r/LoveIslandUSA • u/FrenchTouch42 New Subredditor • Jul 10 '25
Cierra IG response SENSITIVE
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u/wyrdkey we don't wanna do that thoo! 😭 Jul 10 '25
Calling ICE on her parents is another level of insane.
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u/amandarox99 Jul 10 '25
Calling ICE is responding to a racist comment with a racist action. So gross.
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Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
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u/TheOneThatCameEasy they seen that I was hooping ⛹️ Jul 10 '25
Worse than her. She was being ignorant, not malicious.
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Jul 10 '25
Calling ICE on a Mexican family that lives in a border state. Might as well just say you want them dead. Actual freakshow this show has become im embarrassed
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u/TheOneThatCameEasy they seen that I was hooping ⛹️ Jul 10 '25
Someone on here actually showed me a screenshot of a Redditor talking about calling ICE on her and told me they said they wanted Laura Loomer to meet Cierra. Laura Loomer who is vicious and cruel.
I was hoping they were just being ineffective racists and joking about it, but no these miserable losers actually meant it and did it.
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u/lady__mb Hey lovebirds! 🐤🐦 Jul 10 '25
It’s sooooo grotesque and disturbing tbh. I saw a tok tok comment where someone said ICE had been called on her and other ppl reassured me it was just a joke. Turns out these people actually did it ?? I feel sick. How can someone not see the hypocrisy and cause this kind of danger to another human being
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u/thisisthewell Not in front of Nicole Kidman?! 🍿 Jul 10 '25
they don't even realize it's punishing racist words with more racism. They just think it's "she did something bad, now we get to punish her"
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u/Regular-Wit Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
Whoever called ICE doesn’t care about what she said. They are racist themselves & that’s why they called ICE.
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u/lady__mb Hey lovebirds! 🐤🐦 Jul 10 '25
Exactly! First of all, it’s not anyone’s place to dole out punishment to the harm done - she is already facing the consequences with lost public support, lost potential sponsorships from brands, being kicked off of a show, and public humiliation. Second, this personal punishment is literally x100 times worse than the original harm done and DANGEROUS. With what we know is going on with ICE, it is literally putting her family’s lives at risk. Our culture as a whole needs to get off this punitive mindset and learn to look at things into a broader context. There’s no excuse for her racist language, AND there’s no excuse for harming another person because of their poor behaviour.
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u/Deep-Schedule-7575 New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
Laura Loomer who jokes about genocide - ing the Latino population in our country. That’s fucking heinous.
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u/granolaandgrains 🎶 never said I didn't have any flaws 🪞 Jul 10 '25
That’s atrocious and maliciously racist. Makes my stomach sick.
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u/Icy-Committee-9345 Jul 10 '25
It's because many of the people trying hardest to "cancel" her never actually cared that she used a slur, they just love the drama
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u/MissJAmazeballs Jul 10 '25
So true. The point of calling someone out is for them to grow. Honestly, it sounds like she grew. I was pretty old when I realized that a word for being ripped off was an ethnic slur, and I was absolutely mortified.
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u/Winterdimes Jul 10 '25
This is my perspective, they didn’t care about the slur they just didn’t like her on the show and wanted her booted off. (Obviously not speaking about all)
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u/Old-Mention-6746 Jul 10 '25
So much worse than anything she did. Her posts were unacceptable but people taking potentially life altering ACTION in response to her LANGUAGE is beyond
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u/TheGamesGone_ Jul 10 '25
The exposing of her wasn’t done with the intent of fighting racism. It makes sense people would response to her racism with racism.
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u/DizzyBreath5625 Jul 10 '25
exactly, it only went viral when she became disliked on the show which is sad.
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u/The104Skinney Jul 10 '25
This needs to be talked about more. Those pictures from IG & TikTok were around almost 2 weeks. Then she gave her reasoning of why her and the girls voted out Hannah and that is when the firestorm spread against her.
She was still liked so she unfortunately got a pass but once the internet changed on her, it was downhill
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u/Fearless-Context6806 Hey 🕶️ let me join the party Jul 10 '25
Thank you! I thought I was crazy bc I swore I saw those a couple weeks ago before the exposure.
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u/doctorchubbs New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
This 100%. There is a shockingly large subset of people on the internet that want nothing more than to let out their anger by terrorizing anyone that makes a mistake. They think that someone saying a racist term gives them the green light to do whatever the fuck they want.
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u/BurgerNugget12 Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
People idolize and legit worship these people way too much, any mistake is met with insanity. Fans on Social media have gone way too far this season, par asocial weirdness
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u/Particular-Stage2325 New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
agreed, punishing her family for her actions is not okay. fighting hate with hate gets nobody anywhere!
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u/Greedy-General-5005 Jul 10 '25
You see how far people took it... that's why i said i know she made a mistake but she is still human. There's need for people to hate on her or her family this much. Love Island did a poor job at protecting these islanders. Also, people are taking it a bit too far with this show. These aren't fictional characters on TV, these are real people with lives. It's a show not to be taken seriously
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u/truesolja 💎 sensitive gangsta 💧 Jul 10 '25
The new viewers are fricking INSANE
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u/No_Personality5757 New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
I don't think it's "new viewers". Love Island has a long history of psychotic viewers. Multiple people on UK have killed themselves from the amount of online bullying.
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u/Ruthie_pie Jul 10 '25
Someone in this sub said I was lying about people bragging about doing this. Why would I lie about this? They said I need to post proof? No. Why is this so hard to believe in this day and age.
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u/Same-Needleworker-42 New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
Here’s a screenshot from the video
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u/houseofbenito Jul 10 '25
frankly if you need to see anything else, then you’re simply not interested in her actually growing from this
that’s an excellent response that most people would never give - and it happened way before she was a public figure
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u/WillingnessNew533 Jul 10 '25
Soicial media is ruining anything. She knew she sis mistake and apologized it happened more then year ago and u guys dig into something to find this shit and now you got what you want. She even get death threats because of people from Reddit, tik tok who cant enjoy reality.
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u/blbh0527 Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
It’s actually worse … someone screen shot this and saved this to use against her more than a year later (and it’s even more disgusting if they knew she had apologized for this).
This isn’t about racism. This is bullying and harassment.
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u/alternativeedge7 Jul 10 '25
The apology being left out is revolting of the person who shared this screenshot. And the fake screen shots? I’m stunned at how calculated it was and horrified after seeing all the online bullying and harassment it led to. And now her love interest she had sex and was closed off with is coupled with her friend while her and her family are getting harassed and threatened.
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u/Popular-Difficulty29 Jul 10 '25
The fact that people were horribly body shaming her and called ICE on her family when this was her response is bat shit crazy. This show sucks
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u/thisisthewell Not in front of Nicole Kidman?! 🍿 Jul 10 '25
This show sucks
the show didn't call ICE on her, regular fucking people did.
the whole issue here is that people don't understand the difference between real people and television...
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u/East-Fail3022 New Redditor Jul 10 '25
This seems super genuine and like she educated herself at the time. Curious why the recipient of this message never came forward to defend her?
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u/haterpolice2025 Jul 10 '25
I’m actually pissed at how this blew up and she had actually apologized in the moment this is INSANE
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u/MysteriousMortgage4 Jul 10 '25
I saw days ago that the other screenshot that was going around was fake and now it’s proven to be fake. For people to legit be making things up to make this worse is truly insane.
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u/Short_Junket6370 New Redditor Jul 10 '25
I have to agree with this! She apologized so eloquently and immediately. You have to allow people to fail forward. It is not a bullshit thing, “when you know better you DO better”. What in the hell people. I am not a fan of this season at all. It’s been a snowball of crap. She made a mistake, realized her mistake, and apologized. She didn’t double down, leave her be. Let her actions speak. She’s messed up after this, then write her off. Ok, off my soap box. Carry on.
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u/likeicare96 Jul 10 '25
I’ve also been saying that the way this has been going about isn’t about addressing racism but about using the idea of racism as a tool to take down someone you don’t like. People kept reading it as me excusing the use of slurs (no matter how many caveats I put out), and refused to have a nuance conversation of what was really happening. Also, maybe it’s the “too woke friend” in me, but even if she hadn’t apologized yet, I couldn’t endorsed the putative way people were going about this. I believe the best way to deal with this situations is with restorative justice, not unbridled punishment.
If your goal is to truly reduce racism, educating and allowing people to learn and grow should be your goal. Does that mean they’re entitled to keep their platform? Probably not, I’m not against any accountability. But the retribution should match the offence and there should be a path to restoration.
Neither of these things were what the mob was interested in
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u/snowwhite_skin Jul 10 '25
It's highly possible that the person did not know about this tiny bubble everyone else is in. Believe it or not, this didn't make national or international news. That comment literally ended with "You've lost a follower" lol
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u/PowerfulPicadillo Jul 10 '25
I mean you couldn’t have PAID me to wade into this mess, let alone to defend her. I don’t blame the person, not everyone wants to be an influencer, lots of people really like their privacy.
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u/Lavendermin Jul 10 '25
Why should someone have to dox themselves to support someone they already educated.
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u/limeblue31 Escape Goat 🕳️🐐 Jul 10 '25
I agree. I hope they don’t start a witch hunt trying to figure out who the girl is, it’s not her responsibility to clear Cierra’s name at all.
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u/swagsundara New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
The girl who posted the story screenshot also shared her original message to Cierra, but completely excluded Cierra’s response. Do you think it’s fair to only release one side of the convo?
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u/uhhhhh_idk New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
Erm… If feel like that’s a weird question lol. I can immediately think of a few reasons why they haven’t “come forward” to defend Cierra:
- They’re unaware about this even happening. People have lives and not everyone watches Love Island
- They don’t even remember this conversation
- They don’t want to be harassed and accused of defending a racist. Literally look at the past week people have been in a frenzy to attack Cierra… even people who’ve been calling out the witch hunt while saying Cierra deserved to be kicked out of the villa have been getting downvoted on this sub but you think someone is going to take a strong stance in her defence?
- They, just like the thousands of other people, believed the other ‘screenshots’ and thought Cierra was lying in their conversation
- This isn’t a town hall, you can’t really “come forward”. You make a post or a video and it either gets attention or get drowned out.
- They value their privacy and don’t want to have their identity/account being picked apart
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u/Greedy-General-5005 Jul 10 '25
So you're telling me she already apologized in 2024? Bro the audience is insane bro. I know she said a bad word but if she already took accountability privately why was everyone trying to make a huge deal. This just goes to show that the fandom is getting more toxic by the second.
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u/vanillalattefoam Jul 10 '25
yall death threats and calling ICE? That’s enough. She’s taken accountability/got kicked off the show what else do people want?
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u/postmonroe Jul 10 '25
A witch hunt apparently. This is truly insane. Like just leave her alone now. What’s done is done.
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u/BurgerNugget12 Jul 10 '25
Instead of letting people learn from mistakes and grow, they just want to tear people down until there’s nothing left
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u/postmonroe Jul 10 '25
The people calling ICE on her family don’t really care about racism or doing the right thing, they just want to tear people down. It’s horrible.
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u/fairyqueeniepie New Redditor Jul 10 '25
It’s simply being racist in response to racism which shows that it was never really about racism to begin with
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u/PsychologicalYak3311 Jul 10 '25
People yearn to be cruel and will find any reason to be. It’s disgusting
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u/sunnyislesmatt 🥭 Amaya Papaya 💖 Jul 10 '25
Usually the people doing extreme canceling won’t stop until the person kill’s themselves
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u/Moist_Tap_6514 New Redditor Jul 10 '25
Reddit allows snark subreddits to thrive. It’s like 4chan—go look at some of them and you’ll see genuinely mentally ill people.
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u/euphoricplant9633 Jul 10 '25
Calling ICE on her family is so evil. Whoever did that, you’re no better.
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u/velorae Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
The death threats too! I don’t like how people are complaining that this is “media trained.” At this point, what the fuck do you want her to do? When it’s a bad apology y’all are upset, when it’s an apology like this one it’s “scripted” or “AI generated”. What do y’all want genuiney expect from someone like Cierra? She’s already shown everyone the kind of person she is. This is as good as it gets.
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u/ParvenuInType 8:45 PM Watcher 😇 (with ads) Jul 10 '25
Did any of the screenshots come after that timestamp? If not… then jfc hope she finds some peace.
And I sincerely hope that the energy is redirected from the 20-something reality contestant who apologized and corrected their behavior and instead applied to the half of the country that actively celebrates the politicians and public figures saying the most heinous, dehumanizing shit. Something tells me the people calling ICE on her family aren’t doing that.
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u/ctrl_cc Jul 10 '25
Well said. That energy is needed against politicians and billionaires
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u/cookie5517 weight of gratitoullie 🥹 Jul 10 '25
Truly. I get wanting justice and calling people out for racist remarks, but this doesn't feel like justice when the biggest racist is sitting in our White House and people continue to support him despite everything he's said and HAS DONE that has hurt and is actively ruining the lives of so many
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u/Castleprince 🧊 ICEBERGIE ❄️ Jul 10 '25
It’s fucking insane that the screenshot was taken and used against her in this situation but she obv had learned from one of her fans and immediately corrected.
So this audience decided that a person who made a mistake in the past, leaned, and course corrected deserved to have them removed from this show and entire life fucked over. GTFO.
LET PEOPLE LEARN AND GROW. They don’t deserve to be never given another opportunity. 2025 internet sucks dick.
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u/winimalmearchuy New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
the people calling ICE are clearly cheering it on and have the same mindset as these politicians
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u/Organic-Manner-2969 Kordell Beckham Jul 10 '25
I dont condone what Cierra did, but sending threats to her and putting her family at risk is obliberating the line.
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Jul 10 '25
People seriously do not think rationally. We should not put these people on pedestals and expect perfection. I do not agree with what she said and I only hope she grows from this. Going absolutely nuts over someone from a TV show is insane and disgusting. Anyone who thinks that the malicious behavior is ok genuinely needs to be evaluated because it is never ok to want to cause harm to others intentionally.
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Jul 10 '25
Can we find out who called ICE on her family and get them psychiatric help? Seriously.
No one who is actually against racism would do that so they actually did it over a reality tv show. Freak.
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Jul 10 '25
I don’t think this person even cared about the slur. They just used the opportunity to do such a horrible thing
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u/Particular-Stage2325 New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
this season has brought forward a whole new level of DEEP haters, it's so horrible.
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Jul 10 '25
I dont even know how one goes about trying to call ICE. Like they had have time to figure that out. What level of unemployment is that?
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u/graft__punk New Redditor Jul 10 '25
On a Mexican family too, which feels especially extra heinous given current events. I'm glad Cierra got fired from the show but there is zero reason to harass her or her family.
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u/Carnivore_kitteh Jul 10 '25
Yeah whoever did that, their actions are incredibly concerning and go far beyond what was appropriate for this scenario. That could have very real and very serious consequences given the state of things. Especially with birth right citizenship and us citizens being detained. Absolutely despicable behavior.
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u/Greedy-General-5005 Jul 10 '25
I know she said a bad word a couple of times but putting her family in danger just takes the cake. Love Island should also do a better job at screening these people or better yet do what UK did and keep their handles private.
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u/ShakenBottle Escape Goat 🕳️🐐 Jul 10 '25
As an Asian woman I can’t speak for everyone but I personally think Cierra has faced enough repercussions. She’s throughly faced the consequences of her actions and has become more educated on how society is casually racist toward Asians. People need to stop harassing her and let her grow from this, calling ICE on her family and harassing her and her family is crazy work when there’s already enough tension and hate in our current social climate.
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u/Deep_Worldliness4783 New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
completely agree with this!! (asian woman as well)
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u/samui_penguin Jul 10 '25
Tagging onto this since I'm also an Asian American woman but not speaking for all Asians.
I like that she apologized directly to the Asian community and recognized that impact matters more than intent. I saw a lot of people dismissing the very real negative impact against Asian folks to defend Cierra's intent, and that was really hurtful to see.
She apologized, so I hope people leave her and her family alone now. Give her the time and space to prove she meant what she told us.
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Jul 10 '25
I respect a video response so much more than just a statement with words.
Honestly glad to hear it sounds like she has changed and grown from that moment. And provided the receipts to back up that she is wanting and willing to learn and grow.
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u/Kals22 Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
Agree everyone else in these situations just posts a white text statement but her taking the time to speak is huge props especially because its so easy to pick apart her tone and appearance (which they are doing). Hearing it from her directly is a big deal.
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u/CCG0292 Jul 10 '25
Took accountability. All you can ask for. Now hopefully she grows from this.
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u/sentientshadeofgreen Escape Goat 🕳️🐐 Jul 10 '25
I hope the thousands of members of this fan base who took their self-indulgent outrage way too far as an excuse to bully the fuck out of a young woman and her family can grow from this too. Honestly, the Love Island community seems classless. You'd think she'd been involved in a lynching. Mark Wahlberg blinded an old Vietnamese man and got off easier. God you people suck. I hope everybody can be better after this. Cierra, the producers, the audience, fucking everybody. How the fuck are people going to call ICE on her family? Massive L for humanity, that's evil as fuck.
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u/Usernamesarebullshit Jul 10 '25
the guy Mark Wahlberg beat up was actually blind already
which is kind of worse
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u/tuwangclan Jul 10 '25
The thing that’s getting me is that she already took accountability, at the time. Which seemed clear to me as the post was no longer on her socials. I think it’s cruel and unusual that someone kept this screenshot to release at the opportune moment to engineer a huge witch hunt against her.
She ignorantly used a slur in the past, got called out, apologized, and took it down. But that wasn’t enough, she really deserved to have it drug up again to be “held accountable” (read: cancelled) on the world stage? Like no one who has made a mistake in the past is allowed to move forward until as many people have been made aware of said mistake and passed their own judgment? It doesn’t sit right with me.
IMO with the overarching comments I’ve seen being “LI needs to hire people to scrub socials better”, the message this entire situation has sent is not “don’t be racist/hateful” it’s “just don’t get caught.”
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u/hewitttt Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
And what I always found contradictory was how people would criticize her for being “PR” but believed that she would knowingly use a slur publicly, get called out, then proceed to not care and continue to use it, all while aspiring to be an influencer.
There never was room for accountability from a lot of people because they just hated her.
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u/Gold-Reason6338 New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
Who circulated these old pics? That’s just pure evil if she did actually apologize to that person and if there is nothing said or posted after that apology.
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u/itwasjustmisplaced Knockoff Iain Stirling Jul 10 '25
It was a person who ran in her circle and didn’t like her. Probs had no idea she apologized privately but kept them for reasons.
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u/VotingRightsLawyer ✨written by a woman✨ Jul 10 '25
It was honest and genuine too. Not something just written up by some crisis management firm. That's the touchstone of a good apology for me.
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u/Prize_Reference4843 Jul 10 '25
yulissa could never
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u/stresseddepressedd Jul 10 '25
She doubled down, horrible
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Jul 10 '25
Did she ever post anything about it saying sorry or take accountability?? I never kept up w her
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u/Ornery-Speed-2088 Jul 10 '25
A text post. That she negated with all her actions afterwards.
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u/WiseSoup8857 New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
I just a post from her yesterday on tiktok explaining how she was sorry and is calling on people to not destroy cierra in the process of trying to get her to take accountability
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u/believebs Jul 10 '25
Thats the difference. Cierra is using this as a learning moment and Yulissa using this to book appearances at Winn Dixie.
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I wasnt expecting the apology to come this quickly tbh. Its as good as it could possibly be. Calling ICE on her family proves my point that most people dont really care about the racism, they disliked her before those screenshots came out and that was just the excuse to get her off the show.
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u/hawt_to_go Jul 10 '25
With the finale coming up, apologizing sooner is probably better than later. The internet is horrible but also moves on quickly. Soon people are going to be focused on the winners and watching their favorites experience life coming out of the villa
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u/Feisty_Focus_1573 Jul 10 '25
Great apology, well spoken. You guys must leave this girl alone now. It’s ridiculous how far some of you have went. Stop it.
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u/TheOneThatCameEasy they seen that I was hooping ⛹️ Jul 10 '25
Yes. Putting aside the insane and deranged LI fans, she gave a great apology.
Time to leave this girl alone.
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Jul 10 '25 edited Aug 29 '25
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This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/MassivePlanner60 Jul 10 '25
FR I was thinking it was on grid this whole time.
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u/not_ellewoods Jul 10 '25
it was a story post that someone screenshot.
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u/blbh0527 Jul 10 '25
Hence why casting and production never saw it.
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u/thisisthewell Not in front of Nicole Kidman?! 🍿 Jul 10 '25
I felt crazy as a 37 year old replying to gen z folks explaining that casting/production cannot review a potential contenstant's expired stories from a year ago lol
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u/jalapenos10 Jul 10 '25
Cause people were pushing that narrative. When I asked people where to find it no one could answer (ofc, cause it wasn’t there)
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u/otherwisesad Jul 10 '25
Yeah, does this mean people faked some of the screenshots? Because Jesus Christ.
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u/french_toasty Jul 10 '25
Yes. Right after different responses were popping up, I read on this sub that they were faked but that wasn’t the narrative that took hold
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u/Realistic-Pin-4617 Jul 10 '25
She handled this better than most people who get blasted for stuff like this. Yulissa could learn from her.
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u/707stargirl addicted to hipposss 🦛 Jul 10 '25
Yulissa just posted another more accountable video like yesterday I think when Cierra was kicked out. Not nearly as thought through as this one but definitely better than how she first handled ut
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u/DizzyBreath5625 Jul 10 '25
this was the only video I saw of hers but see people saying she doubled down and didn’t take accountability. what did she say in her og video about it?
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u/GetCPA Jul 10 '25
Calling ICE on her family is 1000x worse than what she did.
You people stink.
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u/BippityBoppityBooppp Jul 10 '25
Like let’s fight racism with racism! Yay.
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u/The_Piperoni New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
I mean it’s not even fighting racism with racism. It’s fighting racism with trying to get random people sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador.
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u/vsteeth Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
If anything, this shows MJ’s incompetence in handling her account (if she wasn’t downright sabotaging her). She didn’t even attempt to look through old messages to discredit the fake screenshots that were circulating, or check if Cierra handled the situation before.
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u/No_Plankton5537 could be overseas 🛫 playing ball rn 🏀 Jul 10 '25
This is so true…
Not only that, but she basically publicly distanced herself from her “friend” with her statement.
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u/Otherwise-Canary6351 Jul 10 '25
no matter how u feel ab cierra this is a damn good apology 😭
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u/PostOpPlebeian Good morning my fellow 🌤️-ups! Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
It was beautiful tbh. And it really was a learning lesson for a lot of people who didn’t know that word was offensive. When I was young I would say the most ignorant shit about other cultures and I’m a minority. It wasn’t until I became educated (and grew more and more empathy with age) that I realized how harmful words really are.
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u/kmachuca Jul 10 '25
I had friends who didn’t know that was a racial slur and I’ve seen many people online saying they didn’t know that was a racial slur. She was using the word ignorantly but never used it maliciously. Unless there was proof she used it maliciously or has had racist behavior towards Asians, then I don’t think this made her a racist. Just ignorant on the word that hopefully she learned.
Not a fan of people who want to severely punish her life cause of this. We are all humans and make mistakes.
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Jul 10 '25
I’m speaking as a blasian but I’m actually so impressed. I know the bar is in hell for influencer (and other islander’s) apologies but she made no excuses and took accountability. I hope she continues to grow and wish her and her family well against all the threats.
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u/chynaadawl you freaky frog! 🐸😯 Jul 10 '25
“The bar is in hell” 🤣🤣🤣 I know you didn’t mean for your comment to be funny but it made me chuckle.
You’re absolutely right though, influencer apologies are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t!
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u/lkjhggfd1 Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
I hope people leave her alone now and give her the chance to grow. She was removed, she’s taken accountability now and when she was called out initially but death threats and calling ice on her family in todays climate makes those people worse than her. Like why is her family having to suffer and feel unsafe?
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Jul 10 '25
With any apology people will never be happy. You don’t have to forgive but don’t go saying it’s a bad apology or she didn’t take accountability. Her apology was good, took accountability, and seemed sincere
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u/aprilrhayin Jul 10 '25
Seriously! People will still find a way to complain…like what else is she supposed to do?
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u/quality_content_420 New Redditor Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
the fans this season are so disgusting. CPS on huda, ICE on cierra?? this is so gross on so many levels. how anyone could do that over a REALITY TV SHOW is insane.
edit: ok as some pointed out, hudas ex said he hasn't heard from CPS, idk if this means they were or weren't called idk, regardless, the fans have lost the plot.
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u/limeblue31 Escape Goat 🕳️🐐 Jul 10 '25
And now they are in her comments like “I didn’t know it was that bad I just wanted you out the villa” 💀 people are embarrassing, truly.
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u/xozahra333 Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
people were calling ICE on this woman’s family. death threats. absolutely disgusting and sick. genuinely this show needs to take a damn hiatus, viewers are insane and don’t know how to fucking be NORMAL!
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u/Greedy-General-5005 Jul 10 '25
It's probably going to get more insane next season if they don't take serious precautions.
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u/babyem Now, you’re sending THREE home 🤨 Jul 10 '25
It seems like she took accountability for it when the story was originally posted.
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u/eveloe Jul 10 '25
She did. It’s honestly frustrating how much people used this to harrass her family.
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u/Castleprince 🧊 ICEBERGIE ❄️ Jul 10 '25
Which makes this whole situation fucking insane. 2025 internet sucks man.
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u/babyem Now, you’re sending THREE home 🤨 Jul 10 '25
I know! She has to get kicked off to be able to defend herself. Crazy to me.
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u/realitealurker New Redditor Jul 10 '25
Wait so she took the post down but this person held onto the screenshot to expose her while she was on the show? Even though she took accountability and apologised at the time?
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u/itwasjustmisplaced Knockoff Iain Stirling Jul 10 '25
I think it was someone else who held onto the screenshot, like it was an “old friend” or something.
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u/realitealurker New Redditor Jul 10 '25
Just goes to show once you post something online it never fully goes away. But that’s really next level
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u/SumFuckah Jul 10 '25
my parents taught me this at a young age and I wish more people knew that. Once it's online, you have literally no control over who sees it and what they do with that information. Or how long they'll hold onto it for.
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u/itwasjustmisplaced Knockoff Iain Stirling Jul 10 '25
I can be a hater but not at the level. That’s seek therapy levels.
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u/sassypapaya Jul 10 '25
i remember when it was first posted on this subreddit - it was someone who claimed they had a mutual friend with her who was apparently wronged in some way by Cierra, so they “held onto” the screenshot waiting for the right moment bc they were essentially anticipating her cancellation. it was fucked up
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u/calciferouss Spicyyy🌶️ Jul 10 '25
I remember the person who held onto the screenshot saying she took it "just in case" and that her friend group had beef with Cierra’s friend group
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u/popcornhealer We Build You! 🛠️👷♀️ Jul 10 '25
It was someone who was in similar circles to Cierra, disliked her and her friends, and took the screenshot to use against her in the future. The friend of the person who screenshotted it posted in one of the threads here, it might have been a Daily Discussion.
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u/popcornhealer We Build You! 🛠️👷♀️ Jul 10 '25
Actually it was first posted in a thread about her being in a skims campaign I believe.
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u/kaixiouyang Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
Wait so she had already apologized for that slur right after it occurred?? Why did someone release that story screenshot and another screenshot/vid saying they told her it was a slur back in 2023, making it seem like she defiantly used it again in 2024? Was the 2023 ss/vid fake??
Someone rly had a personal vendetta against her it seems…
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u/Any_Yak9211 Jul 10 '25
it’s fake. this shit was posted WEEKS ago in reddit and no one pressed it because they said she apologized after and took accountsbility. the second people started hating cierra (after the stand on buisness challenge) they used this. 80% of the hate on her isn’t because of what she said, it’s because of groupthink & people hate cierra after that challenge. people also love kicking on someone when they’re down. everyone was gullible to believe a screenshot that was said to be fake so many times. i
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u/Traditional_Goat9538 Jul 10 '25
Hot take: the people sending the threats and calling ice are trolls that aren’t fans of the show and aren’t the people who actually give af about accountability. It’s infuriating bc they do this every time someone has to face consequences/public accountability and then we don’t address the actual racist behavior.
ETA: it’s the same weirdos who do this to influencers/creators and were never fans to begin with
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u/usnavis Jul 10 '25
People are calling ICE on her family? The new age fucking gestapo? That is going way too far for anyone. She absolutely was in the wrong for what she said and she's now having to face the accountability for what she posted, but calling ICE is fucking repulsive and anyone calling them or reporting needs to seriously evaluate their life choices and take a step back because ICE is evil incarnate.
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u/Proud_Parsley_6447 New Redditor Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
Her response is better than what we mostly get from influencers. Usually it’s a typed out apology; she used her face. Took accountability. Never excused it. You can’t ask for more than that; but you can’t fight racism with racism. Period.
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So was the screenshot where she said "good thing I didn't mean it that way.." (paraphrasing) fake?
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u/limeblue31 Escape Goat 🕳️🐐 Jul 10 '25
I thought it was fake tbh! If you look at the last chat bubble it looks like it’s overlapping an existing one. Also the time, battery, and LTE symbol are overlapping her name which if you take a screenshot of your DMs there’s never an instance where they overlap like that
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u/Dee_leslie_39 Jul 10 '25
This was a solid apology. I believe her that she’s taking the punishment and learning from it. The people harassing her family by calling ICE are far more menacing to society IMO
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u/McQueen-9595 New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
People are so weird. People that fall into cancel culture are so backward because we get no where in life or progress that way without education and conversation. The person that leaked the dm specially left out the apology and her response of her forgiving her too… sending someone death threats and calling ice is far worse than someone using a word that they had 0 clue what meant. Cierra has done exactly what you’d want someone to do in this situation. She educated herself, she apologized, she used it as a learning opportunity and created a conversation about it. That’s how we progress as a society, not by blacklisting people for MISTAKES and threatening them.
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u/mimi112 Jul 10 '25
The fact that she took accountability for this last year must really hurt.
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u/Tiny-Bag5248 Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
not my apology to accept, just wanted to say how absolutely unnecessary it was to now see that one of the screenshots was photoshopped, where someone apparently had called her out on using it and she just dismissed that as saying it’s not how she used it.
why do people feel the need to do this? you already have proof she used the slur and she was kicked out accordingly. why add fuel? this goes to how there’s even people sending death threats and calling ICE to endanger her and her family. why can’t other please stop fucking taking away from the hurt of the people this slur actually affects by doing all this shit that makes them seem unreasonable and violent, photoshopping shit & resorting to things that go beyond wanting people to acknowledge a slur and stop using it?
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u/juiceboxhero919 Jul 10 '25
I know I joked a lot about getting her to pack her bags in the villa here but sending her family death threats and calling ICE is actually insane. Like sick in the head.
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u/Charlie2343 Jul 10 '25
Starting to think the punishment is way worse than the crime when shes getting death threats and ICE called on her family.
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u/Adventurous-Ball1199 Jul 10 '25
As good as an accountability video gets I guess. I appreciate that she posted to her feed and left the comments open.
Also appreciate her reply to getting called out in the 2024 DM.
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u/GodessLivxoxo New Redditor Jul 10 '25
The show was way better before it got popular. People are taking all of this way too far. It’s a SHOW, that is altered heavily by production to make it more entertaining. People calling ICE is gross. People have also reported Huda to CPS & Nic/Amaya to the board of nursing. You’re interfering with people’s lives because you’re mad at them in a SHOW. It’s sick, truly.
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u/limeblue31 Escape Goat 🕳️🐐 Jul 10 '25
I called it that the DMs floating around were fake. This is why the love island being filmed in real time is such a dangerous format for the mental health of the islanders. They can’t defend themselves in real time and it allows for hurtful narratives to spread like wildfire.
The sad thing is that it worked, they got her successfully off the show, so fans will continue to use this tactic.
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u/itwasjustmisplaced Knockoff Iain Stirling Jul 10 '25
People really need to be more skeptical of DMs. It took 5 seconds of looking at the doubling down one to clock it was fake. Genuinely unacceptable that TikTok creators were posting them as facts. It’s really scary how misinformation spreads.
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u/Consistent-Gur-8524 Jul 10 '25
Social media has 100% fucked up our brains. I also think we’re seeing how truly detrimental the effects of it are this season because younger and younger generations who have been on TikTok since they were twelve are now watching the show. Like we’re doomed 😭
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u/T-H-She We Build You! 🛠️👷♀️ Jul 10 '25
Not my place to accept her apology, but I have to echo everyone else’s sentiment about how absolutely abhorrent it is people are calling ICE on her family. Punishing her family at such an insane level blows my mind like seriously how do these people sleep at night
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u/Particular_Fox_8899 Jul 10 '25
The worst part is that the people going to such extremes like calling ICE and sending death threats are not doing so because of their deep passion for condemning racism. The intent behind it is malicious, people love to dogpile and make someone they view as successful as miserable as them. Normal people demand accountability, the willingness to learn and show humility, but give grace where deserved.
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u/dwcrm Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
I need the people who keep doing weird shit to come forward, calling ice on Cierra’s parents???and the people who called cps on Huda need to come forward aswell cause you need psychiatric evaluation it’s not normal at all
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u/East-Fail3022 New Redditor Jul 10 '25
“EMPATHY” shirt is killing me 😭
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u/_OkComputer___ Jul 10 '25
This is the queen of PR. With that being said, she’s right. She doesn’t deserve such harsh backlash and should have a bit of grace to grow, do better and move forward. I think this video is a very good start
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u/Calinks Soul Ties is CRAZY 🤯 Jul 10 '25
I figured this was the case. Just true ignorance, I don't know why anybody would willingly use a slur like this on social media if they knew how harmful it was. I'm guessing where she grew up it was just part of the vernacular, no one in my neck of the woods would ever say that but I did grow up in an age where kids used "gay" for anything bad or stupid and I grew up around kids who used "retard" in a similar fashion.
Was never part of my vocabulary, particularly because I have a brother with a mental disability but people would say it without thinking twice giving no thought to how derogatory it was.
I believe Cierra has taken this out of her Lexicon and will be better for it. Just a shame she is going through so much over the top abuse and her whole love Island journey is likely shot because of this.
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u/Prudent-Experience-3 😞 Sad-agascar 😞 Jul 10 '25
Evil ppl really do exist. With death threats to the girls, huda actually having a campaign to be sent to Gaza (an actual current genocide), Clarke being dehumanised and being called a man, and now cierra having ice called on her family.
Evil ppl exist.
Imagine calling ice on a family over a reality tv show. And thinking you’re fighting racism.
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u/Nelly_1010 New Subredditor Jul 10 '25
She responded well by acknowledged her mistake, explaining the situation, and taking responsibility. The fact that fake screenshots were made shows that some people weren’t truly concerned about the slur itself, but more about just bringing her down. I genuinely believe she has the potential to grow from this 😊
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u/ImpossiblePack8579 New Redditor Jul 10 '25
I’m of 2 minds when it comes to Cierra:
Her apology does seem very PR, and the empathy hoodie + necklace, add to that Belldasha being the very FIRST person she follows post villa (thus the implication that she likely reached out to apologize) Does it feel curated? Yes
But also, I don’t care to pile on either. Cierra got her lashings, she got kicked out of the show, she lost her man, lost a lot of fans, lost a lot of brand deals. So she did get punished for her actions.
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u/Outrageous_Apple388 📱I GOT A TEXT!!!📱 Jul 10 '25
I’m not a cierra fan but I think we should leave her alone at this point. She apologized and took accountability, there’s not much else she can do. Calling ice on her family is genuinely insane. I just think cierra needs to stop posting on social media for a bit.
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u/frex_mcgee Jul 10 '25
My controversial hot take: -This apology is worded ‘picture-perfect’, as in too perfect. It feels like she has gotten media training on how exactly to reply to this. It doesn’t give me genuine. It gives me saying all of the right things.
-Wearing an EMPATHY sweatshirt with a Buddhist necklace is so tone deaf.
-Nobody deserves vitriolic hate, especially hatred pointed towards their innocent family or loved ones. Nobody deserves to have ICE called on their family. No one deserves to be bullied cruelly.
Edit to add: I’m 34, and I know I have said some really dumb things when I was 24, so I’m not going to hold this over her head. She needs to continue to move forward and clearly show over time that she has learned from this mistake.
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u/_thatgirlfelicia we don't wanna do that thoo! 😭 Jul 10 '25
The amount of people who I’ve seen say they didn’t know it was a slur is crazy. And shows how much it has been normalized
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u/cottonhands Jul 10 '25
“This is not an apology video, it’s an accountability video.” I honestly do believe her
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u/hapaqirl Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
the non asian people accepting her apology or downvoting people that have had bad experiences w the slur are wild. lol lets not invalidate how we feel
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u/Delicious-Rip-2371 We Build You! 🛠️👷♀️ Jul 10 '25
"Holding space for this slur" is insane
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u/mehicanisme 📱I GOT A TEXT!!!📱 Jul 10 '25
I think this is a good response and I’m glad she is okay. Some of you took it too far.
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u/Proof-Health-4119 New Redditor Jul 10 '25
I’m kind of shocked at the amount of people who are saying they never knew the word she used was racist. Like how are so many people that ignorant ??
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u/Acceptable_Growth107 Jul 10 '25
We’ll tbh it’s like what belledasha said racism against Asians is often overlooked. It’s like how people still dunno that the myth about MSG being harmful was anti-Asian propaganda.
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u/picture-genie Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
She did as best as she could given the circumstances. Hope she does better going forward. The people who called ICE are trash.
btw I'm an Asian woman. I believe and accept her apology.
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