Video: Nicki Minaj Fans Protest Outside CDC Headquarters After Her Tweets

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September 17, 2021, 10:44 am

Nicki Minaj’s tweet about vaccines continues to stir up controversy, as fans recently took to protest outside of the Centers for Disease Control taking the rapper’s story to heart.

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Video taken in Atlanta on Wednesday showed protestors congregating near the CDC, carrying signs that insist scientists are lying to the American people and that vaccines don’t work. Other signs mentioned Minaj specifically, insisting that she must be defended “at all costs” and supporting the wild story she told on Twitter.

“Nicki Minaj said…I’m not gonna take your vaccine to go to no stupid Met Gala,” one protestor yelled through a megaphone, before starting a chant of “you know Fauci’s lying.”

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If by some chance you missed the initial drama, it revolved around Minaj tweeting that the Met Gala required attendees to be vaccinated, which she appeared to take issue with.

“If I get vaccinated it won’t [be] for the Met. It’ll be once I feel I’ve done enough research,” she wrote. “I’m working on that now.”

About 20 minutes later, she retweeted somebody else’s story claiming their father got the vaccine and subsequently became blind, and a few minutes after that, she told her own wild story:

My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied

— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 13, 2021

Many doubted Minaj’s cousin’s friend’s claims of impotence due to the vaccine, as it is not a side effect according to actual science, and called her spreading these claims irresponsible, considering how wide her reach is and what a struggle it’s been to get Americans vaccinated.

And clearly, people have listened to her.

“We are here because CDC has been lying to us for so long,” one protestor said on the news. “Nicki, the queen of rap, stood up…and said ‘I’m questioning this vaccine. And we should all question this vaccine.’”

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The fact that protestors combined an anti-vaxx stance with a pro-Nicki stance and often seemed to give the two equal weight just seemed like a bizarre but not entirely surprising evolution of this ridiculous pandemic.

Or pay the doctor bills that the family WILL GET. But you know what I would do, I would send the bills to her and if she refuses to pay them, I would sue her.

— Nicki Lafontaine (@NickiLafontai13) September 17, 2021

Celebrity worship is hard to beat – maybe a yearning for what they can never attain

— Joan McGinnis (@JoanPennnative) September 17, 2021

This gotta be a episode of boondocks or sum ain’t no way this real

— . (@4shopackin) September 16, 2021

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All jokes aside. If your orgs leader forced you to protest outside the cdc today in support of Nicki Minaj please reach out for help

— forward ever, backward never (@_theghettomonk) September 16, 2021

However, some Nicki fans have insisted the protestors weren’t real fans and were just using her name, pointing to the fringe group Black Hammer that organized the whole thing — a group known for stunts trying to go viral.

Either way, just like Minaj’s tweets, this has all given misinformation and fearmongering a platform in a time where Americans desperately need to listen to experts so this pandemic can come to an end.

THIS is why Nicki Minaj’s “opinion” is harmful. For context, this protest is taking place in Georgia, a state which still has less than half of its population vaccinated and reported almost 16,000 new covid cases on Monday alone. pic.twitter.com/BoFLSQaFHM

— certified boy lover (@bjamar_) September 16, 2021

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*First Published: September 17, 2021, 10:44 am