Sway House member Nick Bean under fire for allegedly racist video Instagram: nickbeanSway House member Nick Bean has received backlash on social media after a video on Bryce Hall\u2019s Instagram story appeared to show him doing the \u2018fox eye\u2019. 25-year-old content creator Nick Bean has a strong following on both YouTube and TikTok. His YouTube channel has 1.68 million subscribers while his verified TikTok account has 2.4 million followers. As a member of the Sway House, he also collaborates with influencers such as Bryce Hall and Chase Hudson and is a frequent presence in their Instagram posts. However, his latest appearance in TikTok star Bryce Hall\u2019s Instagram story has caused controversy, as many viewers accused him of doing the \u2018fox eye\u2019 \u2013 a trend where people stretch their eyes to appropriate the Asian eye shape and is widely seen as an act of racial stereotyping and discrimination. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CF6OVW5l5mR\/ It didn\u2019t take long after the video surfaced for fans to express their dissent towards Bean\u2019s actions. In a comment that received over 500 likes, one user said: \u201cHim doing it and Bryce recording n putting it on his story just shows just how much-normalized racism against Asians really is [sic].\u201d Meanwhile, another user from an Asian background said that \u201cas an Asian, we have been oppressed for SO long, and now the whites are trying to reclaim it. pls pls pls pls stop!! we are all human, and we should all treat each other equally. just be your own race, and don\u2019t mock it. not that hard. [sic]\u201d Other fans tried to defend the TikToker. One user claimed that \u201che\u2019s putting the middle fingers up to his face\u201d as opposed to doing the offensive \u2018fox eyes \u2018 action, while another argued that people \u201ccan\u2019t post anything anymore\u201d without the fear of being criticized. Despite these attempts at defense, it\u2019s clear that the consensus is that Bean was acting offensively in this video. In one comment that got over 500 likes, a user said that the 25-year-old should know better, as he\u2019s a \u201ca very grown man\u201d, and that \u201che should educate himself [about racism] without people asking him to.\u201d At the time of writing, Bean hasn\u2019t responded to these allegations and despite the controversy, the video remains live on Hall\u2019s Instagram story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sway House member Nick Bean under fire for allegedly racist video Instagram: nickbeanSway House member Nick Bean has received backlash on social media after a video on Bryce Hall\u2019s Instagram story appeared to show him doing the \u2018fox eye\u2019. 25-year-old content creator Nick Bean has a strong following on both YouTube and TikTok. His YouTube […]<\/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-59731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59731","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=59731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}