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 sequence of posts from 2017 and 2018 that Cain posted on the platform Curious Cat, together with obvious posts through which 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 baby 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 woman that was murdered.
Cain has responded to the controversy with an emotional and private assertion by way of Google Docs on Wednesday (July 9) through which she admits to having despatched the posts and apologises for a few of the “shameful” content material. She has additionally stated that the individuals resurfacing the content material are usually not looking for justice, however seeking to “destroy” her.
hacking ethel cain’s spotify in the midst of the night time precisely a month earlier than her new album launch sounds rather a lot like an orchestrated hate marketing campaign motivated by transphobia to me. this isn’t holding somebody accountable, that is public humiliation. transphobia isn’t the reply. pic.twitter.com/FOKbhjmQ8u
— lia de lioncourt (@cainroan) July 9, 2025
“All of these items resurfacing are usually not 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 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 finally damage the worst ultimately,” she wrote.
She defined that she was 19 on the time of the posts and he or she stated she “fell right into a subculture on-line that prioritized garnering consideration in any respect prices”, including that she “supposed to be as inflammatory and controversial as potential. I might have stated (and normally did say) something, about anybody, to realize consideration and finally simply make my buddies chuckle.”
Addressing feedback through which 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 completely perceive the best way it feels to be on the receiving finish of them. All I can say is that I’m really 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 achieved my greatest to bury it as I really feel strongly that no good can come from it. As I transfer ahead by my life, I goal to make use of my platform for good, for change, and for progress. I imagine it’s vital to atone not by phrases alone, however by actions.“
ethel cain is a weirdo – a thread 🧵 pic.twitter.com/BN8Zxu4e0o
— exposing (@herweirdsilas) July 6, 2025
Cain goes on to handle instantly a sequence of particular posts, together with the themes of incest, baby pornography, animal abuse, the lacking baby poster and misogyny – you may learn the total assertion right here.
“To attempt to sum all the pieces 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 info was hoarded till the right second arose to unleash it. On this case, a baseless try and assassinate my boyfriend’s character turned the catalyst. He’ll tackle these claims in his personal time on his personal phrases and I assist him wholeheartedly. This whole scenario 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 yr 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 operating so long as they’ll as a result of the second the rednecks and the hippies lay down their swords lengthy sufficient to grasp they’ve the identical enemy, all hell is gonna break unfastened.”
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 areas in Los Angeles to arrest people concerned in unlawful immigration to the nation.
