Black TikTok Chef Posts Lame Apology For Disgusting Resurfaced Tweets About Black & Dark-Skinned Women, Loses Brand Deal

Life comes at you fast! Chef Way, a popular chef on TikTok, has been getting dragged for disgusting tweets he posted previously trashing black and dark-skinned women. He issued an apology, but that wasn’t enough to save his endorsement deal. Find out what he tweeted and more inside… Hatred for Black women is one thing, but it’s even more insane when it comes from a Black man! A number of resurfaced old tweets have resulted in damage control efforts for one popular social media chef. Chef Way (real name Waymond Wesley) came under fire online from a number of women who claimed he had harassed them on social media and had receipts to prove it. It started when one of the chef's TikTok videos cooking oxtail pasta went viral on Twitter, raking in 2.1 million views on the blue bird app. Below is the video: Oxtail pasta. Applying pressure all 2023 pic.twitter.com/JgPORgLbuK — Chef Way (@ChefWay__) January 7, 2023 Then, all hell broke loose. A Twitter user pointed out to Chef Way how he was getting dragged for years-old tweets and comments, many of which included insults against Black women. His resurfaced tweets contained remarks about Sandra Bland, a victim of police brutality, dark-skinned women, and women's body types. In one tweet, which was manually retweeted in July 2015, Wesley (tweeting under the handle @WaymoTheGod) suggested that “if black lives mattered to sandra bland she wouldn’t have taken her own life.” You’re a nasty man pic.twitter.com/ZKmvvonBP4 — Divine (@tayshusmama) January 9, 2023 Dis you? https://t.co/8D8OG0qgQF pic.twitter.com/2eUNRg2zfV — Namor's Ocean Princess (@sheabuttersidy) January 9, 2023 In another, Chef Way commented on one photo that “smh the dark one messed up the pic” in response to a dark-skinned Black woman posing in a photo with another woman, and then one of his followers replied by cropping her out of the photo. In another old tweet, Wesley posted a photo of a light-skinned woman, using it to fat shame and insult anyone with a darker skin tone. “This is the perfect size woman and skin tone,” he wrote. “She’s healthy. Anything bigger/darker than this is garbage.” One user wrote to Chef Way:         View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by TheYBF (@theybf_daily) ”This man told me I needed to unalive myself years ago after my arrest and harassed me for no reason,” a woman tweeted. “I didn’t harm anyone or do anything to anybody. And he used a time in my life when I was homeless and poor as a formerly incarcerated woman to kick me down even further.” You commented on one of my pics on my old account and said my dark skin made me ugly, I was in high school. Called me all types of butterface. You said if I was light skinned I’d look better. Now you’re a chef? That’s crazy. https://t.co/iMtA18VCzv pic.twitter.com/FHnyQmSGQs — Thebaglady (@IamHogoe) January 9, 2023 “You commented on one of my pics on my old account and said my dark skin made me ugly, I was in high school,” wrote another person via Twitter. “Called me all types of butterface. You said if I was light skinned, I’d look better. Now you’re a chef? That’s crazy.” You’re a nasty man pic.twitter.com/ZKmvvonBP4 — Divine (@tayshusmama) January 9, 2023 “You’re a nasty man,” another Twitter user wrote with attached screenshots of Chef Way’s previous tweets. The self hatred is real. Below are more reactions: You’re a sick person https://t.co/RyPkCfnB8I pic.twitter.com/MerQbe65PU — femme (@yourstrulymua) January 9, 2023 Watching the timeline cook this nigga while I go to the kitchen to make this recipe: https://t.co/YSXtnLzRRU pic.twitter.com/kO8nwxURJU — 2023 Enjoyer & Bible Reader (@homunculusdick) January 9, 2023 i know nobody lying about him being a coon by the way he talk https://t.co/1CK9K5wW6d — may (@grosheries) January 9, 2023 this one for all my black queens! https://t.co/SSffSeJ026 pic.twitter.com/LP6FdPtUjW — Chepé (@JoeCool_TVC) January 9, 2023 Him -hey are u still upset ..look I made oxtail pasta Black twitter- https://t.co/xczTuiPwHC pic.twitter.com/91AfTX11J8 — AngelFan Account - (@AngelXDBL) January 9, 2023 After the initial criticism, the chef issued an apology on Twitter and Instagram, saying he had been “sick in more ways than one” during that time and that since then, “cooking” had saved him. The colorism leaving his body after learning how to cook: pic.twitter.com/1ng763MbfS — LEX (@iamlexstylz) January 9, 2023 “To those I’ve hurt with my past tweets that have resurfaced, I am deeply sorry,” he wrote. “That was a moment in my life where I was sick in more ways than one. Cooking saved me. You have watched a flawed man heal. I will continue to heal and learn. Thanks for being along for the journey.” Chef Way’s apology fell on deaf ears, which resulted in him losing his partnership with Anova Culinary, a San Francisco-based smart kitchen company. I believe that brands are about values. We want to partner with individuals that reflect our own valu

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Black TikTok Chef Posts Lame Apology For Disgusting Resurfaced Tweets About Black & Dark-Skinned Women, Loses Brand Deal

Life comes at you fast! Chef Way, a popular chef on TikTok, has been getting dragged for disgusting tweets he posted previously trashing black and dark-skinned women. He issued an apology, but that wasn’t enough to save his endorsement deal. Find out what he tweeted and more inside…

Hatred for Black women is one thing, but it’s even more insane when it comes from a Black man!

A number of resurfaced old tweets have resulted in damage control efforts for one popular social media chef.

Chef Way (real name Waymond Wesley) came under fire online from a number of women who claimed he had harassed them on social media and had receipts to prove it.

It started when one of the chef's TikTok videos cooking oxtail pasta went viral on Twitter, raking in 2.1 million views on the blue bird app. Below is the video:

Then, all hell broke loose. A Twitter user pointed out to Chef Way how he was getting dragged for years-old tweets and comments, many of which included insults against Black women.

His resurfaced tweets contained remarks about Sandra Bland, a victim of police brutality, dark-skinned women, and women's body types.

In one tweet, which was manually retweeted in July 2015, Wesley (tweeting under the handle @WaymoTheGod) suggested that “if black lives mattered to sandra bland she wouldn’t have taken her own life.”

In another, Chef Way commented on one photo that “smh the dark one messed up the pic” in response to a dark-skinned Black woman posing in a photo with another woman, and then one of his followers replied by cropping her out of the photo. In another old tweet, Wesley posted a photo of a light-skinned woman, using it to fat shame and insult anyone with a darker skin tone.

“This is the perfect size woman and skin tone,” he wrote. “She’s healthy. Anything bigger/darker than this is garbage.”

One user wrote to Chef Way:

”This man told me I needed to unalive myself years ago after my arrest and harassed me for no reason,” a woman tweeted. “I didn’t harm anyone or do anything to anybody. And he used a time in my life when I was homeless and poor as a formerly incarcerated woman to kick me down even further.”

“You commented on one of my pics on my old account and said my dark skin made me ugly, I was in high school,” wrote another person via Twitter. “Called me all types of butterface. You said if I was light skinned, I’d look better. Now you’re a chef? That’s crazy.”

“You’re a nasty man,” another Twitter user wrote with attached screenshots of Chef Way’s previous tweets. The self hatred is real.

Below are more reactions:

After the initial criticism, the chef issued an apology on Twitter and Instagram, saying he had been “sick in more ways than one” during that time and that since then, “cooking” had saved him.

“To those I’ve hurt with my past tweets that have resurfaced, I am deeply sorry,” he wrote. “That was a moment in my life where I was sick in more ways than one. Cooking saved me. You have watched a flawed man heal. I will continue to heal and learn. Thanks for being along for the journey.”

Chef Way’s apology fell on deaf ears, which resulted in him losing his partnership with Anova Culinary, a San Francisco-based smart kitchen company.

“We’re ending our affiliation with chef way, asap,” wrote CEO Stephen Svajian via Twitter. “Formal statement coming soon. Thanks for bringing the issue to my attention.”

He continued, “I believe that brands are about values. We want to partner with individuals that reflect our own values. Chef way clearly does not represent the values that we hold dear. Thanks to those that called this out. We need to do a better job vetting people that represent our brand.”

The company also released a statement: 

 

 

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