Nine-year-old Ava Martinez, the girl behind the highly popular Mini AOC Twitter parody account based on Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has deleted her social media accounts after her family were reportedly doxed and sent death threats from supporters of Ocasio-Cortez.
One America News host Jack Posobiec broke the news on Twitter.
BREAKING: @MiniAOCofficial has deleted her account after her family was doxxed and received death threats pic.twitter.com/fz4TzYD13Y
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) July 3, 2019
He added that her family said she will not be producing any further Mini AOC content due to these threats.
According to her family, there will be no futher MiniAOC posts due to doxxing and death threats her family received from @AOC supporters
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) July 3, 2019
An account that reportedly belongs to Martinez’ stepfather, Salvatore Schachter, also released a statement on the matter confirming Posobiec’s reporting and saying that there will be no more Mini AOC content because of safety concerns.
Ava will not being doing any more MINI AOC content.
The Left's Harassment and death threats have gone too far for our family. We have been getting calls on our personal phone numbers.
For our safety and for our child's safety, we deleted all Mini AOC accounts.— Mini AOC (@RealMiniAOC) July 3, 2019
Martinez’s hilarious AOC impressions had turned Mini AOC into one of the most popular political parody accounts in recent months and her Twitter account had over 81,000 followers when it was deleted.
Martinez posted her first Mini AOC video in April which perfectly parodied AOC’s look, mannerisms, and style. Following the success of the original Mini AOC video, she started a Twitter account in May and continued to produce a number of popular AOC parodies. Mini AOC’s final parody, which was posted just a few days before the account was deleted, made fun of the infamous photos of AOC visiting a migrant detention center at the US-Mexico border.
For those who didn't have time to make copies of the Mini AOC pics before the left chased them off the twitter with death threats and harassment. pic.twitter.com/TRpksB9WUo
— Foggy Anabasis (@foggyanabasis) July 3, 2019
After the Mini AOC account was deleted, a Twitter user called Kyle claimed the @miniAOCofficial handle, and put the following statement in the account bio:
“Reserving this handle to prevent a leftist takeover. I have zero affiliation with the original and hilarious miniAOC. I will return it upon request. OSU CE grad”