10 Celebrities Who Deleted Social Media After Backlash

L–R: Kanye West, Sexyy Red, Cardi B, and Diddy. Source: MEGA / GC Images, Aaron J. Thornton / Getty Images for BET, Stephane Cardinale – Corbis / Corbis via Getty Images, Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for MTV. Art Design: Siobhan Dixon.

We’ve all tweeted or uploaded a post before that we later decided to take down. For one reason or another. Unfortunately, celebrities don’t get the luxury of taking things down before too many people see it. Let’s revisit moments where some celebrities got caught posting something and later deleted it or their entire accounts.

1. Sexxy Red, 26

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Sexxy Red is one of the latest celebrities to delete an X post, but not before it was screenshotted by someone else. The 26-year-old rapper, who some consider problematic due to her raunchy raps, shared an AI photo of her and the late civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., slow dancing. The photo was shared in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But King’s daughter, Bernice King, commented on the X post, asking Red to delete it.

She said, “This is intentionally dishonoring, deplorable, and disrespectful of my family and my father, who is not here to respond himself because he was assassinated for working for your civil and human rights and to end war and poverty. Please delete.”

Before deleting, Sexxy Red responded.

“You ain’t wrong, never meant to disrespect your family my apologies. Just resposted something I saw that I thought was innocent.”