Doja Cat wears a shirt featuring alt-right comedian/troll
Doja Cat wears a Sam Hyde shirt in new photo. pic.twitter.com/WCrVdmuT88
- Pop Base (@PopBase) October 6, 2023
Doja Cat, who is Black and Jewish, shared a new selfie today wearing a shirt that featured controversial figure Sam Hyde.
Hyde began his career as a try-hard stand up comedian in the mid 2010s, with routines that were rife with homophobic slurs, antisemitic conspiracy theories, and neo-Nazi terminology.
He rose to prominence when his Adult Swim show Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace premiered in August 2016 featuring his sketch comedy group Million Dollar Extreme. The show was cancelled four months later and Hyde claimed it was due to his support of Donald Trump's presidential campaign and also somehow blamed Jewish people??
In 2017 Hyde donated $5,000 to the notorious neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, in support of the site's founder who was being sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center for harassing a Jewish woman. (The Daily Stormer eventually lost and had to pay the woman $14 million in damages.)
Since his show's cancellation, Hyde has purposely courted the attention of the alt-right with misogynistic, racist, homophobic, antisemitic content that often threatens violence against minorities. He also perpetuates far-right conspiracy theories and has made recent appearances on InfoWars and white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Internet trolls on 4chan and elsewhere often use the photo on Doja's shirt to falsely claim as the perpetrator of various mass shootings to stoke confusion. The photo has been purposely misidentified as the shooter in the Orlando Night Club shooting, the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, and as recently as the 2023 Covenant School shooting.
UPDATE:
Doja was immediately called out across social media and is clearly annoyed:
Doja Cat deletes and reposts cropped photo after being called out for wearing a shirt of alleged Neo-Nazi comedian Sam Hyde:
“🙄🙄🙄…” pic.twitter.com/qbBsiAlr48
- Pop Base (@PopBase) October 7, 2023
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