MTV Meow 2022: More Award Nominees Want to Know Why They Weren’t Invited

The 5th edition of the MTV Meow Awards, which took place last Tuesday (26), is still reverberating on the networks – not for the red carpet looks (pink, in this case) or category winners, but for the nominees who were left out of the show. gala night. Most of them black and/or fat people point to evidence of racism and fatphobia in the selection of guests.

“It’s 2022 and you can’t fake diversity and use us as a keychain,” wrote influencer Ellen Valias. Creator of a profile in which she encourages and shows, in practice, that sport is for all bodies, she was one of the nominees and was not invited to the party. “These people always give protagonism to standard people, and in order not to get ugly, they always call someone to represent diversity, let’s reflect?”

Names such as former BBB Rízia Cerqueira and actor and model Akeen reported on their social networks that they were also not invited to the event. “And I was nominated for MTV Meow and was not invited … The ‘pobi’ was happy as hell swearing she was going to post a very blogger look with a close-up”, she wrote. It was Rízia’s post that led Ellen to speak out.

“I was also nominated for the MTV Miaw, but I was not called for the award. They said that out of 35 categories there are only seven, because in these events there are always standard people in the majority and with protagonism, why is it? and publicizing the event for free”, reflected the sports influencer.

On Instagram, Valias also said that the same thing happened with the influencer Thais Carla, who won the Saúde Tá Ok category, of which she was one of the nominees. Akeen was nominated in the Fashion Icon category and also took to her Instagram to talk about not including her name on the guest list. Also on the day of the awards, singer MC Soffia, who, like Rízia, was competing at MTV Miaw 2022 for the award in the Black Star Rising category by BET, said she did not receive water, food or chair and called the organization of the event racist.

In a series of videos on social networks, he began to show what was happening behind the scenes of the awards and told about his case. “I thought I was going to have food and drinks, I came without any bag”, she began before asking if those who competed for a prize were entitled to win something, “a drink or popcorn at least”.

With the denial, Soffia began to get more nervous. “Everyone standing up. For me there is no chair, for other artists there is. But that’s ok […] I wasn’t born to be in the box, I wasn’t born to be with all these artists, right? I’m going to my house”, said the artist. F5the organization of MTV Meow has not submitted a position until the completion of this text.