TikTok star Mattia Polibio slammed for saying 'F***ot' and promoting homophobia in new video: 'Irrelevant'
TikTok star Mattia Polibio started trending on Twitter for all the wrong reasons on Monday, April 13, after a video of him surfaced on the internet saying "F***ot."
It is unclear as to when the video was recorded, but it was believed to have started circulating on the internet earlier this month. However, it suddenly went viral on social media on Monday. The clip, which is just four seconds long, shows Polibio on a toilet seat, wearing green pants and a white hoodie. When the camera pans toward him, he says the word, "F***ot."
When the camera pans, you can see that he was surrounded by his friends, many of whom had an amused expression on their faces. Many of his 4.5 million followers on TikTok took to Twitter to slam the 16-year-old over the use of the homophobic slur.
"Like imagine being so fucking irrelevant and still figuring out a way for people to hate you #mattiaisoverparty" one user wrote sarcastically, while another added, "#mattiaisoverparty we should support the homosexual/bisexual community. It hurts that we still live in a society that people cannot express themselves." A third said, "#mattiaisoverparty if anything he should apologize for the things he's said"
And then a fourth stated, "#mattiaisoverparty yall should've done this long ago," alluding to the fact that this was not the first time that the teenage social media star had been embroiled in controversy.
Polibio is a social media influencer who became famous over the last couple of years. The first time social media users took notice of him was in 2018 when a TikTok video he posted on November 18, 2018, went viral. As a result more and more people were subscribing to his channel and after a year, he had over a million followers and received 400,000 likes on his first photo, alone.
In the past, he has openly admitted to not liking certain people with certain sexualities, which was basically him dissing members of the LGBTQ community. In spite of admitting on tape, he later went onto deny that he ever made any of the homophobic comments, after receiving backlash, TV Over Mind reported
A few years ago, he found himself in a bit of pickle after using the N-word during a live TikTok stream. He let the word slip while hanging out with his friend, fellow TikTok star, Alejandro Rosario. After he said the word, Rosario, who was filming the video, pans away from Polibio's face to record his own expression. Although he seemed to be grinning, he wore a shocked reaction on his face, suggesting that he did not expect the teen to blurt out the racist slur.
It was later reported that Polibio was trying to imitate former TikTok user AcidPrincessx3 who deleted her profile on the platform after being caught using the N-word on two separate occasions, according to Distractify.
In a separate video following the incident, he apologized for his behavior where he made it clear that it's not okay to say the N-word, no matter what the context might be.
Three years later, Rosario also took to Twitter to apologize for the insensitive video. "Social media is a dangerous world people will really go back 3 years to try and find something we did to try and cancel us and get clout of it. Regardless even though I was 12 and it was a comment I'm and truly sorry for anyone that I offended I did not mean any harm as a 12-year-old, but I've learned what that means and how harmful and offensive it could be, I've matured into a better person who just tries to make ppl smile," he wrote.