OnlyFans star Kiyana’s viral tweet had lots of people fooled (X: SlayzKiana)
Fairly lots of people on the web spent the weekend pondering that US streamer RiceGum had formally come out as a trans girl, googling phrases like “RiceGum now” and “is RiceGum a woman”.
27-year-old streamer Bryan Quang Le, generally known as RiceGum, began out on YouTube earlier than shifting to Twitch, after which lastly to Rumble. On Might 30 this 12 months, he introduced he was quitting streaming and hasn’t been on-line since.
Enter transgender OnlyFans star Kiyana. She noticed a possibility to make a joke out of the very fact the well-known streamer had stepped again from the web for some time – going viral within the course of.
Sharing a screenshot of a YouTube video titled “The Disappearance of RiceGum”, 20-year-old Kiyana – who describes herself as an “Asian trans lady from Canada” – tweeted: “It’s loopy that individuals nonetheless name me ricegum… I’ve been a woman for nearly 2 years now.”
(Oh, simply so that you’re conscious: her feed is fairly X-rated. We’ve not linked to any NSFW tweets although.)
The deadpan tweet has since been shared practically 5000 occasions because it was posted on Jun 29; it’s additionally racked up over 13 million views. Lots of people had been taken in by it and “RiceGum” started trending on X in consequence.
One individual replied: “i truly needed to google if this was actual im so mad i fell for it”. One other stated: “So … I simply came upon ricegum transitioned and is on twitter!????”
Nonetheless, others questioned why anybody had fallen for the prank in any respect, with one writing: “why are individuals falling for this did you overlook ricegum has a child and is pushing 30?”
Kiyana, who has 430,000 followers on X, beforehand posted an analogous joke again in Might – sharing a photograph of RiceGum subsequent to considered one of her posing in a schoolgirl outfit with the caption: “Identical day 2 years aside.. it’s loopy what estrogen can do”, nevertheless it didn’t go fairly as viral. She used it as a screenshot within the newer tweet.
She additionally joked that she was billionaire anti-aging advocate Bryan Johnson in a 3rd tweet.
To sum up: no, RiceGum isn’t a woman now, and also you shouldn’t imagine every little thing you learn on the web.