Beyonce’s crazed Stans went into a feeding frenzy when these pics from Bey’s music video for “Girl” hit the Internet yesterday. But they recoiled in horror when they saw what had become of their 29-year-old leader. There had been rampant speculation that Beyonce was not well and that she’d been bleaching her skin. The pictures showed startling evidence of that.

In case you forgot how Beyonce used to look in her heyday. Now she is just a shell of her former self.

After the initial shock wore off, many of the Stans took to Beyonce Fanatic blogs (like YBF) and message boards. The overriding theme was: “What happened to our Beyonce?!”

The flaxen weaved Beyonce was dressed like a gladiator on the set of her music video filmed in Inglewood, California yesterday.

But it was Beyonce’s startling appearance that prompted her Stans to nearly commit mass suicide after these pics leaked.

One grieving Stan on the BeyonceWorld.net boards wailed:

“Oh, God, please don’t let the blogs get this image. They will try to come at Bee with that lil bit of skin folding in the back of her and probably act like she’s gettin fat!

The rumors that 200 “Africans” would be employed to support her on the set were of course wrong (as usual). Do you see any Africans in these pictures?

Thanks to Jevon Peak of Peak publicity for sending these pics!