Alix Earle Faces Backlash for Past Racist Comments
Alix Earle's Apology and Its Impact
TikTok star Alix Earle apologized Monday for a post she wrote when she was 13 years old in which she used a slur used to insult Black people. The Miami-based Earle, now 23, used the language in posts made to the website ask.fm in 2014.
Addressing Past Mistakes
In a post shared to her Instagram and TikTok stories, Earle said that at the time she “did not understand the deeply offensive meaning” behind the slur. “That is no excuse for using that word in any context or at any age. That absolutely is not the way I speak or what I stand for,” Earle wrote.
- Earle expressed that she is deeply sorry for her words hurting people.
- The creator, who exploded in popularity in 2023 while a student at the University of Miami, has amassed more than 7 million followers on TikTok.
- Earle became known as the platform's
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