Youtuber Nikita Dragun Under Fire For ‘Racially Insensitive’ Look In Photos

As we all know, Nikita Dragun has come under fire, and not just recently, in the past for editing her photos, self-tanning, and doing her makeup in a way that some would interpret as racially insensitive. The thing is, Nikita herself is actually mixed, she is half asian and half mexican, but the way she sometimes edits her photos makes her look much more darker complected than what her heritage is.

Nikita has always defended herself by saying that in the summer months she is darker than in the winter months, and for years she’s kept up this defense but the other day she made a tweet that has a lot of people up in arms.

Youtube – Nikita Dragun goes for the ‘racially insensitive’ look

“What race is Nikita going to be today?” read the tweet, which, in this day and age is an open invitation to cancel oneself. What on earth was she thinking? Even if she meant it as a joke, in this climate it just doesn’t bode well for her at all as an influencer that she’d be putting that sort of racially insensitive energy out there into the universe.

After people called her out for her initial post, she tweeted, “I know it’s a joke to comment on my race but I’m getting tired of having to defend myself on every post. “She’s hispanic today.” I’m hispanic every day, my Mom is Mexican and my Dad is Asian. I’m mixed. The end. Bye.” She then went on to say, “Growing up mixed I was never enough or fully accepted. I don’t have to pick a side. I am not incomplete of my races. I do not lack anything I am proud of ALL of me.”

Of course it didn’t end there, Nikiita was continually called out by her fanbase, they would go to her instagram and post comparison pictures and ask her “what about this?” again, Nikita at first defended herself by saying that it was due to the seasonal change but when that wasn’t working and someone really called her out for her past photoshoot with Jeffrey Star where Nikita was very dark complected she said, “I was a model.

I showed up, did my job and left. I had no control over editing.” she then posted a picture of her makeup from the same day where it looks decidedly more natural and flattering. That calls into question Jeffree Star’s intentions because it was for his photoshoot, in which case that just brings to mind some rather unsavory claims made about Jeffree Star a while back.

But that’s just one time, there have been multiple times in which Nikita’s photos have been edited so that it looks like she is from a different race entirely. The issue that people have with Nikita is not that she’s mixed, as she seems to think, but rather she’s trying to represent races that she isn’t and that’s what’s problematic, especially right now. Even James Charles liked a tweet by another, black influencer saying “This isn’t funny.”

after defending herself on the Jefree Star image it looks like Nikita has just completely dropped the conversation, and even her fans aren’t keen on picking it back up. Still, no one thinks this is funny, Nikita. We’ll keep you updated. Stay tuned!!!

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