Phoebe Gates has condemned racist comments she receives about her boyfriend, who is Black, while opening up about the downsides of social media fame.

Gates, 20, the youngest daughter of Bill and Melinda Gates, spoke candidly about her TikTok popularity during an interview with The Information. The Stanford University student has more than 64,000 followers on TikTok, where she goes by the username @phoebegates, and where she often posts videos featuring her famous parents.

However, according to Gates, her internet fame isn’t always a good thing, as she noted that it means she is often the target of “misconceptions and conspiracy theories”.

“The misconceptions and conspiracy theories about my family and my relationship with my boyfriend,” the 20-year-old said when asked about the worst part of her social media popularity.

Gates went Instagram official with her boyfriend, a fellow Stanford student named Robert Ross, according to Page Six, in July 2022. According to Gates, she and her boyfriend have been subjected to comments about their relationship since then, with the TikToker revealing she’s “done being memed” about being in an “interracial relationship”.

“It’s 2023. I’m done being memed for being in an interracial relationship,” she said, according to the Daily Mail.