It’s been a bad week for social media influencers who’ve uploaded racist and derogatory posts online, and a tiresome week for those affected by their words.
Two modelesque TikTok creators, Brooke Schofield and Alix Earle, are under fire for previous posts they made years ago that have resurfaced this week. Schofield, who boasts 2.2 million followers on TikTok, has issued three apologies to address several posts she made as a teenager, including when she defended George Zimmerman’s killing of Trayvon Martin, a Black 17-year-old whose death in 2012 sparked the start of the Black Lives Matter movement.
She co-hosts the podcast Canceled with YouTuber Tana Mongeau, who was temporarily knocked off her internet throne in 2020 after her racist behavior was exposed following the death of George Floyd.
