Last week, YouTube vlogger Vika Shapel uploaded a now-deleted Instagram post of she and her friend doing a “chocolate challenge.”
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Which in real words, was blackface.

“Something fun is coming to YouTube, idk if there is a challenge like this but we haven’t seen it so I’m calling it The chocolate challenge! Come watch us transform into deep chocolate skintones from our pasty pale.”
Um.
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Naturally, the internet called her out for being racist.
Why?! What do I have to do to convince people that my skin tone is not a trend/a mask/a makeup challenge/ a new concept for entertainment?!
— 𝖆𝖗𝖎 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖊 𝖙𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖉 (@ArielleMonai) July 9, 2017


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I just reported it and I tried to scroll down then refresh and she went private, it literally happened in a span of 30 seconds pic.twitter.com/G4Ya0FjQqg
— tokischa lover (@imapendeja) July 9, 2017
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