Addison Rae under fire for \u201cracist\u201d Instagram live stream YouTube: Addison Rae[jwplayer ksH6zuKH]TikTok star Addison Rae is facing backlash from fans after a video surfaced from a past Instagram live stream that appeared to show her tricking fellow TikTokker Kio Cyr into saying a racial slur. Addison Rae is one of TikTok\u2019s most popular content creators, boasting over 48 million followers on the app due to her viral lip syncing and dancing videos. On par with names like Charli D\u2019Amelio and Loren Gray, Addison Rae was rarely involved in online drama \u2014 until late June of 2020, when fans took issue with a moment captured in an Instagram live stream with Kio Cyr. In the stream, Rae sits and talks with Cyr, who recently made headlines due to his shocking breakup with ex-girlfriend Olivia Ponton. While the two chat, Rae covers her mouth and seems to whisper to Cyr to \u201csay the \u2018n-word.\u2019\u201d \u201cNo!\u201d Cyr shouts in response, prompting Rae to clarify her request with an, \u201cI\u2019m kidding!\u201d \u201cLuckily, your Live just froze when you said that,\u201d Rae says a few moments later after Cyr claimed he \u201cdidn\u2019t want to be the next \u2018Melanin King.\u2019\u201d The moment quickly went viral online, with many fans speaking out against Rae for her purported racist comment. \u201cLmao, Addison Rae said the n word, and y\u2019all are just sliding past that?\u201d one critic Tweeted about the scandal. lmaooo addison rae said the n word n y’all are just slide past that? \u2014 Ilwad (@_ilwadabdi) June 23, 2020 \u201cAddison rae shared a video that said the Black Lives Matter movement is a cult, told another TikTokker to say the n word on live, insulted Charli, but hardly anyone batted an eye at her because she\u2019s pretty,\u201d another commented. \u201cPretty privilege is real and it\u2019s insanely ridiculous.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/insanelyknj\/status\/1277455756267147269?s=20 While Rae has yet to speak out about the moment via her own social media accounts, some fans are arguing that she had asked Cyr if he had said a racial slur, rather than asking him to say it. This possibility is one that he himself has backed up, as told in an Instagram comment replying to the backlash. Rae\u2019s mother has also published several statements via Twitter, and while they do not directly address the video, some fans are convinced they\u2019re subtweets about the situation. \u201cI\u2019ve always been a person to see the good in people,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI\u2019m genuinely losing hope in people and that makes me so sad.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/sherinicolee\/status\/1277275998564708353?s=20 This isn\u2019t the first time Rae has come under fire, by far; the star also faced criticism for dancing to a song that contained lyrics about eating disorders, as well as for liking comments in 2019 that appeared to shade Charli D\u2019Amelio. Stay tuned to Dexerto for more on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Addison Rae under fire for \u201cracist\u201d Instagram live stream YouTube: Addison Rae[jwplayer ksH6zuKH]TikTok star Addison Rae is facing backlash from fans after a video surfaced from a past Instagram live stream that appeared to show her tricking fellow TikTokker Kio Cyr into saying a racial slur. Addison Rae is one of TikTok\u2019s most popular content […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}