Earlier this week, Malaysian influencer and dancer Dennis Yin took to his Instagram to share a scary experience he encountered during a night out at a club over the weekend. In the video, he revealed that he was (allegedly) slapped in the face by the director of a liquor company while dancing at the club.
During the IG Live session, Dennis said that he went to the club to hang out with his friends around 10:30pm. As he was about to leave the club, one of his friends pulled him over to his table. He introduced Dennis to some of his friends from Japan.
“He told me that he was also a dancer and said ‘Bro, you gotta show them some moves!’ So, I went down to the dancefloor and started popping. In about 10 seconds or less, someone from somewhere just came up to me from the righthand side— I wasn’t looking— and then he put his hand on my face (and) slapped me,” Dennis revealed in the video. Dennis said he did not flinch when he was slapped as he was in the midst of dancing. Initially, he thought that one of his friends who were around him had done it, but later realised that wasn’t the case.
In the post, Dennis added that the individual also cursed at him and told him to leave, leading him to assume that the guy was the owner of the club. “Although I was really mad, I didn’t want to create a scene because if he’s the owner and this is his place, there’s no way I’m going to try to start anything. So, I walked off,” he explained.
As he was walking off, Dennis was asked by a friend whether he knew the name of the person who assaulted him, to which he said he didn’t. Wanting to find out what his name was, Dennis said he confronted the person, who then taunted him by gesturing Dennis to “come at (him)”. Dennis then left the club and made his way to the lobby, where he met up with the club owner. The latter went on to claim that he was never involved in the incident.
When asked to reveal the man’s identity however, the club owner tried to play coy. This made Dennis become infuriated and he suspected that his assaulter was a powerful figure. “The man’s gang later ran up to me, apologised and claimed that he was drunk. Then, one of them unwittingly revealed that this wasn’t the first time he had done this. And that was what really escalated my feelings (of anger) towards him.”
15 minutes later, the man, who allegedly hit Dennis, finally appeared and denied slapping the influencer in the face. This led Dennis to come up with a clip of him asking the man whether he slapped him because he “loves” him on social media. A day after the incident took place, he revealed that he was contacted by the managing director of the liquor company where the man was working at to try to solve the issue. “He tried calming me down and offering me different things, but one of the things they definitely wanted from me was to take down the IG posts,” he said.
However, Dennis refused to do so and proceeded to call the cops on the director. He felt that the man should be punished and held responsible for his actions. According to the 33-year-old, “As a social media influencer, celebrity and content creator, I feel like I have this responsibility with the influence that I have to bring this issue up to light.”
He added, “One of my number one pet peeves is double standards. I don’t care who you are, what is your position, how much you’re worth, I don’t care. The most important (thing) is mutual respect and I cannot accept double standards when it comes to things like that.” Dennis also revealed that the man has yet to apologise, although it’s been more than 48 hours since the incident first took place.
Both the liquor company, and the director in question, have yet to come forward with their statement on the case.
Source: Instagram.
