{"id":1949627,"date":"2025-08-08T15:55:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1949627"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:55:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:55:44","slug":"bama-rush-influencer-kylan-darnell-reacts-to-wwii-plane-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bama-rush-influencer-kylan-darnell-reacts-to-wwii-plane-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Bama Rush Influencer Kylan Darnell Reacts to WWII Plane Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Influencer Kylan Darnell<\/strong>\u2019s latest \u201cRushTok\u201d social media post is under fire.<\/p>\n

Darnell, 21, is currently in the middle of \u201cWork Week\u201d ahead of the 2025 Panhellenic recruitment<\/a> at the University of Alabama. On Wednesday, August 6, Darnell and her Zeta Tau Alpha sorority sisters followed an \u201cAll the Places You Go\u201d theme as they prepared to meet the latest crop of Potential New Members.<\/p>\n

To honor the dress code, Darnell dressed like an airline pilot and posed in a vintage military plane for a TikTok video<\/a> posted on Wednesday. Darnell sat in the cockpit, wearing a pair of aviator sunglasses while applying lip gloss.<\/p>\n

Social media followers later noticed that the plane had 12 swastika decals on the wing. (The symbol is an infamous emblem of the Nazi party in Germany during World War II.)<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnyone else notice the swastikas?\u201d one commenter wrote, while another added, \u201cThe symbol?\u201d<\/p>\n

A third TikTok user\u2019s message, meanwhile, got Darnell\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cBabe, there\u2019s 12 swastikas on the plane,\u201d the individual wrote in the comments section. \u201cYou might wanna take this down before they come for you \ud83d\ude2d<\/span> \ud83d\ude2d<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Darnell subtly responded, replying in the comments section with a screenshot of the plane details. In Darnell\u2019s picture, she shared an image of a web search for the North American P-51 Mustang aircraft.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe North American P-51 Mustang was a long-range, single-seat fighter and former bomber used in World War II and the Korean War,\u201d the description reads. \u201cDesigned in 1940 to meet specifications, the prototype, designated NA-73X, first flew on October 26, 1940.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also \u201cliked\u201d a separate comment that read, \u201cGirl, an actual JET??!! How?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tCourtesy of Bre Morris\/TikTok; Courtesy of Charity Livia\/TikTok; Courtesy of Bella Grace Gates\/TikTok The 2024 University of Alabama pledge class has arrived for the return of Bama Rush, and TikTok couldn\u2019t be more excited. A whole new cast is slowly being revealed as viewers decide who will be this year\u2019s sorority standouts. For the last [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A spokesperson for Darnell addressed the backlash in a statement shared with Us Weekly.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to understand the historical context of these markings before making assumptions,\u201d the rep told Us <\/i>in a Friday, August 8, statement. \u201cThe fighter plane Kylan Darnell used in her video is a North Americans P-51 Mustang, and the Swastikas are the number of enemy Nazi planes that were shot down by the United State Military in WWII. This plane wears those symbols as a historical badge of honor. To attribute this American warplane to being anything racist is ignorant.\u201d<\/p>\n

The social media personality<\/a> and pageant queen, who is gearing up to start her senior year at Alabama, rose to fame when she shared \u201cGet Ready With Me\u201d videos while going through rush when she was a first-year student. Darnell has since continued to share behind-the-scenes content of her recruitment experience and daily outfits on her online accounts.<\/p>\n

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