Joseph Quinn and Doja Cat: A timeline of the rumoured romance and its hilarious origins

It was love at first tweet


Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn and American rapper Doja Cat have been spotted on a date walking around London together recently, which may seem like a rather unlikely pairing. But, if you’re up to date on internet lore, you might be screaming right about now because this relationship has been years in the making.

Doja Cat is pretty well known for having a huge crush on Joseph Quinn, who stole hearts everywhere in 2022 after the release of Stranger Things season four. Let’s walk through the entire Joseph Quinn and Doja Cat timeline, because it’s been a long time coming.

Doja Cat’s original tweet in May 2022

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Doja Cat initiated all of this drama back in 2022, when she tweeted: “Joseph Quinn fine as s**t.” Stranger Things season four had just released onto Netflix three days prior with record-breaking views, and Joseph Quinn suddenly became everybody’s favourite man of the month. Doja Cat didn’t hesitate to shoot her shot on X, and let the world know that she thought he was very cute indeed.

Doja Cat and Noah Schnapp interactions soon followed

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Doja Cat didn’t just leave it there though – this was just the beginning of many tweets fawning over him, including messaging Stranger Things co-star Noah Schnapp on Instagram DM to “tell Joseph to hmu.” She was down bad.

Doja Cat absolutely crucified Noah on an Instagram live

Doja cat evidently did not take well to her DMs with Noah being outed on his TikTok, and took to an Instagram live to badmouth him to extreme levels. Note, Noah was just 17 at the time.

She absolutely went off on him: “You do dumb s**t, you say dumb s**t, you f***ing, f**k up relationships with people. You make mistakes.”

Doja did say however that she has had her “share of f**k ups” and learnt from her mistakes, before fuming that it was “like weasel s**t” for him to share their chat online.

Things seemed to cool down after this, and Doja and Noah made up, but there was no sign of any interactions between her and Joseph Quinn afterwards.

Joseph Quinn gushed over Doja Cat in a podcast interview in July 2024

Joseph only had glowing things to say about the American rapper on the podcast: “She’s very funny, she’s hilarious. We’ve like laughed about that whole thing. We went to go see her show, she’s incredibly talented.” Sounds pretty loved up if you ask me…

Two years after the original tweet, Joseph Quinn and Doja Cat were spotted together in London

Their relationship (if that’s what it is) feels simultaneously out of the blue and a long time coming for these reasons. This isn’t the only pic we have either – Deuxmoi also posted this photo of the two getting close at an Osees concert on Saturday night.

There’s no official hard launch yet, so we don’t know what’s actually going down with the pair. But, it feels like some kind of stars-aligned moment that the two are spending time together. We all know Doja Cat has been waiting for this.

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