Grimes spoke out against social media this week, specifically targeting X, formerly Twitter, which is owned by her ex, Elon Musk.

“Ok I’ve basically been entirely off social media and returning here it is overwhelmingly, abundantly and profoundly clear that this place – and all of these places – are a poison – a prison of utterly short form deep deep-sounding nonsense attached to no one that ur brain will discard imaging its learning,” wrote the 37-year-old singer. “The entire thing is a theatre. A shitty pale simulacra of a life.”

It’s unclear how long Grimes was on her self-imposed social media hiatus; however, she shared a similar sentiment back in April.

“I think it’s very unhealthy to be on social media, it feels like a ghost town of depression, bitterness and pictures of beautiful women doing sext [sic] things,” she wrote. “I feel like this is a massive moral failure of all the apps. And it’s causing great harm to society.”

One month prior, the singer — born Claire Elise Boucher — shared that she had been diagnosed with ADHD and autism, noting that she was glad to have “overcome” some of her early childhood symptoms in a time before social media.

“I think the nature of this uninformed social media mental health subculture is rly a big concern,” Grimes wrote.  “Some are great ofc but a lot of these seem like explicitly anti civilizational and geared towards making people worse.”

Grimes and Musk were together on and off from 2018 to 2023. They share three children: son X Æ A-Xii, 4, daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, 3, and son Techno Mechanicus, 3.

Social media isn’t the only thing the former couple struggles to agree on. Musk made headlines when he brought X Æ A-Xii to the Oval Office on Feb. 11 to celebrate when President Donald Trump signed an executive order granting Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) more power.

Grimes reacted with disappointment when she was made aware of her son’s visit to the White House.

Elon Musk and his son X meet with President Donald Trump on Feb. 11, 2025.JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty

“He should not be in public like this,” the singer wrote on X at the time after a fan made her aware of the father-son outing. “I have tried begging the public and my kid’s dad to keep them offline, and I’ve tried legal recourse.”

She continued, “The state of my children’s lives being public is of grave concern to me and I think about how to solve this every day. It’s insane to me that there’s no way to deal with this. I would hope there was some law that would allow a parent to veto small children from living public lives but I don’t even trust the law to help me now if I tried to invoke it [to be honest].”

Grimes finished her message by saying, “We are in the Wild West of information content and the dismantling of privacy and it’s very concerning.”