Kylie Jenner is in hot water with fans who believe she was blackfishing.
The cosmetics guru posted a video of herself to Instagram with her skin tone looking much darker than normal.
Kylie looks different!
“Blackfishing” is a term commonly used to describe someone on social media who is pretending to be black by changing their appearance by using makeup, editing, or even surgery.
This isn’t the first time the ‘KUWTK’ star has been called out for.
Fans commented on the video reposted by PopCrave.
.@KylieJenner looks gorgeous in new Instagram story listening to @DonToliver’s new song, #Smoke, featuring #HVN & @ImSoFaygo. pic.twitter.com/W9luS76x9S
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 20, 2021
One person wrote, “WHY IS HER SKIN COLOR LIKE THAT?”
Another commented, “She looks kinda darker 🤨🤨🤨🤨,” and “So she doing black face and people just posting like its all good? Are we in the 60s again.”
Someone else posted a photo of Kylie without makeup on and captioned it, “And also don’t forget that this is what @KylieJenner looks like when she’s not attempting to completely change her race.”
And also don’t forget that this is what @KylieJenner looks like when she’s not attempting to completely change her race. 💁 pic.twitter.com/dGilkNQZje
— cock-sure emo pin-up, best mate of pete wentz 🦇 (@PadawanRyan) October 23, 2021
Many compared her to former Little Mix member, Jesy Nelson.
As fans of the British pop star may recall, she came under fire for blackfishing when she released her solo-debut music video, “Boyz.”
One wrote, “Little Mix when Jesy Nelson left the group.”
“Kylie and Jesy fighting to see who can be the queen of black fishing omg,” another tweeted.
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This person responded to the video with, “Jesy Nelson in the BOYZ video tease.”
After Jesy’s song dropped, her former bandmate Leigh-Anne Pinnock allegedly accused her of blackfishing in the music video through supposed DMs with an influencer.
After this happened, things went very south.
Jesy then went on Instagram live with Nicki Minaj to issue an apology.
During the IG Live she said, “I personally want to say that my intention was never, ever to offend people of color with this video and my song because like I said, growing up as a young girl, this is the music that I listened to. These are the videos that I watched and thought were the best.”
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She insisted that the darker skin tone and hairstyles she sported in the video had nothing to do with her trying to integrate herself into the black culture, it’s just what she knows.
Kylie, Kim and Khloe Kardashian have all been accused of blackfishing and cultural appropriation in the past.
At the beginning of 2020, Kylie shared a picture of herself from an old photoshoot wearing her platinum blonde hair in twists (a protective style in the African American community that women can legally get fired for wearing), and the backlash began to roll in.
.@KylieJenner looks flawless in a newly posted never-before-seen photoshoot. 🧊 pic.twitter.com/XeIbKqguGl
— Pop Base (@PopBase) January 3, 2020
