Meghan Trainor’s best friend Chris Olsen is clapping back at haters after the singer abruptly canceled her upcoming tour.
“So I guess now it’s become public knowledge that Megan Trainor has canceled her tour, and on one of the posts that was saying that that happened, the comment section was predictably vicious,” Olsen, 28, said in a TikTok video on Thursday, April 16. “And this is a bigger conversation than just her and people’s feelings towards Meghan or whatever they want to say about it, it’s the state of things online and how that comment section was, as I said, predictably vicious.”
Olsen went on to point out how “sad” it is that more often than not, “we intrinsically know” that a comments section on a video “isn’t going to be nice.”
“The question that always comes up for me is why and what is the end goal? Because sure, the goal might be to make other people laugh because you’re saying something that’s mean, but you think is funny. The goal could be to hurt the person you’re commenting toward,” he continued. “If you’re trying to be hurtful, what is the goal in hurting that person? Just to hurt them, and then you go about your day and that’s that, or is it to hurt them and hope that makes them do something about it?”
Olsen added that he has “been on the receiving end of the death threat before” and knows that it means someone “wants you to go away” and is saying it in the “harshest way possible.”
“But even if that person who you’re really not liking does go away, quits their job, decides to never be seen by you or by the public again, there are still going to be people who annoy you, and there are still going to be people who you don’t like that you’re going to have to deal with. That’s part of life, and you’re not going to be able to drive all of them away,” he continued. “So really, this energy just continues to get wasted, and it is impossible to empathize with a person like that, because in my darkest times, I have never imagined trying to put that energy on someone else, especially someone else I didn’t know, through the internet.”
Olsen argued that people who spread hate online are “wasting” their energy because it’s “very easy to just avoid things that you don’t like.”
“I guess I just wish I could even understand it more as to why someone would do that in the first place, why someone would use their energy in that way,” he concluded. “But I can not even empathize with it. I can’t understand it, and it just makes me sad to see.”
Trainor, 32, announced on Thursday that she is canceling her Get In Girl Tour, which was slated to kick off in June.
“After a lot of reflection and some really tough conversations, I’ve made the difficult decision to cancel the Get in Girl Tour,” she wrote via her Instagram Story. “Balancing the release of a new album, preparing for a nationwide tour and welcoming our new baby girl to our growing family of five has just been more than I can take on right now.”
Trainor welcomed daughter Mikey Moon via surrogate with husband Daryl Sabara in January. The couple also share sons Riley, 5, and Barry, 2.
The “Still Don’t Care” singer added that she needs to “be home and present” for her children.
“I know this will come as a disappointment to my fans, and I am so sorry to let you down,” Trainor concluded. “But I know this is the right decision for my family and me right now. I promise I’ll be back soon, and I can’t wait for you to hear this new record. I’m so proud of it and I’m endlessly grateful for your love and support always.”
Trainor’s seventh studio album, Toy With Me, is out Friday, April 24.
