It's been a breakout year for Slayyyter, whose new album WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA solidified her in the current pop canon. Since she started releasing music under the moniker in 2019, she's faced criticism for old social media posts containing racial slurs. She issued an apology at the end of that year, and in January 2020 she said she would donate proceeds from physical sales to charities supporting the Black LGBTQ+ community. However, in the wake of her rise, people are digging up the old posts again, as well as criticizing her past as a cam girl. She acknowledged the backlash on a now-defunct secret Twitter account.

"everyone trying to recancel me for highschool things & behavior i dont know how many times i have to say i am not that kind of person anymore and haven't been for over 15 years. i am 30 now. i don't act or say the things i did in highschool," she wrote in one tweet.

She continued, "the deep digging on cam girl stuff, me in friends vlogs, random old tweets of me talking about sex work etc,.…