Justin Bieber threw his fans for a loop on Thursday when he mysteriously changed his profile name on Instagram
The 31-year-old pop superstar had previously used his own name for the account, but social media users noticed that he had rebooted the account name as ‘lilbieber’ without warning or explanation.
The odd behavior — which coincided with a rapid-fire string of bizarre posts — came just a day after he shared another content creator’s post about receiving the ‘silent treatment,’ which many of his fans interpreted as referring to his marriage to Hailey Bieber.
The post followed Justin and Hailey’s bitter Father’s Day, when they apparently bickered publicly on social media.
Hours after the name change, the Sorry singer interrupted his posts of moody black-and-white self-portraits to share some rare photos of himself bonding with his 10-month-old son Jack Blues.
The surprisingly public display followed in the wake of an insider’s claim to The Sun that the model had branded her husband a ‘f***ing child’ in response to his post on Mother’s Day, in which he said the holiday ‘sucks a**.’
One fan account posted a reply that Justin allegedly posted in response to a comment about his name change, but the context and meaning wasn’t immediately clear.
‘We love to catagorize and box people in and it’s hurting us [sic],’ he allegedly wrote.
Over on X (formerly Twitter) fans were largely negative on the name change, with several expressing their consternation over the unexpected move.
‘Why did Justin bieber change is his insta name to lilbieber…. [sic],’ wrote one puzzled user.
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