Outer Banks star Chase Stokes apologizes for 'insensitive' social media posts and then says he was hacked

The Netflix actor is the latest star to issue a notes app apology 
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Margaret Abrams19 May 2020

The Netflix teen dramedy/mystery series Outer Banks took the world by storm when it was released on April 15, as people around the world watched in lockdown.

Actor Chase Stokes, 27, ​skyrocketed to fame, especially on social media, where he quickly amassed more than two million Instagram followers. But then, eagle-eyed fans discovered old, offensive posts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

After receiving online backlash, the actor apologized for his "insensitive" posts - although now, he says he was hacked. He's the latest celebrity to offer up a self-quarantine apology, joining former Disney star Vanessa Hudgens, The Bachelorette Hannah Brown, recipe writer Alison Roman and more.

John B. and Ward Cameron (Courtesy of Netflix )
Courtesy of Netflix

The posts have since been deleted, but one Twitter user uploaded a few older examples when someone asked why he was canceled.

Some of the past posts, which surfaced from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, included racial slurs, as well as negative terms directed at people with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community, and an insult aimed at Justin Bieber.

Stokes posted on Twitter to issue an apology to his fans as #ChaseStokesIsOver was trending. His notes app statement read, "Yes. I will address this. I was not hiding. I consulted in one of my closest friends just as anybody else would. I have posted insensitive tweets. My Facebook has been hacked countless times. The picture isn't even of me or anybody I know."

He went on to write, "This does not excuse my words, nor am I excusing myself. I will continue to work towards using my platform in the same capacity I have been and doing/bringing light into the world."

However, mere moments after the formal apology, he said that he actually had been hacked. His previous statement was deleted, as well as all of his other tweets, leaving only two.

"Yo just getting back into twitter. My password was changed, figuring things out. I'm really sorry that this is all happening at once," he wrote on Monday night. "Somebody obviously got access to my account. So I'm trying to solve this."

His Outer Banks castmates quickly jumped to his defense, including Jonathan Daviss, who said that the posts were from hackers.

Daviss went on to write that Stokes wasn't "any of the things people have accused him of being."

After one fan responded to Daviss and wrote, "by hackers? one of them with a picture of himself. jd my man celebrate ur 1m and not associate yourself with this situation. you’re too good for this," Daviss repsonded, "I want to but Pogues for life," referencing the clique he and Stokes are in on Outer Banks.

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