Instagram Model Forgets To Delete Old Tweets, Old Tweets Resurface And Cause Havoc

We've all got social media posts from the vaults we're not proud of, whether they're cringey, selfish or just lazy.

But we don't really hear from them again unless they're thrust into the public eye.

It seems the average Joe loves nothing more than scouring the accounts of celebrities in the hopes of finding something controversial or pre-PR.

For instance, there was one tweet by Macklemore dug up from 2009 in which he accuses George Bush of perpetrating 9/11. A few years ago, the old MySpace account of Dele Alli was uncovered (in particular his profile picture showing a pre-teen Alli wearing the worst sunglasses you might ever see in your life).

Image: Delle Alli/MySpace (RIP)

Everyday folk like you and me only really come across these terrible vintage posts via TimeHop but at least we a) have the choice to stop it from being shared and b) don't have careers that other people apparently want to belittle.

Now I might have never heard of Asian 'Instagram model' Lily Macapinlac, but her 3 million followers should grant her some level of 'celebrity'.

Lily's recently come under a bit of heat for a series of tweets she made in 2013 in which she racially disparages "short old Asian dudes" over her preferred "cute white boys".

The 22-year-old wrote: "If another short old Asian dude tries buying me a drink, I'm going to puke on them."

"Definitely going to marry a white boy. I want a half-cast [sic] baby," she said in another.

In another tweet, she declares: "My dad is cheering me on. He said 'If he's white then it's okay."

In a Facebook post, her mother Elsie defended Lily's tweets, saying: "She's pure Pinoy, [but] not really proud cause of the mentality of the Pinoy. That's why we migrated to Australia."

Filipino-American fashion photographer, Eliza Romero, told Next Shark, "Her dating preferences were clearly rooted in self-hatred and internalized racism."

Lily eventually commented on the controversy herself. "I want to say sorry for what I said when I was obviously close minded and away from the public eye," she tweeted.

Topics: Twitter

Josh Teal

Josh Teal is a journalist at LADbible. He has contributed to the 'Knowing Me, Knowing EU' and 'UOKM8?' campaigns interviewing everyone from student drug dealers to climate change activists.

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