Johnny Bananas fired again on the backlash he obtained on-line after his remarks to a castmate went viral.
The Challenge star final appeared in MTV’s Battle of the Eras season, reaching the ultimate with seven different castmates from a 40-person season.
Nonetheless, Bananas didn’t add one other championship, ending in third place and receiving a smaller portion of the prize pool.
Following that, he additionally obtained snubbed because the competitors present’s biggest competitor of all time, as castmates unanimously voted Season 40 winner Jordan Wiseley over Bananas.
As well as to showing on The Challenge, he’s been occurring different actuality TV exhibits, together with Peacock’s The Traitors and E!’s Home of Villains.
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His newest was the Netflix courting present, Pop the Balloon, the place his feedback to a solid member drew the ire of some critics.
Bananas tried to joke with ladies on Pop the Balloon
Throughout Pop the Balloon, host Yvonne Orji requested Bananas which of the seven ladies on stage with him would most be his sort.
“Let me begin with the toes,” he mentioned as he glanced down on the numerous ladies’s toes.
“She’s obtained actually fairly toes,” he mentioned, pointing at one of many ladies to his proper.
“Me?” one of many ladies requested, seeming not to know who he meant.
“You’ve obtained actually fairly toes,” he mentioned to one other girl to his proper.
“You look such as you sleep from a tree the wrong way up,” he informed one of many ladies standing to his proper.
When he made the remarks, the video clip doesn’t present Bananas pointing to anybody particularly. As an alternative, it exhibits a number of ladies’s toes, and somebody gasped earlier than others had been heard, seeming stunned by his comment.
“Me? Was he speaking about me?” the girl to his proper in a blue gown started to ask, seeming upset as a number of different ladies laughed.
A clip surfaced on X (beneath) with the caption indicating Bananas’ remark was to the “black girl on Pop The Balloon.”
Social media commenters blasted The Challenge star
As soon as the clip surfaced, commenters had lots to say about Bananas, with some questioning why The Challenge star retains getting on tv exhibits regardless of his remarks.
Within the X feedback, one particular person requested, “Wait, what did Johnny Bananas even imply by that?”
One other wrote, “that’s a CRAZY factor to say and on television???”
“johnny bananas stays problematic however we maintain letting him on exhibits smh,” a commenter wrote.
One other commenter posted, “And any probability he will get he pulls out the racist card.”
“I can’t consider he mentioned that on reside television… the audacity” a person wrote.
Bananas fired again at critics’ on-line claims
Following the web backlash over Pop the Balloon, Bananas addressed the subject on X with a screenshot explaining who his remark was about.
The screengrab exhibits a girl to Bananas’ proper sporting a green-patterned gown together with her leg and foot prolonged earlier than her. A purple circle is proven round her toes.
“Hey morons I used to be really speaking concerning the WHITE lady whose toes had been hanging over her footwear who’s actually dressed like a f****** tree! It’s wild how briskly some individuals can twist a second right into a false narrative. There’s actual racism on the market, weaponizing faux outrage for clicks cheapens it,” he wrote in his message.
In February, The Challenge star confronted the wrath of on-line followers relating to one other remark. As Monsters and Critics reported, a reply from his X account to a put up from Huge Brother’s Taylor Hale had a monkey emoji and banana emojis, drawing backlash from on-line critics.
It will definitely obtained deleted, and Bananas defined that he hadn’t posted the remark. As an alternative, he mentioned an organization dealing with social media for him went rogue and was commenting on his behalf for a meme coin marketing campaign he was concerned in.
Bananas mentioned he spoke with the Huge Brother star to make clear what had occurred and mentioned she understood. Nonetheless, some critics proceed to slam Bananas on-line for the X emojis reply amid his newest perceived controversy with Pop the Balloon.
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