Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds defends Nickelback and Creed against "insecure bullies"

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Image courtesy of ABC/Randy Holmes (via ABC News Radio)

Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds has offered a few words of support to everyone's favorite rock punching bags, Nickelback and Creed .

"The whole hate towards Creed and Nickelback for years is stupid and is nothing different then bullying," Reynolds tweeted Sunday. "It's [one] thing to criticize their music because it's not for u & another thing to continually shovel s*** on them as people for fun. I don't know them but am burnt on the hate."

"When Scott Stapp was going through his struggles and people were laughing about it it made me sick," he added , referring to when, in November 2014, the Creed frontman posted a series of videos saying he was broke and homeless after all of his money was stolen. In 2015, Stapp revealed he'd been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. 

"Nothing different then a high school popularity contest filled w a bunch of insecure bullies trying to make themselves feel better at someone's expense," Reynolds wrote. "Gross."

Reynolds also tweeted support for women and LGBTQ artists trying to break into the music industry.

"Countless LGBTQ artists told to sing 'less gay,' 'be less flamboyant,'" Reynolds wrote . "I can't tell you how many face this reality today. We must change this in our industry and society."

Apparently Reynolds got pretty worked up as he was tweeting, since a man sitting next to him on an airplane noticed he was "breathing heavy [with] a stern brow" and asked if he was OK.

"Oh me??? Yes of course!!" Reynolds said

"Wait [are] you the 'Radioactive' guy?" the man replied.

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