"Why does ANYone get the idea that its [sic] ok to make fun of a child?" she asked in a post on the site, which allows users to post messages to their Twitter that are longer than its standard 140 characters. "In public no less?"

The post comes after the petition took off; when Radio.com ran a story on the post last week, it had reached 725 signatures. It has since totaled 5,194. "This celebrity culture that hypnotizes people into thinking a person is LITERALLY NOT REAL because you see them on television is a spell the watcher HIM or HER SELF MUST BREAK," the singer continued. "Blue Ivy � is a CHILD� and ANYONE thinking to themselves right now: "But she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth so what does it matter what I say"� Denying ANY PERSON their humanity , is a GAME we should ALL stop playing."