![]() Which definitely adds a new layer to the public debate happening right now about cancel culture. This, instead, just seems like someone who has figured out that it’s really easy to build a big TikTok account by posting outrage bait. Tuzet isn’t a celebrity, nor was the fake noticeably a troll account. It also feels in line with a trend that was popular a few years ago where stans on Twitter and Tumblr would make photoshops of different celebrities saying homophobic things, most notably, Mille Bobby Brown. It feels in line with other troll catifish accounts, where stan armies would steal photos from someone in a different country, and use that fake account to say racist or inappropriate things on Twitter. What happened to Tuzet isn’t without precedent. But according to screenshots grabbed by Wagatwe Wanjuki, an activist (highly recommend following her btw) who’s been posting about this fake racist catfishing, the account was way outperforming the real Tuzet account. Well, it turns out what is happening with this account is much more doesn’t exist! Her real name is Julie Tuzet, a French musician and model, who has been pleading with people on TikTok to help her get the account taken down. The clueless European girl getting roasted for confidently not understanding American social justice concepts is a pretty well-worn trope on Tumblr and TikTok, so I sort of tucked it away as a weird and dumb thing, and kept on scrolling. It appears at 16 seconds in the video above, where she says “assuming I’m white just because I’m white passing □□ I’m 75% French and 25% Belgian :)” One of the videos from this account actually came across my Tumblr dashboard over the weekend. The videos on the account featured a young white woman dancing to various trending audios with text written around her that made it seem as if she was a racist French woman. The video comes from an account called From what I can tell, the account has already been reported and taken down. ![]() It’s one of those things that feels completely outrageous, but also seems like exactly where all of this *waves around frantically* was always headed. This video was dropped in the Garbage Day Discord by lusername.
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