For most of June, the loudest story around PlaqueBoyMax was a tattoo. On June 9 the streamer and rapper, born Maxwell Dent, posted a shirtless mirror selfie showing fresh ink reading DIVA along his ribcage, then followed it with a closer look on TikTok. It moved the way everything Max does moves. The Shade Room logged a run of commenter reactions, XXL reposted it on June 11, and the replies filled with the usual split: jokes, support, and a steady line of people questioning his masculinity. Max addressed it on a livestream, framing the word as being about confidence and doing what he wants regardless of who has something to say.
A week later it stopped being a story about Max by himself.
A comment surfaced from a verified lazerdim700 account on one of Max's posts. The two are not strangers, which is the whole reason it landed. They are past collaborators with more than a year of shared history. The comment, sitting near 700 likes by the time it spread, read: "n u sea y on fwy nomore li twan." Written in Lazer's usual scrambled cadence, fans parsed it as him saying he is not around anymore, a public step back from someone he used to make hits with. Within hours, the r/ug_music subreddit had a thread up accusing him of homophobia, with users tying the timing to Max's tattoo and the speculation about his sexuality that came with it.
That accusation is now the story, and it is worth being exact about the parts that are nailed down versus the parts being filled in.
Laced Max and the Pipeline That Made Him
To understand why a single comment registered at all, you have to go back to the song that put Lazer Dim 700 on a different tier.
Lazer, born Devokeyous Hamilton in Cordele, Georgia, came up on chaotic plugg loosies, punched-in non-sequiturs over caving-in 808s. His on-stream session with PlaqueBoyMax produced "Laced Max," recorded live in the same sitting, which became one of his biggest songs and helped pull him out of the deep underground. It remains his most-streamed single, with tens of millions of Spotify plays, and it was the first track Max recorded live with a major underground name. By Lazer's own telling to The Fader, the stream pushed his career hard and put his music in front of a different audience than his usual sound reached.
The relationship did not stop there. Max built a whole lane out of his In The Booth series, inviting artists to cut songs he engineers and uploads, and Lazer became one of its recurring underground guests. Lazer turns up again on Max's 2025 Atlanta EP, and the two share the 2025 track "nodrank." A year after "Laced Max," Lazer came back on stream to mark the anniversary with another session. This was not a one-off collaboration. It was a running creative partnership, and one of the more visible artist-to-streamer pipelines the underground has produced in the last two years.
Which is the context that makes a "nomore" comment read as a statement rather than a throwaway.
The DIVA Tattoo and the Discourse Around It
The tattoo did not arrive in a vacuum. It followed a stretch of body-art reveals, including diamond face piercings, that had already put Max's choices up for public debate. When DIVA showed up, the reaction split fast between people reading it as harmless self-expression and people treating it as confirmation of long-running "allegations" about his sexuality.
When Max addressed it on stream, he tied the word to confidence, describing himself in unapologetic terms and making clear the ink reflected doing what he wants regardless of outside opinion. The comment sections ran the full range, from people defending him to people using the moment to question his masculinity directly. That backdrop matters, because it is the soil the homophobia accusation grew in. By the time Lazer's comment appeared, a section of the audience was already primed to read any cold shoulder toward Max as a verdict on his perceived queerness.
Lazer's Comment, and What Fans Are Reading Into It
Here is the careful part.
The verified facts are narrow. A verified lazerdim700 account left a comment on a PlaqueBoyMax post. The wording, in his usual garbled style, reads as a public distancing, you see why I am not around anymore. It drew hundreds of likes and seeded a subreddit thread within hours.
What is not on the screenshot is any mention of sexuality, the tattoo, or supporting anyone. The accusation that Lazer is cutting Max off specifically over Max's perceived support for the LGBTQ community is an interpretation the community has supplied, built on the timing and on the claim that the post he replied to was itself about that support. That claim is plausible given everything swirling around the tattoo, but the post's content could not be independently confirmed for this piece, and the comment on its own does not say it.
“The comment never says the word. The reaction is filling in the rest, and the timing is doing the heavy lifting.”
This is the distinction that decides whether this is a homophobia story or a falling-out story. A person deciding they are done with a former friend is not homophobic on its face. It becomes a homophobia story if the reason is the friend's sexuality or his support for queer people, and right now that reason lives in the read, not in the receipt. The underground has largely closed that gap on its own. Whether Lazer closes it himself, by clarifying or doubling down, is the thing the whole thread is waiting on.
It is worth saying plainly that the scene Lazer came up in is disproportionately queer, trans, and young, and that an artist who built a career on stream culture turning cold over a colleague's perceived identity would not be a small thing to the people who put him on. That is exactly why the accusation has traveled as fast as it has. It is also why it deserves a real source before it hardens into fact.
Where Things Stand
As of filing, neither Lazer Dim 700 nor PlaqueBoyMax has addressed the comment in a confirmed public statement. Lazer just dropped The Rule of Success, his latest in a heavy run of releases, to a lukewarm reception, and the timing means the controversy is now attached to a rollout. You can read our take on that album in our review of The Rule of Success.
The honest summary is this. A verified comment exists. A real collaboration history exists. A real discourse about Max's tattoo and sexuality exists. The line connecting them into "Lazer Dim 700 is homophobic" is currently being drawn by the audience, not by anything Lazer has said outright. That can change in a single follow-up post. Until it does, the accusation is the story, not the conclusion.
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