TikTok star Willy Wonka responds to outrage over \u201cmessed up\u201d video Instagram: willywonkatiktokWilly Wonka, a huge TikTok star with 14 million followers on the app, has responded to accusations of racism after uploading a video that many argued amounted to an offensive stereotype of Hispanic people. Willy Wonka \u2013 real name Duke Depp \u2013 received backlash across TikTok on Twitter after he uploaded a video making light of Spanish culture before deleting it with seemingly no further comment. The video was a response to the question of whether he speaks Spanish. It depicted him eating salsa and nachos while traditional Spanish music played in the background. The video in turn received a lot of backlash from fans, with users on TikTok expressing their disappointment. One user said that they \u201cweren\u2019t going to forget about this one\u201d, while another despaired that they were \u201crooting for\u201d Wonka before this video came out. While users on Twitter moved to defend Wonka \u2013 with several claiming that he was \u201cjust having fun\u201d, another explained that the reason he was experiencing backlash wasn\u2019t for speaking the Spanish language, but for the way he employed Spanish stereotypes into the video. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CF0eDlNleDU\/ One user said: \u201c[I]magine if he did it in Chinese while eating rice and playing Mulan on the background it is kinda messed up ain\u2019t it? [sic]\u201d Hear me out tho the problem isn\u2019t that he spoke Spanish it\u2019s that he used stereotypes on his video imagine if he did it in Chinese while eating rice and playing Mulan on the background it is kinda messed up ain\u2019t it ? \u2014 PapaConda (@CondaPapa) October 2, 2020 WillyWonkaTikTok responds to backlash Eventually, after fans on TikTok criticized him for \u201cdeleting the video and saying nothing\u201d, the 19-year-old from Utah later apologized for the video in the comments of a TikTok and on Twitter. In the apology, which is the same across both platforms, he says that he is \u201cso so sorry\u201d about the video, and that \u201c[l]ooking back on the video now [he] absolutely understand[s] why the video was wrong.\u201d I am so so sorry about my \u201cspanish speaking video\u201d on Tiktok. Looking back on the video now I absolutely understand why the video was wrong. To anyone who I hurt with the video I apologize, and I promise to be better. \u2014 Willy Wonka Tiktok \/ Duke (@WonkaTiktok) October 1, 2020 He leaves with a pr0mise to be \u201cbetter\u201d, but for many people this still wasn\u2019t enough. TikTok user Tyler Stone uploaded a video slamming his \u201chalf-assed\u201d apology, while another user said in the video comments that he should \u201cjust make an apology video\u201d if he truly wants to make things right. His apology also raised the question of who the apology was for, with one user mocking how people were \u201csaying it\u2019s okay and ya\u2019ll aren\u2019t even Hispanic [sic]\u201d, while another on Twitter said that \u201cif you aren\u2019t Hispanic, you have NO opinion on if it\u2019s okay to do that.\u201d if you aren\u2019t hispanic, you have NO opinion on if it\u2019s okay to do that. it\u2019s stereotypical to us hispanics which is pretty close to racist so please understand more about stereotyping races or keep your mouth shut when it\u2019s not your race\u2764\ufe0f \u2014 \u2661 mikayla \u2661 am (@quaradize) October 2, 2020 Meanwhile, on Instagram, users moved to defend Wonka. Several users said that although they were of Hispanic heritage, they didn\u2019t find the video offensive, while another user said that they \u201cfeel like cancel culture just like to cancel people.\u201d However, one Instagram user argued that \u201cnobody was trying to cancel him\u201d, and that people are \u201cjust tryna hold him accountable.\u201d Whatever you think of the video, let\u2019s hope that Wonka is able to learn from this situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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