Ben Barnes XXXV - Bangin' The Younger Years. AGAIN. *sigh*

Is Ben white?

The Paul McCartney shirt in his new spoof video for his gf Aubrey. They went to that concert with his mom when she went to london over the holidays for the girlies catching up. Skeletor is right on, just skin and bones and zero personality from her. Benny mate, could you be more obvious that you read these threads.

R2 It's a new emojigate! Now this is getting good lol

R1 Hello again! Nice to see you - it’s like old times

R2 Ahh Benny’s little subliminal messages to his trolls and and fangirls! This could be Ben donning the character he’s playing - part of his costume, like the earphones. We know he doesn’t use them. So this is ‘Not Benny’ talking about ‘Real Benny’s’ new album. Or he could be disappearing into his Leo stubborn side again - he’ll do whatever he wants and f*ck the consequences.

This man wants to be Hozier so bad, he mentions him more than he does his girlfriend of almost a year.

Remember what happened after his lion roar in the fields? He did that to troll the trolls who brought up the emojis of the lion and fairy him and jules used. After that so many people became completely disinterested he left socials for months and his career suffered for it. The trolling the trolls doesn’t work and will bring more hate to his gf, which I guess would matter to her if she actually had a career.

The Cleland momma is still commenting on his posts (and being ignored ofc). She’s so desperate.

This time, the Ho tapped his post within minutes! Cleland has not, so the liking and posting ban must still be in place. How irritating for a wannabe attention seeker! Her ‘Close Friends’ however must be bored to death of her posting her whole Xmas Album photos to them.

R7 her mom is a desperate mess. You know JH is sitting there liking his post knowing she is so much better than this failed singer/interior designer/teenage lookalike/unemployed secret. JH and her family are crazy so that is saying something. JH must have got bored while trying to make brooks engagement about herself. There are so many woman in LA or in his industry and he picks the worst ones.

I understand Ben may be up for a Latin Grammy for his new music.

R7 Breaking. Fucking. News. Skeletor finally liked the post tonight. For the first time in weeks. He finally gave his Deeply Obedient Little TradWife permission to like one of his posts. Of course he still made her wait alllllllllllllll day to like it thinking they'd be able to hide it after all this time. Or maybe Skeletor just now got wind that The Ho liked it immediately, and she *KNOWS* how very much Benny is still absolutely OBSESSED with his Blackface Fairy. I demand hair pulling and mud wrestling between them. Where Skeletor will obviously break in half at the gust of wind from a missed punch and utter lack of any substance between those ears!

But of course, think about what this means! Ben *KNOWS* in his heart of hearts that she killed his chances of being a rockstar with a successful tour. He *KNOWS* this tour is going to be a complete failure. And he *KNOWS* she's the cause because his fans started leaving him once she came out. He *KNOWS* that. But he insisted on DENYING her to his fans for this long so that he could *try* in vain to sell more tickets. And now that he knows he can't he's allowing her to *belatedly* like an instagram post.

BECAUSE BEN HAS ABSOLUTELY NO RESPECT FOR HIS FANS AS HUMAN BEINGS, THEY ARE *ONLY* POTENTIAL DOLLAR SIGNS TO HIM. And now that he knows he can't get any more of their money. . . .

Oh this just got so much more delicious!! Happy fucking new year everyone.

R10 He hasn’t been very good at hiding her tho has he? Not with her dropping her vacay photos twice. And not just 1 or 2 pix either.

I still feel like that was a calculated move on his part; it killed two birds with one stone. Stopped the current girlie from pestering him about posting pix, and he also hoped JHo would figure out that he wasn’t on his own.

The fans were upset about it? Tough! He does what he wants,

And he really *doesn’t* care, even if those pix of hers were the biggest buzzkill ever. There’s nothing been said openly about it so he thinks he’s got away with it - but he hasn’t. Wearing that T in his clip yesterday was a big FU to the fans too, and they know it. Well played Benny, you’ve f**ked up royally - again.

What if Ben just got a new tour shirt from that concert and thought oh I’ll wear this because I’m going on tour. Not even thinking about Aubrey.

Him and Aubrey aren’t together, just friends, as a thank you for doing free work for his music video when she was in town for a couple days they did things. Just like Peyton list for years, taking her to premieres and what not. The concert and play Aubrey is wearing the same outfit and maybe she helped him pick out that boring beige Hugo boss shirt for the interview no one watched. We have no proof he was with her at soho farmhouse and coral said she might also be a member of soho house as she comes from money although you could never tell by her zara outfits. The thought of him fucking Aubrey in the same bed jules slept in naked for her birthday is another level, mother Barnes needs a session with her son on that one.

Aubrey and mom will probably be at the LA shows, maybe the fans can look out for her at the other ones and not buy his merch since he really doesn’t care about them. He wonders why the women he loves get hate, well besides jules blackface it’s because he hides them. He acts ashamed and then expects his fans to respect them when he doesn’t even respect them. He is not that famous, saying this is my partner is just an adult thing he can do. Especially if Aubrey was wearing his clothes back in jan 2024 which makes now a year of hiding. Pathetic.

Yes this tour will be a joke, he knows this is the death rattle of a career that was so promising back during westworld days. Shame.

Hate right before the world tour, self sabotage at it’s finest

He really wore that shirt to then promote his own merch which is ugly and really is out here saying fuck my girlfriend buy my shit. Julianne the Ho taught our little Benny boy well with that influencer grift. Fuck the people you care about, let them get hate, as long as you make money.

Tickets for his first show are going for $35 right now, that is bleak

R15 That was the original standing tickets price. The limited vip ones were over £/$100.

No is doing that but thanks for pointing out something that is stupid and useless. He can’t even sell out a show with that low of a ticket price, like people are going to get limited vip tickets for a selfie with him on a phone. Please fuck off with that.

Tickets for the House of Blues show are buy one get one free. Yikes

R5 Well it is at least possible you might actually be on to something? Friend just pointed out that in today's video, when it is a video of actual Ben performing, he has his new giant Christmas ring on. In yesterday's video with Ben playing characters, he's not wearing rings, but is wearing the bracelet and watch. In the infamous t-shirt video where he's playing a character (without Ben's usual wireless earbuds like you said), again he has the watch and bracelet, but no rings. Are we to believe they rented that rehearsal space for multiple days and that's why rings are missing sometimes? Is it a weird sign of sorts of something else? It's just a weird little layer to add to Benny's attempts at being a big boy. Or whatever this is.

R18 I thought you were making a joke. Really, I thought you were just making it up as an excuse to get us to laugh at him.

You weren't fucking kidding. The show that opens his life long dream rockstar world tour. . . had to offer a BOGO to get people in the door. FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCKKKKKKKKK..

He does have the pinky ring on while wearing the Paul McCartney t-shirt

Aubrey skeletor Cleland really tanked all that momentum for Benny. Yes it was her stories of everywhere they went together in London and her mom commenting on his posts (cringe), but also there is the fan pic of the play and the concert video where he knew he was fucked. Hope she enjoyed meeting the parents, now they can’t even give away tickets to his show. Benny remember JH did all this, your games with her made your fans distrust you and your choices, now they aren’t really spending their money like before. He really did dig his own grave, it’s been glorious to witness.

R20 Oh you're absolutely right, missed that apparently several times, but finally managed to pause at just the right moment, my bad. Definitely missing the giant Christmas ring though. And still weird to change things up like that at all. Outfits because you're selling the merch, obviously. But removing rings possibly one at a time? *shrug*

R21 Skeletor is also now going the route (three days in a row now!!!) of greatly delaying liking his posts so as to not draw attention. Remind me, where have we seen that EXACT maneuver before? Wonder if Ben originally told The Ho to do that and now he's also taught his Obedient TradWife to follow in her deeply worn footsteps. And the gaslighting cycle continues!

Now just imagine if he taught her as part of his pillow talk when they fucked in The Ho's old bed in Soho!!!

Can’t wait for the hard launch of his relationship at the album release party in LA right before he goes on his world tour where he wants the fan girls who think they have a shot with him to buy his stuff. He could have waited to bring Aubrey home until February, he is playing in London on Valentine’s Day I think. Then he would have made his money, no one would have suspected anything because for a year no one cares about her anyway. She could have done a whole post, making herself relevant about tour life with him and how she is beloved and loved out loud and live, laugh, love and totally not the side chick while he was sending hidden messages to other woman on his socials.

In seriousness I do think Christmas was just a fuck you to JH while she was single and alone, considering he went to all the places jules went for her birthday trip with Aubrey. It isn’t a serious thing, she was used so Benny could say hey Jules I got someone and you don’t.

Checked out Ms Cleland’s IG highlights, just in case she tried to pull a sneaky move (like with the Pinterest “BB but renamed to Home but still not shared with BB’ folder) - by posting all of her Xmas snaps in a misnamed highlights folder, for example.

She’s only got 2 highlights. One with an artist’s palette - it features some kind of draft or sketch or something. So fair enough.

And then there’s one called… Singin

Yeah, that is not a typo. She’s seriously called it that. Heavens above, is this woman really, truly 31? Or is this her trying to masquerade as a 20yo and be all hip & trendy?

OK Ms Cleland, we know you’ve found us here before - take note, it really is time for a highlight name change.

Does anyone even watch the highlights anymore? For me it was the pajama ad with her friend and the hair bows that really made me think oh this woman is not a serious woman. This is the image she is putting out, that of a stunted 31 year old obviously. Maybe that is what Benny boy likes, that she is a child, he can then feel powerful because she doesn’t intimidate him or challenge him in any capacity.

Anyone see the blind item about Julianne hough and the golden globes? They called her desperate and that she was trying to sleep with the head of Netflix at the after party she went to and that it was uncomfortable to watch. She has been advertising how single she is for weeks now and has never had any class. If Bens ticket prices weren’t embarrassing enough, his ex is embarrassing herself with huge industry folk. His name linked to her is just confirmation to not take him seriously either. No wonder WME dropped both of them. You are the company you keep.

I've been saying it for a while now, but for those of you who like pretty pretty pictures, enjoy your little hearts out, and eternal thanks for friends. Feels greatly appropriate to post this on BOGO ticket world tour opening night!

This displays the IG analytics for Ben's followers. You see the count drop precipitously into the red by thousands of followers on October 23rd. Looking back, that's when little Benny thought it was a good idea to post his gyrating naked in bed singing video. And clearly that requires no follow up commentary from me! But according to my friend, the followers turn up dramatically into the blue on November 2nd. The day after Ben released Beloved. Like it or not, he got thousands of new followers from releasing that song, and the count continued growing by tens of thousands, look at all those blue lines.

The final three tiny blue lines before it permanently turns back into the red begin November 24th. And if you look at the previous thread, we first mentioned that Ben was dating Skeletor only a couple days prior. I don't know if the rumor started anywhere else also, but it easily could have taken a few days to make it's way through the internet into the wider Bennyverse. Was that the cause? (Yes) Or was it merely an unbelievable coincidence and everyone just hated his (surprisingly lovely) cover of Defying Gravity and a teaser post that he would eventually release Nevermind. Clearly and demonstrably, people loved Beloved off his new album, but they hated a teaser of the second single??? But then again, those red lines get longer and longer towards the end of this time frame, and that starts late December. And I don't know, what was going on with Benny late December? Was he seen out anywhere??

And bottom line, according to the analytics, just before he released Beloved and got that huge jump in followers, his count stood at 2,069,500 ish. Apparently right now, it's below 2,071,000. Just 1500ish followers left and Skeletor's revealed Obediently Attached To His Hip presence in his life will have lost him ***ALL*** the following he gained from releasing his first single, literally just in time for the official release of the full album as he exhaustedly begins his life long dream rockstar world tour.

When I say this useless empty-headed little girl is a literal curse on his life. . . . Fuck.

Shit, Ben's house might burn down.

R28 Was just seeing this. Maybe I was onto something when I mentioned him now being cursed? Or karma has decided 2025 will be the year to make Ben its bitch cause damn that really sucks.

[quote] Shit, Ben's house might burn down.

Does Ben live in East LA?

Look up what JH is doing she lives right down the street from Ben and you know she is going to milk whatever attention she can get if her house burns down. Probably will be an interpretive dance in the ashes.

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The crowd at that first show looked super bleak. All of 30 people, can’t wait to see the five people in the rest of the country who doesn’t know or care who this man is. Is his house ok? He is not in Malibu, Benny can’t afford that.

Found a video of the concert and watched/listened. Context - This "review" has nothing to do with whether or not a fan did/could enjoy it, that's a personal, individual thing and no business of mine. Obviously not literally, but I'm writing this more akin to a reviewer doing write ups for local concerts. And in my head I'm doing comparisons to his The Troubadour concert from last year that I actually really surprisingly enjoyed once I saw the whole thing. Okay, with that..

It's really hard to say what *exactly* I heard/saw. He did begin the concert by saying that he got a call from his neighbor 30 prior to taking the stage saying they just evacuated and they hoped his house didn't burn down. Cause Jesus I'm REALLY starting to believe this guy is genuinely cursed/karma's comin'. He was audibly shaken many, many times as he spoke, but then he was also very obviously masking it for his performance. He got extra emotional referencing the fires introducing the breakup duet because he sang it last with Hunter Elizabeth who just lost her house to the fires. And that's all absolutely understandable and I do not fault him one bit for any of that whatsoever.

There were enjoyable parts. He cracked jokes that made me chuckle. He put on his charming personality performer mask and interacted with the audience in ways I'm certain they enjoyed. I know I enjoyed the multiple appearances of his gay as fuck lisp voice that definitely brought people here to DL in the first place. The song where all the musicians traded instruments live as the song continued was fun and cool. Definitely some real bright spots throughout the night.

But also, there were A LOT of mistakes and hiccups throughout the night. Some were technical and from the venue (mikes didn't work, he kept having to provide live instructions to the crew to fix sound levels or whatever, etc.), but then the rest were apparently him. He stopped and restarted songs saying he just messed up. Sometimes he was too far into songs so when he came in at the incorrect place he'd just stop singing, wait, then come in properly re-singing the exact same six notes he'd just done. His ability to match pitch throughout the night was, let's go with not always great and more like the bad old days when I was begging him to stop jazzifying every note and learn vocal control. I'm not 100% positive, but he may have messed up lyrics. He did do a perfectly adequate job of brushing them off and getting through it, but man were there a lot of mistakes. But despite the mask and genuinely attempting a proper performance, he was undeniably shaken/emotional/whatever else the whole time and mentioned that he was actually far less nervous than he thought he would be. Again, don't fault him at all if that's the only thing that contributed to all the mistakes, but then there's no way for me to determine if any of it was nerves or lack of enough preparation/rehearsal (or sleep, cause damn those tv interviews he did *before* the fires were, again let's go with low energy and subdued), or being completely overwhelmed given how astronomical of an undertaking this is. But bottom line, even though it may not have been all his fault cause real life got in the way, it was an inescapably and undeniably inauspicious start to his life long dream music tour, and my mind is fully open to the possibility that curses may be real. Cause Ben is definitely under one right now.

R34 Adding on to say, it doesn't help my thinking it wasn't all fire worries when got up very early for him, but then he's apparently staying up really really late to post about his potential Friday concert. Was he awake the whole entire time trying to coordinate/confirm with the venue for Friday? Cause otherwise, he is 43 years old, middle aged, and goddamn well better pace himself considering this was the first night for the next two months that includes tons and tons of travel and an hour and a half performance every other night. Yes he doesn't have one today (or maybe even Friday), and maybe this was only an opening night party time event, but godDAMN it Benny if it wasn't anxiety over the fire preventing you from sleeping when you just randomly decided to post about Friday since you couldn't sleep late into the night, grow up, accept your advanced age, and PACE YOURSELF! *sigh* Why is he so unbelievably immature all the fucking time. *SIGH*

(Also one more observation I forgot, he said he's releasing either the single or the video of his break up song. . . on Valentine's Day. And then tried to brush off the audience's reaction by shrugging and claiming "there's no rules." Because either he's fully embraced his turn towards saying fuck you to fans and anyone listening to his music, or. . . what the fuck are we supposed to take from that exactly?!?!?!?!?)

I don’t know who any of these morons are and don’t care to. And that includes the OP.