The Controversy Behind the ‘Royal Wedding of Lesbian TikTok’

“Forever starts on Saturday,” it says in Times New Roman over a black-and-white photo of two perfect-looking women kissing on a sail boat. “Time please be sweet to us,” the caption of the slideshow reads. “It’s wedding week!!!” Unfortunately for the women in the photo, lesbian TikTok influencers 26-year-old Lunden Stallings and 27-year-old Olivia Bennet, time would not be sweet to them. Five days later, on September 30th, as Lunden and Olivia were saying “I do” at what was dubbed the “royal wedding of lesbian TikTok” — a disgustingly gorgeous ceremony at Naylor Hall in Roswell, Georgia that screamed old money — internet sleuths were busy unearthing racist tweets of Lunden’s.

In the tweets, which are from 2012–2014, Lunden quotes song lyrics with the n-word in them and references her friends (who I can only assume are as lily white as she is) by the n-word. She also told people to “go back to their country.” Naturally, people thought this was fucking gross. So as Lunden and Olivia were sharing slow-motion videos of their picture-perfect ceremony on their shared TikTok, their 700,000 followers swarmed their comments section to express their disappointment.

From her honeymoon suite at a resort in Palm Beach, Lunden, wearing a $200 mint green collared blouse, issued a nine-minute apology on her TikTok Stories. “I’m completely and utterly disgusted and ashamed and honestly embarrassed at how normal it was for me to speak that way on Twitter, and for my friends and I to address each other that way, or for me to sing along in rap songs,” she says as Olivia nods supportively beside her. “That’s nobody else’s fault but mine. I wholeheartedly take responsibly for this. I am sorry.”

She goes on to say she deleted her Twitter account so she didn’t offend any more people. She didn’t at any point use the word “racist” or “Black people,” which feels very Southern of her. At the end of the lengthy clip, Olivia adds, “You were a kid and you were ignorant, it was shameful and wrong. It’s not a reflection of your character.” Oh is that right, Olivia? Shameful and wrong? Not even 24 hours passed before more racist tweets…