{"id":53612,"date":"2025-01-28T18:08:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/lil-tay-hits-back-at-claims-heart-tumor-diagnosis-is-a-hoax-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:08:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:08:51","slug":"lil-tay-hits-back-at-claims-heart-tumor-diagnosis-is-a-hoax-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/lil-tay-hits-back-at-claims-heart-tumor-diagnosis-is-a-hoax-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Tay hits back at claims heart tumor diagnosis is a hoax &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Tay hits back at claims heart tumor diagnosis is a hoax YouTube: Lil TayLil Tay has hit back at claims that her \u201clife-threatening\u201d heart tumor diagnosis is a hoax. The 17-year-old influencer went viral on September 11, 2024, after posts on her X account revealed that they had \u201cdevastating\u201d news to share about Lil Tay. The account then claimed that she had been diagnosed with a \u201clife-threatening\u201d brain tumor and was admitted into the hospital\u2019s Intensive Care Unit. \u201cTay has been diagnosed with a life-threatening heart tumor. We ask kindly for everyone\u2019s love and prayers,\u201d they said in the post. Viewers across X have called the claims a hoax since they first went viral, with many stating that Lil Tay\u2019s \u201crent is due again\u201d \u2013 implying that the posts may be done as a way to go viral and generate revenue on her channels. On top of that, her initial post about the news has received a community note claiming the whole thing is fake. Her X account hit back at the claims, calling it \u201cmisleading\u201d and asked for people to continue praying for Tay. \u201cThis community note is misleading, as something is indeed wrong with Tay. Last time, it was her absentee father who hacked into her accounts and faked her death. However, this time, she is in the ICU,\u201d the post reads. \u201cShe was diagnosed with a heart tumor. But we will keep you updated as we receive more information. Please continue to pray for Tay.\u201d Viewers remain skeptical about the posts due to an incident that took place back in 2023, where Lil Tay\u2019s Instagram account announced the death of her and her brother. After regaining access to the account, Tay claimed that her father had taken it over to share the viral hoax. She\u2019s since came back to social media and launched a music career. Tay posts her music videos on YouTube and has since amassed over 400,000 subscribers and almost 10 million views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Tay hits back at claims heart tumor diagnosis is a hoax YouTube: Lil TayLil Tay has hit back at claims that her \u201clife-threatening\u201d heart tumor diagnosis is a hoax. The 17-year-old influencer went viral on September 11, 2024, after posts on her X account revealed that they had \u201cdevastating\u201d news to share about Lil [&hellip;]<\/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-53612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53612","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=53612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}