Bad Omens’ Noah Sebastian Doesn’t Think Social Media Is Healthy

Bad Omens followers grew a bit involved final month when frontman Noah Sebastian deleted all of his social media profiles. In a brand new interview with Metal Hammer, the singer defined what he does not like about being a musician on social media, which is probably going why he removed it.

Coincidentally, a part of the explanation Bad Omens garnered loads of reputation within the final 12 months or so is as a result of their music went viral on TikTok. While it is apparently actually essential for a band to have a social media presence today, some musicians have opted out of getting their very own private accounts for varied causes. Sebastian is one in all them.

“I was trying to use my socials, and I just had to constantly mute them,” the vocalist mentioned within the interview. “I got really tired of seeing my own face, or seeing a stranger’s opinion of me every day. I don’t think that’s healthy. I’ve seen these accounts that collect baby pictures of me they find on a distant relative’s Facebook and make an entire shrine out of them.”

The singer argued that that aspect of the internet is “very one-sided,” because if he shared a set of photos of a female musician or celebrity when she was a child, he’d potentially be viewed in a negative light.

“It’d be weird, it’d be extremely inappropriate,” he elaborated. “It’s really funny how selective people are with their ethics.”

It was mid-December when the State of the Scene podcast identified that Sebastian had wiped all of his private accounts. Their publish caught the eye of Bad Omens followers everywhere in the web, who expressed concern for the singer’s wellbeing. However, many others famous that he hadn’t been lively on his personal pages in years, so it wasn’t solely a shock that he selected to eliminate them.

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In the identical Metal Hammer interview, Sebastian additionally shared his ideas on being labeled as a rock star, professing that he is not the person who many make him out to be as a result of he is in a rock band.

“I don’t really see myself as a rock star,” he said. “I don’t even know if I believe in the concept of a rock star anymore. I definitely wish everyone in the world knew me in real life and just knew how boring I was, and just knew how fucking lame I was, so that they could, you know, relax a little bit. But, that’s art, man. Art’s powerful.”