“Racist”, “Facho”, Tibo InShape attracts again the wrath of Internet users

A few weeks after an outcry due to his comments on depression, Tibo InShape finds himself once again at the heart of a controversy, this time because of the presence of a French flag in his gym.

A true guru of fitness and bodybuilding, Tibo InShape has millions of subscribers on his social networks, where he provides every day different advice to his community to gain mass, while sharing his multiple adventures.

If the Internet users do not run out of praise on his multiple coaching sessions, on the other hand the youtuber has more than once attracted the wrath of Internet users as to some of his videos, his way of addressing sensitive topics, or the comments he can sometimes hold.

After the controversy around this video on TikTok where his comments on depression had been considered inappropriate by a large number of Internet users, it is now a photo of his gym, with a French flag, which has sown discord.

Tibo InShape responds to charges of racism

As Internet users’ grumbling swelled on the web, Tibo InShape reacted to the controversy by explaining himself in a short on YouTube entitled “Be proud to be French.”

“Tibo you have the French flag in your gym you facho goes. Wait, don’t move, we’ll talk. I don’t understand why in France we are ashamed of the French flag. Look at the USA, the American flag is everywhere. There is no shame in being proud to be French. There is no shame in displaying the French flag (…). And for all those who don’t like France, no one is holding you back, go see elsewhere how it is and I can assure you that you will quickly return to France“

No surprise, these comments added fuel to the fire and propelled the hashtag “Tibo Inshape” among the top trends of the day on Twitter. Very quickly, this controversy took a dimension focused on politics while France TV pointed the finger that this controversy could have been launched by fake accounts and that the words of the youtubers were taken up by several political personalities.

False accounts or not, this is not the first time that the youtuber finds himself at the heart of a controversy and it will probably not be the last.