Musician, artist, fan of communism, critic of communism, and cyberpunk cosplayer Grimes got herself a Vanity Fair cover story this month, and you won’t believe the things she revealed. No, not the secret second baby with Elon Musk. And no, not the fact that she and the Technoking are/aren’t dating anymore, either. Oh, and definitely not the new alien scar tattoo she got. No, perhaps the most ridiculous tidbit is when Grimes appears to casually admit to enlisting a friend back in 2012 to help successfully pull off a DDoS attack on the seminal, now-defunct indie music culture website, Hipster Runoff.
The confession comes from the accompanying video shoot for her Vanity Fair cover feature, which was posted to YouTube on March 10 but everyone apparently only just now got around to watching. “Back in the day, like, before the woke era, I actually got canceled for this, which is so crazy,” Grimes says.
