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500Lb Rapper Dank Demoss, Who Sued Lyft, Faces Backlash After Posting Revealing Photoshoot
Interview With ExpertRapper Dajua Blanding, known to her fans as Dank Demoss, has once again sparked a debate after posting a revealing photoshoot on her TikTok last Friday (March 14).
Blanding, who weighs nearly 500 pounds, made headlines in January when she sued the rideshare company Lyft for discrimination after a driver refused her ride due to concerns about his car’s capacity.
Highlights
- Rapper Dank Demoss went viral after a revealing photoshoot post-lawsuit.
- She sued Lyft for discrimination when a driver refused her ride.
- Public reaction mixed; some appreciated her confidence, others criticized her size.
- Netizens reacted harshly to the photos, leading the rapper to remove them from her social media.
“I can fit in this car,” Blanding recorded herself telling the driver, who replied with, “Believe me, you can’t. I’m sorry. I’m going to cancel. You’re not going to be charged,” before telling her to order a larger vehicle.
Following the incident, which ended with Lyft taking Blanding’s side, the rapper capitalized on the spotlight the controversy had put on her with a set of bikini photos. Instead of boosting her musical career, the images caused netizens to worry about her health.
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The plus-size rapper who became famous after suing Lyft for weight discrimination followed up her lawsuit with a revealing photoshoot
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The images show Blanding posing with a curly, vibrant pink wig and matching round glasses. She wore a beige bikini, posing confidently while pulling at the waistband of her bikini bottoms.
The rapper posed alongside her small, light brown dog in most photos, which was dressed in a matching pink outfit.
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While some praised the photoshoot as an empowering statement, others expressed concerns about the potential health implications of being that size.
Comments flooded her social media, with one user asking, “I’m not trying to be mean, but how can you breathe and actually feel good at that size? Like, what if you have asthma and you’re that big?”
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Another commenter added, “This isn’t great, but it’s definitely an interesting display of how durable the human body is. Like, how does the human body transform to even look like this and still function?”
Online discussion surrounding the pictures quickly became divisive, however, with concern giving way to meaner and more insulting comments, personally attacking the rapper for showing her body.
The rapper opted to take the photos off her social media after her profile was flooded with negative comments
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Despite her supporters leaving positive comments, praising her for her confidence and willingness to put herself out there, their words of encouragement were not enough to drown out the criticism she was receiving.
As a result, Blanding was forced to delete the images from both her Instagram and TikTok profiles, with only a video showing the photoshoot’s production process remaining.
Comments on that video followed the same trend, with mainly negative takes on her weight and references to her controversy with the Lyft driver.
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Despite the negativity surrounding her social media presence, the lawsuit also brought her the support of many who believed her case to be important for plus-size individuals across the nation.
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The state of Michigan, where the incident occurred, considers weight-based discrimination unlawful. Blanding’s legal team has continued to pursue the lawsuit, seeking justice not just for her, but for the broader community of plus-size individuals who feel marginalized.
Experts urge users to take their vehicle’s weight limit into consideration but explain that a single ride is unlikely to cause long-term damage
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“Cars do have a max weight limit and a recommended weight distribution,” explained car and motorcycle technician Cristian Vergara to Bored Panda.
“This information is usually found on a vehicle’s placard or user manual and varies depending on the type of car, its tires, and other factors,” he added.
Manufacturers like Mercedes-Benz include guidelines that help users calculate the combined weight of occupants and cargo for each of their models in accordance with the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966.
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“A Sedan usually supports around 800-850 lbs. (385kg) of maximum extra load between passengers and cargo,” the mechanic explained.
“It’s important for people to take this into account to avoid damaging the vehicle over long periods of time.”
While Vergara recommended users be careful when exceeding their vehicle’s recommended payload capacity, he nevertheless stressed that a single ride is unlikely to result in any long-term damage.
“I like her.” Supporters of the rapper praised her for remaining confident in the face of internet backlash
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Just as experts urge vehicle owners to consider weight limits to avoid potential damage, horse owners must evaluate the physical capabilities of their animals to ensure their longevity and well-being.
The horse owner’s decision to prevent her friend from riding due to weight concerns reflects a broader understanding of how weight can impact physical capacities in various settings.
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Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
If she wants to live like that, that's her business. But, when it affects others, such as the Lyft driver, who may have had a genuine concern, it's not just about her any more. As for suing Lyft, I'm pretty confident that this was mostly about publicity for her social media presence and rap career. After all, her story made it all the way to the very conservative PB.
Nathan Lewis 8 months ago
oh it was 100% about publicity. Her rapping is awful and she wasn't going to get noticed based on merit.
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Auntriarch 8 months ago (edited)
One of my dearest friends was this overweight. She died two years ago, not having been able to leave the house, go upstairs and sleep in her bed, or wipe her own büm. I miss her so much. She wasn't defined by her weight, but she was confined and killed by it
Donna Peluda 8 months ago
I made a comment about wiping on another post with fat people and got down voted. But how do you wipe when your that size?. How do you sit on the can?
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AisForRebel 8 months ago
If someone said pick up a 500 lb hay bale in my car I would say no chance I'm not blowing out a shock... picking up a 500 lb hay bale with an attitude LOL no chance.
JayWantsACat 8 months ago
Body positivity doesn't mean applauding and encouraging obesity. It means understanding that people have all sort of body shapes and sizes. It doesn't mean we have to celebrate morbid obesity and also doesn't mean that society has to cater everything to your condition.
Apatheist Account2 8 months ago
I guess it's her choice to lose weight or die before she's 50. Just don't ask for free plane seats.
Colin Matthews 8 months ago
Grotesque thing to do. Sloth and Greed are not something to boast about.
Ben Aziza 8 months ago (edited)
Yeh acceptance of this type of thing is akin to promoting a smoking/alcoholic a*******n to me as "healthy". At a certain point of weight you are simply killing yourself. On top of that this clout chaser is simply being obnoxious to other people... ps: You can be a little bit THICC. But that is just a preference of mine XD
Ben Aziza 8 months ago (edited)
WHY IN THE F is BP censoring ADDI CTION! What is going on this is not a Disney movie for Fks sake! These are real life issues! The only thing you promote with this is spreading shame... Shame towards the people who actually HAVE to deal with them or suffer from... How do you think a sui cidal and or add icted person feels like when they see the word sui cide addic tion censored as if these concepts SHOULD NOT EXIST? Think about how f****d up that is? You are telling them that it is SO SHAMEFUL it should not even be talked about... What kind of pure evil disgusting message is that? What are we the god dam CCP or a Mosque where we are not allowed to say the "non state approved" or "sinful no no words"? Just so we create the illusion that the world is "perfect"? I can't believe that OUT OF ALL THE 80/90ies MOVIES... The most accurate one is "Demolition man" starring Stallone,Sandra Bullock and Wesley Snipes...
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Wolfgang Bonow 8 months ago
They should introduce another weight after "plus size". Maybe something like elephant size? This is wrong and plain disgusting on so many levels, I don't even know where to start,
Tyranamar Seuss 8 months ago
It’s called super morbid obesity. That’s the medical term. Or al least it used to be. Now it’s class something obesity. I forget if it’s class I or IV.
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KatSaidWhat 8 months ago
Girl, that is not s**y - nobody wants to see your impending heart attack in a bikini.
madeleine f 8 months ago
Ok, be what ever weight you fancy - but also accept there will be things that you unfortunately wont be able to do.
Chris the Bobcat 8 months ago
I drive a Mazda Miata. There is no way she would fit into my car.
c265mfmp8v 6 months ago (edited)
You know what it’s b******t this c**t sued that man for discrimination. Did you see the car she was trying to get into she stuck her a*s halfway in there and said she could fit. We want to see her Fat A*s physically fit in a Mercedes-Benz or give all that money to the man who lost his job due to her d*****s. I mean for Christ sake did you see her on that one talk show they literally had to pull out a couch for her. She ain’t fitting in no f*****g car.
c265mfmp8v 6 months ago
Yeah we want to see that fat c**t fit into a Mercedes Ben’s not hang halfway out and say she was discriminated against. That Lyft driver deserves some kind of compensation or a lawsuit for defamation
Angus Gafraidh 8 months ago
She is 33 and stands 150cm tall and weighs 222kg. Her BMI is 98.7. She may as well drum up all the publicity she can while she can, because she hasn't got long to live.
notlikeyou1971 8 months ago
Sorry but this whole thing is about publicity and money for her.Probably wants to be liked and have friends too. I feel bad for the Lyft driver. He shouldn't have been in trouble if he's an independent contractor. They have a right to refuse service to anyone. There's no way she's truly healthy and there is a video of her somewhere of her trying to dance and falling down. There's a video of her sitting in the trunk of an SUV and it sinking VERY LOW too.Body Positivity is dangerous. My dad died from being fat. Yes, the whole time he walked ,went to work every day lived you would have ( few visible limits) but all the health problems killed him. I have always been 1 of the few thin people in my family and gaining weight scares me. Watching everyone stick themselves for blood and shots and sleep with machines so they don't stop breathing.Taking all those pills ,numerous doctors. Her choice, has consequences
Corey Hondzinski 8 months ago
Everything she is sueing for...all stems from herself. Stress, humiliation, embarrassment, outrage, mental anguish, fear and mortification, as well as emotional, economic and non-economic damages (btw, non-economic damages are pretty much everything already listed here). She chose that way of life. She did it for the likes and maybe for a buck.
Claudine Caronia 8 months ago
This is whole lot of horse 5h1t! Q the 0rofessionals dont comment about effect of LOADED weight on tires and suspension. We all know that people passengers sit one one side in the back and NOT in the middle. Whos paying these professionals. 2 i think thr supporters have NO clue and rationalize their own weight. 3 yes shes beautiful but 5tup1d af. She maybe be ok now now but shell be 6 feet under soon if she keeps living like she does F lyft for what they to the driver.
Binky Melnik 8 months ago
My bones snapped looking at the photos. 😰 I’m scared the next story we’ll see about her is about her terrifying death trapped in something.
clairebear 8 months ago
Don't hide your fat phobia behind pretend concerns for her health. You are not nice people. BED (Binge Eating Disorder) is a serious mental illness and one that requires sympathy. If you are going to mention health then concentrate on that. The fat is just a symptom. Oh and sufferers have no control over the binges, just so you know she's not greedy or a glutton.
Zander Porbanda 8 months ago
Boredpanda was a place to escape celebrity gossip and body shaming clickbait.
Ben Aziza 8 months ago (edited)
How are those two things comparable? Freaks are cursed since birth through no fault of their own which is 99% not the case with this level of obesity. Plus the focus of this post i would think is the OBNOXIOUS nature of this "rapper"... That virtue signaling. Turn it off. It is a bad signal. Your radar needs a tuning ahaha.
Load More Replies... Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
If she wants to live like that, that's her business. But, when it affects others, such as the Lyft driver, who may have had a genuine concern, it's not just about her any more. As for suing Lyft, I'm pretty confident that this was mostly about publicity for her social media presence and rap career. After all, her story made it all the way to the very conservative PB.
Nathan Lewis 8 months ago
oh it was 100% about publicity. Her rapping is awful and she wasn't going to get noticed based on merit.
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 8 months ago (edited)
One of my dearest friends was this overweight. She died two years ago, not having been able to leave the house, go upstairs and sleep in her bed, or wipe her own büm. I miss her so much. She wasn't defined by her weight, but she was confined and killed by it
Donna Peluda 8 months ago
I made a comment about wiping on another post with fat people and got down voted. But how do you wipe when your that size?. How do you sit on the can?
Load More Replies... AisForRebel 8 months ago
If someone said pick up a 500 lb hay bale in my car I would say no chance I'm not blowing out a shock... picking up a 500 lb hay bale with an attitude LOL no chance.
JayWantsACat 8 months ago
Body positivity doesn't mean applauding and encouraging obesity. It means understanding that people have all sort of body shapes and sizes. It doesn't mean we have to celebrate morbid obesity and also doesn't mean that society has to cater everything to your condition.
Apatheist Account2 8 months ago
I guess it's her choice to lose weight or die before she's 50. Just don't ask for free plane seats.
Colin Matthews 8 months ago
Grotesque thing to do. Sloth and Greed are not something to boast about.
Ben Aziza 8 months ago (edited)
Yeh acceptance of this type of thing is akin to promoting a smoking/alcoholic a*******n to me as "healthy". At a certain point of weight you are simply killing yourself. On top of that this clout chaser is simply being obnoxious to other people... ps: You can be a little bit THICC. But that is just a preference of mine XD
Ben Aziza 8 months ago (edited)
WHY IN THE F is BP censoring ADDI CTION! What is going on this is not a Disney movie for Fks sake! These are real life issues! The only thing you promote with this is spreading shame... Shame towards the people who actually HAVE to deal with them or suffer from... How do you think a sui cidal and or add icted person feels like when they see the word sui cide addic tion censored as if these concepts SHOULD NOT EXIST? Think about how f****d up that is? You are telling them that it is SO SHAMEFUL it should not even be talked about... What kind of pure evil disgusting message is that? What are we the god dam CCP or a Mosque where we are not allowed to say the "non state approved" or "sinful no no words"? Just so we create the illusion that the world is "perfect"? I can't believe that OUT OF ALL THE 80/90ies MOVIES... The most accurate one is "Demolition man" starring Stallone,Sandra Bullock and Wesley Snipes...
Load More Replies... Wolfgang Bonow 8 months ago
They should introduce another weight after "plus size". Maybe something like elephant size? This is wrong and plain disgusting on so many levels, I don't even know where to start,
Tyranamar Seuss 8 months ago
It’s called super morbid obesity. That’s the medical term. Or al least it used to be. Now it’s class something obesity. I forget if it’s class I or IV.
Load More Replies... KatSaidWhat 8 months ago
Girl, that is not s**y - nobody wants to see your impending heart attack in a bikini.
madeleine f 8 months ago
Ok, be what ever weight you fancy - but also accept there will be things that you unfortunately wont be able to do.
Chris the Bobcat 8 months ago
I drive a Mazda Miata. There is no way she would fit into my car.
c265mfmp8v 6 months ago (edited)
You know what it’s b******t this c**t sued that man for discrimination. Did you see the car she was trying to get into she stuck her a*s halfway in there and said she could fit. We want to see her Fat A*s physically fit in a Mercedes-Benz or give all that money to the man who lost his job due to her d*****s. I mean for Christ sake did you see her on that one talk show they literally had to pull out a couch for her. She ain’t fitting in no f*****g car.
c265mfmp8v 6 months ago
Yeah we want to see that fat c**t fit into a Mercedes Ben’s not hang halfway out and say she was discriminated against. That Lyft driver deserves some kind of compensation or a lawsuit for defamation
Angus Gafraidh 8 months ago
She is 33 and stands 150cm tall and weighs 222kg. Her BMI is 98.7. She may as well drum up all the publicity she can while she can, because she hasn't got long to live.
notlikeyou1971 8 months ago
Sorry but this whole thing is about publicity and money for her.Probably wants to be liked and have friends too. I feel bad for the Lyft driver. He shouldn't have been in trouble if he's an independent contractor. They have a right to refuse service to anyone. There's no way she's truly healthy and there is a video of her somewhere of her trying to dance and falling down. There's a video of her sitting in the trunk of an SUV and it sinking VERY LOW too.Body Positivity is dangerous. My dad died from being fat. Yes, the whole time he walked ,went to work every day lived you would have ( few visible limits) but all the health problems killed him. I have always been 1 of the few thin people in my family and gaining weight scares me. Watching everyone stick themselves for blood and shots and sleep with machines so they don't stop breathing.Taking all those pills ,numerous doctors. Her choice, has consequences
Corey Hondzinski 8 months ago
Everything she is sueing for...all stems from herself. Stress, humiliation, embarrassment, outrage, mental anguish, fear and mortification, as well as emotional, economic and non-economic damages (btw, non-economic damages are pretty much everything already listed here). She chose that way of life. She did it for the likes and maybe for a buck.
Claudine Caronia 8 months ago
This is whole lot of horse 5h1t! Q the 0rofessionals dont comment about effect of LOADED weight on tires and suspension. We all know that people passengers sit one one side in the back and NOT in the middle. Whos paying these professionals. 2 i think thr supporters have NO clue and rationalize their own weight. 3 yes shes beautiful but 5tup1d af. She maybe be ok now now but shell be 6 feet under soon if she keeps living like she does F lyft for what they to the driver.
Binky Melnik 8 months ago
My bones snapped looking at the photos. 😰 I’m scared the next story we’ll see about her is about her terrifying death trapped in something.
clairebear 8 months ago
Don't hide your fat phobia behind pretend concerns for her health. You are not nice people. BED (Binge Eating Disorder) is a serious mental illness and one that requires sympathy. If you are going to mention health then concentrate on that. The fat is just a symptom. Oh and sufferers have no control over the binges, just so you know she's not greedy or a glutton.
Zander Porbanda 8 months ago
Boredpanda was a place to escape celebrity gossip and body shaming clickbait.
Ben Aziza 8 months ago (edited)
How are those two things comparable? Freaks are cursed since birth through no fault of their own which is 99% not the case with this level of obesity. Plus the focus of this post i would think is the OBNOXIOUS nature of this "rapper"... That virtue signaling. Turn it off. It is a bad signal. Your radar needs a tuning ahaha.
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