Until last week I had never heard of Sam Hyde, the alt-right comedian whose face launched a thousand “WTFs” when it appeared on a T-shirt the musician Doja Cat was wearing in a selfie posted recently. I’ve looked into the matter and wow, he is unsavoury. In fact he is a freak. Alongside various homophobic, racist and antisemitic rants as part of his act on stage, one of his most unwatchable offences is a video in which he “goes mental and gets removed from [a] hotel after being given Brit sweets.”
To Doja Cat, then, who thinks her fans are hysterical: “miserable hoes” with no lives of their own who should shut up, delete their "stan" accounts and help their parents around the house. Her new album, Scarlet, makes much of her relationship with the zillenial girlies who once worshipped her but then decided she wasn’t woke enough. (Her previous album we gave four stars). Her boyfriend is a wrong’un, apparently, and years ago she was accused of “stripping for white supremacists” in an internet chatroom. She denied the allegations. Several fans recently suggested in a comment thread that too few of her friends were people of colour. Doja Cat wrote in reply "I don't need to convince you that I have black friends".
