Doja Cat is catching warmth as soon as once more for her on-line antics.
On Friday (Oct. 6), the 27-year-old rapper posted after which deleted a photo of herself on Instagram carrying a shirt with a picture of alt-right comedian Sam Hyde, who reportedly has ties to the neo-Nazi motion.
Doja’s black tee featured a pic of Hyde holding a rifle, a picture typically used as a meme on social media within the aftermath of mass shootings.
Hyde beforehand served as a co-writer on Grownup Swim’s Million Greenback Excessive Presents: World Peace, which was canceled after one purpose following complaints of racist and sexist themes, in response to Buzzfeed. In 2017, the comic additionally pledged $5,000 to neo-Nazi web site the Each day Stormer after its editor Andrew Anglin confronted a authorized battle with the Southern Poverty Legislation Middle over his alleged “trolling” towards a Jewish girl, the Los Angeles Instances studies.
Doja Cat deleted the unique Instagram photograph that includes Hyde, however later changed it with a cropped model along with his face eliminated. The second put up featured a caption with quite a few rolling eyes emojis. The feedback part included many onlookers expressing their disapproval of the “Paint the City Pink” singer’s option to put up the controversial picture.
“why are you hiding your shirt? embarrassed that you simply’re carrying one thing with a nazi on it ?” one person wrote. One other added, “lady get it collectively. this isn’t cute or humorous.”
Many followers additionally took to X (previously Twitter) to vent their frustrations with the rapper. “think about being a choose me for incels… like doja cat is absolutely making an attempt her greatest to be cancelled and un-famous once more simply so she will be able to get again to these racial chat rooms full time,” one particular person wrote.
Doja Cat is not any stranger to on-line controversy. Earlier this yr, she claimed that her final two albums — 2021’s Planet Her and 2019’s Sizzling Pink — had been “money grabs” and teased her fanbase for falling for it. She additionally misplaced almost 300,000 social media followers after blasting her followers for calling themselves “Kittenz.” Lately, Doja got here underneath fireplace for tweeting homophobic slurs to explain rappers Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler, the Creator, and was accused of taking part in alt-right chat rooms.
Doja just lately dropped her fourth album, Scarlet, which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The brand new set marks her extremely anticipated return following Planet Her, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and delivered loads of Billboard Sizzling 100 chart hits.
She’ll be heading out on a 24-date trek in assist of the album with The Scarlet Tour, which launches on Halloween in San Francisco and wraps Dec. 13 in Chicago. Opening acts embody Ice Spice and Doechii.
