Josh Hutcherson Says Backlash For Not Being a Taylor Swift Fan Reminded Him “Why I Don’t Want to Be Online”

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Josh Hutcherson is opening up about why he stays off social media, using the backlash he received for not being a Taylor Swift fan as an example.

During a recent interview with GQ, the actor recalled almost being canceled last year for a comment he made about the global popstar during the press tour for I Love LA, in which he plays Dylan, opposite Rachel Sennott’s Maia.

At the time, Hutcherson was playing a camera roll roulette game with his I Love LA co-star Jordan Firstman during a video interview with i-D Magazine. When The Hunger Games star pulled a photo of him and his mom in the VIP section at Swift’s Eras Tour show in New Orleans, he said, “My mom made me. … I’m not a Swiftie. Very much not. No shade, all respect, but definitely not.” The Swifties clearly weren’t happy, slamming

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