16 Times the Beyhive Attacked to Defend Beyonce

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16 Times the Beyhive Attacked to Defend Beyonce

Ouch, that’s gotta sting. Beyoncé’s fans, otherwise known as the Beyhive, take no prisoners whenever someone dares to mess with their fearless (and flawless!) diva. Scroll down for some of the most memorable times that the Beyhive twirled on her haters!

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16 Times the Beyhive Attacked to Defend Beyonce

Ouch, that’s gotta sting. Beyoncé’s fans, otherwise known as the Beyhive, take no prisoners whenever someone dares to mess with their fearless (and flawless!) diva. Scroll down for some of the most memorable times that the Beyhive twirled on her haters!

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Nicole Curran

After the wife of Golden State Warriors majority owner Joe Lacob leaned over Beyoncé to chat with Jay-Z during Game 3 of the NBA Finals in June 2019, the “Freedom” singer appeared to give her a death stare and a quick nudge. “Beyonce is so annoyed by this woman and hov gon’ hear about it on the jet,” one fan tweeted. “Beyonce definitely didn’t think that tonight of all nights that she’d have to hit a woman with a shoulder nudge in rare burberry but here we are.”

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Taylor Swift

Queen Bey’s fans accused the “Me!” singer of copying Beyoncé’s 2018 Coachella set with her performance at the Billboard Music Awards in May 2019, both of which heavily featured drumlines. “I see Taylor Swift is doing the Great Value Version of Beyoncé’s Homecoming,” one Twitter user joked, referencing the Netflix documentary that chronicled Beyoncé’s festival gig.

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Omari Hardwick

The Power star faced backlash after kissing Beyoncé twice at the NAACP Image Awards in March 2019. “2nd kiss was unnecessary & uncomfortable. Don’t do that again,” one member of the Beyhive tweeted.

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Tamera Mowry

The Real cohost could have used some bee repellent after reminiscing on the time she felt charmed by Jay-Z at a movie premiere years before their marriages. “It’s so weird,” she said on the talk show in March 2019. “I was like, ‘Oh, my God, that’s Jay-Z!’ I was like, ‘Can I have some gum?’ And he gave me some gum.” The Beyhive flooded Mowry’s Instagram comments section with bee emojis, but Beyoncé’s former Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland gave the actress’ selfie with husband Adam Housley a “like.”

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Rachel Roy

Guilty conscience? Beyoncé’s “Sorry,” a single from Lemonade, dares a cheater to “call Becky with the good hair” once Bey dismisses him. In April 2016, the same night Beyoncé released her visual album, Roy alluded to her possible affair with Jay-Z in a now-deleted Instagram caption.

“Good hair don’t care,” she wrote. Team Bey littered Roy’s Instagram comments with lemon and bumblebee emojis for weeks on end, and even flew over to the page of Ava Dash, Roy’s teenage daughter.

Days later, Roy released a statement denying the accusations. “I want to put the speculation and rumors to rest,” she said. “My Instagram post was meant to be fun and lighthearted. It was misunderstood as something other than that.”

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Rachel Ray

Cooking up some trouble: A few fans confused “Ray” with “Roy” and went on to attack the television chef’s comment section too. Ray told Us Weekly that Roy apologized for the mix-up by sending her flowers. Ray sent her “a big bottle of wine and a straw,” she said.

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Rita Ora

Just call it a coincidence. In the wake of Lemonade, Ora (who is Jay-Z’s Roc Nation protege), Snapchatted herself in a bra top with a “J” necklace the same night that Lemonade dropped. To maintain her innocence — and stay in the hive’s good graces — she wore a “Not Becky” pin to the May 2016 Met Gala afterparty.

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Piers Morgan

Once he declared his preference for the “less inflammatory, agitating” side of Lemonade-era Beyoncé (who he also pegged as a “militant activist”), a Bey backer tweeted that she felt “uncomfortable about Piers Morgan using Beyoncé to boost his strugglebus journalist career.”

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Azealia Banks

“This heartbroken black female narrative you keep trying to push is the Antithesis of what feminism is,” the rapper, who wasn’t a fan of Lemonade, tweeted in April 2016. “Bye Becky with the fake hair,” a defender promptly replied. 

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Kid Rock

He once told Rolling Stone that he was “flabbergasted” by her level of success. "Beyoncé, to me, doesn't have a f--king 'Purple Rain,' but she's the biggest thing on Earth,” he said. In return, the Beyhive flooded his social media with bee emojis — so many, that Kid Rock Instagrammed a can of Raid to drive them all away.

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Wendy Williams

Williams, who has joked that Beyoncé “sounds like she has a fifth-grade education,” compared the Beyhive to bullies, following Beckygate. “A woman who is known for throwing shade on even a pitch black ass day says someone else should address a bully?” a Bey supporter wrote, calling Williams a hypocrite. “But it's okay for you Wendy because what you do is ‘entertainment.’”

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Raven-Symoné

“All the Beyhives will be coming for me, but I miss Beyoncé singing a ballad in a dress,” Symoné said after Beyoncé released the “Formation” video. Their response? “Raven-Symoné prefers the old Beyoncé just like how we prefer the old Raven-Symoné that we use for all of those memes.”

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Karrueche Tran

While cohosting BET’s 106 & Park in 2014, Chris Brown’s ex made a tasteless joke about Blue. "I really did wake up like this because my parents never comb my hair,” Tran quipped. “At least Blue Ivy’s hair is more relevant than Karrueche,” a fan retorted.

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Rihanna

Rihanna’s Navy and Beyoncé’s Hive came to digital blows when RiRi liked a tweet that seemed to poke fun at the chart performance of “Formation” versus her own single “Work.” The Beyhive’s consensus: “After canceling tour dates, reducing tickets to $10 and selling less than 250k albums WW the LEAST Rihanna can get is a #1 single.”

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Kim Kardashian

Though the entire world was watching Lemonade, Kardashian still tried to corral everyone’s attention by posting a series of steamy selfies with husband Kanye West (a frequent Jay-Z collaborator) while they attended a wedding. “WHO CARES BUY LEMONADE,” one ensuing tweet read.

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Lululemon

After Bey announced her Ivy Park athleisure line, Canadian retailer tweeted a far-off notion: “Maybe Beyonce is so Crazy In Love with our brand, she made her own.” Uhhh … maybe not. “In what world does Ivy Park look like your basic ass overpriced yoga pants? Get over yourselves,” a fan said.