UK artist slammed for mocking 'working class' people in social media post

A huge backlash to a snobbish Instagram post

Hetty Douglas, an up-and-coming Nottingham-born painter, has been slammed online and by media outlets for her ‘classist’ photograph and post of construction workers ordering food at McDonald's.

People have accused her of co-opting working class communities as a means to further her artistic persona, and that her blatant ‘snobbery’ and ‘classism’ reveals her as a ‘fake’:

and you look like a spoiled rich girl gentrifying south London pic.twitter.com/0bysFYfc9c

— rhi (@rhiharper) September 4, 2017

would pay to see her kindly and gently explain to the blokes why she feels she can mock them behind their backs to 15k people pic.twitter.com/4lCSqnaAUt

— RUSBY (@JeSuisRusby) September 4, 2017

this hetty douglas shit actually makes me beyond sad cos most rich kids are beyond insidious about us but love our culture to the max

— jessa (@housemaiden_) September 4, 2017

We all know a Hetty Douglas. Rich kids that want to act working class until it's time to be working class.

— The Bear Jew. ? (@LauraBorealisxx) September 4, 2017

#hettydouglas these are the guys who pay your job seekers. They've worked harder in one hour than you will ever do in your life pic.twitter.com/kbvrOzGdBh

— Lizzie Long (@LizLizzieloulou) September 5, 2017

if you've even heard of hetty douglas the chances are your office and/or extended social circle is comprised largely of hetty douglases

— emo garland (@emmaggarland) September 4, 2017

Warren Butt, a 40-year-old scaffolder pictured in Douglas's post, has responded to the artist's cruel mockery with outrage, telling The Sun: 'It's not very nice. It's made us look like a load of idiots when we are just trying to crack on and do some work'

'I would like an apology. I do not think it's right she can take a picture of us without us knowing and say that. I'm just working - just earning a living for me and my son.'