Chet Hanks is putting his foot down against cultural appropriation — at least when it’s white supremacists and racists appropriating “white boy summer” for hate speech and memes. On Instagram , Hanks (son of Tom and Rita Wilson) ostensibly responded to a recent report from the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism , which tracked the spread of “white boy summer” among extremist groups online. “White boy summer was created to be fun, playful, and celebration of fly white boys who love beautiful queens of every race,” Hanks wrote.
”Anything else that it has been twisted into to support any kind of hate or bigotry against any group of people is deplorable and I condemn it. I hope that we all can spread love to each other and treat each other with kindness and dignity.” Hanks first coined and popularized the “white boy summer” slogan in 2021, riffing off older memes like “Christian girl autumn” and Megan Thee Stallion’s “hot girl summer.
” From the get-go, Hanks — who’s gone viral multiple times for speaking in an Afro-Caribbean patois — did his best to keep the phrase as far away as he could from hate speech or racist undertones. In the original (now deleted, but preserved on YouTube ) “white boy summer” Instagram video, he said, “I’m not talking about, like, Trump, you know, Nascar-type white. I’m talking about me, Jon B.
, Jack Harlow-type white-boy summer.” And in the inevitable “White Boy Summer” song and music video .
