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Timothée Chalamet's Homophobic Slur Controversy
Overview
Timothée Chalamet's Homophobic Slur Controversy refers to the discussion surrounding a viral clip of American Actor Timothée Chalamet saying "I think you probably are a dyke." The clip was taken from a reading of the play "Tennessee" by John Patrick Shanley and Chalamet was reciting a line from the play. The clip was shared to Twitter in March 2020 and caused the hashtag #TimotheeChalametIsOverParty to trend.
Background
On August 5th, 2018, Playing on Air uploaded a recording to YouTube of a previous broadcast featuring Chalamet reading a part in the play "Tennessee" by John Patrick Shanley (shown below).
On March 18th, 2020, Twitter user @lilyrosedyke uploaded a short clip from the broadcast with the caption, "our dyke icon!!!!!!" (shown below). The tweet garnered over 233,400 views and 450 likes in a day.
our dyke icon!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/i1kN9Ff2ou
— abby got timmy cancelled (@lilyrosedyke) March 18, 2020
Developments
On March 18th, 2020, Twitter users began sharing the clip with the hashtag #TimotheeChalametisoverparty. That day, Twitter user @icecoldchalamet[1] tweeted, "try to cancel timmy for this shit and i riot. it was a fucking script and he hadt to read it, what the actual fuck have you ever heard of acting #TimotheeChalametisoverparty" which gained over 700 likes. Twitter user @jihyokindagay[2] responded by saying, "just cause he had to read script doesn’t make it okay for him to say dyke stop defending problematic people" (shown below, left). That day, Twitter user @lilyrosedyke tweeted a screenshot of #TimotheeChalametisoverparty trending with the caption, "a moment for me in history i can’t wait to tell my future gf i did all this" (shown below, right). The Daily Dot[3] and Pink News[4] published articles on the controversy.
Various Examples
yall do know he was reading from a script right? #timothéechalametisoverpartypic.twitter.com/DBIkTm6MxZ
— bella (@KlTCHENSSlNK) March 18, 2020
why y’all trying to cancel this sexy white man during a pandemic? STOP IT #timothéechalametisoverparty pic.twitter.com/1fs5qcv4zT
— angel 333? (@honeysent) March 18, 2020
stan timothee chalamet #timothéechalametisoverparty pic.twitter.com/w2pg50KGCW
— j♡ (@jimedemierda) March 18, 2020
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External References
[1] Twitter – jihyokindagay
[2] Twitter – lilyrosedyke
[3] DailyDot- Timothee Chalamet Canceled Homophobic script
[4] Pink News – Timothee Chalamet Cannelled
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