TikTok's Tinx Apologizes After Awful Tweets Resurface -- But Fails To Address Controversial Political & COVID-19 Posts
25.04.2022 - 22:41
/ perezhilton.com
Another influencer is being called to answer for controversial past statements.
If you’re on TikTok, you’ve probably encountered Christina Najjar, aka Tinx. The California-based influencer became hugely popular over the last two years for her welcoming persona, eventually becoming known as “TikTok’s older sister.” But, as so often happens these days, some old tweets surfaced that called the persona she’d cultivated into question.
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The bulk of the Twitter controversy (which has been collected on a dedicated subreddit thread HERE as well as by writer Sophie Ross HERE) surrounded insulting and fatphobic comments made towards celebrities, dating back as far as 2012. Some examples:
After the old messages went viral, Tinx addressed the situation on Instagram. She wrote:
She continued:
The 31-year-old went on:
She concluded:
Whether or not fans accept this apology for her decade-old comments remains to be seen, but the post didn’t address the more recent tweets that raised eyebrows. That included “likes” and “retweets” of coronavirus takes in 2020 that pinned the blame on China for the outbreak (a common xenophobic attack at the time). She also shared suggestions that the lockdown in California and elsewhere should ended in April 2020. (Some of the resurfaced tweets also misgendered Caitlyn Jenner, which also doesn’t seem to be addressed in the apology.)
And BTW, the mean-spirited tweets about others’ appearances weren’t limited to a decade ago, either — in 2020, she retweeted a post calling journalist Ken Klippenstein‘s wife “ugly” and added her own commentary:
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