Jess Glynne Sexy Fish

Overview

Jess Glynne Sexy Fish refers to the controversy surrounding English singer-songwriter Jess Glynne's July 2020 Instagram post in which Glynne shared a selfie of herself in a hoodie claiming that she was not admitted to eat at a restaurant called Sexy Fish due to her clothing and called it discrimination. The post was mocked on Twitter for being inflammatory and misusing the word "discrimination." Her original post's caption was then used as a copypasta on Twitter paired with various images of people dressed inappropriately for a high-end restaurant.

Background

On July 6th, 2020, Jess Glynne shared an image of herself in a hoodie to Instagram^[1] which received over 38,400 likes in two days (shown below). The post was captioned:

Dear @sexyfishlondon I turned up to your restaurant looking like this and you looked me and my friend up and down and said no you can’t come in and your restaurant was EMPTY. I then went to @amazonicolondon who greeted me and my friend with pure joy and we had a banging meal with wicked service. @sexyfishlondon please check yourself if this is how you treat people cause it’s rude, off putting, embarrassing and most definitely not inviting. We were made to wait and 2 members of staff came to look at us and make a decision based on our appearance. I think the attitude of your staff needs to change as that was just simply discrimination. Thanks and bye

Developments

On July 6th, 2020, Twitter user @alimkheraj^[2] shared screenshots of Jess Glynne's Instagram post and captioned it "someone needs to tell jess glynne that… being turned away from a restaurant cos you’re wearing a hoody is not discrimination" (shown below, left). The tweet accumulated over 34,500 likes and 4,300 retweets in two days. The next day, Twitter user @amikagott^[3] shared an image of Michael Scott from The Office saying "I am the victim of a hate crime" captioned, "jess glynne trying to claim discrimination from sexy fish for a dress code she chose to ignore" (shown below, right). The tweet gained over 13,300 likes and 1,900 retweets in a day.

That same day, Twitter user @jackremmington^[4] shared a Gossip Girl Title Remixes meme captioned, "The waiters at Sexy Fish London when Jess Glynne walked in" (shown below). The tweet garnered over 20,300 likes and 1,800 retweets in a day.

That day, Jess Glynne responded to the backlash with a video post on Instagram saying that discrimination was not the right word to use and that the staff was just very rude (shown below). The video acquired over 267,500 views and 18,000 likes in a day. Junkee^[5] and The Tab^[6] published lists of Jess Glynne Sexy Fish memes.

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