James Arthur quits Twitter after releasing homophobic rap diss thing #LOVE

Fervent sock-wearer and X Factor winner James Arthur controversially quit Twitter over the weekend, which really puts a lot of pressure on that intern they have doing his JA HQ tweets to keep up the good work. Come on, intern! We believe in you!

James announced his decision to leave the social media service [1] on Sunday, after comedian Matt Lucas (as well as long-time JArthur critic Frankie Boyle) pointed out that the rap diss James recorded last week contained some pretty unacceptable gay slurs.

[1] Although nobody ever really leaves and we’re opening the book now and when he’ll come back, tail between his legs, to personally retweet fan praise until his thumb turns blue. We’ll give you evens that he’ll be back within a week.



James did the whole ‘apologise and cite some of his best friends who are gay’ thing in a series of tweets, but then, a little bit later, decided it was toys out of the pram time and announced his plans to quit.

“Any offence I have caused by using the term ‘queer’ in my rap battle with MC Worthless would just like to make it completely clear that it was not meant in anyway as a reference to homosexuality,” he sic’d. “I understand why it could cause offence and that definitely wasn't my intention.”
He added, dramatically: “Learnt a lot this year. Hurt a lot this year. F**ked up a lot this year. Loved a lot this year. Lost a lot this year. Roll on 2014. #LOVE”

Anyway about one hour and 25 fan praise retweets later, James formerly announced his intention to quit, saying: “#LOVE to my fans but I'm coming off twitter for good. HQ will be doing all my tweets from now on. PEACE!”

James has since taken down the diss track – which includes the line “you probably want to put your stinky dick in me, you f**king queer” – soon after uploading it on Friday, but you can still find it. You can still find it.

Which leaves us in a quandary: who will we follow on Twitter who will really stick it to every boyband that isn’t JLS? Who can we follow who is guaranteed to retweet any even vaguely positive tweet about him, without fail? Who are we meant to show our boobs to, now #showyourboobstojamesarthur is off the table? Come back, James! You have to! Please!