Ariana DeBose Has Deactivated Her Twitter Post-"Angela Bassett Did the Thing"

glamour.com:

—particularly the bit in the middle where she tries to shout out all the female nominees by name in a 40-second rap verse—has gone viral since she performed at the February 19 ceremony.

And the commentary on Twitter has reached such a pitch that DeBose resorted to deactivating her whole account. The performance, which included renditions of “Sisters are Doin’ It For Themselves” and “We Are Family” at either end of the rap verse, was clearly intended as a tribute to the large number of women who were nominated at the awards.

The pièce de resistance was, of course, DeBose's original rap, with lyrics like, “Electric Malady? Marie, girl, what a slay,” and “.” But it was the line, “Angela Bassett did the thing,” spoken in an odd, almost Caribbean-tinged accent and accompanied by a jerking hip-wiggle, that has become an inescapable meme.

This content can also be viewed on the site it from.As of this writing, Twitter is still torn between those who found the whole song a symphony of awkwardness and those who have already deemed it a treasured camp cultural artifact. “I’m not kidding this will make Ariana DeBose a gay icon for the rest of her life,” one person . “The whole Ariana DeBose fiasco at the BAFTAs just goes to show that you should never let musical theater people out in public,” another.