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• Pearl Davis deleted a tweet where she said 16-year-olds are "hotter" than 26-year-olds.
• Davis found fame as an anti-feminist, and has been sharing increasingly controversial opinions.
• But even some of her fans couldn't get behind her commenting on the attractiveness of minors.

Anti-feminist creator Pearl Davis deleted a tweet where she said 16-year-old girls are "hotter" than 26-year-old women after getting a strong backlash from the left and the right.

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Davis, who has 1.6 million subscribers on YouTube, rose to fame this year when Andrew Tate was incarcerated in Romania, racking up followers with content similar to his championing what she called a male point of view.

Some of her clips included arguing that it's a woman's fault if her male partner cheats, that men should be able to hit women back, and that women don't deserve a man "who makes 6 figures" if they are obese.

"16 year old chicks are hotter than 26 year old chicks," Davis tweeted on Wednesday, sparking a big backlash.

She deleted it after her critics and fans alike took issue with it. She told Insider she did so because "people were putting words in my mouth."

"My god Pearl stop this for fucks sake what a weird thing to say," one person tweeted in response. "No they are not, if a 26 year old man is finding 16 year olds 'hot' then there is an issue with him."

"Is this real," Josie Glabach, better known as "The Redheaded Libertarian" asked, along with a screenshot of Pearl's post.

Glabach has previously given opinions that align her with Davis, arguing that women shouldn't vote because they are "emotional" and "train-wrecks." Davis recently shared similar views on a podcast, saying she didn't think women should have the right to vote, because men can be conscripted to fight in the US military and women cannot.

Right-wing journalist Cassandra MacDonald responded to Glabach's tweet, saying Davis "really creeps me out."

"Yeah," said Glabach. "Adults shouldn't be talking about how 'hot' kids are."

—Cassandra MacDonald (@CassandraRules) July 27, 2023

The anti-feminist Twitter account "Women Posting L's" also shared Davis' tweet, which generated further discussion where people felt uncomfortable at her sentiment.

"I understand what she tried to say, but she literally could have just said 19 (Legal) instead of 16 (Minor)," one person wrote.

Another said Davis was "feeding the child sexual predators. Gross."

One person said he used to like Davis, but now she was "kinda coming off as weird."

"There was no explanation for that tweet yesterday," he said. "Not even sure an explanation would cover it tbh."

Davis first doubled down, saying "People tend to get uglier the older they get in general."

Davis also told Insider that she believes "most people are better looking when they're younger."

"I looked better at 16," she said. "By numbers alone most people are overweight or obese by 26."

According to data from the Centers of Disease Control, 39.8% adults in the US aged 20 to 39 years are obese.

"I deleted it because people were putting words in my mouth that I did not say like I was somehow advocating for dating underage women," Davis said. "No — the point was you are uglier the older you get typically especially for women."

—H. Pearl Davis (@pearlythingz) July 26, 2023

Davis has cemented herself as a contrarian and free-speech promoter.

Some experts told Insider they doubt the sincerity of her views, given that creators are often rewarded with bigger platforms and greater earning potential for more extreme views. Davis previously told Insider that she does not exaggerate her views.

Nonetheless, many audience comments on Davis' content also doubted her.

"This woman's troll game is strong," one person replied to Davis' tweet.

"This is what it's like to do anything for attention," another said, advising parents to "love your kids so much that they don't grow up to need this kind of validation."

Whether her true beliefs or not, Davis has been ramping up the controversy recently. She appeared on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" earlier this week to defend herself over more deleted content — an antisemitic song called "Why Can't We Talk About The Jews."

Davis said the song, which asks why creators "can't talk" abut Jewish people and the Holocaust "without getting kicked off YouTube," was about "cancel culture."

"It was more about, you can't talk about this topic without getting canceled by the left and the right," she said.

Attorney Brooke Goldstein, the founder of End Jew Hatred, was on the show to debate Davis and said she was "engaging in hate speech."

"The crisis is this is what's profitable now," Goldstein said. "This clickbait, this kind of racial incitement, it's profitable on the internet."

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