I’ve never been a follower of any influencers that center their content around their romantic relationships. When it comes to privacy and limitations, when an influencer couple breaks up, I believe that it should be made public and kept classy.
Throughout the years, on apps such as Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, it’s become common to see a couple’s account appear on your feed.
I’ve seen accounts run by couples that will post and tell their fans a lot about their personal lives. Whether it be when the couple becomes pregnant, when a relationship shifts from dating into an engagement, or showing their kids growing older and posting them on the internet.
With giving fans all of this personal information that is meant for entertainment, I believe if there is a breakup between that couple, it should be made public.
If I were to be a fan of an account centered around a relationship, I feel that I would want to be aware of their separation. The audience isn’t entitled to know details of the breakup, but they should be informed if there is a change in relationship status.
With a breakup comes the separation of each content creator from the account, either to post on their own personal accounts or just one person leaving the couple’s account. Resulting in having the other person change the account possibly into a personal account.
Even if a follower interacts with a couple’s page, that doesn’t mean they also have to follow each person’s personal accounts. I would believe that people follow the couple’s account for the couple's content.
Let it be known that even though I believe it should be public knowledge if content creators break up, I do not think that it should be done in a disheartening manner. I believe that there are certain unsaid moral rules with privacy that public relationships should follow.
A relationship ending poorly is not an excuse to totally trash talk your ex-partner online, unless this person can be seen as a danger to themselves or others.
If a content creator experiences a public relationship that ends up being abusive behind the scenes and if both partner’s faces and lives were broadcasted for their fans to see, I believe that the breakup should be spoken about in detail.
By exposing the abuse of the relationship along with evidence, it can help prevent the next person who might want to get involved with the abuser from making the same mistake.
With how powerful the internet is, if one person does something to make the other ex-partner look bad, then that can cause the ex-partner to get hate from dedicated fans who may be on the other content creator’s side.
When an influencer gets hate, it can look like their comments being flooded with hurtful and displeasing remarks, and those messages can be in the direct messages for them to read.
When Olivia Rodrigo first released her “SOUR” album, a lot of hate got sent to Joshua Bassett, who was rumored to be in a brief relationship with her. Bassett was getting death threats and the stress from this had reportedly caused him to go to the ER. He discussed this issue in a 2022 interview with Zach Sang, a podcaster who specializes in interviewing popular music artists.
Relationship content creators must keep their fans in the loop of their relationship status if there is a dramatic change in the dynamic of their content. If these are dedicated fans who are following the influencers for the entertainment and love of their content, then they should be told of a breakup.
