Zoe LaVerne deletes Instagram amid lip-syncing controversy Twitter:realzoelaverneTikTok star Zoe LaVerne\u2019s Instagram account has been deactivated, following days of backlash from fans after a video re-emerged of saying a racial slur whilst lip-syncing to the 2018 song \u2018Motorsports\u2019. 19-year-old LaVerne is one of TikTok\u2019s most prominent influencers (just don\u2019t tell her about Charli D\u2019Amelio\u2019s follower count). At the time of writing, she boasts a following of 17.2 million users on the app, as well as 2.9 million followers on her now-deleted Instagram \u2013 which makes her decision to delete it all the more surprising. After all, this isn\u2019t the first time LaVerne has faced scrutiny from fans. Following her messy break-up with fellow TikTok star Cody Orlove, he uploaded a video of her lamenting over D\u2019Amelio\u2019s success \u2013 something which inevitably caused her to face major backlash. Update, September 12, 11:55am EST: Zoe LaVerne has taken to her private fandom Instagram account to explain why she took down her main account. She explains that a combination of factors including mental health issues and \u201cAWFUL rumours [sic]\u201d about her led to the decision to take what she describes as a \u201cbreak\u201d. She reassures fans that she will continue to go live on her TikTok user account. Why did Zoe LaVerne delete her Instagram? In the past few days, an old video of LaVerne has been circulating on Twitter where she lip-syncs to Nicki Minaj\u2019s verse in the 2018 song \u2018Motorsports\u2019. As many fans have pointed out, in this clip she failed to skip past the use of a racial slur in this song despite seemingly skipping past a different curse word in the verse. The clip went viral in the first week of September. In response to the growing backlash against her, LaVerne said in a video statement that the clip was from her musical.ly account in 2o16, and that lip-syncing racial slurs \u201cwasn\u2019t a big deal back then\u201d. This is despite the song \u2018Motorsports\u2019 only being released in 2018, which would presumably make the video two years old as opposed to four years old like she claims in this video. This response to her lip-syncing did not go down well with fans, with one Twitter using despairing: \u201cwhy did ya\u2019ll give her a platform [sic]\u201d. Another user accused LaVerne of attempting to \u201cnormalize\u201d the use of this slur, while another simply called Zoe and her fans \u2013 who she has dubbed her \u2018ZoeHoes\u2019 \u2013 \u201cchildish.\u201d It would appear that this latest influx of online scrutiny has become too much for Zoe, as drama account The TikTok Shaderoom has confirmed with screenshots that she has deactivated her account. Visiting her Instagram account now will take you to a broken link. While some Twitter users celebrated \u2013 with one user declaring \u201cYES ITS FINALLY OVER [sic]\u201d, this does lead to the question of what\u2019s next for this TikTok influencer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Zoe LaVerne deletes Instagram amid lip-syncing controversy Twitter:realzoelaverneTikTok star Zoe LaVerne\u2019s Instagram account has been deactivated, following days of backlash from fans after a video re-emerged of saying a racial slur whilst lip-syncing to the 2018 song \u2018Motorsports\u2019. 19-year-old LaVerne is one of TikTok\u2019s most prominent influencers (just don\u2019t tell her about Charli D\u2019Amelio\u2019s follower […]<\/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-66120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66120","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=66120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}