Hasbulla breaks his silence following a backlash after footage surfaced showing him hitting his cat and insists he did nothing wrong, claiming he “scolded” the feline for misbehaving.
- Internet sensation criticized online after footage showed him beating up the feline
- Hasbulla responded by saying that he had done nothing wrong, claiming that he loved the cat.
- The Russian has become something of an internet personality in recent years.
Russian internet sensation Hasbulla Magomedov has hit back at criticism after footage circulating online showed him beating up his cat.
Hasbulla, 20, faced widespread consternation on social media over the footage, with viewers scolding him for the way he appeared to treat his cat in the video.
However, the Russian, who has become an online superstar in recent years due to his own production and continued involvement with the UFC, fought back against criticism and insisted he had done nothing wrong.
‘Those brothers who think that I was hitting the cat, pulling the ear, this and that. I gently pulled his ear,’ he said in a video posted on social media.
‘I know that people are waiting for the moment, if I write something wrong, to attack me like that.
Hasbulla posted a video of himself explaining the situation with his cat and dismissing suggestions that he was an animal abuser.
The 20-year-old influencer said he loved his cat but was scolding him for misbehaving
Hasbulla is one of the most recognizable influencers on the internet after years of notoriety.
‘Like, ‘you do this, you do that’. She [Barsik] He was misbehaving and he just pulled my ear and that’s it.
‘I love my cat more than you. If I didn’t want the cat, I wouldn’t have it at home. My most adorable animal is a cat.
And when she disobeyed me, I scolded her a little. And you’re attacking me for nothing.
The video comes a year after Premier League defender Kurt Zouma faced a harsher backlash after one of his family members posted a video online of the West Ham player kicking his cat in the kitchen. .
The influencer himself circulated images of him apparently hitting and grabbing his cat.
Mike Tyson picked Hasbulla up as a toddler a few weeks ago, prompting mockery on the internet
Zouma was heavily criticized in the media and was fined two weeks’ wages by the club, before his cats were taken away by the animal charity RSPCA.
Hasbulla, who has over 10 million followers on social media, is known to be an animal lover and has been photographed with a variety of pets.
He has been filmed riding a pony, with cats, and also playing with a monkey.
Part of her social media appeal relates to her childish appearance, which is due to a genetic disorder. She stands just 3ft 4in, while also having a remarkably high-pitched voice.
In recent weeks, Hasbulla has gone viral online after Mike Tyson appeared to imitate a bite in a way reminiscent of an adult greeting a small child.
He was recently photographed courtside when the Los Angeles Lakers faced the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA.