Beyoncé's fandom — the Beyhive, named around 2011, with bee emoji as its signature — the fan base that filled fashion designer Rachel Roy's Instagram with bees in April 2016 on suspicion she was 'Becky with the good hair', and swarmed a chef, Rachael Ray, by mistake. The record's entry for a fandom with a weapon and, occasionally, the wrong address.
The record notes the Beyhive is quieter than the Barbz and more precise, and that its bee emoji in a reply is understood by the recipient as a summons.
My first sighting was 2011, in a reply from someone I have never met, and I understood it immediately. That is the closest thing to magic the internet still does.
Bee emoji under the Grammys' Instagram, February 2025, following the Album of the Year win for 'Cowboy Carter'. The record notes these were celebratory bees, which is rarer.
Where did you see it, and when? A date and a source that still resolves.
