After months of turmoil on the platform, the nu-metal band Trapt has finally been suspended from Twitter. The suspension comes after vocalist Chris Taylor Brown went on a tirade defending statutory rape between teenage boys and adult women. Loudwire reported that a tweet from the Ill Tempered Podcast launched Brown’s tirade.
https://twitter.com/illtemperedCape/status/1335624310887751681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1335624310887751681%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Floudwire.com%2Ftrapt-twitter-account-suspended%2F
Brown tweeted via the band’s official Twitter account saying that “A 15-year male and a 25-year-old female is not pedophilia, you fucking moron. I wouldn’t care if a 15-year-old boy banged his 25-year-old teacher. That’s it…”. Brown doubled down and defended the tweet for several more posts, which have since been taken down but screen caped by Twitter users.
Remember the song Headstrong? I forgot who sang it… oh yeah, it was @TRAPTOFFICIAL, I wonder what’s going on with the band these da…. oh. Ohh no. 😬 pic.twitter.com/vmZVeEPgiY
— Sophia Narwitz (@SophNar0747) December 7, 2020
Well TRAPT is currently ending whatever future they have left. pic.twitter.com/km0jtLLOpN
— Effervescent Subordinate (@Scareglow24) December 8, 2020
#pedotrapt is trending and that makes me so happy. @TRAPTOFFICIAL I can’t wait to see Spotify pull your music. pic.twitter.com/95Z6173YOE
— wild sage 🌻 (@wildsageOF) December 8, 2020
Trapt was also suspended from Facebook and Instagram last month for violating the platform’s policy on hate speech after Brown made posts publically supporting the far-right group Proud Boys. You can read a full list of all the insane things Trapt has tweeted over the course of the year here via Pop Dust.
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