Mari Copeny, better known as Little Miss Flint, waded into the Nikki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion drama. Unsurprisingly, the Barbz descended upon the 16-year-old water activist.
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Over the last ten years, Copeny, whose photo hugging former President Barack Obama went viral, has been dedicated to ending the water crisis in Flint, Mich. The predominantly Black community has had to endure unsafe drinking water for the last decade. At 12 years old, she partnered with a scientist to create a water filter for her community and others in crisis.
Now, on to the beef: Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion have been locked in an exchange of words on tracks and social media over the last week. Things got so bad that fans of Nicki Minaj actually doxxed the location of Megan Thee Stallion’s mother’s grave.
Copeny, recognizing that the two artists’ diss tracks would go viral right now, asked if they’d be willing to donate a portion of the streams to the Flint Clean Water Fund.
It was a wholesome message that went terribly terribly wrong after the Barbz (Nicki Minaj’s superfans) found the post.
“A little over 48 hours. Still no word from either artist or their team, 8.3 Million Impressions, 20k retweets, Still getting attacked by Barbz,” tweeted Copeny.
Copeny clarified in a later tweet that all of the hate appeared to be coming from Nikki Minaj fans — many of whom swarmed the threads criticizing Copeny for bringing up the crisis now.
“Why now? You could’ve chose any other time to say this before, but you wanna talk about this now?,” wrote one Nikki Minaj stan account.
Copeny responded with understandable irritation. “This may be the first tweet you’ve seen from me but best believe I’ve BEEN doing this work, for HALF OF MY LIFE,” she wrote.
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