Ellen DeGeneres’ Pet Name for Diddy Is Even Creepier Now Than It Was in 2016

Back in 2016, Sean “Diddy” Combs was still the coolest guy alive and Ellen DeGeneres was daytime TV’s patron saint of kindness, but this birthday post should have gotten them both arrested in any era.

Life comes at you fast, especially when you’re in the entertainment industry. One day, you’re (allegedly) committing sexual assault on a scale that this world hasn’t seen since Genghis Khan, or you’re screaming at a 19-year-old intern until she cries because she accidentally looked you in the eye while delivering your Erewhon smoothie. The next? You’re the internet’s punching bag and people tweet mean things about you while you wallow in self-pity holed away in your massive $96 mansion — or you're in a jail cell, depending on which one you were. 

Despite once being massive media moguls who apparently thought themselves untouchable by the “little people” they allegedly abused, the duo of Diddy and DeGeneres are pop-culture public enemies #1 and #2 right now, and their long and public friendship stretching back to their glory days isn’t helping either of them in their current crises.

Right now, the internet is hard at work digging up the many incriminating tweets, posts and pictures from a time when Diddy and DeGeneres were non-controversially adored by the general public that might hint at the depravity going on behind the scenes of their A-list lifestyles. While the revelation of Diddy’s various alleged sex crimes is obviously the most sensitive and jarring part of this receipt-keeping process, there’s one Ellen tweet from Diddy’s birthday on November 4, 2016 that has us wondering why they both weren’t already on a list:

Ever since Diddy’s indictment on a slew of crimes ranging from sex trafficking to racketeering, the many celebrities who attended the formerly legendary and now infamous parties thrown by Diddy have been frantically rushing to either innocently explain their past praise of the music mogul or scrub all traces of their relationship with Diddy from the internet. DeGeneres has seemingly chosen to do neither, in the apparent hope that her recently released Netflix stand-up special, For Your Approval, will flood the search results for her name with hilariously negative reviews rather than clips like the one from Diddy's appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2018 in which the talk show host begged Diddy to show up to her birthday party at a reasonable time, because, as she says, "Once you get there, the party really starts.”

But, honestly, a 4K video of Diddy and DeGeneres partying together while servants forklift in a pallet of baby oil would be less incriminating than the latter referring to the former as “Cuddle McSnugglestuff.” Whether or not the public needs to know why DeGeneres calls her embattled buddy by such a disturbing nickname is a question that only a federal prosecutor can answer.