Gen Z influencer sensation Alix Earle, 23, started her content-creation career on TikTok in 2020 as a college freshman at the University of Miami. Today, she has nearly four million followers on Instagram and more than seven million followers on TikTok, many of which she amassed in late 2022. What’s more, she’s worth an estimated US$6mil (RM26.
60mil), according to several outlets. During college, she made US$5mil (RM22.17mil) in one year alone, according to Forbes .
She’s beloved for her “get ready with me” videos, carefree attitude, and picture-perfect party lifestyle, but social media users have unveiled some unseemly posts from her past that could sour her stardom. Starting Aug 8, Reddit users published alleged screenshots of posts Earle had allegedly made in 2014, which repeatedly include racial slurs. In screenshots of ASKfm posts, a user by the name of “Alixxxxxx” with a profile picture that appears to be Earle responded to several posts using the N-word.
ASKfm is a social media platform founded in 2010 that lets users ask and answer questions “anonymously”, although many users still comment using their real names and likenesses. At the time the original post was allegedly made, Earle would have been a young teenager. Reddit feed r/AlixearleSnark has been blowing up for the last day as users attempt to validate the screenshots.
One user uploaded a video showing Earle commenting on different ASKfm posts made by people who she also followed and interacte.