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Billie Eilish loses followers on Instagram due to viral challenge
Billie Eilish, a Grammy-winning artist with over 70 million followers on Instagram, has a large fan base. Unfortunately, she annoyed more than a handful of them with her latest post. The 19-year-old participated in the viral “post a photo” trend on Instagram, in which followers can request to see certain photos. In a message, a fan asked Eilish to show her phone’s lock screen, and she did – it was a drawing of two naked women. According to an Instagram post by model Tout d’Llou, Eilish’s lock screen is a painting of her and Fox Chalker by David Cheifetz. When Eilish was invited to share a drawing she was proud of, she also shared a collage of several naked bodies and snakes, along with the caption “lol i love breasts”. After sharing these two images, Eilish appeared to lose more than 100,000 followers on Instagram, dropping from 73 million to 72.9 million. Eilish did not seem bothered by the initial loss. She took a screenshot of her fan’s tweet about the incident, shared it with her story and wrote: “LMFAOOO. You SMH babies ”