Kalhan Rosenblatt is a reporter covering youth and internet culture for NBC News, based in New York.
TikTok star Alix Earle apologized Monday for a post she wrote when she was 13 years old in which she used a slur used to insult Black people. The Miami-based Earle, now 23, used the language in posts made to the website ask.fm in 2014. In a post shared to her Instagram and TikTok stories, Earle said that at the time she “did not understand the deeply offensive meaning” behind the slur. “That is no excuse for using that word in any context or at any age.
In recent days, some of Earle’s followers have asked her to address the old posts. There were at least four posts from when Earle was 13, screenshots of which were shared two years ago. It’s unclear if Earle still has an ask.fm account and it’s also unclear if the posts are accessible to this day. Earle has not appeared to use the term in any other media.
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