbers are suppose to make up for all the promoting she’s doing. if she sells less than a million then i’m gonna laugh my ass off.
DONT BE A MORON DUDE GAGA HAD A BUDGET OF $25 MILL FOR PROMO AND JLO WAS ALL OVER THE PLACE,LOL ARIANA GRANDE YET THEY STILL FLOPPED STOP HATING AND JUST CONGRATULATE
What’s wrong with doing promotion? If it was that easy to sell a million, the. Every artist would be doing loads of promotion like Taylor, but guess who was the last album to sell a million In a week? 2 years ago., when taylor released her last album.
@catfish
That Gaga budget is an absurd rumour. Her budget wasn´t different to Katy Perry´s budget, just to give an example.
And? Ariana had twice as much promo and only did 170K. She still hasn’t even outsold Ultraviolence to date with all that hype and payola. Just last week everyone thought there would never be another million plus debut again. Stay mad Taylor already has the best selling album of 2014.
So, that’s the problem with artist now they don’t promote. Hell even if Taylor didn’t do heavy promote I’m sure she would sell 800k – 1m first week and wouldn’t have to relay on a surprise release gimmick. Taylor swift had the best selling album of 2014 and you will deal.
No one give a f*** about that basic, pumpkin spice ass b**** you stan for
who r u talking to ?
“Given Rihanna’s talent deficiencies” – Sam has no chill lol. Smfh
Why are y’all slow. Beyonce re/release track list; features include nicki minaj (new song) rihanna and justin t. barrelhousebklyn.com/beyonce-beyonce-vol-2-album-tracklist-release-date/
Dumb biitch, thats not real. I hate u!
LMAO @ her needing instagram now. The struggle. This just proves her antics and persona is a gimmick
The same way Beyonce had to relay on a surprise release gimmick only to be outsold by Taylor Swift first week, One Direction, and Eminem.
This post reminded me of Adele! So she´s not releasing an album this year after all then… sad. I was hoping she could demolish the disgrace that is an album like Taylor Swift´s album doing numbers who only real legends and extraordinary talents should be doing. Adele girl, I was counting on you! 🙂
About Rihanna… yeah she´s beautiful LOL
its been 6 months since she deleted her “gram” and its still the most talked about, every blog or celeb website is reporting on her return, promotional gimmick or not she had a valid reason for leaving and by the looks of her second pic seems she and instagram resolved their differences.
All this woman did was create an instagram account and got Sam and the haters MAD, lol. Just wait for the album losers.
Why get back on Instagram now sis?
Hope she brings fire with R8!!!!!!
yeh yeh. talk about that wtf kind of relevance. click bait post worthy? what does it change? lure those cb and drake fans and dumbsh*ts back on there. f*ck her instagram. imo
Riri is back in the cut.
Rihanna is performing at VS this year! confirmed
Sam grow up, and I’m screaming at the contradictions saying Rihanna needs Instagram when there’s no proof of an album or single that’s even going to be released soon, and isn’t your tired fav release photoshopped Instagram photoshoots all over her gram everyday. Is that why you’re mad that Rihanna is back and will som overshadow Beyonce again?
Lool! I see no lies Sam. The Navy can stay mad about it. The girl proved shes irrelevant without social media.
CNN posted this story about Rihanna back on instagram, it is world news now.
Screaming at the hive hating. At least my fav doesn’t photo-shop her instagram pics.
At least my fave doesn’t need a billion social media sites to promote a flop album…
She most definitely needs photoshop though; and she did rely on a billion social media sites to promote that gimmick of a CD release.
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But anyway this is coming from a delusional stan who equates Beyonce to Jesus, clearly you’ve got nothing going on in your life if you worship a celebrity.
yeah she just needed every news network, music/celeb website to promote her flop album
As if I take the name seriously…. And “Gimmick”??? Please!!! It’s the fastest selling album on iTunes… And it was promoted AFTER the release!! We all know #R8 is gonna be full of EDM/Dubstep/Trap s***…
It’s not a flop Hun…
Fastest selling album that quickly died own, and she did rely on a billion social media sites to promote it contrary to what you tried to delusion-ally assert.
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And what’s the point of having the fastest selling album when you end up selling like everyone else in the end? What’s the point.
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Oh wait, your god Beyonce hasn’t allowed you to use something she doesn’t rely on herself, LOGIC.
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Honey go back and give that tired sermon to the church of Beyonce where you worship and come back to me when you start using something Beyonce is incapable of using, a brain.
yes the fastest selling album to have an itunes only release…how many of those are there? Oh yeah just the one. Isnt that like saying she is the most crazy patient in an insane asylum?
Why don’t you go buy copies of the 4-5 albums “4” has outsold in the US??? *sips tea*
Jealous much????
“4”?? What is that? I’ve never heard of it
What is MOTS??? What is AGLM??? What is a Pon De Replay???
slight problem, i aint american and my fav does great ww. So im good.
I see… Saving money for her next struggling tour???
Oh so you cannot answer the question, even you don’t know. Your god Beyonce won’t be happy.
What is “4”??? Well it’s an album that helped Bey score another #1 and a sell out tour… Plus she only had 4 sold out shows in 2012… And gave Bey a Grammy… More musical that anything Rihfund will ever do…
How many hits did this 4 have? clearly it’s not a memorable album, I mean I don’t remember any song that had any sort of impact on this 4 you speak of. TTT sold 3.3 million copies, how many did this 4 sell?
and yet when you look back at their careers, rated r will be more of a staple on rih’s career than 4 or BEY ever will for bey. And while vocally your fav peaked at i am… With every release rihanna is praised for her growth.
How many hits did TTT have other than We Found Generic EDM????
Way more than Beyonce has been able to have since local ladies
Didn’t even properly answer my question…. And when will Rihfund have an album as iconic as Single Ladies?????
*VIDEO even…
LMAO What is so iconic about single ladies?
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Single Ladies : 330 million views
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We found love: 396 million views
Diamonds : 489 million views
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Yep, people would rather watch Rihanna than see Beyonce prance around a spotlight for 3 min
WTF did this b**** just ask??? Oh the delusion….
Lol. Oh Rihanna, you’re so very predicatble.
and lets not forget your fav only started using gram around the release of her album to “rebrand” her image and her surname was inspired by the one you trying to shade.
Did the “rebranding” involve endless photoshop pics LOL??
oh yes i think the whole point of her being on instagram was to proof that
1- she had no fashion sense and the little she has is copied from rih
2-she aint bad
3-(and this is the main one) she has no thunder thighs.
quick question, is this comment section automatically dislike any non-pro-bey comment or is beysus going around disliking any and all anti-beyhive comment
I’d go for the second option… You’re allowed to like and dislike stuff too you know….
it does not interest me its a waste to validated opinions on a blog, but thanks for disliking mine.
and yet when you look back at their careers, rated r will be more of a staple on rih’s career than 4 or BEY ever will for bey. And while vocally your fav peaked at i am… With every release rihanna is praised for her growth.
Hmmm no…
Honey, no one remembers Rated R. I don’t even see the forum homosexual sites talking about it.
@blue
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I mean he called himself “Beysus” for crying out loud. He is has some serious mental issues to be worshiping another human being, and a celebrity who shakes her as$ and flings her weave around of all people.
lol. To be fair i have seen a rihsus but your right those kinda people are the worst of all stans.
*she
And doesn’t Rihfund do the same??? Plus a load of crotch grabbing and turning up 3 hours late???
The only interesting thing I got from this is your failing to deny you worship another human being. Off to the mental asylum you go
And off you go to the discount shop to buy Rihfunds albums….
which is why i do not equate rih to jesus. Because as she herself has said million times over, she is but a flawed human being.
But anyway this is coming from a delusional stan who equates Beyonce to Jesus, clearly you’ve got nothing going on in your life if you worship a celebrity.
Oops! Lb went in.
Again, as if I take the name seriously….
anyways… Its crazy the reaction her instagram gets from the meltdowns when she deleted it to the rejoicing the internet is doing now that she is back. Its crazy… But i mean how many celeb’s grams fight crime?
https://mobile.twitter.com/BeharLovesB/status/528638319362859008
Seeing how that Beyoncé worshiper looks like, I see why he’s always sour.
he aint all that bad, most def not what i expected though.
LOL!!!!! 1. That was a tweet I found concerning Beys next album release…
2. I’ve uploaded tweets like that from different people all the time…
3. It I actually had Twitter, I would connect it to this…
AND 4. WTF you’re actually buying this!!! THIS. IS. HILARIOUS!
This is hilarious, Rihanna reopens her instagram page, the Beyonce worshiper gets sour because someone who doesn’t need to photo-shop her instagram pics gets headline news for doing so.
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Why do you go look at Beyonce’s chopped screwed airbrushed and retouched pics instead of worrying about Rihanna’s instagram pics.
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It’s not Rihanna’s fault without that adobe program, your fav looks like a Rhino during labour.
Sour??? Laughing at the desperation more like it…
Desperation? From someone who equates Beyonce to Jesus, does your god even know you exist? LMAO you’re a sad little pathetic man who has nothing better to do that give sermons on how great Beyonce is when frankly nobody really cares.
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If they cared, they would have watched her show on HBO but nope, the world has moved on.
1. I don’t believe in God
2. I’m not a man, b****. Try again…
Umm…Don’t even try to come for Bey for editing her pics when Rihanna’s team stays photoshopping her wide nose and protruding forehead.
Rihanna doesn’t photoshop her INSTAGRAM pics, Beyonce sure does though.
Good luck to her this year…should be very interesting
Idc if we are specifically talking about IG pics or not. BOTTOM LINE, her pictures HAVE been PHOTOSHOPPED countless times.
Everyone knows Magazines and pro photographers photoshop pictures, but photoshopping your OWN INSTAGRAM pics is a new low
Then watch her live performances then…
A new low? How so? People could arguably say that Rihanna using photoshop or contouring her protruding forehead and larger nose to make it look smaller is a new low…because she’s still deceiving the general public.
Your girl has just as many, if not more flaws than Beyonce tbh.
Rihanna doesn’t photoshop her instagram pics, Beyonce does photoshop her instagram pics.
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And this is coming from a woman who sang a song written by Sia but fraudulently claimed by Beyonce called pretty hurts.
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How do you go from pretty hurts to photoshopping your instagram pics?
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Oh wait, this is the same woman who hypocritically claimed to support the fight against childhood obesity with Michelle Obama only to sign on the dotted line of a PEPSI endorsement.
Hahahaha what does any of that have to do with the topic at hand…ya know, what we were just talking about??? Don’t try and deflect. You know Pon De Forehead as horrible facial symmetry lolol
Anyway, let me go do other things that I’ve got going on in my life, which do not involve “YAASSSSSIIINNNGGG” over a celebrity like majority of Beyonce fans do. If they are not hating on blogs, they are prancing around twitter.
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I mean a Beyonce worshiper goes through great lengths to look for a Beyonce tweet from someone it doesn’t even follow. I mean a person it follows didn’t even retweet it or even favourite it, nope it actively spent hours looking for that tweet LMAO. That speaks volumes man, volumes.
Looking for a tweet??? Hun that pic went VIRAL!!! All I had to do was look at a hashtag trend
Oh the irony, considering the fact that you’re TGJ FAMOUS for being a level five Beyonce hater lol. Spending your valuable time hating, participating in stan wars, and causing internet beefs have seemed to be your forte for the past few years.
But it’s to be expected. Like fan, like fave #HaveABlessedDay
Rihanna got rid of her intsagram, it made worldwide news. Rihanna is using Instagram again and it makes worldwide news again. And judging by how Sam posted pics of her page with the “following” button having a green highlight then it’s only safe to assume that Sam is happy she’s back too so he could stalk and seethe that Baddie bey could never look that. Though she shouldn’t have to, she should be happy how she looks but if she’s photoshopping her own pics then I’m guessing she needs some therapy
Like that**
I doubt Beyonce needs therapy. Rihanna might though, considering the fact that she’s a consistent drug user.
Agg! Another pathetic fight between shitbird and the crazy beysus…lovebird Aka TEENAGEDREAM hasnt it got tiring to go back and forth with the dilusional hive for the past three years you have been coming here?? i have realised how they have turned you into some lowlife man,i used to come her looking forward to your coments because you were one of the people who knew how to be objective and give costructive critisism about music… But i still respect your music taste, I am still patiently waiting for your music you promised last year, you know that you promised when you told us you were leaving this site for good to focus on. and someone please tell me what happened to skyfall, when did he become this dilusional tgj f****? I see Rosey is still here, um where is stephy, greatlacefront, slayriah, H2O and other tgj old fans.. Sam what happened to this site??
Then leave…
Taylor Swift has claimed her second number one album with 1989 in the uk
90,000 copies of her fifth studio album were sold in the past seven days, making it the fastest-selling LP by a female artist so far in 2014.
Honey you can’t rush perfection, still working on it. Let’s keep it on the hush hush until I am ready to deliver, thanks babe.
Why so much hate bc people love seeing Rihanna back on IG? Social media is a marketing tool in today’s industry (all aspects TBH). There shouldn’t be a paragraph of Shade equal to a tropical forest. Whatever the case may be, I’m just waiting for R8.
The delusion in this post. Damn near everyone on IG edits their pics in some way. And I’m not just talking about putting a VSCOcam filter on top. See: Kylie Jenner’s friend (idk her name, I just know she’s black and looks completely different in candids).
Photoshopping and editing pics in different filters and such are two different things. Instagram cannot make you look thinner than you actually are so stop spreading YOUR DELusion. If Rihanna does ‘drugs’ like the “church of Beysus And everything that relates Beyoncé” like to say then why deny that Beyoncé has body issues?
Somebody say Beysus???…
Can you read? I CLEARLY said editing with filters was a completely different thing. My point still stands? At least 80% of people on IG uses some form of Photoshop/Instabeauty/Facetune/whatever app. Most of those apps also have features to make you look skinnier. It’s well known Kylie Jenner uses a ton of those.
There are no features on Instagram that makes you look skinner, if so then show me the receipts unless Kyiles friend took a pic, photoshopped it first then uploaded it on Instagram. At least come with s*** that makes sense.
The excuses. You are still EDITING the way you look to create and illusion. And Rihanna allows the photoshopping of her nose, no booty and head so just stop.
This stupid war between rihanna and beyonce neither gave me life. Im just happy rihanna is on instagram because it got boring.
The hive always seethe because Rihanna could do something indirectly and it makes headlines. She could just step out of her home and fart loudly and that would make headlines, Beyoncé has to fake a pregnancy, build her brand up with surprise release gimmick just so she can outsell UNA (only in album sales), had stir up domestic abuse/divorce rumors about her and JayZ just keep their tour going. For Stan group that shades a woman who says is a gimmick and has no talent is stanning for a butch that relies on gimmicks and thievery to sell? #DumbHive
That’s pretty funny coming from someone who stans for a woman who’s career revolves around controversy, twitter beefs, and changing her damn identity every five seconds…all as a ploy to distract the SLAVEy from her lack of vocal AND dancing talent.
As a matter of fact, Rihanna should be sending Chris Brown a thank you basket right now. Because she definitely did more than milk the hell out of that “situation”.
Rihanna only mentioned her situation twice once when it happened on dateline and the other time with Oprah. Her career was never limited to her drama, she had the star power to keep on making hits and making her brand stronger and more relevant in the past and current markets. That’s diffferent than making your OWN controversy to try sell out tickets and albums.
And Beyonces was? Lol. Beyonces rumors are started by the media, not her. The fact you think she actually brought on those disgusting fake pregnancy rumors herself. Yet you defend Rihanna who goes out of her way to cause controversy. Smh.
And think you mean Beyonce only has to sneeze and shes headlines, not Rihanna. Rihanna has to do a lot to be in headlines, hence why no one cared when she didn’t have instagram.
Erm Rihanna edits her pictures like everyone else. Remember how flat the candids of naked really. Its sinking into her back.
Naked B****
Anyway, DEATH at them getting excited because this made news (like beyonce hasnt been on CNN 100x before) Her main claim to fame is IG, it is her notorious gimmick. Thats not something to boast about.
They did care this why they made news about her leaving and coming back. She also made headlines about her tour, her singles, her pictures about a new single. Wasn’t the hive excited when she did those Instagram photos as soon as Rihanna went away? Now that she decided to come back no one is going to check for her anymore except her stalker fanbase. You guys are fans of Rih though, even TGJ is following her Instagram 😉
Um Beyonce took over Rihannas followers while she was still on instagram with no effort whasoever. Clearly people care.
I meant when she was off it, she was ghost in the media. Hence why her main claim to fame is IG and its a big deal because shes back on. Shes always doing something for attention on IG, if its not shading someone its posting vulgar pictures.
its ironic you would claim that when rihanna made more headlines this year than bey. The fashion scene this year was rocked by one specific dress worn by one daring diva.
Oh and the rumours about her album have been fever pitch the last 2 months. With Mtv even begging her to release something soon. This is the girl that somehow got the world cup to be all about her?
Receipts of Rihanna making MORE headlines than Bey. Because those 3 things are nothing. Are your forgetting everything that went down with Beyonce this year? OTR, Elevatorgate, Album accomplishments and so on…
Also, Beyonce platinum album edition has had about as many rumors as R8 lol.