Some old tweets posted by Rory Farrell of the podcast New Rory & Mal recently resurfaced, earning the internet personality a great deal of backlash. In many of the tweets, he made offensive comments about Black women in particular. "I've never saw a good looking black woman," one of them reads. "Every black woman has either, wanted to, thought about, or actually f*cked a white guy #whitepeoplefacts," another says. In one tweet, he even called Beyonce a "hoodrat" name.
Needless to say, social media users have a lot of feelings about all of this, and most are condemning him. "Rory been a racist the whole time," one X user claims. "Rory looks fricken nuts right now," someone else says.
Amid the backlash, Rory took to Twitter Spaces to address the ordeal, which only added more fuel to the fire. He approached the subject with sarcasm, as captured by No Jumper, and it didn't sit right with many.
Rory Farrell Offensive Tweets
This is far from the first time a white internet personality has gotten called out for their past social media activity, however. Something similar happened to Anthony Fantano of TheNeedleDrop over the summer, when old videos of him making offensive remarks resurfaced. One showed him using the n-word, which he addressed in a YouTube video.
According to him, he was simply quoting someone else, something he didn't think was a problem until a couple of years ago. He admitted that he should have censored himself at the time instead of repeating a slur, also issuing an apology.
"This clip may be new to you, but it's actually almost 10 years old," he explained. "All I can do is take ownership of having quoted these words in this way. And obviously say that I'm sorry. Which, I am, in fact, sorry about this."
