Bowen Yang Ponders TikTok Exit Over Asian Jokes: 'I Hate The Internet Because Of It'
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The "SNL" star said he regularly gets tagged in TikTok posts featuring random Asian people.
Bowen Yang is getting tired of seeing the same old joke.
The “Saturday Night Live” star divulged during the latest episode of his “Las Culturistas” podcast that fans on TikTok keep tagging him in posts about completely unrelated people who happen to also be Asian.
“TikTok, or at least my experience of it … is, I log on and 20 of my notifications are of someone who thinks they’re being cute, tagging me and saying, ‘Oh my God. This person looks just like Bowen Yang,’” he said on the latest episode of the podcast.
“It’s an Asian person. It’s a little Asian baby dancing around in, like, a little elephant costume,” Yang continued. “Trust me. I’ve seen it. You guys can stop tagging me in that. No, thank you. It makes me not want to use the platform.”
Yang has co-hosted his podcast with Matt Rogers since 2016, and was recruited as an “SNL” writer two years later. He became the first Chinese American cast member in 2019.
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