Written By Mikaela Ong
Spider-Man: No Way Home made Zendaya an even bigger star, but she’d rather do less social media.
Zendaya’s success has become world-renowned.
With Spider-Man: No Way Home, her spotlight is not dimming any time soon.
Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s record smashing is partly thanks to her lovable character, MJ.
Zendaya is the love interest of Peter Parker (Tom Holland).
Their relationship burns off-screen as well.
Moreover, Zendaya prefers to keep it way.
Outside filming, Zendaya has accumulated quite a following.
Spider-Man: No Way Home’s Zendaya Prefers To Keep Low Profile On Social Media
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However, she is a lot less active than you think.
Despite having official social media accounts, she barely updates or shares her life on there.
In an interview, Zendaya explained why:
I’m not really active on social media like I used to be, but that’s for a reason. I love saying how I feel and speaking out about things, but I also don’t want to say that I just tweeted my life away. That I just tweeted about something, but what did I actually do about it? Hopefully my ability to be a storyteller, to make those stories that I haven’t seen, to showcase different forms of Black love and the different colors of our emotional experience—that will be my speaking out. That’s my action.
Zendaya doesn’t want audiences to confuse her with MJ from Spider-Man: No Way Home.
She elaborated further:
Because we learn how to be a person not just through interactions, but by watching movies and TV. You want to be like your favorite character. So many people have built the personas that they take out into the world based on what they’ve seen in the media.
She values the content she shares and consumes rather than the follower and like count.
Which is a better way of using social media than totally demonizing it.
Truth be told, social media, on its own, is simply a tool, and what makes it toxic is how you use it.
The Euphoria actress has also expressed that social media has gems if you know where to find them.
She shared:
I don’t look at Twitter that much because I think it’s like going into the garbage can, and you’ve got to be careful what you’re going to pick out of it. But sometimes you find a gem. And this one dude, he sent me a DM saying, ‘Thank you so much for that episode. I didn’t feel so alone anymore. And I feel like I can go on another day.’ It still makes me want to cry when I think about it. There was also a woman who said, “You helped me to understand my son, and not to judge him but to understand it’s a disease.” So, that’s the whole framework of Euphoria. If we can do that, man, we’re changing the world. Our art can really impact lives—that’s the purpose.
We think her attitude with her activism is already effective.
Spider-Man: No Way Home continues to dominate the box office.
Related: Is Spider-Man: No Way Home Zendaya’s last MCU movie?
