Everybody hates Chris — at least, it seems, on social media.

On Sunday night, not long after Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show, R&B singer Chris Brown posted a cryptic Instagram story that many felt was aimed at the Puerto Rican Grammy winner due to its timing.

To make the situation even more cringe, it was also pretty self-promotional.

“I THINK ITS SAFE TO SAY.. THEY NEED ME ! 😏” he wrote.

Most social media users assumed the “they” in his statement was the NFL, and that the league needs Brown to be the next headliner for the Super Bowl.

Considering that the “Run It!” singer is better known for his history of violence than his music nowadays, folks over on X were not in the mood for his chest-pounding.

no… we don’t want nor need an abuser

He's like an annoying mosquito that won't go away, nobody wants this serial abuser to perform in a halftime show....

Bad Bunny just put on a massive show and this man’s response is making it about himself. The desperation to stay relevant is showing hard right now.

in jail, yes https://t.co/mFWIYzoT1S

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Brown has quite the rap sheet.

In 2009, he was convicted of physically assaulting his then-girlfriend, singer Rihanna. Although the two rekindled their romance in 2012, they eventually split for good, with Rihanna describing her clashes with Brown to Vanity Fair in 2015 as “domestic abuse.”

“It’s in the past, and I don’t want to say, ‘Get over it,’ because it’s a very serious thing that is still relevant; it’s still real. A lot of women, a lot of young girls, are still going through it. A lot of young boys too. It’s not a subject to sweep under the rug, so I can’t just dismiss it like it wasn’t anything, or I don’t take it seriously,” she said. “But, for me, and anyone who’s been a victim of domestic abuse, nobody wants to even remember it.”

This was, unfortunately, not the only time Brown has been accused of violent behavior. There’s been so many, in fact, the Billboard compiled a timeline of all of Brown’s legal troubles, from 2009 to present, which includes (but is not limited to) smashing his dressing room window with a chair after storming off set during an interview with “Good Morning America” in 2011; punching musician Frank Ocean after a dispute over a parking space in 2013; aiding and abetting in a 2017 sexual assault (allegations that Brown’s lawyer denied) and attacking someone with a bottle at a London nightclub in 2023.

The man who accused Brown of attacking him in the London nightclub requested in June that his lawsuit against the singer be dismissed; Brown still faces criminal charges to which he has pleaded not guilty.

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