Pudgy Penguins removes ‘racist’ post after Manchester City complaint

The post appeared to rely on the xenophobic stereotype that Indians are often behind bot or spam accounts associated with the so-called “InfoFi” sector.

Following Manchester City’s complaint, Pudgy Penguins acknowledged “that the tweet was inappropriate and does not reflect its company values.”

Pudgy Penguins’ press office said that it planned to reach out to the X user who flagged the post and “express their apology on the matter.” It added that it had removed the post from its channels.

Users ‘incredibly ashamed’ of Pudgy CEO Lucas Netz

The X user in question, “Satvik,” reported the post to Manchester City after other users tried to downplay it. Satvik said that Pudgy Penguins CEO Lucas Netz should be “incredibly ashamed” of his team for the post.

The account later added, “I’m fucking tired of how normalized racism against Indians has become on this platform, every single day we endure hurtful comments for simply existing online.”

Crypto founder Dan Sickles screenshotted the post, and later said that he wants to hear what company polices Netz will enact “to prevent incidents like this from happening again, and for him to condemn xenophobia and racism more generally.”