An SNL star, Chloe Fineman, shared a camping story from when she was 16, and is now facing a growing online backlash. Fineman narrated the story during a Vanity Fair group interview with her Saturday Night Live castmates. What started as a light game about who knows each other best has now turned into a large debate about boundaries and accountability. Besides, people are also questioning why the story appeared differently across Vanity Fair’s platforms.
Chloe Fineman’s camping story has caused a backlash online
The SNL star shared the camping story as a part of Vanity Fair’s YouTube video, “SNL Cast Test How Well They Know Each Other,” featuring Chloe Fineman alongside Mikey Day, Sarah Sherman, Ashley Padilla, Jane Wickline, and James Austin Johnson.
Fineman was the first one to sit in the hot seat. She read out the question from the cue card, asking the group to guess which job she had once been fired from and later got back as a teenager. After multiple guesses, Fineman revealed, “I was fired as a camp counselor.”
When Day joked about the reason, Fineman replied, “No, I pantsed a boy.” She further explained, “Because he would lift my shirt all the time.” Fineman added, “It was a different time,” and described planning payback on a hike. She revealed to her fellow cast members, “And then I yanked his pants down, and then I was fired.”
The story went viral when viewers noticed parts of the exchange were missing from the edit that Vanity Fair later posted on their YouTube channel. Viewers filled the comments section with blunt reactions and criticism. Some commenters even questioned why the edited version still included the story while removing certain details.
One commenter wrote, “Arent yall gonna adress the elephant in the room?,” while others critiqued the edit itself, including one commenter who wrote, “Vanity Fair edited it and cut out a large portion of Chloes story but the cut isn’t making it any better.”
So far, the backlash has largely been about Fineman choosing to share the story publicly, and the perception about the edit did not make it any better.
