Chloe Cherry’s approach to internet hate is either refreshingly unbothered or slightly unhinged, depending on who you ask. Over the past two years since Euphoria launched her into mainstream recognition, she’s accumulated her share of criticism—about her looks, her voice, her acting, her past career. And she’s responded to basically all of it with this specific brand of deadpan, slightly chaotic energy that makes it impossible to tell if she’s genuinely unfazed or just exceptionally good at pretending.
I’ve watched enough of these moments to recognize a pattern. She’s not doing the typical celebrity thing where you issue a measured statement through your publicist or post a carefully crafted Instagram story. She just says stuff. Sometimes it’s brilliant, sometimes it’s messy, but it’s always undeniably her.
The Lip Filler Comments She Won’t Stop Addressing
This is the big one. People have strong opinions about Chloe’s appearance, specifically her lips, and she talks about it constantly. Not defensively exactly, but like she’s genuinely baffled that people care so much. In a Variety interview from early 2022, someone asked about the online commentary on her cosmetic procedures and she basically said yeah, she gets work done, what about it?
The thing that struck me was how she flipped it. She didn’t apologize or explain herself into corners. She said she likes how she looks, she’s open about what she’s had done, and if other people don’t like it, that’s their problem to solve. It’s this weird combination of radical honesty and complete indifference to other people’s comfort levels.
She’s addressed it on TikTok too, responding to comments with videos where she’s just eating cereal or doing her makeup, captioning them with stuff like “yeah I got my lips done” like it’s the most boring topic imaginable. The energy is less “I’m clapping back” and more “you’re still talking about this?” Which honestly lands harder.
When Critics Said She Can’t Act
The acting criticism started immediately after Euphoria Season 2 dropped. People either loved Faye or thought Chloe was wooden, and the internet being what it is, the negative takes got loud. Some of it was probably tied to her adult film background—this assumption that she couldn’t possibly have actual acting chops.
Her response was interesting because she didn’t really defend her performance. In interviews, she’d acknowledge she’s new to this, that she’s learning, that Faye was her first real acting role. But she also didn’t apologize for being there. There’s this interview where she said something like, Sam Levinson cast me, HBO approved it, so clearly somebody thought I could do it. Which is just factually true and hard to argue with.
What I found revealing is she never pretended to be Meryl Streep. She’s been weirdly self-aware about being a beginner, which takes some of the wind out of the criticism. It’s hard to drag someone for being bad at something when they’re like “yeah, I just started doing this six months ago.”
The Adult Film Past She Refuses to Be Ashamed Of
This is where Chloe’s approach gets genuinely different from most people who transition out of sex work. She doesn’t distance herself from it. She doesn’t issue statements about how it was a difficult time or she’s moved on. She just talks about it like it was a job she had, which it was.
When people try to use her past to discredit her current work, her response has been consistent: she made that choice, she doesn’t regret it, and she’s not going to pretend it didn’t happen to make other people more comfortable. There’s a Rolling Stone piece where she talked about how the industry taught her professionalism and work ethic, which is not the narrative people expected.
The clap backs here aren’t dramatic. They’re more like… she just keeps existing without shame until people get tired of bringing it up. It’s passive resistance through absolute refusal to play the redemption arc game.
Handling the “She’s Only Famous Because of Euphoria” Takes
This one’s more recent. As Chloe’s been trying to build a career beyond Faye, there’s been this undercurrent of “well, she got lucky” or “she’s just riding the Euphoria wave.” Which, sure, Euphoria absolutely changed her career trajectory. She’s never denied that.
But her response to the dismissiveness has been to just keep working. She’s booked modeling gigs, appeared in other projects, built her social media presence. When people say she’s untalented or undeserving, she doesn’t argue in words. She argues by continuing to get hired for things.
There’s this TikTok from a few months ago where someone commented that she’d be nothing without Sam Levinson, and she stitched it with a video of herself at a photoshoot, captioned “correct, and?” It’s that same energy—acknowledging the truth in the criticism while completely rejecting the shame they’re trying to attach to it.
What Her Approach Actually Reveals
Here’s what I think is happening. Chloe Cherry’s relationship with public criticism isn’t about being tough or having thick skin. It’s about genuinely not organizing her self-worth around other people’s opinions. That sounds like therapy-speak, but watch enough of her responses and you’ll see it’s true.
She’s not performing confidence for the internet. She’s just operating from this baseline assumption that she gets to exist how she wants, do what she wants, look how she wants, and the discomfort that creates in other people isn’t her responsibility. That’s rare, especially for young women in entertainment who are usually socialized to apologize for taking up space.
The thing that makes her clap backs effective isn’t that they’re clever or cutting. It’s that they’re matter-of-fact. She doesn’t dignify bad-faith criticism with emotional responses. She just states reality and moves on. It’s almost boring in its straightforwardness, which is exactly why it works.
What it reveals is someone who’s already decided she’s not going to twist herself into shapes to earn approval from strangers on the internet. Whether that’s healthy detachment or selective hearing, I can’t tell you. But it’s definitely intentional. You don’t respond to criticism the way she does unless you’ve made a conscious choice about what matters and what doesn’t.
The internet keeps testing whether she’ll eventually break or apologize or perform the humility people seem to want from her. So far, she hasn’t. And honestly? I don’t think she’s going to.