Recently, Girls’ Generation member YoonA attended the 77th Cannes Film Festival in Paris, making heads turn with her flawless beauty.
Now that a few days have passed since her appearance, many netizens are revisiting her moment on the red carpet, but with a bitter realization that she was treated disrespectfully by the security personnel at the event.
The realization was triggered by something similar that happened to Dominican actress Massiel Taveras, who appeared at the festival on May 26. While Taveras was trying to unfurl her dress’s long trail, which contained a gigantic portrait of Jesus Christ, while standing on the stairs on the red carpet, a female security staff was caught on camera disrupting her constantly. Despite Taveras’s intense pushback, she kept putting her arm up near the actress’s body, preventing her from striking a pose or getting her picture taken uninterrupted.
Security removed actress Massiel Taveras off the red carpet at Cannes Film Festival as she tries to display “The Christ” artwork on her dress pic.twitter.com/3RywVkJn43
— Crusade ✞ (@CrusadeClipz) May 25, 2024
This video soon went viral, as people realized that this security personnel was the same one who got told off by singer Kelly Rowland on the red carpet a few days ago for treating her the same way.
It was very clear Kelly Rowland was trying to take photos and they were rushing her then that security guard stepped on her dress and Kelly tried to correct her nicely and the security guard decided to be rude and Kelly said “Don’t talk to me like that” pic.twitter.com/cXnuXH6oZK
— Meech (@MediumSizeMeech) May 21, 2024
Soon after, it was discovered that the security personnel did the same with YoonA during her first day at Cannes this year. Though the singer didn’t react as strongly as the other two, she was visibly uncomfortable by her behavior.
Finding out that security racist woman at Cannes did the same thing to yoona on the red carpet??? Like why is she still there and not fired after Kelly rowland’s situation ???? pic.twitter.com/X3JnpLUXAd
— Rockville⁷🇬🇭🇬🇧 (@4lynnie_NY) May 25, 2024
Fans felt that this security staff’s actions were clearly racially motivated, as she stopped all the women of color from posing on the stairs, while white celebrities were able to get their pictures taken at the same spot without any issues.
Just waking up in Cannes with my espresso to see them disrespecting Kelly Rowland last night on the carpet.
The difference is striking in how ‘some’ are rushed off the steps with arms in her face and stepping on her dress and some, they will wait patiently for.
To see Kelly… pic.twitter.com/li0A0h2swZ
— Nikki Fowler @Cannes (@NikkiFowler28) May 22, 2024
I find it so funny how the women of color couldn’t get their shots bec SheHulk thinks she owns the stairs. The stairs being a red carpet is literally so The Press can get shots of their looks! Somehow other women who look like this are able to get shots like this! INTERESTING!!! https://t.co/STotpzdKcg pic.twitter.com/If3b4JOIDn
— Tracy Marcinko’s Curls (@MelaninGawd2) May 25, 2024
she did the same to yoona 🤨 all non-white women, so weird https://t.co/VMcQAxaitG
— Paula🦋 (@syjungies) May 25, 2024
Netizens all over the world have banded together in calling out this behavior by this particular security staff, and are demanding her dismissal.
This lady is a STRAIGHT UP HATER… first Kelly Rowland and NOW Massiel Taveras…..she needs to be TERMINATED pic.twitter.com/ozDqJkInIL
— CUNTboy Carter🤠 (@YallQunt) May 25, 2024
Kelly Rowland
Massiel Taveras
YoonaThere’s a pattern here. @Festival_Cannes should terminate her. #Cannes2024 pic.twitter.com/fyTyemlhKI https://t.co/jM6VaLMLO3
— rob, and? 🍉 (@robismore) May 25, 2024
She doesn’t like us ⚫️🟤people huh? She blocked Kelly, the Dominican lady, and the Asian lady’s shot. But the WW got to do whole poses on the stairs. She’s a racist Bixch!! https://t.co/llbYpnrtPm
— Here For THEE Comments 1 (@forthecomments1) May 25, 2024
That’s the same bitch who kept blocking Yoona & refused to let her say hi/take pics?
Doing all this to stop women of color from having their own little moment.. Yeah they better not hire her racist ass again. pic.twitter.com/r5phapb4gK https://t.co/R15uoQOqyq
— ~ (@danversone) May 25, 2024
