Modest Mouse guitarist Simon O’Connor responds to allegations of sending inappropriate messages to a minor

Modest Mouse guitarist Simon O’Connor has responded to allegations that he sent inappropriate messages to a minor on Instagram. The claims emerged over the weekend on Reddit, where screenshots suggest a fan who has liked his posts received a DM from the musician with a meme saying “SIMON calls your bluff BUZZ”, alongside a picture of people playing the game Simon Says. The second screenshot shows him seemingly sending a suggestive meme, before apologising, to which the fan replied that she assumed he had been hacked. O’Connor is shown replying: “Wish I was hacked just had a party night and looking at everything with one eye ya know.” She then wrote: “ohh boy get a good night of sleep.” He replied, “But you did blindside me with a gaggle of likes and then very little intro besides bikini pics so we are both to blame.” That message was unsent, followed by another that read, “I did it again.” The fan also showed a screenshot that showed he had viewed a post of a countdown to her 17th birthday. In the Reddit post that preceded the screenshots, the person wrote: “For context I am currently 17 years old but this happened right before my birthday, so I was still 16. I have a public Instag...