Comments on: dream hampton, the Beyonce Beyhive, and the Toxic Internet Fishbowl

By: for the love of bey… | musings of a gemini

for the love of bey… | musings of a gemini — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:01:59 +0000

[...] is when lalah complimented bey on her work with the beat for girls). and most recently, their attack on dream hampton’s daughter cost twitter one of our great [...]

By: Jo Elliot

Jo Elliot — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:55:51 +0000

“Twitter ain’t therapy and you ain’t gonna be working nothing out on here.” – LOL, advice she could well live by now.

“Boss up on your emotions before you become a slave to them.” Et tu, Dream? Et tu?

And the ever popular maybe-they’ll-think-I’m-exotic-if-I-omit-a-vowel “fuk.”

Come back in a few years Dream, and we’ll let you play with the Big Girls of journalism.

By: Jo Elliot

Jo Elliot — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:31:33 +0000

Yeah I think we were all intrigued with her at one point or another. Her writing is admirable when she avoids the politicized mumbo-jumbo that is her stock in trade. She is not a heavy-hitter, though, and definitely not a director, nor an intellectual. Perhaps she is a pilot and perhaps she is still “low, firing” which was once her Twitter calling card in deference to her thug roots (before it became unfashionable). One wonders just how badass and “low firing” one can really be when they cower and run at the first serious bout of cyber-bullying. She was a master at bullying herself, albeit from the safety of her keyboard, so she should have been able to “boss up on” those emotions. In a world where you are only as good as your last Tweet, this is the end for @dreamhampton.

By: I am not auditioning to be your wife & a counter to Tracy McMillan | Single & Happy

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:12:10 +0000

[...] dream hampton left Twitter, she dropped a couple of gems that stayed with me. The first was, and I’m paraphrasing, but [...]

By: soulfullyreal

soulfullyreal — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:25:46 +0000

I used to follow dream and stopped long before this happend. To be honest she does come off as self righteous and self important, and the fact that she came at them like “where the fuk did you get this” certainly fanned the fire. However, i think the point here is that they were attacking her daughter. I don’t know how old these stans were, but adults calling children ugly, this, that and the third is disgusting. A bunch of grown ppl cyber-bullying? Really? To me that’s the saddest thing about it all.

By: tmc

tmc — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:25:00 +0000

I agree. I really, really agree. Dream hasn’t always been a bastion of civility herself online. Coming after her child was reprehensible but she lead with bombastic and, thus, elicited a bombastic response. I somehow imagine life will go on.

By: honeyxzillah

honeyxzillah — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 04:29:15 +0000

“I can see it in her eyes – Ms. Hampton’s daughter has the pain of not being able to just express herself without the heavy-handed politicized rhetoric haunting her every step of the way.”

^ God, I hope that’s not the nightmare her daughter is living. So heavy.

By: Monique

Monique — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 03:30:25 +0000

#Namedropmuch?

#BitterMuch?! dream may need to get over this incident, but CLEARLY YOU have some moving forward to do yourself! Goodness! #ReplyAboutpersonalopinionsandUnrelatedIncidentsInvolvingdreamhamptonmuch?!

I think we’ve heard enough from you. Go away!

By: lilkunta

lilkunta — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:57:25 +0000

i dont see the pic on beyonce ‘s tumblr.
dream get over it. people make fun of people.
your daughter is probably being made fun of at school.
yes words hurt .’remind your daughter every day that is is somebody, she is beautiful.

and if that dont work, tell her the truth : stans are just jealous bc she has a personal connection to beyonce but they DONT. haha ha

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By: Sally Mayfield

Sally Mayfield — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:41:25 +0000

Yeah this is a wake up call. Damn straight! It’s a wake up call for Dream Hampton to examine her role in all this drama inflicted upon her beautiful, innocent daughter. But sadly, what she will do is use it to go on the offensive, rally her band of minions into a frenzied crescendo of victimized banter and sidestep the issue of personal responsibility altogether.

Something tells me this latest incident is just the tip of the iceberg of what her daughter has suffered at the hands of an all-too-vocal mother. She is the epitome of the overbearing, rigidly self-righteous, black-than-thou sort of woman who puts her busines far too out there on the Internet for all of Awesome Daughter’s classmates and peers to see.

I can see it in her eyes – Ms. Hampton’s daughter has the pain of not being able to just express herself without the heavy-handed politicized rhetoric haunting her every step of the way. And the grand irony is that Ms. Hampton, for all her anti-celebrity, anti-American, anti-capitalism talk was deep in the thick of all those things when this incident occurred. She has been courting psuedo-celebrity for quite some time now. Obviously not content to stay quietly in the background like a traditional ghostwriter would. No, no, no, her ego is far too grand for all that. She never let her readers forget that – while she was just a down-home, salt of the earth, type of Everywoman, she rubbed shoulders with Pop’s current flavor-of-the-month. It was that very behavior – NOT TWITTER – NOT FACEBOOK- NOT BEYONCE’s “STANS” (whatever the hell that is) and NOT WHITEY – that was her ultimate undoing.

Take a lesson DREAM HAMPTON. If you are still teachable.

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