Airbnb is removed from listing after guest reveals 'genuinely insane' décor in Southern home

An Airbnb listing has apparently been removed after a guest revealed the 'genuinely insane' décor inside.

Erica posted a video from the southern home that she was staying at last week, showing decorations that included cotton bouquets, cotton branches and cotton wreaths hanging on a wall with plush monkeys dangling down.

She wrote that it was 'Southern Airbnb core' in the video that has since been viewed more than 2.2million times, and has garnered more than 5,000 comments as viewers express their exasperation at the racist décor.

'Not the Get Out sequel set up,' one user commented.

The décor harkens back to the days of slavery, when millions of enslaved black people were forced to pick cotton on Southern plantations.

According to the National Parks Service, about 1.8million of the nation's 3.2million enslaved people were growing and picking cotton by 1850.

Ten years later, enslaved labor produced over 2billion pounds of cotton each year.

In Virginia - where the Airbnb was apparently located, based on a map depicted inside - 550,000 enslaved black people constituted one-third of the state's population  by 1860, according to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. 

The majority of the inhabitants in some of Virginia's eastern counties were even held in bondage, and the state later joined the Confederate States of America in the Civil War.

At around the same time period, many Americans believed in the idea of polygenesis - the separate origin for the races, which they felt made white people more superior, The Conversation reports.

In their 1854 Types of Mankind, leading scientists of the day, Josiah C. Nott and George R Gliddon, documented what they saw as objective racial hierarchies with illustrations comparing blacks to chimps, gorillas and orangutans. 

The imagery of monkeys hanging from the cotton branches can also be seen as racist, as black people have long been compared to apes.

Many TikTok users could not believe the setup at the Airbnb.

'THE MONKEYS ON THE COTTON IS DIABOLICAL,' one user commented on her video. 

Some viewers also urged Erica to report the listing to Airbnb.

'Report to Airbnb IMMEDIATELY,' one person wrote, while another said she should take pictures -  calling the décor 'genuinely insane.'

'Ya’ll cotton décor is so normalized in the south it gives me anxiety every time,' one person said.

'Hey! so this is insane,' another wrote. 

'This is wicked,' said a third. 

In response, Erica said she had reported the listing. 

Erica later commented on the video: 'Update: Airbnb reached out and removed the listing.'

DailyMail.com has reached out to Airbnb for comment.