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‘Love & Hip Hop’ Star Tokyo Vanity Is Getting Epic Twitter Backlash For Saying Cartoons ‘Persuade Children To Be Gay’

Folks are calling her out for her homophobic remark.

Tokyo Vanity is the latest reality star whose homophobia has been put on full blast, after questionable comments about, "hidden messages," in some children’s programming; claiming that they "persuade children to be gay."

The fan-favorite Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star recently lost her "cool card" after she took to her Instagram Story to spew some hateful and ignorant rhetoric about the LGBT community.

In a random rant, she discussed how, in her opinion, today's cartoons have a lot of "gay s**t" that persuades children to "become" gay, themselves.

How, Sway? HOW?

In an attempt to mask her homophobia, she went on to share that she believes one is born gay, before going on to further contradict herself by claiming cartoons influence children to "subscribe" to the community.

"With children now, all their cartoons got this gay s**t and girl on girl, and guy on guy, and this and that," she said while her friend, in the background, attempted to provide examples. "It's too persuasive now almost as if they're trying to persuade children and brainwash children, like to be that. Like, gay is a sexuality. Like, it's something that's just in you. I believe you was born that way, you know what I'm saying? But TV really be brainwashing [children]."

Watch her comments for yourself, below:

  • Later, claiming she has "no problem" with the LGBT community, she clumsily attempted to do damage control. It didn’t seem to work, as several of her former fans took to Twitter to articulate their offense and outrage.

    See reactions, below:

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