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MusicSombrOct 20, 2025

Sombr Responds to Concert Call-Out: ‘You Guys Need to Find Problematic People to Hate On’

“It’s kind of started a massive body-shaming hate train directed towards me on a lot of videos of me on the internet right now.”

By Precious Fondren
Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for MTV

Sombr didn’t hold back when a 25-year-old attendee decided to publicly drag his recent Washington, D.C., show. 

In a TikTok response that’s now making its own rounds, the 20-year-old artist addressed a viral critique of his Late Nights & Young Romance Tour stop at The Anthem.

“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. 

He went on to say that the criticism sparked an unnecessary wave of body-shaming.

“It’s kind of started a massive body-shaming hate train directed towards me on a lot of videos of me on the internet right now,” he said. “I totally respect people having opinions, but I am a 20-year-old artist, freshly 20. And 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."

@meganator__

idk what i expected but it was certainly not that

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The comments came after content creator @meganator__ posted a viral TikTok last week describing how much she did not enjoy Sombr’s performance—a clip that’s since pulled in over 700,000 views.

“Dancing was terrible, singing was terrible; he would let the back track play for the most important notes,” she said, describing what she disliked about the show the most. “I had to leave. I had to leave because it was the most egotistical performance I’ve ever seen in my life. If I had known he was like that, I would have never paid money to see him.”

She didn’t stop there, accusing Sombr of trying too hard to play the mysterious cool-guy archetype.

"It seemed like he thought he was, like, Role Model vibes, but he was so far off," she said. "It was like, you’re trying to convince me that you’re this crazy cool sex symbol, and you’re just turning off the whole room.”  

She then said she was floored to see younger fans hyping the show online.

“I get on TikTok and see all these kids posting these videos saying, ‘This must be how my mom felt,’ ‘This is my generation’s David Bowie,’ she explained as she stared wide-eyed into the camera. “Never in my life have I ever felt such rage. Seeing the aftermath on TikTok and seeing people say he’s the hottest. You guys need better role models. You guys need better sex symbols. Slender man? We’re picking him. We’re picking the weird dancing dude. I’ll insert the clip. He dances like Napoleon Dynamite.”

The criticism is seemingly not stopping Sombr, because in his video, he said that every kind of person is welcome at his shows. 

“You guys need to find problematic people to hate on, because I am just existing.”

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