Half of my family is black from South Africa and I'm very proud of where I come from," she continued. I'm sorry to everyone that I offended," the singer wrote. I shouldn't have been on some of those chat room sites, but I personally have never been involved in any racist conversations. "I've used public chat rooms to socialize since I was a child. On May 24, Doja Cat posted an explanation on her Instagram account. geraldine🦎 Doja Cat eventually addressed the controversy in an Instagram post on May 24 Many Twitter users pointed out that Doja Cat herself had not spoken out on the issue, while others took issue with the generalization that the "we" in the hashtag made. I've heard her make troll ass comments, which NONE have been racist."Ĭonflicting hashtags seem to have arisen out of the variety of conflicting information, but many were dissatisfied with #WeAreSorryDoja trending just a day after people on Twitter had attempted to cancel the singer. One Twitter user who mentioned the name of the chatroom that Doja Cat was said to be present in (Tea Time) in a tweet in 2015 wrote a brief thread on the controversy, saying, "Not once have I ever heard Doja say anything racist, even before she blew up. Others posted screenshots that they said depicted conversations with people who had been in the Tinychat room and said that Doja Cat had not said anything racist. "'Dindu nuffin' is like 47th circle deep web levels of racism," one Twitter user wrote.Īfter #DojaisOverParty trended on May 23, #WeAreSorryDoja trended on May 24Īfter the alleged Tinychat videos began to circulate, counter-threads began to emerge on Twitter claiming that the chatroom Doja Cat had visited was not racist. Many pointed out on Twitter that the phrase "dindu nuffin" is most prevalent on racist message boards and online spaces as opposed to in mainstream rhetoric. Know Your Meme reported that the phrase emerged from /pol/, 4chan's "Politically Incorrect" politics forum.ĭoja Cat's song, which was uploaded to SoundCloud in November 2015 before it was later deleted, according to Genius, generated backlash online, with Twitter users accusing her of releasing the song as a response to the 2015 death of Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in police custody after she was pulled over for failing to use her turn signal.
The Source reported that the song's name "seems to be a stylized pronunciation of 'didn't do nothing,'" that is meant to mock black people who died as a result of police brutality. "People would pick on me and use horrible, horrible language, just the worst, and I just didn't understand why people were so crazy on there," the singer told Paper at the time, but she said she remained in the chatroom and joined in with her own "offensive jokes," despite the "horrible language."Īs the racism accusations grew online, an old Doja Cat song that used racist language resurfaced as wellĪlong with the video chat allegations, a Doja Cat song from 2015 titled "Dindu Nuffin" reemerged online as well. Refusing to name the chatroom - and telling Paper that "people are f- crazy" and will attempt to find it - the artist said that she used to skip school to hang out in the chatroom. christina💗✨💅🤗 May 23, 2020ĭoja Cat has previously mentioned being a part of online chatrooms: In a December 2019 interview with Paper Magazine, she said that she was obsessed with a chatroom that she still frequented at the time. In addition to the Twitter discourse, discussion erupted on message board Lipstick Alley. One May 22 tweet claimed to show "footage of on a chat room with alt-right white supremacists only 6 days ago." People online claimed that Doja Cat was "talking to racists and laughing to their racist jokes" on video chatting platform Tinychat.
On May 22, videos alleging that Doja Cat participated in public chat rooms began to circulate on social media, particularly Twitter. A video surfaced that appeared to show Doja Cat participating in alleged 'racist chat rooms'
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