Woah Vicky

About

Woah Vicky is the online handle of teenage social media personality Victoria Waldrip. Online, Waldrip has been widely compared to Danielle Bregoli and accused of cultural appropriation, leading her to make the controversial claim that she considers herself a part of the Black race.

Online History

On July 4th, 2016, Waldrip created the @imwoahvicky^[1] Instagram feed, which gathered upwards of 1.3 million followers over the next two years. On May 21st, 2017, Waldrip uploaded the first video to her Woahh Vicky YouTube channel titled "The Lotion Challenge," in which she eats a spoonful of lotion with a friend (shown below). In August, she created the @imwoahvicky^[2] Twitter feed.

Controversies

Feuds

In mid-August 2017, Waldrip released a diss track targeting YouTuber RiceGum. While the original upload has since been removed, a mirror was subsequently uploaded by YouTuber thot (shown below).

On August 18th, RiceGum uploaded a video reacting to the diss track titled "This girl must be stopped," (shown below, left). On October 1st, the YouTuber Face Reveals channel uploaded footage of Bregoli reacting to the RiceGum diss track (shown below, right).

On July 12th, YouTuber 1600quickkick uploaded footage of Waldrip and Bregoli engaging in an argument over FaceTime chat (shown below, left). On July 15th, YouTuber DomisLive NEWS uploaded a video discussing a feud between Bregoli and Waldrip which garnered upwards of 1.4 million views and 5,300 comments in six months (shown below, right).

Racial Identity

On July 22nd, 2017, Waldrip uploaded a video in which she claimed she was 25% Black based on DNA test results from the website Ancestry.com and claimed she identified as a "Black girl" (shown below). Within six months, the video received more than 2.4 million views.

On September 9th, YouTuber Triggered Tro uploaded a video titled "Colorblind White Girls Thinks She's Black," which gained over 1.9 million views and 5,500 comments within four months (shown below, left). On December 6th, Waldrip posted a screenshot of her Ancestry.com "Ethnicity Estimate" to Instagram,^[3] along with the caption "Proof that I'm black so stfu butch" (shown below, right).

On December 26th, YouTuber Benji uploaded a video titled "Woah Vicky Talks Normally," which mocks Waldrip's use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) (shown below, left). Within one month, the video received upwards of 4.8 million views and 9,000 comments. On January 14th, 2018, YouTuber Triggered Tro released a followup video titled "WoahVicky Admits She's White," which accumulated more than 631,000 views and 6,300 comments over the next 48 hours (shown below, right).

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