{"id":86624,"date":"2016-08-17T10:33:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T17:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=86624"},"modified":"2016-08-17T10:33:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T17:33:31","slug":"ellen-degeneres-photoshop-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/ellen-degeneres-photoshop-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen DeGeneres Is In Trouble Over This Photoshopped Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen DeGeneres faced some serious backlash from fans after posting a photo of Olympian Usain Bolt.<\/p>\n<p>She photoshopped herself onto a viral meme of Bolt smiling over his shoulder as he swiftly ran past his competitors\u00a0to win the men&#8217;s 100 meter semifinal. DeGeneres is piggybacking Bolt in the meme and shared it on Twitter with the caption, &#8220;This is how I&#8217;m running errands from now on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is how I\u2019m running errands from now on. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rio2016?src=hash\">#Rio2016<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gYPtG9T1ao\">pic.twitter.com\/gYPtG9T1ao<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheEllenShow\/status\/765303894159208448\">August 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many Twitter users quickly lashed back at the comedian saying the photo was racist because the image depicted a white woman riding a\u00a0black man as transportation.<\/p>\n<p>DeGeneres sent out another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheEllenShow\/status\/765576291160580096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">tweet<\/a> this morning saying, &#8220;I am highly aware of the racism that exists in our country. It is the furthest thing from who I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Did users take their criticism too far? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Ellen DeGeneres faced some serious backlash from fans after posting a photo of Olympian Usain ...","author":422344,"featured_media":86626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/17101552\/gty_589521390_84292944.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/17101552\/gty_589521390_84292944.jpg","formated_date":"August 17, 2016","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#aaffd3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}