So here’s the rundown: Reznor was, for many years, a mysterious figure. Then came Twitter. Following news of Reznor’s engagement, he received a bevy of malicious @messages, so he decided to quit “online communities.” As it turned out, he just couldn’t quit the Internet completely, and came back, tweeting with a vengeance (“And f*ck you, trolls. I’ll tweet if I feel like it.”). Our latest update? Reznor CAN quit the Internet, after all, having deleted his Twitter account in full; fiancée Mariqueen Maandig has followed suit, though her band isn’t ready to dump their followers just yet.
To be fair, Reznor and Maandig have had their share of harassment via Twitter, as documented here and here, but maybe the former Prince of Darkness just doesn’t have that ol’ web 2.0 thick skin.