What do you suppose is the “worst thing in the world”? I guess it depends on your perspective. Personally, I wouldn’t want to be on the East coast of Greece and having to jump into the sea with friends, neighbors, family and kids to save ourselves from a wildfire described as a “giant blowtorch”. I wouldn’t want to be in Laos, struggling with mass floods and mudslides that have killed countless people. I certainly wouldn’t want to be voting in Pakistan today where bomb blasts have killed scores of innocent people.

Those are all pretty valid examples of what people might reasonably consider to be the worst.

Not for gay porn star Bruno Bernal. His idea of the “worst thing in the world” is having his hair cut by someone with a “N***** accent”.

This weekend the performer was apparently getting a trim when he took to Instagram to complain like a little racist bitch about the person cutting his hair, writing “Worse thing in life! Barbers that don’t fuck shup up talking with this n***** accent.”

Obviously, I’ve pointed out the self-involved arrogance of his suggestion that experiencing someone’s accent for fifteen minutes is “the worst”, and I probably don’t need to say much else about his decision to throw a racist insult out there for all to see, but can you imagine being the person cutting this assholes hair? Imagine if they were a fan, and they read that.

It goes without saying that plenty of fans (possibly former fans) immediately responded with a mix of shock, disappointment and anger.

These days something like that doesn’t remain under the radar for long. MEN.com were either watching, or they had a few calls and emails from people asking what their position was (perhaps for articles on blogs like this one?)

To their credit, they were pretty swift in their decision-making and they know when they need to act.

Within 24-hours they released a statement via email to affiliates who had already had access to promo materials for an upcoming scene starring Bruno Bernal and Tyler Roberts, alerting us to the fact that its release scheduled for Thursday 26th had been cancelled and they would like it very much if we didn’t publish the photos to promote a scene which wouldn’t exist on the site.

“Due to recent events, the MEN.com scene, Disturbance on Thursday July 26th will not be promoted by us.”

It should be noted that a lot of companies might wait a while and see if things calm down. If they’re being cynical and thinking about the money rather than the morality and ethics they’ll hope everyone is distracted by something else in a month and continue work as though nothing had happened. But credit where credit is due, MEN.com went further than that and announced that any contractual agreement they might have had with Bruno had now ended and he would no longer be appearing for the studio.

“Moving forward we will no longer be working with the actor [Bruno Bernal] involved in the recent events.”

Props to them for acting so quickly and making their position clear. It’s obvious they lost out financially by deciding not to release the video, but this was a wise choice as the backlash to them continuing as though nothing had happened could have cost them more.

His Instagram account is still there but it appears the offending post has since been removed. Ironically, his bio on the site reads “If you judge people,you have no time to love them #karma“

Oh, ffs!

Not only does it seem this guy is a racist piece of trash, he’s also totally clueless.

I admit I was a fan, I thought the guy was gorgeous and his performances were always impressive. At the same time, that appreciation was based on the assumption that he wasn’t a racist asshole, so now this has become apparent he’s no longer worth my time.