Bowen Yang is getting uninterested in seeing the identical outdated joke.
The “Saturday Night Live” star divulged through the newest episode of his “Las Culturistas” podcast that followers on TikTok hold tagging him in posts about utterly unrelated individuals who occur to even 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 stated on the most recent 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” author two years later. He grew to become the primary Chinese language American forged member in 2019.
“I guess that’s just not gonna go away,” he stated on the podcast. “I guess I have to accept this as part of my life. But like, I even still get Asian people who make the Joel Kim Booster jokes, which are rude.”
Many followers have commented through the years that Yang and his former “Fire Island” co-star look alike, although Booster, who’s Korean American, has a way more athletic construct and a wholly totally different face. Yang stated it’s “a weird thing and I hate the internet because of it.”
“I think this is a great reason to leave,” he stated.
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Nonetheless, Yang chalked a lot of the offensive tagging as much as ignorance relatively than malice, and stated many followers “don’t see a lot of Asian people in their everyday lives,” prompting them to instantly consider Yang once they see one other Asian individual on-line.
Whether or not he’ll truly cease utilizing TikTok or social media generally stays to be seen. However the 34-year-old has his palms full, most not too long ago starring within the film adaptation of “Wicked” reverse Ariana Grande.
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In an Interview Journal dialog final week, Yang rued having to fly backwards and forwards from New York to London each week to shoot his scenes in the field workplace hit — however stated, “it’s the honor of my life to do this movie and ‘SNL’ at the same time.”
