After Ashanti posted the picture with the mystery man, her fans tried to establish who he is. Alongside a video of a baseball player furiously slamming a bat against a wall, one person wrote, "Me seeing that Ashanti has a man and it's not me," and another said that people "are upset Ashanti with a white man but they ain't got nothing to say about all these basketball and football players." Many people pointed out that the guy in Ashanti's picture is white. One person commented under the picture, "His melanin missing." Another said, "White Boy Summer or nah?"
However, other fans have said that he isn't even someone who is romantically involved with Ashanti. The singer-songwriter hasn't confirmed how she knows the man that she was pictured with, and some said she might know him in a more professional capacity. "Y'all gotta chill that's the resort 'host' and she showing the staff love... damn you guys married her off one pic damn y'all goofy," one fan wrote on Instagram. Others agreed, saying they thought he might be someone that worked at the resort rather than a new crush.
Either way, some fans of the Grammy Award winner were happy to see her smiling. "Let my girl live her life as she should. I'm happy asf for you @ashanti," one said. And another went a little further in their search for details, "If this is true, I want a detailed bullet point list on what this man did to pull Ashanti. He needs to be teaching Skillshare classes and everything."
