“I had to limit my comments on Instagram because people would comment, ‘Kill yourself,’ or ‘I’m going to rape you.’ ” Members of r/aznidentity began looking into her previous romantic relationships-including ones she’d had in high school-and denigrated her on the subreddit for having dated a white person. “The focus started to be on me and my personal life,” she told me recently. But it wasn’t until January, when Huang began posting on TikTok about anti-Black racism, that the real harassment began.Īfter Huang posted a video about Asian celebrities appropriating Black culture, she began receiving hundreds of sexist and violent messages through email and social media. First there were threads mocking Huang on r/aznidentity, a subreddit with more than 44,000 members that is the unofficial hub of Men’s Rights Asians.
