Sam Smith developments on Twitter after surprising faux stage dive video goes viral

Sam Smith followers mistakenly believed the performer slammed into the bottom in a surprising stage dive after a video went viral via Twitter.

Within the painful footage, somebody wearing a Ninja Turtle costume threw themselves right into a crowd — however wasn’t caught by viewers members.

After Twitter customers mistakenly labeled the performer as Smith, the 31-year-old singer started trending on the platform.

After trolls unfold the social media add — whereas concurrently body-shaming the particular person featured — the rumor was lastly debunked when a video from a special angle got here to mild.

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Sam Smith trended on Twitter after being mistaken for a Vanilla Ice stage diver.
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Social media trolls body-shamed the person, who has but to be recognized.
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Vanilla Ice stage diver
Different customers clarified Smith wasn’t the particular person in query.
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“Regardless of numerous ACCOUNTS spreading false data. Sam Smith DID not stage dive at any Live performance,” one fan wrote, clarifying that the video was of a person leaping right into a Vanilla Ice crowd in Oregon over the weekend.

“The obsession proper wingers have with Sam Smith has mixed with their affinity for faux information & false data,” another Twitter user added. “That is so CLEARLY not Sam, they’ve really by no means reality checked a day of their life.”

Smith, who identifies as non-binary and makes use of “they/them” pronouns, was equally defended by followers when their “I’m Not Right here to Make Buddies” music video got here out, that includes them in a variety of horny and skin-baring outfits.

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Smith has but to react to mistakenly going viral.
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Amid conservative backlash over the Grammy winner allegedly “shoving [their sexuality] in everybody’s face,” followers took to Twitter to clap again.


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“Intercourse has all the time been a operating theme in trendy pop music, and music movies typically flaunt it,” one consumer wrote. “However Sam Smith has made the prison offence of being a) queer and b) not skinny, and in an more and more anti-LGBTQ tradition, that may’t be tolerated.”

The next month, Smith instructed the Sunday Occasions they “have the other of physique dysmorphia.”

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The singer, who got here out as non-binary in 2019, makes use of they/them pronouns.
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The songwriter defined, “I look fabulous. … I really feel liberated, launched from pressures I felt once I was younger.”

Smith got here out in 2019 after “a lifetime of being at struggle with [their] gender.”

In a prolonged Instagram put up, the American Music Award winner wrote, “I’ve determined to embrace myself for who I’m, in and out. … Feeling tremendous free proper now. Be sort.”

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