A comedian is being criticized for telling a 6-year-old boy that his social media celebrity mom pays for his presents with money she made on OnlyFans.
“Yes, you heard me correctly,” Bunny Hedaya told her audience on Saturday on TikTok, who said the 28-year-old comedian Matt Rife made the comment on her Instagram account directed at her son.
OnlyFans began as a platform for content creators that has evolved into a place where sex workers can sell their pornography.
Ms. Hedaya said that because her son is interested in astronomy topics, she gets tagged in space-related videos.
After getting tagged in a clip from Mr. Rife’s November Netflix special “Natural Selection,” Ms. Hedaya said she made a TikTok video of her son responding to his joke in which he made fun of women who believe in astrology and use it to determine the outcome of their personal lives, reported Fox News.
“Your future is determined by your own thoughts, opinions, and actions,” Mr. Rife said. “You are in complete control of how your future turns out. It has nothing to do with stars, man. Just because Jupiter has a ring and you don’t doesn’t mean that’s what you’re supposed to look up to for this magical advice.”
Ms. Hedaya’s son responded by stating, “Actually, it’s Saturn that has the rings, and it has more also. And you’re mean to girls.”
It’s not clear whether her son was correcting him or not because Jupiter—the fifth planet from the sun and the largest planet in the solar system—also has rings, according to Inferse.com.
“Discovered in 1979 by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, Jupiter’s rings were a surprise,” according to Inverse. “The rings are composed of small, dark particles, and they are difficult to see except when backlit by the Sun. Data from the Galileo spacecraft indicate that Jupiter’s ring system may be formed by dust kicked up as interplanetary meteoroids smash into the giant planet’s small innermost moons.”
In a later deleted comment, Mr. Rife supported this fact and shared it on Ms. Hedaya’s Instagram page.
“Jupiter also as [a] ring. OH! … and Santa Clais [Claus] isn’t real. Your mom buys you presents with the money she makes on OnlyFans. Good Luck,” he wrote.
Ms. Hedaya defended herself, stating that she doesn’t have an OnlyFans platform.
Planet Jupiter, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, on June 27, 2019. NASA, ESA, A. Simon/Goddard Space Flight Center, M.H. Wong/University of California, Berkeley via AP
“I don’t even show my body,” she said, adding that it’s flawed for him to assume that women online are only making money through online pornography.
“I have never made a single dollar from a man,” she said.
Past Controversy
It’s not the first time Mr. Rife has faced controversy, as his stand-up in “Natural Selection” carried what some might consider to be tones of misogyny.According to Forbes, his joke about a waitress with a black eye at a Baltimore restaurant ignited calls for his cancellation.
“I’ve only been to Baltimore one time,” he said. “I ate lunch there, and the hostess, like who seats you at the restaurant, had a black eye, a full black eye. It was pretty obvious what happened. We couldn’t get over the fact. ‘This is the face of the company? This is who you have greeting people?’”
The joke described his friend, who said he felt bad for her and suggested that she be placed in the kitchen, to which Mr. Rife responded, “Yeah, but I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn’t have that black eye.”
“Of course, I felt bad for her,” he continued. “But she should have had her protection crystals.”
He followed this by telling the audience that he was only testing the waters to see if the audience “would be fun or not.”
The joke sparked outrage, to which he responded with a joke in the form of an apology on Instagram by providing a link to a website where one could purchase special needs helmets for anyone who had been offended by his brand of humor.
‘An Insane Concept’
In 2016, he faced a wave of backlash over social media posts that surfaced from 2011, in which he used homophobic and racial slurs.Later, in 2020, he faced additional criticism after posting a joke on Twitter amid the pandemic about the South Korean film “Parasite,” which won Best Picture at the Oscars.
“Everyone at #Oscars watching to see if the cast of Parasite coughs.”
It was when it was being debated whether the source of the coronavirus came from China, Japan, or Korea.
Mr. Rife grew his audience on TikTok before landing a Netflix special and has appeared on numerous comedy specials in between comedy tours.
In an interview with The New York Times, he was asked about the offended reactions to his comedy, to which he said, “You’re mad at somebody that’s just trying to make you laugh? That’s such an insane concept to me.”
