Selena Gomez’s 18 Hour Social Media Break

The Friday Post.

Let’s watch the Emmys together! I’ll start a chat tomorrow night in the Substack app. The Golden Globes chat had over 2,000 replies — !!! — and was the most fun I’ve had online all year.

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco attend a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat at Crypto.com Arena on January 3rd. (Photo: Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images)

Following the Golden Globes whisper almost heard ‘round the world, and speculation of a Selena-Kylie-Timmy feud, Selena Gomez announced she was taking a break from social media. (It is her third favorite thing to do, after complaining about her music career and having bad taste in boyfriends.) “I'm off social for a while. I'm focusing on what really matters,” Gomez posted on Instagram Wednesday. She ran the caption with a photo of her boyfriend, the music producer Benny Blanco, and two unidentified children. The break lasted approximately eighteen hours. She crossed her own picket line to post promo for her cooking show, Selen…