"He didn't have anything to do with it and it wasn't even part of the conversation in all actuality he was the person who told me not to joke like that," Bieber said.įans on Twitter are speculating that Bieber may be trying to cover for his manager - the irony being that if he hadn't spoken up, the question of who captured the screenshot and Braun's specific role in the incident might not have even been raised.Not only does this pop up appear once the photo is taken, but it also names the person who took the photo. In the same breath he said they didn't even discuss Taylor Swift on the call. Not only did Bieber claim that he took and posted the screenshot himself with the caption, but he said that Braun advised against him doing so.
Representatives for Scooter Braun Projects, which represents Bieber, didn't respond to request for comment to confirm how the screenshot taken from Braun's end of the call ended up on Bieber's Instagram account. Or Braun took it and posted it to Bieber's account himself (it's not unusual for celebrities' managers to have access to their clients' social media accounts). #WeStandWithTaylor /Gyl6jhlb7T- Arella July 3, 2019Ĭontrary to what Bieber claims, either Braun (or potentially West) must have taken the screenshot and sent it to Bieber to post on Instagram.
Scooter obviously sent him it and made him post it. THEN HOW IS HE THE BIG ONE ON THE SCREEN?
#Facetime screenshot full#
In justin’s response to taylor on instagram, he takes full responsibility for his instagram post of him on facetime with kanye and scooter. The phone appears to be in Braun's hand at the time. Instead his face is filling the screen, indicating that the screenshot was taken from Braun and West's end of the call. "I have to be honest though it was my caption and post that I screenshotted of Scooter and Kanye." he said.īut as Twitter user noticed, there's one big problem with his statement - if Bieber had taken the screenshot from his end of the call, he would have appeared in the top-left corner. In 2016 West released a music video featuring himself in bed next to a model of Swift's naked body, which she described in her post as "revenge porn." Alongside her note, Swift posted a screenshot of an Instagram post by Bieber, in which he appears on a FaceTime call with West, Braun and another man, captioned "Taylor Swift what up." Swift pointed it out as an example of him bullying her on social media.Ĭoming to Braun's defense this week, Bieber claimed full responsibility for the post and insisted his manager had nothing to with it. Following the acquisition announcement, Swift posted a message to Tumblr in which she described Braun's ownership of her masters as her "worst-case scenario," due to his "incessant, manipulative bullying" of her over the years.īraun, in addition to managing Bieber, also works as an "advisor" to West. The reason it matters is that Bieber appears to be lying to protect the reputation of his manager.īraun's company, Ithaca Holdings, last week bought Swift's former record label Big Machine Label Group for $300 million, which owns the masters to her first six albums. But unfortunately for Bieber, there was a major discrepancy in his version of the story - as anyone who has used FaceTime could tell, he can't have captured the screenshot from his end of the call. In an Instagram comment, he claimed to be responsible for capturing a screenshot of a FaceTime call featuring himself, Braun and Kanye West, which he then posted online with a caption poking fun at Swift. The popstar inserted himself into a conflict between his manager Scooter Braun and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Taylor Swift this week, and in doing so opened himself up to accusations of lying.
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Justin Bieber seems to have forgotten how FaceTime works. Bieber, his manager Scooter Braun, Kanye West and one unidentified man are accused of bullying Taylor Swift.
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