Earlier this year at the VMAs, Roan shot back at a seemingly different photographer yelling at her on the red carpet. “This is quite overwhelming and quite scary,” she said later on about the interaction.

In addition to her actual job as one of the planet’s most quickly rising pop artists, Chappell Roan has also taken on a sort of unwanted cultural side hustle: Serving as the vessel for society’s ongoing arguments with itself about how pop stars “should” conduct themselves in public.

Pop singer Chappell Roan refuses to hold her tongue for anyone who's offended her. The "Hot to Go!" singer was in attendance at the Olivia Rodrigo : GUTS World Tour film premiere in Los Angeles on Friday (October 25), when she approached a photographer about disrespecting her at a past Grammy event.