A popular TikToker has quit the platform after becoming embroiled in a feud with Julia Fox: 'This app is poisoning my brain'

• A popular TikToker left the app after calling Julia Fox a "joke" and a "clown" during a public feud.
• The controversy began over criticism that TikToker Bela Delgado used a sexist slur in a song.

A TikTok influencer who became embroiled in an online feud with Julia Fox has vowed to leave the platform following the controversy.

Bela Delgado, who has 444,000 TikTok followers, caught Fox's attention when she said in a video, "I really need white women to stop acting like the word 'bitch' is the n-word," appearing to address online backlash to the title of a song she released on Spotify in January called "Annoying Ass Bitch."

The video is no longer available to view, and Delgado's account is now set to private, but it was stitched by several users in mid-November, who said they thought the TikToker's comments were offensive. Many users addressed Delgado using "he" and "him" pronouns though Delgado's Instagram states she uses "she" and "her" pronouns.

Fox, who has a TikTok following of 1.3 million, commented under Delgado's video about the word "bitch," writing, "Babe you should get out of the house more," according to a report by internet culture website Centennial Beauty.

Delgado then made a subsequent video responding to the comment, which has also been reuploaded. Delgado referenced Fox's brief relationship with controversial rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, saying, "You sold out every single last one of your feminist morals when you decided to play dress up with Kim Kardashian's sloppy seconds. Yet, you want to come into my comments section not even a year later to play the misogyny-slaying messiah because I playfully used the word 'bitch' in a song?"

Delgado went on to call Fox a "fucking joke," adding, "You are not just a clown, Julia Fox, you are an entire carnival."

Delgado received significant backlash for her comments about Fox. On TikTok, various users reacted to the clip saying Delgado's comments took them by "surprise" and siding with Fox in the feud. On Twitter, users called Delgado's comments misogynistic.

Delgado posted an apology video on TikTok, which she said was made available only to her followers, but which was reuploaded publicly by another user on November 20.

"I just want to start off by sincerely apologizing for the video I made a couple days ago about Julia Fox," she said, adding, "it was uncalled for. It was an overreaction from me."

She added that she was not going to stop using the word "bitch," but said that she has decided to leave TikTok.

"I've been thinking about this for quite a while. This app is poisoning my brain. I don't know who I am anymore," she said, adding, "What I need to focus on at this point in time is me, my real life, and things that actually matter, and not this constant clout-chasing for 15 more seconds of fame on TikTok."

The influencer, who previously posted commentary videos and musical content, still appears to be active on Instagram.

On November 21, Fox stitched a reuploaded version of Delgado's apology, in which another TikTok user commentated on the video and said Fox was "right" to tell the influencer to get out of the house and off of TikTok, adding that the influencer is now "taking her advice." Fox did not say anything in the video, but could be seen nodding her head.

A caption on her post read, "One thing about me is that I'm going to tell you the uncomfortable truth."

Delgado and Fox did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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