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Bretman Rock Apologizes After Racial Slur Video Resurfaces Online

The gay YouTuber and beauty influencer released a statement after #BretmanRockIsOverParty started trending.

Raffy Ermac

Digital Director, Out.com

Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, critic, and digital director of Out Magazine. The former editor-in-chief of PRIDE, he is also a die-hard Rihanna and Sailor Moon stan who loves to write about all things pop culture, entertainment, and identities. Follow him on Instagram (@raffyermac) and Twitter (@byraffy), and subscribe to his YouTube channel.

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Raffy Ermac

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April 22 2020 5:22 PM EST

December 09 2022 9:12 AM EST

Popular content creator and beauty guru Bretman Rock is in hot water after video from 2015 resurfaced that shows him singing a song and saying an anti-Black racial slur. Once the video started making the rounds online, the #BretmanRockIsOverParty started trending, with many people letting their thoughts be known about the situation.

"Why is everybody who isn't Black so obsessed with saying the word?" user @carlysfever said. "Its an obsession. Come on, it's 2020. I promise it's not that hard."

"It’s not that hard to just not say the word," said another. "Just don’t say it?????"

In a statement on his own Twitter page, Bretman apologized for his use of the offensive, hurtful slur.

"Just woke up to a video of me resurfacing from 5 years ago, " the openly gay influencer said. "I’ve apologized for that video before & will happily do it again. It was as stupid & ignorant then as it is now. I'm no longer a 15-year-old piece of shit and I know that behavior is unacceptable...Period."

\u201cNobody is \u201cexposing me\u201d - that video has always existed...like I said its stupid as fuck and ignorant as fuck. But it exists. thats not a reflection of who I am now. If you wanna cancel me, cancel 15 year old Bretman. Let me learn & grow & mature please.\u201d
— BretmanRock\u2019s Decade (@BretmanRock\u2019s Decade) 1587583784

\u201cPLEASE let this be a lesson that everything you post online stays with you. that video still haunts me to this day & I am so ashamed of it. What you think is acceptable when youre young isn't going to age well. WORDS MATTER. they hurt and they will live with you forever.\u201d
— BretmanRock\u2019s Decade (@BretmanRock\u2019s Decade) 1587586015

Speaking on how things on the internet don't ever really go away in this day and age of social media, he continued:

"PLEASE let this be a lesson that everything you post online stays with you. That video still haunts me to this day & I am so ashamed of it. What you think is acceptable when you're young isn't going to age well. WORDS MATTER. They hurt and they will live with you forever."