00:00 Friday, don't tweet racist s***. SNL finally corrected an age-long imbalance
00:05 and hired a Latina cast member. Her name's Melissa Villasenor and you may
00:08 recognize her from her viral impression of Owen Wilson.
00:11 Wow, your boobs are huge. Wow. I'm sorry, am I not supposed to say that? I don't know.
00:16 Unfortunately, because she's 28, she's been posting dumb s*** on social media for a
00:21 long time, just like all of us. One writer, Ora Bogato, noticed something weird on
00:25 Melissa's Twitter. Over the course of five days, she deleted 2,000 tweets. The
00:30 creator of #OscarsSoWhite, April Rain, managed to screenshot some of the
00:34 tweets before they disappeared. They are... not great.
00:39 Coworker at Forever 21 dates black guys and she said she will set me up on a
00:42 blind date for Valentine's. I said yes, but I'm scared.
00:46 I hate those Mexicans on bikes. Well, okay, we're done with that one.
00:53 I hate those Mexicans on bikes. They threw something at my car. The world
00:57 doesn't need them. Do you guys want my hot take or not? A bossy black lady at my
01:03 temp job right now looks exactly like Steve Urkel. Ugly. All of that is
01:07 obviously awful. They're not even jokes, they're just offensive comments. Of
01:10 course, this isn't the first time this has happened. Former SNL cast member John
01:14 Radnitsky also came under fire for having some old misogynist tweets. Trevor
01:18 Noah made anti-semitic jokes and comments about fat women. And SNL's
01:22 Michael Che has a history of ranting about street harassment not being a real
01:25 thing. People online are debating how we should feel about Melissa's past.
01:28 Classic Elizabeth, "Deleting old tweets doesn't mean you're not a racist. Won't
01:33 be watching SNL if you're on." Jillian, "I barely had 10 minutes to be excited about
01:37 Melissa's e-comedy joining SNL before my hopes were dashed." Zach Johnson, "Who
01:41 people were is not necessarily who they are and these witch hunts need to stop.
01:44 People can grow, you know." For more trends like these, visit us online at
01:47 whatstrending.com.
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