On Wednesday, a woman posted a TikTok about her recent experience at a Sombr concert, which was, to put it gently, not great. The woman, who’s 25, said she’d been a fan of the 20-year-old singer, who started blowing up on TikTok earlier this year, but found his performance so “embarrassing to witness” that she left early. On Sunday, Sombr hit back with his own TikTok defending himself. It’s causing a whole lot of drama, and everyone’s calling each other cringe. Let’s break it down, shall we?
How did this start?
Earlier this month, Sombr played a show in Washington, D.C., which the woman, a 25-year-old named Megan Tomasic, attended. She recapped the experience in a video she posted on Wednesday, calling it “genuinely the worst concert” she’d ever seen. Based on her account, she quickly realized she was not the target audience — apparently the crowd was extremely young with “thousands of tweens running around like they were at a middle-school dance.” It seems he is well aware of his core demographic — within minutes of Sombr going onstage, Tomasic said he made a “six seven” joke, referencing the middle-school meme of the moment, and also “a bunch of niche meme references for like the 12-to-16-year-old age range” throughout the show. “It was like brain rot on stage,” she said.
@meganator__ idk what i expected but it was certainly not that
Tomasic also took issue with the amount of decidedly adult content, given the predominant audience age. At one point, Sombr apparently said some “super vulgar stuff about getting his dick sucked,” and asked fans to “bark for me” (a recurring bit at his shows, per TikTok videos). Elsewhere, she says he called himself “Daddy.” “I feel like a Karen,” she said in a follow-up video, “But if my kid was in the audience and I heard ‘bark for me,’ ‘yeah, I’m Daddy,’ ‘good girl,’ ‘someone tried to suck my dick’ … like maybe I’m a Karen then — I’ll be a Karen, that’s fine.”
On top of all this, Tomasic said Sombr “wasn’t even a good performer,” and recommended older fans “stick to Spotify” instead of seeing him live. “I’ve never had such secondhand embarrassment for someone and felt such a deep cringe,” she said. “Like, you know if you see something cringe online you can just exit out or something, right? I’m sitting there like, Wow, I paid money to see this — like, I paid money to suffer through that.”
How did Sombr take it?
Not well. On Sunday, days after Tomasic’s video went viral, Sombr hopped on TikTok to hit back. “I thought I was chronically online, but it’s just come to my attention that there’s a TikTok drama going around because a 25-year-old attended my concert and was basically complaining that there were too many tweens there, I was making too many brain-rot jokes, and she just thought it was a cringe concert,” he said. Sombr also said he “totally respects people having opinions” but that he is “a 20-year-old artist — freshly 20.” “If you’re 25 years old and you’re going to come to my concert and not expect people younger than you to be there when I, the artist, am five years younger than you, it’s just a skill issue,” he said.
@sombr rant
Responding to the complaints about his tween-oriented jokes, Sombr said anyone who comes to his shows should have “known about my online presence.” “Anyone who knows me knows I’ve never uttered a serious word in my life,” he said. “And also, I make jokes for five minutes of the concert and the rest is music. Like, live a little, enjoy life.”
Sombr also accused Tomasic of “body-shaming” him, seemingly for a comment she made referring to him as Slenderman. He also defended his performance at the show Tomasic attended, saying he “had a fever and bronchitis” that day.
“Every age, sex, sexuality, gender, race, everyone is welcome at my concert, and I mean everyone,” he said. “You guys need to find problematic people to hate on because I am just existing.” Closing out the video, he offered a “quick tutorial” where he touched a piece of AstroTurf, seemingly telling people to touch grass.
What did Tomasic say to that?
Tomasic responded to Sombr’s video early on Monday, slamming him for “essentially calling me geriatric for being 25 and addressing none of the points I actually said.” She said she’s received “death threats” as a result of the controversy and has accused Sombr of having “amplified that” with his video.
She also accused him of “scraping the bottom of the barrel” with the body-shaming accusation and doing “anything to avoid” responding to claims he’s behaving inappropriately. “You know your crowd is young teens — you admit that. Why are we talking about getting our dick sucked?” she said.
Neither Sombr nor Tomasic have addressed the beef since. In the meantime, he’s gearing up to make his SNL debut next month. If you’re planning to tune in, maybe read up on the whole “six seven” thing beforehand?
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