Nessa Barrett defends TikTok \u2018scar girl\u2019 from \u201cbullying and harassment\u201d Instagram: nessabarrett, annbonelliTikTok star Nessa Barrett came to the defense of \u2018scar girl,\u2019 a creator on the platform who received criticism after viewers became convinced her facial scar wasn\u2019t real. Influencer Ann Bonelli has risen to the top of TikTok fame over the past few weeks due to a unique facial scar she has on her left cheek. Although older photos of the creator show her with a reddish, faded scar, her scar has become much darker in her more recent posts \u2014 which some viewers aren\u2019t convinced is actually real. Lately, Bonelli (now colloquially known as \u2018scar girl\u2019) has been taking fire for purportedly \u201cfaking\u201d an injury and even playing a \u201cbit\u201d for social media. Bonelli, though, says she was originally injured in 2020 and worsened her scar by using a topical lightening cream that gave her a \u201cchemical burn.\u201d That isn\u2019t stopping netizens from levying a critical eye at her, though\u2026 but another prominent influencer is coming to her defense. Nessa Barrett defends \u2018scar girl\u2019 after TikToker receives wave of criticism On January 17, TikTok star and singer-songwriter Nessa Barrett took to Twitter to defend \u2018scar girl,\u2019 claiming Bonelli was being unfairly \u201charassed and bullied\u201d over her facial feature. \u201cI don\u2019t get the whole \u2018scar girl\u2019 thing, but I feel for her because she\u2019s getting so much hate,\u201d she wrote in a series of now-deleted posts. \u201cFake or not, she doesn\u2019t deserve the bullying and harassment.\u201d \u201cI just think about it, and if you wanted to fake it to make it last, it\u2019s pretty easier to make it look real, and I\u2019m sure she\u2019s smart enough to do so,\u201d she continued. \u201cWhat girl would rather have a thick, brown line on her face than a healed scar? I swear, it doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with social media is that we are harassing a girl because of a scar and not using all of that energy toward people that actually deserve to have their platform removed.\u201d Commenters on social media don\u2019t seem to be in agreement with her, though. A slew of comments from Instagram tea page \u2018TeaTokTalk\u2019 are hitting back at Barrett for her thoughts on \u2018scar girl,\u2019 even saying that Barrett deserves to be deplatformed after her viral incident dancing to audio of the Quran being read aloud in 2020. Barrett has since deleted her tweets on the subject and posted a lengthy reply to the criticism she received in an Instagram comment, where she reiterated her support for Bonelli and called out online negativity. Bonelli, for her part, continues to claim that her facial injury is real and makes multiple posts about body positivity on her account in spite of the constant criticism she sees in her comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nessa Barrett defends TikTok \u2018scar girl\u2019 from \u201cbullying and harassment\u201d Instagram: nessabarrett, annbonelliTikTok star Nessa Barrett came to the defense of \u2018scar girl,\u2019 a creator on the platform who received criticism after viewers became convinced her facial scar wasn\u2019t real. Influencer Ann Bonelli has risen to the top of TikTok fame over the past few […]<\/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-56245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56245","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=56245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}