Fans of Lizzo have leaped to her defense again after Kevin Samuels took to social media to body shame her over a fake Nike advertisement.
In the fake, monochrome ad, the text reads: “BBWs Don’t Be Afraid To Get On Top. If He Dies, He Dies! Just do it.”
Samuels reposted the meme and wrote, “So now violence is okay? Or is it just one way violence from women to men? Oh, wait it’s just a joke, right? No major, or even minor, brand would dare do something like this if the genders were reversed,” he continued.
The woman in the image is not Lizzo.
“Awaiting the outrage from women and demands to cancel @nike and @lizzobeeating.”
Lizzo has repeatedly spoken out against the hate she received from trolls who attack her physical appearance online.
Last month, she broke down on Instagram Live.
“I’m not making music for anybody. I’m a Black woman making music,” she said on live. “I make Black music, period. I’m not serving anyone but myself. Everyone is invited to a Lizzo show, to a Lizzo song. It’s fatphobic, it’s racist, and it’s hurtful,” she says in the video.
“What I won’t accept is y’all doing this to Black women over and over and over again, especially us big Black girls,” the singer continued. “When we don’t fit into the box that you want to put us in, you just unleash hatred onto us. It’s not cool. I’m doing this s— for the big Black women in the future who just want to live their lives without being scrutinized or put into boxes.”
Lizzo’s “Rumors” collaborator, Cardi B, quickly hopped online to defend her friend.
“When you stand up for yourself they claim your problematic & sensitive,” the rapper tweeted. “When you don’t they tear you apart until you crying like this. Whether you skinny, big, plastic, they going to always try to put their insecurities on you. Remember these are nerds looking at the popular table.”
