“This Has to Stop”: Justin Bieber Unleashes Fury After Being Swarmed by Paparazzi, Calls Out Hollywood’s Rotting Culture

Justin Bieber isn’t hiding his anger anymore. On Friday, the singer grabbed his phone, hit record, and showed the world the chaos he faces the second he steps outside. In a video posted to Instagram, Bieber is surrounded by flashing cameras, dozens of paparazzi crowding around him, blocking his path, shouting his name, while his security team tries to push them back. “Look at these guys, man,” Bieber’s voice says in disgust, capturing a moment that looked less like a celebrity sighting and more like a wolf pack closing in. He didn’t hold back in the caption either, writing simply: “This has to stop.”

But the video was only the beginning. In a series of emotional posts that followed, Bieber revealed the deeper cost of living in Los Angeles, a city he says is drowning in “darkness.” “Everyone telling me to move from LA,” he wrote. “U think I’m gonna get bullied to leave where my influence is most needed?” Refusing to abandon the place where he believes real change is needed most, Bieber said he’s committed to fighting the culture from within, even if it means enduring daily harassment. He admitted he once got caught up in Hollywood’s “transactional” machine himself — chasing fame, playing the game — but now, as a father and a husband, he wants no part of it anymore. “I just want to be submerged in the culture, learning from anyone and everyone,” he wrote. “And be a proponent and advocate for LOVE AND EQUALITY.”

The singer, who welcomed his first child Jack Blues with Hailey Bieber last year, said he’s leaning on faith more than ever, asking God for the patience not to explode. Sharing a photo of a lion, Bieber vented, “It can be really hard to not rip these f–kin guys’ heads off.” He spoke about the danger paparazzi pose not just to privacy, but to human life, saying he still thinks about Princess Diana, who was killed while being chased by photographers. “People have had to die cuz of this sh-t,” he wrote. “We gotta do better. Please can we make a change?”

It’s not the first time Bieber has sounded the alarm about the culture that raised — and nearly broke — him. Back in 2014, after a paparazzi rear-ended his Ferrari, he begged for tougher laws. “We should have learned from Princess Diana,” he said then. Now, ten years later, little has changed. If anything, the stakes are higher. In his final post, Bieber made it clear he’s not going anywhere — not because he loves the fame, but because he refuses to back down from a fight he believes matters. “We either bring the light here,” he wrote, “or the darkness wins.”