Cardi B throws microphone at audience member who threw a drink at her

This follows a months-long trend of this sort of thing happening to people onstage at concerts (or, at the very least, an increase in us hearing about it, since we don’t have the data on how common this was before this summer) supposedly for some kind of weird viral clout—which would mean reporting on it like this is just giving the throwers what they want, but also it’s a Sunday and the Hollywood unions are on strike, so it’s either this or we squeeze two posts out of the Saw X trailer.

Other people hit by stuff recently are Kelsea Ballerini, Bebe Rexha, Pink, and Harry Styles (who has had to deal with this relatively frequently, which may be proof that this is less of a new trend than simply a more publicized trend). Even if it has been happening since the first humans stood on a stage to sing a song, though, that doesn’t mean it should continue. The AMPTP is eventually going to cave, and then movies and TV will be back, and then nobody’s going to think “the jerk who threw something at someone” is cool anymore.