She also indiscriminately deleted all her tweets late last year (like not ones she especially wanted to delete- just ALL of them) from before AA era. It would be good if someone somewhere in the fandom had somehow archived at least some of the more significant ones. Just favoriting doesn't work as they get deleted from your favs when the person deletes them.

I loved many of her tweets from 2012-2014 and found them inspiring (her Twitter peak was definitely the Squamish "lost album" era in 2013). Even really simple ones like "I love the forest" and the time she tweeted that she didn't understand my fav X-Files episode where Scully gets a tattoo. Tbh, I would say 75% of what we can know about Grimes was only learned directly from her own tweets and tumblr (most of which were known only to her followers and never went viral or became news stories) and if she is now deleting these, it is sad because the Pitchfork and mainstream media portrayals of Grimes especially before 2015 were often so inaccurate, so without her tweets and tumblr, nobody knows anything anymore about who pre-2015 Grimes actually was, that the media lied about. I feel really grateful to have been her fan in that time but my memory is not perfect. In the old days before Internet no fan of an artist would have read anywhere close to all the articles and interviews of that artist from all the news sources in the world like we can now so easily, and no fan would hear every radio interview or TC appearance, but at the same time, most of those statements of the artist, would at least be archived and preserved so that, for example, when Bowie died, these old tapes surface and we can see the historical record of how he told some MTV interviewer in the early '80s that MTV was treating black musicians like shit and they needed to play their videos.

I totally understand why Grimes would want her tweets not turned into a news story and why she would eventually want to delete them. I am a serial deleter of my own posts here, myself. However, I am not also a public figure and a god of art whose music AND ideas must be preserved for future generations of our species (and perhaps those species to come). I wonder if there is a way these vanishing records could be preserved in a subtle and respectful way, not-too-easy-for-the-media-to-access, but safe, for the future fans.