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Sabrina Carpenter announces she's stepping away from pop stardom to teach kindergarten, and the internet is in absolute shambles.

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Sabrina Carpenter announces she's stepping away from pop stardom to teach kindergarten, and the internet is in absolute shambles.

In the most unexpected plot twist of the year, Grammy-nominated pop princess Sabrina Carpenter just dropped a bombshell that has TikTok spiraling into a full-blown crisis. Hours after releasing her highly anticipated visual album, the "Nonsense" singer took to Instagram Live to reveal she’s trading the stage for a classroom, declaring she’s "emotionally done" with the industry’s chaos and wants to "touch grass and teach five-year-olds how to use glue sticks." The clip has already racked up 14 million views, with fans alternating between crying emojis and screaming about a "glitch in the matrix." Even her label reportedly went silent for an hour after the announcement.