{"id":60513,"date":"2021-09-10T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T11:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/kevin-samuels-calls-out-lizzo-over-bbw-meme-he-thought-was-nike-ad\/"},"modified":"2021-09-10T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T11:53:18","slug":"kevin-samuels-calls-out-lizzo-over-bbw-meme-he-thought-was-nike-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/kevin-samuels-calls-out-lizzo-over-bbw-meme-he-thought-was-nike-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Samuels Calls Out Lizzo Over BBW Meme He Thought Was Nike Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<h3><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62980\" src=\"https:\/\/dreddsinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210910_103210-650x380.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Samuels Drags Lizzo &amp; Nike Over Fake Ad He Believed Was Real\" width=\"650\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dreddsinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210910_103210-650x380.jpg 650w, https:\/\/dreddsinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210910_103210.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"\/><\/noscript><\/h3>\n<p>YouTuber and relationship expert\u00a0Kevin Samuels, is known for bashing Black women, and praising himself and other \u201chigh value men\u201d while also peddling misogyny, and it has created a successful platform.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial YouTuber often targets famous women as he criticizes their physical attributes, including but not limited to rating them on a scale of one to 10.<\/p>\n<p>He is also known for offering relationship advice, mostly to Black women. And his \u201cadvice\u201d typically consists of insulting the women, and telling them that their standards are \u201ctoo high.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CTnA9OEJr-O\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\"><p>Today, Kevin shared a black and white image of a \u201cBBW\u201d Nike ad and called out Lizzo for participating in the campaign\u2014except, it was not a real ad from the brand and the model wasn\u2019t even Lizzo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBBWs Don\u2019t Be Afraid To Get On Top. If He Dies, He Dies! Just do it,\u201d the meme read. Regardless of the words, the ad looked real. In the caption, Samuels added, \u201cSo now violence is okay? Or is it just one way violence from women to men? Oh,\u00a0wait it\u2019s just a joke,\u00a0right? No major, or even minor, brand would dar do something like this if the genders were reversed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAwaiting the outrage from women and demands to\u00a0cancel @nike and @lizzobeeating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After being dragged for his errors, Samuels opted to keep the post up but changed his caption by removing Nike and Lizzo\u2019s tags.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CTm96j0rOUR\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\"><p>Here are some reactions on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I am so confused as to why Kevin \u201cDivorced Multiple Times\u201d Samuels made this post. LMAOOO like what does this have to do with you sir? Violence??? They talking about riding dick wtf. He\u2019s clearly fatphobic bc it\u2019s a BBW &amp; lizzo??? She not even in this pic how she get thrown in? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hy71yCBKTK\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Hy71yCBKTK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RATED: MA\/R (@incognitoho) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/incognitoho\/status\/1436024956349997060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The fact Kevin Samuels tagged Lizzo in some shit that wasn\u2019t even her\ud83e\udd23 he dead ass just said all BBW\u2019s look alike<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83d\ude08 (@ChellBabyy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChellBabyy\/status\/1436048018105569281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kevin Samuels couldn\u2019t WAIT to be fatphobic and that\u2019s NOT EVEN Lizzo or a REAL Nike ad! \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F5IeiP8XXT\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/F5IeiP8XXT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 she (@tarynsinterlude) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tarynsinterlude\/status\/1436065390581456897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">omg kevin samuels mad at lizzo for being \u2026 fat ?!?? that man is GAYYYYYY<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 lacroixbabe (@ashtheicebox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashtheicebox\/status\/1436023477014700039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v7.0\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTuber and relationship expert\u00a0Kevin Samuels, is known for bashing Black women, and praising himself and other \u201chigh value men\u201d while also peddling misogyny, and it &#8230; <a title=\"Kevin Samuels Calls Out Lizzo Over BBW Meme He Thought Was Nike Ad\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/kevin-samuels-calls-out-lizzo-over-bbw-meme-he-thought-was-nike-ad\/\" aria-label=\"More on Kevin Samuels Calls Out Lizzo Over BBW Meme He Thought Was Nike Ad\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":60514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,2],"tags":[105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}