After anti-India posts, Laura Loomer asks for money for an app developed by Indians. CEO reacts | On trend

Laura Loomer got into trouble when she asked a follower for a monetary donation through an app developed by Indians. Loomer’s request for a donation came after he shared hateful posts against Indians on social media platform X for days.

On Friday, a follower asked the American far-right political activist for her bank details so he could donate money to her. Loomer responded that she had been banned from most major payment apps like Venmo and PayPal, but the follower could still send her money through Buy Me a Coffee, a platform that allows creators to receive financial support from their audience.

What Loomer didn’t know was that Buy Me a Coffee is an app developed by two Indian brothers, and the company’s Indian co-founder and CEO was as amused by their mistake as the rest of the internet.

Laura Loomer’s mistake

On December 27, Laura Loomer asked a follower to donate money to her through Buy Me a Coffee.

“Big tech companies hate me. I’m banned from Cash App, Venmo, and PayPal because these people want to strangle me and have subjected me to their caste system for YEARS,” she wrote on X, adding, “You can support my work here at Buy Me a Coffee.” .”

Her request for money came after days of posting anti-India content

The polarizing far-right activist claimed Krishnan wanted to take jobs away from Americans and outsource them to Indians, with her posts triggering a raging storm of racism against Indians. In separate posts, she also called for an end to the use of H1B visas, which allow highly skilled foreign workers to live and work in the United States.

“Actually, our country was built by white Europeans. No third world invaders from India,” she wrote in a particularly hateful post.

Unfortunately for Loomer, the irony of asking for donations using an app developed by Indians wasn’t lost on the internet.

Indian CEO reacts

Buy Me a Coffee was launched in 2018 by Jijo Sunny and Joseph Sunny, two brothers who grew up in India. Jijo, who hails from Kerala and now lives in London, was very amused by Loomer’s nasty moment.

“Double yikes,” he wrote, sharing a screenshot of Loomer’s post.

In the comments section, hundreds of people expressed their amusement and others urged Jijo to ban Laura Loomer from his platform.

(Also read: Laura Loomer starts war against H1B: “I did not vote for an extension, a great replacement is real”)