The world we helped Chrissy Teigen make

Teigen was cruel on social media - and we wanted it that way.

Model, cookbook author and all-around famous-for-being-famous person Chrissy Teigen must be wondering where it all went so wrong so fast. One of the most beloved Twitter celebrities became one of the platform’s most hated almost overnight, as Kat Rosenfield explains in The Spectator:

Teigen, a key figure in so many online draggings over the years, should know better. At the height of her influence, she drew applause for her epic clapbacks, her awesome dunks, her ability to make mincemeat of ordinary people with the perfect cutting remark — which she got away with by persuading us that she was really quite ordinary herself, or at least ordinary-adjacent. Although she’d been nominally employed as an entertainer in various capacities, her true power was as a figurehead in a cult of personality, a D-list celebrity perfectly positioned at the nexus of attainable and aspirational. Teigen was glamorous but self-deprecating, brassy yet strategically vulnerable. She was the queen bee of the so…