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China Anne McClain is facing backlash on social media for speaking out against demonic iconography in Hollywood in a new video, possibly still referring to Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” music video.
McClain recently released a TikTok video in which she spoke about how, in her view, the entertainment industry is peddling satanic imagery to an impressionable public. Her video seemingly includes a reference to the now-infamous music video, since Lil Nas X plays both a character who slides down a pole to Hell as well as the devil himself.
“It’s about influence. There’s a reason you see people dressed up as Satan. Full-on visual of Satan, people dressed as Satan, dressed as a demon, got upside-down crosses on your clothes or pentagrams on their clothes,” she said. “People think that this stuff is just a game. No, there’s a reason why the entertainment industry is doing that, y’all. They know good and doggone well that God exists. They also know that Satan exists. They’re just counting on the fact that y’all don’t know that.”
“But either way, the things that you take in, that they’re feeding you, those things affect you, whether you realize it in the moment or not,” she continued. “…I’m not going to sacrifice the honesty in order to be politically correct.”
People on Twitter called McClain out for what appeared to be hypocritical evangelizing, since, as some users pointed out, McClain became popular from the very industry she is speaking out against. Others wrote how they wished McClain were focusing on real issues in Hollywood, such as sexual abuse and other crimes.
Some Twitter users were also frustrated with people not realizing the goal of Lil Nas X’s video, which was to call out the hurtful and toxic language he grew up with as a gay Black child. As PopBuzz reports, when his video was new to the public earlier this year, Lil Nas X tweeted about the hypocrisy some people showed in their reactions to his video.
“yall love telling gay people we going to hell, then get mad when i decide to go?” he tweeted in March.