Doja Cat is as soon as once more being accused of pandering to fringe communities after sporting a shirt with a photograph people on the alt-right know all too properly … exhibiting off one Sam Hyde.
The rapper/singer posted after which deleted these pics on her IG Friday, however luckily … the Web captured them they usually’re now circulating — with DC getting dragged by the mud for what many think about an endorsement of Hyde and his model of humor/following.
For these unaware, Hyde is a comic … who has been broadly embraced by trolls in on-line chat rooms and boards, and who’s even been accused of embracing neo-Nazi sentiments.
This specific picture of him holding a semiautomatic has turn out to be meme fodder for years — anytime there is a mass capturing right here within the States … far-right keyboard warriors flow into the pic and falsely declare that Sam Hyde is the shooter, trying to unfold misinformation.
It is unclear if Hyde himself began that entire pattern, however he and his comedy group have leaned into the joke — backside line … the dude is very problematic and polarizing.
That is precisely why Doja Cat rocking this shirt — which, BTW, Hyde himself seems to be promoting on his personal web site for a cool $38 — is extremely unusual … and getting double takes from her followers on-line. By the identical token, many others aren’t all that stunned by this both.
For many who dont know, Doja Cat made a tune utilizing white supremacist’s fav racist time period, “Dindu Nuffin”, which mocks the homicide of harmless black ppl by white racists. Now extra data is popping out about her Tinychat previous with racist white incels. Doja Cat is internet 4.0 Diamond & Silk pic.twitter.com/1Hnbx5ZQiO
— Daring Justice (@bold_justice) Might 22, 2020
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Truth is … Doja has flirted with far-right wingers for a very long time now — together with again in 2020 when outdated footage surfaced exhibiting her speaking to a bunch of dudes in a chat room … which was later alleged to have featured racist convos. She denied these allegations on the time.
In fact … there’s additionally the “Dindu Nuffin'” tune she put out as soon as upon a time. All of that stuff combined collectively — plus this newest stunt — is once more thrusting her into controversy.
Doja hasn’t responded to this newest wave of criticism.