We need to talk about racism in the Challenge fanbase. Yes, again.

Benji Wu
2 min readDec 11, 2020

Alright, gang. It’s that time of year again. We need to have a serious conversation about racism in the Challenge fanbase. We need to especially examine in it in the context of women of color on our screens.

There are two major words that I really want to address here. Those words are “obnoxious” and “entitled”. In my capacity as a moderator on the Challenge subreddit, I have seen so many women of color, especially black women, described that way. Kam, Bayleigh, Kayleigh, Aneesa, Nany, and even Natalie Anderson all…

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