Ethel Cain has posted a prolonged and private response to a slew of previous controversial social media posts which have resurfaced on-line.
Earlier this week, a gaggle of screenshots of posts circulated on-line, initially highlighted by the X account @herweirdsilas that makes use of the identify ‘Exposing’. The screenshots present a collection of posts from 2017 and 2018 that Cain posted on the platform Curious Cat, together with obvious posts wherein she used offensive language and wore a T-shirt studying “LEGALIZE INCEST”.
Additionally among the many posts are a drawing allegedly by Cain that some have described as little one pornography, whereas one other reveals a poster she is alleged to have designed that parodied a real-life lacking poster of a nine-year-old lady that was murdered.
Cain has responded to the controversy with an emotional and private assertion by way of Google Docs on Wednesday (July 9) wherein she admits to having despatched the posts and apologises for among the “shameful” content material. She has additionally stated that the folks resurfacing the content material aren’t in search of justice, however seeking to “destroy” her.
hacking ethel cain’s spotify in the course of the night time precisely a month earlier than her new album launch sounds so much like an orchestrated hate marketing campaign motivated by transphobia to me. this isn’t holding somebody accountable, that is public humiliation. transphobia will not be the reply. pic.twitter.com/FOKbhjmQ8u
— lia de lioncourt (@cainroan) July 9, 2025
“All of this stuff resurfacing aren’t the actions of a well-meaning particular person involved by one thing they found simply and casually on the web. These are screenshots obtained by way of in depth digging, hacking and cooperative effort amongst a gaggle of people who don’t care who else is damage by witnessing this media so long as I’m in the end damage the worst in the long run,” she wrote.
She defined that she was 19 on the time of the posts and she or he stated she “fell right into a subculture on-line that prioritized garnering consideration in any respect prices”, including that she “meant to be as inflammatory and controversial as attainable. I’d have stated (and normally did say) something, about anybody, to achieve consideration and in the end simply make my associates snort.”
Addressing feedback wherein she admitted utilizing the N-word: “On the finish of the day I’m white, so whereas I can take accountability for my actions, there’s no approach for me to totally perceive the way in which it feels to be on the receiving finish of them. All I can say is that I’m actually sorry from the underside of my coronary heart, to anybody who learn it then and to anybody studying it now. Any approach you’re feeling about me shifting ahead is legitimate.”
“This was a chapter of my life I look again at shamefully,” she added. “I’m not pleased with my actions, and I’ve accomplished my greatest to bury it as I really feel strongly that no good can come from it. As I transfer ahead by way of my life, I purpose to make use of my platform for good, for change, and for progress. I consider it’s vital to atone not by way of phrases alone, however by way of actions.“
ethel cain is a weirdo – a thread 🧵 pic.twitter.com/BN8Zxu4e0o
— exposing (@herweirdsilas) July 6, 2025
Cain goes on to deal with immediately a collection of particular posts, together with the themes of incest, little one pornography, animal abuse, the lacking little one poster and misogyny – you’ll be able to learn the total assertion right here.
“To try to sum every part up, no I’m not a violent misogynist fetishizing the “feminine expertise”. No I’m not the creator of kid pornography, nor am I a pedophile, a zoophile, or a porn-addicted incest fetishist. I urge you to acknowledge the patterns of a transphobic/in any other case focused smear marketing campaign, particularly on this political day and age. This data was hoarded till the right second arose to unleash it. On this case, a baseless try to assassinate my boyfriend’s character turned the catalyst. He’ll handle these claims in his personal time on his personal phrases and I assist him wholeheartedly. This complete state of affairs is negligent, sensationalized, and intensely harmful not just for myself however for all my family members.”
Cain was additionally the topic of controversy earlier this 12 months when she shared the hashtag #KillMoreCEOs after the high-profile homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York in December.
Responding to a backlash, together with from Fox Information, she stated: “Since when has “upholding conventional values” gone hand in hand with… defending lawmakers and oil tycoons? My household and I complain about the identical points on the dinner desk. The lads in cost higher hope they’ll preserve their digital smokescreens working so long as they’ll as a result of the second the rednecks and the hippies lay down their swords lengthy sufficient to understand they’ve the identical enemy, all hell is gonna break free.”
She was additionally one of many artists to hitch a marketing campaign calling for the abolition of ICE final month, after the federal company raided places in Los Angeles to arrest people concerned in unlawful immigration to the nation.
