Nowadays, social media is a significant aspect of Hollywood. Many celebrities use it to build their businesses and communicate with their followers.

It’s become a dangerous double-edged sword for any prominent person, in that it puts them closer to their followers than ever before, but even the smallest blunder or little scandal may result in a horde of angry fans sharpening their pitchforks, ready to add them to the list of cancel culture targets.

Elizabeth Olsen, the WandaVision star, decided to delete her Instagram accounts in September of last year. Naturally, many fans were disappointed when the actress deleted her sole social media platform, but some of them believed it was simply a temporary situation and that she would return when she felt like it.

Olsen plays Wanda Maximoff, aka Scarlet Witch, and while she’s always been a popular character, her popularity skyrocketed this year when WandaVision debuted on Disney Plus. It was the first piece of MCU content we’d seen since Spider-Man: Far From Home, so it was understandably well received by fans eager to return to their favorite universe.

The actress used to be active on social media platforms such as Instagram, but she is now afraid of this area of the internet.

While the actress has never said why she quit, most people believe it was because she was harassed by so-called fans when she forgot to post a memorial to Chadwick Boseman following the Black Panther actor’s death.

Now, seven months after her viral Instagram evacuation, Olsen is finally speaking out about the situation. In an interview with GLAMOUR UK, the actress explained her decision in great detail, and it turns out it had nothing to do with Boseman’s death or the negative remarks she’s been getting.

“The whole thing just made me uncomfortable and it’s not even like I was really paying attention to comments or anything, I just felt weird how it organized my brain, like, if something happened in the world, I would say, ‘Oh, do I have to post about this?’. I think it’s very dangerous to think, ‘Oh, something just happened in the world. I am an entitled person whose voice must be heard on this issue’, and I just think that is such a narcissistic viewpoint that we’re all a part of, like, it made us all live in this weird narcissistic cycle. During the pandemic, I was like, ‘Oh, well. You know what, this just is not for me’, and I just got rid of it and I won’t go back. I’m never going back to social media.”

Olsen also believes it is pointless for her to remark on everything that happens in the world.

“I work for nonprofits that I’m really proud of and I do love talking about them, but I don’t feel the need to champion or denounce every single thing that happens in the world. It feels like a lot of strange noise that doesn’t feel substantial,” Olsen said

Not responding on social media about a co-star’s death is hardly a justification to trash someone like Elizabeth Olsen, especially when everyone grieves differently, and she’ll be far better off in the future without having to deal with such vitriol.

With the way things go viral on social media these days (for better or worse), it may be preferable to say nothing at all or disregard some of it entirely. However, other people have been criticized for not taking a stand on some subjects, so it’s difficult to say, but Elizabeth Olsen does not appear to be returning to social media anytime soon.

In the last week alone, we’ve seen Sylvester Stallone respond publicly after being labeled a racist, white supremacist, traitor, scumbag, and more based entirely on a tabloid story that wasn’t even true, and Simu Liu of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings deleted a tweet he made in 2012 after people waited for the day the trailer dropped to dig him up over saying nine years prior that he wasn’t a fan of Nicki Minaj’s music.

On March 25th, 2022, we’ll see the actress in Doctor Strange into the Multiverse of Madness (barring any unexpected appearances).