Blackface — what attention-hungry right-wing racists do for clicks

Because Elon Musk has all but eliminated moderation on Twitter, people can be as racist as they like on there. This means there are now thousands of low-level influencers who are desperately vying for attention by out racism-ing one another. Predictably, as a result, this has led to the return of blackface:

Everything is just kind of getting worse and worse isn’t it pic.twitter.com/9Pt0d82k1b

— Mike Recine (@mikerecine) November 1, 2025

Happy Halloween

The first influencer we’re looking at is Lilly Gaddis. In the video below, she isn’t just wearing blackface either; she’s also giving a Hitler salute:

Interesting choice of Halloween get-up from “Christian social media influencer”, Lilly Gaddis

She says she is “unashamedly racist” despite having a biracial son.

Have no doubt she’ll be the next big “conservative media personality” in the US. pic.twitter.com/hfDisIYCdN

— Nima 🇬🇧🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@DrStrangetwit) November 1, 2025

While we’re no theologians, we can say with 100% certainty that everyone who wrote or appeared in the Bible would think this woman is an absolute waste of life, from God right down to the Serpent.

So we got this fucking asshole in blackface and Lilly fucking Gaddis, never to be outdone, also doing blackface but adding some extra spice with a full blown heil hitler, proudly. What the fuck are doing that these bitches feel so fucking comfortable? https://t.co/I7pPM6EIFk pic.twitter.com/7aOSmcrkHW

— Ally (@OhMyItsAlly) November 1, 2025

Next up is Derek Blighe. According to the Irish Times, Blighe is an “anti-immigration activist”:

What member of the Irish Parliament am I?
Happy Halloween everyone. pic.twitter.com/f3NoxC8aih

— Derek Blighe (@BligheDerek) October 31, 2025

The ‘joke’ he’s making is that he’s dressed as a politician who once did blackface:

Lots of good guesses about my Haloween costume, some of the wrong answers include
Danny Healy Rae
Leo Varadkar
Blackface
Mary Butler

The correct answer was in fact Eoin Hayes of the social Democrats,
Although I felt it was closer to Justin Trudeau of Canadas Liberal party.

Best… pic.twitter.com/QjmICJ0xVG

— Derek Blighe (@BligheDerek) November 1, 2025

This is probably a very funny joke if you’re thick as shit.

Irish poster Ciara suggested Blighe is trying to reach an American audience, because the ‘Irish parliament’ is actually called the ‘Oireachtas’.

“Irish parliament”. See this is what I mean when I say these freaks tweet this kind of stuff with a specific international audience in mind https://t.co/fO9k5BrM8S

— Ciara (@Ciara87C) October 31, 2025

There was also this thing:

The only thing I want for Halloween is EBT pic.twitter.com/xT0K0JReLS

— EMPATHCHAN, THE RUTHLESS DICTATOR (@Emp4thchan) October 31, 2025

Grimly, people have accused ‘Empathchan’ of much worse than blackface, although there isn’t any substantial reporting on that, because she’s a Z-list internet try-hard.

If you enjoy wasting your time, you can look her up on Twitter.

We guarantee you’ll regret doing so.

Brittany Venti

A more confusing example of this phenomenon is Brittany Venti, who’s a long-time shit-poster with ties to the far right:

When that EBT hit pic.twitter.com/xWXqqtgBdn

— Brittany Venti 🐈‍⬛ (@BrittanyXVenti) October 31, 2025

We say ‘more confusing’, because Venti is herself mixed race. This is probably why she had to try harder than Gaddis by throwing additional stereotypes into the mix. Not to be outdone, she also did some Hitler stuff:

Round 2 https://t.co/FbNmfga0TO pic.twitter.com/0eqcbGD07g

— Brittany Venti 🐈‍⬛ (@BrittanyXVenti) November 1, 2025

Venti has described her costume as ‘satire’:

My costume wasn’t just random -it has lore and built up of drama with the black community especially over the past month.

It is quite literally on brand for me to do black face as it is a continuation of a running satirical bit about how the black community is extremely racist to mulattos for their skin color.

It’s just really funny how I’m not “Allowed” to do black face, YET they’re “Allowed” to harass mulattos for being a quote “black mom biracial” calling me every name in the book and even insulting my dead parents.

But it’s the end of the world if I make fun of it or say “Nigga” -despite being black.

One user online described Gaddis and Venti as ‘pick me’s’, which is a term for women who seek to impress men by putting down other women:

every rightwing pick-me decided to do blackface for halloween pic.twitter.com/B5jOvUbA4L

— 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐮𝐬 (@ImperiumFirst) November 1, 2025

In Venti’s case, it comes across like she’s a pick me at the expense of other non-whites rather than women.

Desperation

Are people really this desperate for attention?

Ordinarily, we’d never recommend that people use ChatGPT as a friend substitute, but AI psychosis couldn’t make these people any weirder. We don’t want to go overboard and suggest it might make them normal, but still — it might at least keep them off the public internet.

Featured image via Twitter (where else would you see this shit?)