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Doja Cat’s latest troll has as soon as once more pushed followers to the restrict because the singer posted after which deleted a photograph of herself carrying a shirt that includes a infamous alt-right comedian.
On Friday, Doja Cat uploaded the selfie donning a shirt with the picture of Sam Hyde, an internet-infamous edgelord with ties to each the alt-right and neo-Nazi actions.
Hyde was beforehand a co-writer on Adult Swim’s Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace earlier than the sequence was canceled after one season for that includes racist and sexist messaging, Buzzfeed studies. In a long-running viral “joke,” Hyde’s title can also be talked about on social media because the suspect within the instant aftermath of mass shootings.
Soon after posting the picture, Doja Cat — who has her personal irritating historical past of trolling and dwelling the unsavory underbelly of the web — was met with criticism from followers, which resulted in her deleting the picture… solely to repost a unique selfie with Hyde’s picture cropped out. The picture was accompanied by a bunch of eyeroll emojis within the caption:
In the lead-up to Doja Cat’s new album Scarlet, the singer went on trolling overdrive, briefly renaming herself as “Emcee Flapchunks the Third” and alleging that her first two albums, Planet Her and Hot Pink, have been “cash grabs.” “Yall fell for it,” she tweeted then deleted. “Now I can go disappear somewhere and touch grass with my loved ones on an island while yall weep for mediocre pop.” Doja Cat additionally threatened to give up music altogether, “im done with this music shit its only making me sadder every day. i cant take it anymore.”
Doja Cat’s on-line antics — in addition to her rumored relationship with J Cyrus, a well-liked on-line streamer who has been accused of alleged grooming and sexual misconduct by multiple women — resulted in a falling out along with her personal “Kittenz” fanbase, lots of whom unfollowed the singer on social media.
A Brazilian Doja Cat fan account introduced in July they have been taking an “indefinite break” of their protection of their singer. “We thought a lot about how to say this to you and there’s no other way: Doja’s latest pronouncements on social media left us kittenz very disappointed…. if we can call ourselves that, since even Doja doesn’t seem to like the name of the fandom she herself created,” the Instagram account for Doja Cat Brazil wrote. “Every day, we put our sweat on this page to keep it active and it is with great pain that we see the end approaching. What we hope is that Doja rethinks her actions as an artist and has the least amount of consideration for the fans who have been with her since the beginning, supporting and motivating her… because without us, she wouldn’t be where she is.”
Doja Cat’s on-line troubles begin additional again, together with posts that used homophobic slurs to explain rappers Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler, the Creator, and a leaked video from a room in Tinychat rumored to be related to white supremacists, during which Doja might be seen rolling round suggestively on a mattress and saying the n-word. (Speaking to Rolling Stone, Doja admitted to spending time within the Tinychat however denied being “involved in any racist conversations” on Tinychat, calling anybody who referred to her on-line buddies as white supremacists “fucking stupid.”)
“When you’re dealing with a real artist, everyone makes mistakes. Everyone says things. I would be lying to you if I said there wasn’t nervousness [about her being online],” her supervisor Gordan Dillard advised Rolling Stone in 2021. “But Doja’s growing into an adult. She’s maturing. She’s a human being. And I can never be mad at her for being herself. She is who she is.”
