first Canada’s Drag Race, the actor and model Jeffry Bowyer-Chapmen (JBC) has endured a torrent of abuse online from fans of the show.
Sometime over the weekend, he deleted his Twitter account.A quick search of his name on Twitter reveals the likely reason why. ‘JBC is a tw*t’, ‘JBC is horrendous I cannot stand him’, ‘JBC singlehandedly made me homophobic’, ‘how do I kill JBC?’ and on and on and on.
Following his deletion, some were celebratory – ‘JBC deleted his twitter! We won!’His crime? That his critiques of the drag queens competing for the title of Canada’s next drag superstar are too harsh, that he doesn’t have enough expertise to be judging drag, that he’s trying too hard, and that he’s ‘inauthentic’.