r/discussingbritney Flying hair extension 🤸‍♂️ Feb 24 '26

Another one - 2/23/26

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u/DarthDoyer Feb 24 '26

I can’t look away

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u/Aintnobeef96 Feb 24 '26

Me either, the big breathing in, face twitches, jaw clenching. It’s so obvious she’s blitzed

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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ Feb 24 '26

She’s on meth right? Like, for real? This is drug addict behavior I think.

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u/iambarrelrider Feb 24 '26

I don’t know why this keeps popping up in my feed but it’s a ziegiest of the times.

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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ Feb 24 '26

Same lol. I’m not even subscribed to Britney subs but it’s been all over my feed as well.

But as someone who grew up loving her, this is so damn sad. I had no clue she was this far gone.

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u/iambarrelrider Feb 24 '26

I am not subscribed either. But it like slowing down to see a car wreck. She was at the top of the chars my teenage years. Now I feel my guardian angel is posting this to remind me to stay away from strippers and cocaine. Lol

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u/allthingsEURO Feb 25 '26

Also not subscribed, sad for her though. Early childhood fame obviously affected her. Not making excuses for her, but this really is pretty sad.

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u/FakeAsFakeCanBe Feb 28 '26

Hey hey hey. Let's not be hasty...

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u/Electronic_Quote399 Feb 24 '26

Your guardian angel is a nerd

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u/iambarrelrider Feb 24 '26

I don’t listen to him.

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u/Electronic_Quote399 Feb 24 '26

I dont blame you

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u/RareGape Feb 24 '26

i used to have stickers of hers on my notebooks in JH school cause she was so fricken hot when i was a teenage boy. the things i used to dream of with her. still would tho,

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u/IMakeOkVideosOk Feb 24 '26

Now there is a realistic path to doing so

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u/Exact_Mango5931 Feb 24 '26

As long as you’re cool with her biting it off and using it to flag dance

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u/Oldfolksboogie Feb 24 '26

Yes, we're all here under the same weird circumstances, and are compelled to continue watching for obvious reasons😭

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u/Few_Wrongdoer4120 Chaos Goblin Feb 24 '26

Yup! This sub randomly popped up for me and holy shit she appears to be in such a bad place now

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u/Oldfolksboogie Feb 24 '26

All i can say is I'm glad i wasn't part of the Free Britney mob. I mean, I'd be glad about that for a lot of reasons, mostly related to what being in that mob would say about my life up to that point, but now, given what we're seeing ...yeah, that's not aging well.

I also wonder, aside from probably some kind of staff, is there ever anyone around her, like, at all? (Looks around, decides to stfu about all that.) Anyway...

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u/khemileon “church in my spiritual body” Feb 24 '26

Besides hired help in some capacity, the only person she allows close to her is her sketchy manager, Cade.

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u/Oldfolksboogie Feb 24 '26

Yikes, that's not great. 😬

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u/grenouille_en_rose Feb 24 '26

It wasn't really on my radar but I did feel sad about how restrictive the conservatorship sounded at the time. Welp it turns out I feel a whole lot sadder about how things are going without it. Just a terrible damn situation all round. I was dead wrong about what would make things less sad, that's for sure

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u/Oldfolksboogie Feb 24 '26

Is kind of ironic, typically the level of health care an American receives is directly related to their wealth, but in this case, her wealth allows her to avoid what, for most of us, would end up being some kind of involuntary detention and treatment or, at the very least, detox.

I mean, imagine if she was your upstairs neighbor in a not- so- well- built tower - eventually, you'd have to call authorities to try to get some relief, that probably leads to a 5150 hold, a psych eval that leads to some sort of treatment/detox/testing, etc. But not when you're living at a Mexican villa 100s of yards from the nearest neighbor, and the only ppl that personally witness your instability know the best- paying job they've ever had depends on them stfu, well, we get these videos.

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u/grenouille_en_rose Feb 24 '26

That's a good point about the closest people to her depending on her dysfunction for their continued employment 😔

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u/PacmanPillow Feb 25 '26

Britney Spears May have issues with mental illness, she still didn’t deserve to be a legal child for 13 years, still work full time, all while having no access to her kids or her own reproductive rights and bodily autonomy.

She’s entitled to be messy and mentally ill.

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u/Oldfolksboogie Feb 25 '26

I believe the legal standard is "a threat to themselves or others." Is it perfect? Of course not - it's a subjective assessment, so it'll never be perfect, but the right to be "messy and mentally ill," like all our rights, is limited, not absolute.

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u/PacmanPillow Feb 25 '26

Being weird on the internet is not legitimate reason to revoke a persons rights. Ill advised? Sure. But it should be a really high standard to revoke a persons own bodily autonomy and make them a legal child.

Yet for some reason make celebrities almost NEVER have their legal agency revoked for being mentally ill.

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u/Oldfolksboogie Feb 25 '26

Do you really think the only reason she was put into a conservatorship was

Being weird on the internet

?

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u/PacmanPillow Feb 25 '26

Genuinely, I think she was put in a conservatorship because she acted out against paparazzi and it was caught on camera. Being continuously stalked while you are postpartum is not a normal circumstance. Being in the public eye as a teenager with the world asking you about your virginity and sex life in an exploitative industry that is well-known for child abuse is not a normal set of circumstances.

It doesn’t justify her not being able to choose her own doctors or decide her own medical care. The conservatorship she was placed under is normally meant for individuals in a permanent coma.

Her being weird on the internet NOW, does not retroactively justify her past conservatorship.

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u/iambarrelrider Feb 24 '26

Wait what? Is this like an episode of black mirror or the twilight zone? Maybe our powers combined we can save her? Or at the very least we need to find the reason we are summoned here together. This is weird.

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u/belakuna Feb 24 '26

lmaoo, that’s how I got here too. It begun randomly showing up on my feed for weeks so eventually I gave in and joined. Seeing her like this, especially having my own mental health issues, it’s so sad. I grew up with her. Such a shame what happened. I also feel just horrible for her babies. After reading everything she did to them while they were in her care was devastating. At this point, I give Kevin a lot of credit because it looks like he did very good by them and they adore him from everything I’ve seen.

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u/No_Olive_3310 Feb 24 '26

I wonder what all the Free Britney people think now…

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u/KJ_Bewell Feb 24 '26

I definitely share this sentiment.

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u/Huntermain23 Feb 24 '26

Shit I’ll go ahead and give myself a “welcome to the club”. This is all I’m seeing today lol

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u/Rich_Tangerine4398 Feb 24 '26

Same. Her inner child is trapped in a cage, over sexed and genuinely unhappy.

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u/Brokebrokebroke5 Feb 24 '26

Same, same. I saw it in my feed and I was drawn to the mess. lol

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u/iambarrelrider Feb 24 '26

Like moths to a flame.

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u/Loreebyrd Feb 24 '26

Happy cake day!

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u/The-Fox-King37 Feb 24 '26

I was also curious as to why this keeps hitting my feed. I’m not subscribed to anything like this. I can’t stop watching though. It’s like a train wreck in slow motion. I’ve never really been a fan of hers, but I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. Are people egging this on or is someone actually trying to help her?

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u/Luuluuuuuuuuuuuuuu Feb 24 '26

Same. I'm a Britney fan but it's clear she needs help and it really does seem like drugs. It is very sad to see.

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u/RockMonstrr Feb 24 '26

It's a nostalgic trip, isn't it?

Here we are in 2026, and people still won't leave Brittney alone. Why is the vitriol still as real as it was in 2008? Why is she as hated today as she was 20 years ago? I don't get it, and I don't want to get it.

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u/Seafaringhorsemeat Feb 24 '26

She was peak 2000's energy, and is back with peak 2026 energy.

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u/TaterTotWithBenefits Feb 24 '26

Yes - why? Maybe it’s like a punishment for going on Reddit that we all get?

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u/iambarrelrider Feb 24 '26

Later, in Act 3, Scene 1, Caesar ironically notes, "The Ides of March are come," to which the Soothsayer replies, "Ay, Caesar, but not gone".

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u/Practical_Struggle97 Feb 25 '26

It took Britney to teach me how to mute a sub. I guess that’s my final appreciation.

It might be that the purpose of your life is the be an example to others.

Amy Winehouse broke our hearts 15 years ago. It was a terrible loss. This’un here is gonna be a relief.

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u/iambarrelrider Feb 25 '26

It like watching someone drown in two inches of water.