Zac Efron accused of ‘cultural appropriation’ as he debuts new hairstyle

He says it's "just for fun".

Zac Efron has come under heavy criticism this week after he debuted a new hairdo on social media. The Greatest Showman actor shared a black-and-white Instagram photo on Thursday that showed him with a dreadlocked hairstyle. In the caption of the photo, he said that it was "just for fun." https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk27cIxn7JH/?utm_source=ig_embed However, the photo ended up sparking a huge debate within the comments. Some people loved his new hairstyle, while many of the Baywatch actor's 35.9 million followers accused him of cultural appropriation. One person said:

“Cultural appropriation is a serious thing. It shouldn’t be taken as a joke.”

Someone else wrote:

"It's not the dreads that offend me it's the caption! Nothing about my culture is 'fun'..."

Others said that it made them "uncomfortable", while someone else asked the actor to "take [the photo] down". Some people argued that the actor "can have his hair however he wants" and that "hairstyles don't belong to any culture". One social media user wrote:

"He can have his hair however he wants, for fun... It doesn't need to become something about races and ethnicities. He wants dreads? Leave him be."

Another person pointed out:

"Dreadlocks span a lot of cultures. Vikings, Indians, Egyptians and more."