Arianators assemble: Ariana Grande’s fans weave a web of support

The pop star declared herself ‘broken’ after the Manchester suicide bombing but her army of fans are fighting to reframe the way that terrible evening ended
As anyone who has met Ariana Grande will confirm, before you get to Ariana, you meet the Arianators. They are the mainly teenage, mainly female fan base, who have followed Grande since she was an elfin starlet on the Nickelodeon series Victorious. The Arianators are legion, bumping up her Twitter and Instagram followings to 46m a