Lena Dunham may have passed the Twitter torch to someone else who could manage her profile, but she hasn’t given up hope on Instagram quite yet.
The Girls creator ditched the status-sharing site because she couldn’t take the “verbal abuse,” but it turns out she still has some haters checking out her photo prof.
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At Vanity Fair‘s New Establishment Summit on Tuesday, the 29-year-old opened up to Katie Couric and Insta’s CEO Kevin Systrom about how she learned that a nine-year-old girl had called her a “whore” on the picture-posting page.
The HBO star said she noticed that the tiny troll had spelled the insult incorrectly, so she decided to peruse her profile.
Once she did — and found videos of the child hanging out at home, speaking in fake accents, and eating chicken nuggets — she realized she didn’t harbor any bad feelings towards her young critic, explaining:
“If you’re a 9-year-old who has the wherewithal to find me and call me a whore, I’m all about you.”
And even though people still share negative comments about her on Instagram, Lena still prefers it to Twitter, saying:
“The presence of images and no character limits creates a much less toxic environment. The environment [on Twitter] became so hostile that it couldn’t possibly be okay for me to be reading this stuff.”
In fact, she even gets a sense of satisfaction from calling out the users who are harassing her, adding:
“I love reporting people. It’s my main source of power. There’s no reason I should be spending so much time reporting people except that it’s such a f*cking joy.”
And Kevin admitted that reporting cyberbullies on his site is actually effective:
“We get rid of people on our platform who were causing trouble. We tried to set a tone that Instagram wasn’t a place for that and we invest heavily in that. Images are just positive. It’s hard to be negative with an image.”
Well, we have to admit we’re a little uneasy that someone as young as nine is even using language like that in the first place, but as far as Lena is concerned, kids will be kids.
[Image via Lena Dunham/Instagram.]
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