14-year-old Makenna Kelly, better known as the child ASMR YouTube star "Life with MaK," tweeted on Friday that she had been portrayed as an anti-Semite and as a Nazi in an online smear campaign.A website hosted by GoDaddy as well as a Change.org petition calling Kelly as anti-Semite, accompanied by edited images of her with a "Hitler mustache" and swastikas appeared for at least several hours online.In screenshots of emails tweeted from Kelly's Twitter account, GoDaddy said it could not remove the website without a court order ' but it went down shortly after Kelly started tweeting.She's not the first child star to be portrayed as a bigot online for malicious, comedic value, but Kelly thinks the website may have been created by a classmate.Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.14-year-old Makenna Kelly is best known for creating viral ASMR videos on her channel "Life with MaK," which has more than 1.6 million subscribers.As the most popular child ASMR creator, she's also been at the forefront of the community's difficult relationship with the platform, and she even briefly quit YouTube over her content being restricted for falsely being labeled inappropriate.On Twitter on Friday, Kelly's official account started tweeting that she was the victim of an online smear campaign that portrayed her as anti-Semitic.A website hosted by GoDaddy and a Change.org petition appeared online, and both called for action against Kelly, who was termed a "Nazi" and pictured in edited photos that depicted her with swastikas and a "Hitler mustache."URGENT: https://t.co/ZUTHnWZFzA (web host) refuses to take down a site making false claims about me. I am 14, & the website calls me a Nazi & antisemite. This has impacted me at school & I am scared for my safety. Please help. They said the person is doing nothing wrong. pic.twitter.com/9UyTlbVEue' Lifewithmak2005 (@lifewithmak2005) December 13, 2019there is also a @change petition linked to this. go report it https://t.co/hoHB6TGuzi pic.twitter.com/cbpY7AOCKk' festivi'''' (@OhMyGodExposeU) December 13, 2019For at least a few hours, the website and petition were publicly accessible, but both now result in error pages.It's unclear whether the creators of the two sites removed them or if the platforms did, but GoDaddy at first responded to a complaint made by Kelly's parents and said it would not remove the website without a court order, according to screenshots tweeted by Kelly.Their response (https://t.co/ntjV9mlNAz). How could they seriously brush off concern for my safety regarding this issue' I am in tears over this & what if someone took this seriously and hurt me' I'm 14. I am scared to go to school. This needs to be addressed & STOPPED. Now. https://t.co/rzm1Ub3Jiy pic.twitter.com/j6aQXPApFj' Lifewithmak2005 (@lifewithmak2005) December 13, 2019Kelly also tweeted that she believed the website was created by a classmate at school, and that she had been bullied because of it. Her tweets also say that her parents communicated with a local police department, but that the officer they spoke to didn't take their concerns seriously and said the websites were a freedom of speech issue.If the websites weren't created by a classmate, it's possible that they were made for malicious comedic value. Kelly wouldn't be the first female child star to be targeted as part of a malicious meme cycle portraying her as a bigot. "Stranger Things" star Millie Bobby Brown had to retreat from social media after a similar meme calling her homophobic went viral in June 2018.Neither Kelly, GoDaddy, or Change.org immediately responded to Insider's request for comment.Read more:A 13-year-old girl reportedly makes over $1,000 a day creating ASMR videos as YouTube works to keep its child stars safeMillie Bobby Brown left Twitter after a homophobic meme about her went viralHow ASMR videos went from a niche 'tingle' subculture to mainstream memesI visited a spa where nobody touches you ' here's how the relaxing, futuristic treatments workedJoin the conversation about this story
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