“I’m being racist to eggs”: Wellness influencer slammed for innocent comment
An Australian influencer has been forced to address a "racist" comment she made about her son's lunch.
Health and fitness influencer Sarah Stevenson, who is known by her millions of followers as Sarah's Day, was filming herself as she made lunch for her son.
The 31-year-old stopped herself as she made her child a curried egg sandwich, saying he be dubbed “the smelly boy in the playground” if he took the meal to school.
“Do you want to be ‘smelly curried egg boy’?” she asked him.
While the seemingly innocent comment went unnoticed by many of her followers, one person sent her a message demanding an apology for her "borderline racist" comment.
The entrepreneur and mum-of-two replied to the private message in a video response to her followers explaining that she meant the “egg smell” and didn't mean anything racist.
“Didn’t everyone go to school with someone who brought eggs in their lunch and you’re like, ‘ew, you smell like rotten eggs’... not ‘you smell like curry!’,” she said in the video on her Instagram Stories.
She said sarcastically, “I’m being racist to eggs.”
Stevenson then doubled down on the follower’s outrage, following that with a cooking tutorial for “racist eggs”.
The late night social media saga was re-shared by a popular account, where it was dubbed “egg gate” and plenty more people weighed in on the drama.
“She should have apologised and taken it down instead she’s made it worse,” one commenter wrote.
The general consensus from the public was that the original racism accusation “was a definite reach”, but she went too far with her explanation.
“Honestly don’t think there was any malice in the original comment — she definitely scrambled (ha!), way too far in explaining herself afterwards though,” someone wrote.
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