NEW YORK (HR): Rihanna’s back! Or should we say, badgalriri. After a summer minus the singer’s Instagram presence, the singer appears to have kissed and made up with the social media site, and has decided to start posting again.
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If you cast your minds back to May, you’ll remember that RiRi fell out with the site after she kept posting near-naked photos that flouted Insta’s no-nudity policy - her account was taken down, put up, taken down and then abandoned, with the singer sticking to Twitter instead.
But Rihanna posted a sketch of her shaking hands with the Instagram logo - so we guess it will be a mere matter of minutes before her account resumes normal service.
RIP badgalriri. Rihanna’s Instagram seems to have been taken offline - after being taken off yesterday, put back up, and then taken down again. We can’t keep up.
To update you on the Insta-drama, Rihanna, queen of the belfies, had flouted Instagram’s no nudity policy for a while now, but kinda got away with it because, well, she’s Rihanna. But after sharing images from her latest mag shoot with French publication Lui, TMZ reported that the site took them down, and threatened to ban the singer if she refused to stop posting topless pics by email.
In true Rihanna style, her response was to post them up on Twitter for all her Navy to see. She also put some fan art of the Lui cover up, as well as a dowdy fake picture of her captioned “Rih’s next magazine cover if it was up to Instagram”.
On Monday, it seemed like Rihanna had pushed it too far, because her account was taken offline and leading to an error page. But after a backlash from RiRi’s loyal fanbase, Instagram released a statement saying it was a technical glitch:
“This account was mistakenly caught in one of our automated systems and very briefly disabled. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
All well and good, but now Rihanna’s account has been taken down AGAIN. So what’s going on? Did her account get caught in a technical glitch again? Or did RiRi just refuse to reactiviate her account after being told what to do? One thing’s for sure - the internet is probs missing her bikini-clad updates.