TikTok star Tony Lopez accused of inappropriate messages sent to minors Instagram: Tony LopezAccusations have been made against 20-year-old Hype House member Tony Lopez, alleging inappropriate conduct involving girls as young as 15 via his private Snapchat account. The initial accusations aimed at Lopez emerged when a TikTok from user Griffin Brooks went viral, after a 15-year-old girl contacted him with screen recordings showing messages of a sexual nature supposedly sent by Lopez. She said that he \u201cnever asked\u201d for her age and always requested explicit photos. It then transpired that Lopez had been marking tweets containing the incriminating video under \u201chidden replies\u201d without directly addressing the allegations. One of the first videos to go viral on TikTok about 1 month ago outlining the allegations that Tony Lopez sexually harassed a 15-year-old girl. pic.twitter.com\/2KMFxT7sv1 \u2014 Def Noodles (@defnoodles) August 9, 2020 for anyone watching, Tony Lopez hid my tweet exposing him for sexually harassing a minor bc he knows he\u2019s guilty pic.twitter.com\/RGa8FpVxRV \u2014 ? (@ncim455) July 14, 2020 On August 8, another 15-year-old girl contacted another Twitter user, sharing screenshots of Lopez allegedly giving his private Snapchat name, and making similarly inappropriate comments. The messages show Lopez saying \u201cyour face is kissable\u201d and calls her his \u201cbaby.\u201d Users were quick to raise the alarm in order to ensure \u201cthis predator is stripped of a platform.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/kopcillaa\/status\/1292206219407396869 This led to a 16-year-old girl sharing her own experiences with Lopez via TikTok. In one video she writes \u201cTony Lopez blocked me on snap for not sending him nudes,\u201d and follows with a screen recording of his messages and the details of his private Snapchat. Despite the damning nature of the accusations, some fans still defended him, arguing \u201che is human\u201d and \u201ceveryone makes mistakes.\u201d But others suggest that the sheer number of victims means the \u201cauthorities need to be involved.\u201d Stop it he is human I hope he did not do it but if he did stop mistakes happen \u2014 Wynter (@Wynter47488787) July 15, 2020 wow. okay at this point the authorities need to be involved, i understand the police may victim-blame, especially against an influencer with so much money and such a big platform, but there are too many girls at this point for this not to be dealt with by the authorities \u2014 ? (@ncim455) August 13, 2020 While Lopez is yet to publicly address the allegations, on August 9 he tweeted \u201cI\u2019ve got a lot to talk about\u201d which some commenters took as an acknowledgement of the accusations, and a potential sign that a full response is to come. Lopez is followed by over 21 million fans on TikTok alone, with his videos regularly garnering over 5 million views each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikTok star Tony Lopez accused of inappropriate messages sent to minors Instagram: Tony LopezAccusations have been made against 20-year-old Hype House member Tony Lopez, alleging inappropriate conduct involving girls as young as 15 via his private Snapchat account. The initial accusations aimed at Lopez emerged when a TikTok from user Griffin Brooks went viral, after […]<\/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-60814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60814","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=60814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}