Stranger Things\u2019 Noah Schnapp responds to claims he used a racial slur YouTube: Charli D’Amelio[jwplayer mgzBNoPb]Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp has come under fire after a controversial video resurfaced that showed the young actor singing a song with a racial slur, which he claims he replaced with another word. Noah Schnapp is famous for his role as Stranger Things\u2019 Will Byers, having debuted in season one as a character in the famous Netflix show that is now approaching its fourth (and thankfully, not final) season. Despite his popularity, Schnapp has become the subject of controversy, after a video surfaced that showed the actor singing along to Chris Brown\u2019s and Lil Dicky\u2019s comedic song, \u201cFreaky Friday,\u201d which details the journey of Jewish rapper Lil Dicky waking up in Chris Brown\u2019s body. The song features a humorous line that asks whether or not he can \u201csay the n-word\u201d \u2014 a line that Schnapp repeated in the video as he sang along with friends. i have never said the n word and i take PRIDE in that- noah schnapp 2020 pic.twitter.com\/szWIR5aiEN \u2014 sam (@euphoriachlmet) August 26, 2020 Schnapp has since come under fire for the viral clip, and issued an apology to social media, where he clarified that he replaced the actual racial slur with the word \u201cneighbor.\u201d \u201cRecently, a video from last summer has gotten out of me singing the word \u2018neighbor\u2019 over the n-word,\u201d Schnapp explained. \u201cI would truly never say the n-word and I\u2019m not [that] type of person. Using the word \u2018neighbor\u2019 was just something me and my camp friends did.\u201d While Schanpp also acknowledged that he shouldn\u2019t have replaced the word altogether, critics are still taking issue with his apology post, with many decrying the young actor for using a substitute word instead of just remaining silent. \u201cEven if he was saying neighbor, it\u2019s disgusting,\u201d one commenter wrote via YouTube. \u201cWhether he said neighbor or the n-word, it wasn\u2019t right,\u201d another chimed in. \u201cI expected better from him.\u201d Schnapp, a 15-year-old, has long been a beloved member of the Stranger Things cast, which features a slew of teenaged stars in Gaten Materazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Finn Wolfhard and Millie Bobbie Brown, among others. However, it seems that fans are now seeing the youngster in a different light \u2014 in spite of his sincere and lengthy apology for the year-old video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Stranger Things\u2019 Noah Schnapp responds to claims he used a racial slur YouTube: Charli D’Amelio[jwplayer mgzBNoPb]Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp has come under fire after a controversial video resurfaced that showed the young actor singing a song with a racial slur, which he claims he replaced with another word. Noah Schnapp is famous for his […]<\/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-59306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59306","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=59306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}