Doja Cat rubbishes claims that YouTube whitewashed her complexion in photo: 'I'm half white, not entirely black'
On March 10, YouTube released a playlist called #WCE (Woman Crush Everyday) and made rapper and singer Doja Cat the cover of the same. Doja is seen donning pink earphones and a lacy top in the photograph that caused a lot of frenzy.
Moments after the photo was posted, netizens flooded the video-sharing website with claims that YouTube lightened Doja's complexion in the photograph. Comments like "the caucasity jumped out", "Did they just whitewash Doja" and "oh dang why'd they make her white yo" started trickling in. Someone also implied that it can be a marketing tactic as white skin can be marketed better.
Shortly after Doja took to her social media and addressed the incident.
In a series of videos, Doja could be seen scrolling through all the comments wherein fans were slamming YouTube for whitewashing her skin in the photo. She was not having any of the accusations made against YouTube or herself and she hit back at all those who commented on the post claiming that YouTube changed her complexion.
"So if you're stupid you probably left a comment under this picture talking about this. How about I'm half-white not entirely black. My skin gets very light when I don't tan. I was staying inside a lot before the shoot. New f******* subject dumb*****," said Doja defending her racially mixed identity and her differing skin tone.
A number of fans sided with her and termed claims of her skin tone being messed with as irrelevant.
A fan reminded the Internet that Doja Cat interacts with all her followers on a regular basis via live videos on her social media and is always discussing and sharing a lot of her personal experiences with fans during the sessions and has also been transparent about her ethnicity since the start. Another fan wrote: "She's extremely beautiful and the internet are crybabies looking for something to complain about."
Doja Cat released her song 'Mooo!' in 2018. Dressed in a cow print co-ord, Doja danced against a green screen while shoving fries up her nose and drinking milkshake and rapping "B**ch I'm a cow".
The video went viral and Doja immediately became an Internet celebrity. Career-wise she's going pretty solid and she just recently made her debut on the Late Night Show with Jimmy Fallon. Later this month, Doja is also about to hop on to her tour bus and perform concerts in states across the US and Canada as well as Ireland, till July this year.