really important

I SAID THIS. I DONT like Cierra for other reasons… however, it was VERY weird & I truly think it was her handler who posted it. It was weird and just as calculating. & she’s not in a place right now where she can defend herself or even take accountability for it and apologize. Very weird that the handler has “taken a step back from being Cierra friend & running her account and also left the comments open until people started telling her to cut them.”

right like people are claiming that they want her to take accountability but how can she do that if she’s not given a chance to apologize?

@heyyarnolddd Well a majority of normal people meant that when she comes off the villa but actions do have consequences she needs to be kicked off the show because that's the standard love Island USA and peacock already set.

@heyyarnolddd a lot of people are leaving hate comments and harassing

@heyyarnolddd A majority of those people are jobless and need to fill out job applications. The actual people who care about her racist comments just want her removed from the show and are only bringing attention to that. She should be removed for her comments not because people dislike her.

@heyyarnolddd And it's sad that people are only bringing attention to her racist remarks because of the simple fact that they dislike her. If she was a fan favorite they wouldn't say shit about it!!!!

@heyyarnolddd exactly what im saying!!!!

i actually agree. not excusing what she said at all but the bullying is crazy and multiple islanders (and the main uk host) have ended their lives due to the same shit. i just find it hypocritical that these people are saying she’s a bad person when they’re exhibiting similar behaviour 😭

love island has to put out a stronger anti-bullying mental health statement and im so serious

fr! i’m worried about when she comes out, i just hope she has a strong support system within her family since her friends are clearly useless.

her family will surely be there to support her and hold her ❤️ and all the bullies will feel ashamed after a while

i hate that she felt the need to clarify herself 1000x and that’s directly reflective of the culture she’s talking about. her having genuine intentions is clear but we’re living in a time where people are foaming at the mouth for someone to say one wrong thing. it’s worrisome!

so true!

ppl started disliking her before those screenshots even gained traction. it’s very disingenuous and giving they just wanted an actual reason to attack her online rather than out of genuine concern and support for asian people. veryyyy weird.

@whoisarich this is the main issue, the fact that it’s just a way for people that already hated Cierra to act like they’re morally correct

i think cierra (from what we've seen) would be the type of person to accept accountability and learn from the situation, she's POC so i don't think she's racist-hoping just ignorant. nicolandira fans have been waiting for this! and making it 100x worse than it needs to be for her

right there’s a difference between racism and ignorance and this shows ignorance and a need for education

Holding her accountable is one thing but all the comments about her looks, slut shaming, blaming her for nic being messy is weird. Accountability at its core is misogynistic because why didn’t Austin, tj, or ace lose followers

@joshoconners it’s the bullying her for looks and basically calling her a wh*re for me!

i agree because it genuinely feels like they're trying to ruin her life and i've been feeling guilty about feeling weird about it

don’t feel guilty, it’s like people want her to hurt herself and im not okay with that

cierra is literally experiencing the worst bullying out of all the cast members and nobody is batting an eye. obviously what she said was not good and she needs to address it but people are being so nasty towards her and justifying it

people are using it as an excuse to virulently mock her appearance, slut shame her, and spew hateful language at her, and then act like they’re anti hate speech

nothing any of those girls said to each other is even close to as bad as what people offline have been saying about them but they accuse them of being bullies? it’s so ridiculous

it’s absolutely nauseating ugh

Exactly this! It’s never about holding someone accountable. It’s about harrasing them until they feel they’ve humbled them enough to move onto the next person of the month the internet wants to bully. You can always tell what ppl REALLY think about you when you’re in the hot seat

yes and they’ve been obsessed with “humbling” her ever since nic chose her from the beginning

It’s genuinely evil and makes it hard to take any criticism seriously b/c it’s rooted in mal intentions.

Thank you!!! What Cierra said was wrong but bullying this girl, calling her out her name, slut shamming, etc is Werid and I hope when she comes out the villa, her family & true friends protect her mental health fr

this!!!

adding this ❤️

Oooof

100% agree bc if you had the screenshot, why not post it when you saw she’d be on the show and Yulissa got kicked off? It’s weird hater energy disguised in justice & accountability. You wanted to humble her like let’s be real.

@melvninglo truly they’ve been desperate to humble her from the moment she came on

I agree, I think people are coming from a really disingenuous place. They don’t truly care about her actions and the harm she’s caused, they’re just happy they’ve found something to sink their teeth into. Also, the double standards women face on these shows is very disappointing.

My thoughts exactly. Especially bc this franchise has already had 4 suicides.

i feel like love island uk has been doing a better job of tackling this because of all the suicides and I don’t want love island usa to ever get to that point

100%, LIUSA needs prevention over cure. None of the islanders are beyond redemption, but it’s like production pushes these storylines to the brink and when I see some of the vile things ppl say to them during a pile on I get genuinely scared for all their mental health.

I personally feel it’s nicolandria fans that are taking it to the point of extreme bullying. They want her out so Nic and Olandria can couple up. They don’t care about her not being able to defend herself and seeing what she actually says.

I agree, there have been people on the show (I’m talking about UK idk much about USA) who have exhibited actual racist behaviour with micro aggressions and don’t even get me started on the misogyny!! they all leave unscathed! The hatred for cierra was so bad way b4 the SS got out

a horrible misogynistic hate train from the start!!!

Agreed 110% I feel like in that screenshot Cierra didn’t mean any harm with what she was saying she probably doesn’t even have friends to educate her correctly on that word. Now she doesn’t have anyone and now is out against the wall. It’s sad seeing that she’s receiving sm hate for something she can’t even defend herself on

to be fair the screenshot was going around in the beginning of the season but it seemed like it got "debunked" until post casa

To be fair, those screenshots have been floating around since the start of the show, it just didn’t blow up until she gave everyone a reason to dislike her.

so they’re being used an excuse to fuel the existing hate campaign

That’s what it seems like

She had the chance and denied it. Next

unverified screenshot

Hm I wonder what other groups are saying those words..when it doesn’t fit their narrative..

100% right! most people just want to destroy her. they are not at all interested in accountability or rehabilitation. people change, and especially in the US, you have to be more accepting of people’s pasts if they are rehabilitated. progressive movement must be less judgmental

looking at her reposts, she’s very pro-Palestine, pro-immigration, and progressive. i’m sure if given the chance she would correct her mistakes

exactly, it doesn’t seem to matter that she may have learned from her mistake already. people don’t care whether it was 5, 10, 20 … years ago. im not at all saying that excuses it. mostly kids that are just naive and calling for her head. stems from a belief of infallibility

sounds cliche but no one is perfect and every mistake is an opportunity to learn. while i acknowledge that the slurs are awful and hurt so many people, the correct path is not to do something just as bad: ruining that person’s life

right we should aim to educate not to destroy people’s lives

especially when like half of america voted for trump. while some people are way too far gone, we eventually need people on our side, so we must learn to be forgiving and understanding while trying to educate. idk just a rant

you’re so right! cierra deserves better truly

i really appreciate you posting your opinion and opening yourself up to criticism. i have been called the f slur 3 times already by the same ppl who cancelled cierra. its getting clearer and clearer the real reason they decided to cancel her, and it is not accountability

Stan culture is weird and ruining the experience

yep so true

Watching this show feels like the hunger games at times. People get so angry and so emotional about a reality tv show that’s extremely edited that they feel comfortable leaving death threats. Is Cierra wrong? Yes of course. She doesn’t even have the opportunity to handle this

this is exactly how i feel

It’s so odd to actively hate these people you don’t know. Or even comment negatively on their appearances - I can’t. They’re literally people…human beings. We don’t need to stone them to hold them accountable

like why are all these people leaving hate comments???

Like they took her off the show, she lost followers and will probably lose more. I hope she’s not showing up to any LI events. Hopefully this is a learning lesson but we don’t need to push her to harm herself…

nah because im tired of racism being a gotcha moment. cancel culture started as accountability but stan culture got a hold of it and turned it into something way worse. I hope what comes out of this is more awareness of discrimination against the asian community.

her video has a point. it’s incredibly weird they waited to hold this information instead of releasing it around the same time yulissa was exposed for saying the n word.

This. I used to think ab joining reality tv from time to time. But iv cursed out my exs gf and she prob has those screen shots from YEARS AGOOO. Like or fighting w my ex bestie and all the stuff she knows ab me. Like I couldn’t imagine not being able to defend myself as well

I think something to keep in mind is that Black Mirror episode with the bees. I know it doesn't seem tangential but Hated in the Nation buzzes in the back of my mind every time I see myself fall too close to that line. Like what am I even mad about really?

I agree with this, but I also remember seeing ss of people telling her to take it down, calling it out, and she never responded. She knew and didn’t care, and her platform kept growing. Racists shouldn’t have a platform. But waiting until she couldn’t respond wasn’t right either

we don’t know for certain that she never responded. we don’t have any verifiable screenshots of people saying anything and her ignoring it.

@daegoesby

@kelechi_xo @daegoesby The screenshot doesn’t look fishy. 😭 it’s a screenshot of a screenshot, and I saw that screenshot way before this whole thing even blew up. Stop making excuses. Wrong is wrong.

@viniggahacker @daegoesby yes this screenshot is unverified and the hate is extreme

People want Cierra to unalive herself because way before the screenshot was out she was already getting hate

I truly think what Cierra did wasn’t okay & she should be removed from the villa but I think it’s also weird for her “ friends” to do what they did especially since they talked abt her 24/7 when she was getting clout & they were capitalizing off it but now they’ve ditched her..

no cause half of these people do not even CARE that she said what she said. they just wanted her gone and will hate for fun😭

She started this off like she had a whole new opinion that hadn’t been said already

Said that to my girl just before seeing this. The internet love to build you up then break you right back down.

i agree with this, but i remember seeing the screenshot of the story waaaaayyy before Cierra was well liked. it was posted a while ago it just didn’t go viral until last week.