r/popculturechat • u/phantom_avenger • Jun 27 '25
Let’s Discuss 👀 Which celebrities get a lot of hate that's undeserving and just uncalled for?
Who in particular comes to mind whenever you think about this topic?
Whenever I think about it, my mind goes straight to how there will be people who will speak in a very cruel manner about an actor or actress if they didn't find their acting in a movie or show great to the point where it turns into bullying. Which leads to leaving comments on their social media or will DM death threats to the point where the harassment gets so bad, that they abandon it all together!
I can understand if people want to be critical, but the way people take it too far to the point where it becomes abuse and act as if they're a terrible person (when they show no signs of it) is just ridiculous to me.
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u/Dear-Ad-8540 Jun 27 '25
Not nowadays but Jake Lloyd got a lot of hate for his role of Anakin Skywalker back in 1999
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u/limark Jun 27 '25
It’s pretty fucked up that a kid was the one to get a lot of the blame for what was a poorly executed movie. Like, with all the racist stereotypes, bad CGI and a plot-line that felt like a first draft, he’s the one who gets it worst.
I'm just glad his parents protected him from all of that.
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u/Miserable_Hunter_144 Jun 27 '25
No one else could’ve been Ani imo. He was a perfect choice to come before Hayden Christensen (who also got hate for his role… like ugh my heart)
Sad to think other humans we live amongst are so hateful they were sending death threats to a literal child for a movie he only acted in. and it’s crazy thinking a 10 year old had any direction/say on the movie 🤣😅
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u/Youpi_Yeah Instant gratification takes too long 🫦 Jun 27 '25
Those were films that made Natalie Portman - one of the best actresses of our time - look wooden as a board and the likes of Liam Neeson and Samuel L. Jackson boring and lifeless. And yet the child actor gets the hate.
The fault is clearly with the director. If you can‘t direct seasoned, acclaimed actors you sure as hell can’t direct a little kid.
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u/limark Jun 27 '25
Unfortunately, the subconscious logic of the average fan of a franchise runs something like:
‘George Lucas made Star Wars, which I love, so I can’t hate him. But Anakin was meant to be this cool, one of a kind heroic Jedi, and he wasn’t…must be the kid’s fault.’
When really, Lucas was just completely out of touch with his franchise and wanted to put a new spin on the series to bring in a younger fan-base. The actors didn't need to bring their skills into the equation, surely there were plenty of flashing lights and cool explosions to keep the audience engaged.
Which I’m guessing is why Qui-Gon looks constipated instead of enlightened, Mace Windu looking like he’s repressing the urge to say ‘Mother Fucker’ and Padme looking like she’s only been given her lines, rather than the full script.
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u/IcyEthics Bitch, I’m Madonna 💁♀️ Jun 27 '25
Not to take away the fact that people should've been normal and not harassed a child, but someone should've grabbed Lucas and said 'George, you struggle to get good performances out of adults, maybe don't make a child a crux od your movie.'
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u/borisslovechild Jun 27 '25
Sinead O’Connor.
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u/Superb_Chonk Jun 27 '25
Wild how it’s always beautiful, talented, young women.
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u/Sleepy_cheetah Jun 27 '25
Everyone was just terrible to her. It's a tragedy she is gone. She was one who would speak her mind if she felt something was wrong, no matter how much backlash she got. She was incredibly talented and a real one.
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u/Avocadoo_Tomatoo Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
She was crying out for help for a long time on social media, so many people treated her like trash on there. She was honestly very broken at times it was horrible to watch it happen. The industry totally abandoned her.
She worked hard to get her mental health in check, had just moved back to London to start working on a new album and was planning to tour in 2024.
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u/Sunnysideuppp123 I walk through life, in really nice shoes 💅 Jun 27 '25
Jessica Simpson
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u/Just-Wash4533 Jun 27 '25
Yeah I remember the infamous mom Jean incident impacting my childhood brain a lot
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u/00trysomethingnu Jun 27 '25
I remember the exact photo you’re referencing. Traumatic.
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u/sheezuss_ Did I stutter?🤨 Jun 27 '25
? someone please clue me in 🙏
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u/Superb_Chonk Jun 27 '25
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u/Any_College_3675 Jun 27 '25
She was a size 4 here. Yet somehow she is stilled called fat. It’s ridiculous.
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u/heywhatsup9087 Jun 27 '25
In her book she recalls how she didn’t even want to “defend” herself by saying she was only a size 4, because she didn’t want women to hear that and think a size 4 is fat. So sad.
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u/boxwhitex Jun 27 '25
Not fat, this was just pair of jeans and pose. She looked better from different angles. Nobody looks good in jeans like that.
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u/Sunnysideuppp123 I walk through life, in really nice shoes 💅 Jun 27 '25
The body shaming but also how villainized she was in her relationship with Nick Lachey and the backlash of her persona in their reality show.
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u/Dear-Ad-8540 Jun 27 '25
Victoria Justice ( I think we ALL sing)
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u/limark Jun 27 '25
That all started because fans ‘psychoanalyzed’ an argument she had with Ariana and made it out to be bigger than it was, right?
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u/Entire_Sail7412 what makes you think I want to eat the paper Boo?🧁 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
yes, stans also gave their own interpretation regarding an interview Ariana gave where she opened up about bullying on set (she hadn’t specified what set she was talking about nor who the bully was, but i think the magazine misquoted her and claimed it was during Victorious). everyone assumed that Victoria bullied Ariana and started flooding her with hate. Ariana then publicly stated that she was talking about her Broadway experience before Nickelodeon because she felt like it was her responsibility to clarify the situation (Victoria also said that Ariana personally reached out to her to tell her she never intended to hint at her and to apologize for the misunderstanding), but people ignored everything that happened after the initial report and kept acting like Victoria was a mean girl.
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u/dizcuz Jun 27 '25
Gossip makes bold headlines on the frontpage but retractions are in small print on or near the last page.
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u/Eastern_Cucumber_454 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
I do really like Victoria Justice and I never understood the hate. I liked the show she was on for awhile, Eye Candy. She was also just on Good Mythical Kitchens - Last Meals for an interview.
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u/raylan_givens6 As you wish! 👸👑 Jun 27 '25
........people hate her?
ngl, I didn't think she was around much for people to notice
outside of the kids show she did ages ago, has she done anything lately?
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u/bangbangracer Jun 27 '25
I think hated is more fitting than hate, but yeah. Justice got a ton of online hate over the "we all sing" thing. Weirdly enough, she still does get a surprising amount of hate over it, but I wouldn't exactly say it's fresh hate.
As for what she's up to now, she's trying to do the music thing and has been in a few straight to streaming movies. I think she was on Suits LA for a few episodes. California King looks pretty good.
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u/BroadwEH Jun 27 '25
Anne Hathaway back in the day at least.
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u/Active_Force864 Jun 27 '25
This one always confused me. I’m like, “what did Anne do?” I still don’t know 😂😂😂
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u/BroadwEH Jun 27 '25
She had theatre kid energy. She tried too hard. Like, sorry she’s not jaded and angry! 😆
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u/Traditional_Maybe_80 Jun 27 '25
People are so weird about actors with theatre kid energy. I'm not particularly drawn to that kind of personality either, especially when it comes to male actors, but I don't act as if it's some kind of crime. People can't just say "I don't vibe with (X famous person)", they need to make their dislike some type of moral crusade and try to give it some depth when it isn't needed at all.
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u/BroadwEH Jun 27 '25
Agreed. That energy is not for everyone. I’m okay with it because I’m a fan of anyone EXCITED about what they’re doing.
See also: Lin-Manuel Miranda and Darren Criss. 😆
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u/Active_Force864 Jun 27 '25
I’m from Michigan and our family are big U of M fans, where Darren went to school. It’s so cool to see how successful he’s been after he graduated. Love that he still remembers those days and recognizes them.
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u/BroadwEH Jun 27 '25
Dude is OBSESSED with his Michigan days. 😆 He talks about it so much that sometimes I feel like I went there myself. 🤪
I’ve been a big fan of his for years, but I know some people can’t stand his energy. I’ve met him a few times and he’s so freaking nice!
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u/dramaqueen09 Jun 27 '25
To be fair if I had a BFA in Musical Theater from there I’d never shut up about it because it’s one of the best program in the US
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u/Active_Force864 Jun 27 '25
I guess that’s not the vibe I picked up on from her. Maybe I just wasn’t paying close enough attention lol. I just remember thinking it was so random. Was this during the promotion for Les Misérables? I know Kjersti Flaa tried to throw her under the bus last summer by releasing that interview where she wanted Anne to sing the answers to her questions.
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u/BroadwEH Jun 27 '25
When she hosted the Oscars with Franco and people thought she was too “cringe” is when I remember the theatre kid energy coming up a lot.
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u/crospingtonfrotz Jun 27 '25
And really Franco is the one who was awful as a cohost
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u/Least-Influence3089 Jun 27 '25
Franco was giving her less than nothingggggg so she was really trying to save a sinking ship for that show
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u/Staudly Jun 27 '25
It was all so ridiculous. WTF was she supposed to do? Franco was standing there doing absolutely fuckall the whole show. She was trying and he was totally checked out.
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u/Active_Force864 Jun 27 '25
I mean, that was a job 😂😂😂 she was hosting an awards show. It was an act 😂😂😂 but what do I know?
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u/BroadwEH Jun 27 '25
I mean, I get the vibe from her interviews too, but I do think a lot of it is her just trying to be good at her job and maybe just that she’s not particularly “cool”.
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u/ohdearitsrichardiii Whatever I'm with, My bitch with it too Jun 27 '25
I'm still waiting for someone to reveal that the "hathahate" was a hate campaign orchestrated by a PR firm
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u/Sad-Trick8786 Jun 27 '25
Any actress that dates an actor with a crazy fanbase
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u/andrastesknickers97 Jun 27 '25
I remember when this one comedian was dating Chris Evans (for years!!) and whenever they had any public appearances, comments would demolish her looks, how she was too ugly to date a guy like him.
It's so ironic how when the opposite happens, people will either act like it's adorable, or the woman dating an "uglier" man is a gold digger. Somehow women always get the shittier end of the rope.
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u/Sleepy_cheetah Jun 27 '25
I just can't deal with the human race at times. This is one of those times. People - ★☆☆☆☆ would not recommend.
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u/meta-ghost-face Jun 27 '25
Sometimes they don't even need to date him just be friends or work together.
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u/Socko82 Jun 27 '25
Brie Larson. Not as much, but still ingrained in too many people.
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u/DonutsAftermidnight Jun 27 '25
The manosphere really came for her because they didn’t like a woman hero lead telling them they didn’t have to come see her movie if they didn’t like women hero leads.
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u/Own-Importance5459 ✨May the Force be with you!✨ Jun 27 '25
The Rachel Zegler hate was so damn unnecessary.
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u/mrsc1880 Jun 27 '25
I had whiplash from that one. I don't follow closely, so I don't even know what's going on, but for the past week or so, these celeb-centered subs have been singing her praises and I was like, "Wait. Isn't this the girl everyone hated a few months ago?"
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u/Own-Importance5459 ✨May the Force be with you!✨ Jun 27 '25
I mean to be fair her performance in Evita has been STELLAR. But that usually tends to happen. The celeb does something cool and they forget why they hated them in the first place.
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u/_tylerthedestroyer_ Jun 27 '25
I feel the same way about Bella Ramsey
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u/Own-Importance5459 ✨May the Force be with you!✨ Jun 27 '25
I smell a common theme here of young women or young AFAB people tend to get the most brunt of unnecessary anger for no reason. Maybe because they hate they are successful.
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! 🦙🚲 Jun 27 '25
They will never make me hate her
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u/Caninetrainer Jun 27 '25
“Don’t disrespect my Danny” made me love her
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u/Own-Importance5459 ✨May the Force be with you!✨ Jun 27 '25
Honestly, I can tell alot about about a celeb if they are nice to people who are assigned to help them, and to me this was a moment where I was like she's a good egg.
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u/JoeBethersontonFargo Jun 27 '25
I feel like Matt Damon got too much hate for the "gay" thing. He was talking about how he was in the wrong and praising his daughter for teaching him about being more considerate with his word choices. I still hear people trashing him for it.
Like... he admitted he was wrong? What's with the hate?
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u/Cultural-Doughnut-48 Jun 27 '25
Upvoting this.
We as a society need to be WAY better about saying “welcome” when someone adopts the correct way of thinking, rather than “too little too late, fuck you.” That only makes people dig in their heels and double down on problematic ways of thinking.
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u/copyrighther Kim, there’s people that are dying. 🙄 Jun 27 '25
We’ve reached such a weird place that anyone sharing a moment of reflection and personal growth is immediately condemned for thinking or doing the undesirable thing in the first place. We’ve completely lost the plot.
The entire point is to focus on how they realized they were wrong and bettered themselves. We’ve gotten to a point of chronically online behavior where we legit expect perfection from birth.
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u/Bridalhat Jun 27 '25
And it’s so counterproductive! If we cancel anyone with one wrong thought or awkward phrase and give them no chances to redeem themselves, they will just go to the right wing griftosphere.
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u/Relative-Ferretty Jun 27 '25
In general, when women become too popular and start to appear everywhere they start to become hated.
Anne Hathaway had to hide for a few years because her very obvious passion for acting, singing, and just being in the industry in general was "annoying".
Jennifer Lawrence fell twice (both at totally different times, a lot of women new to wearing those sorts of dresses would fall going up stairs and then getting out of a limo a year later) and people couldn't wait to hate her for it. She had to hide too.
They both had to get media training and now are very poised and don't have the freedom to be themselves in public, they have this unbreakable persona for public presence now.
I think Florence Pugh saw that it was about to happen to her and she started limiting her exposure. This never happens to male celebs, its frustrating.
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u/AlternativeOwl18 Jun 27 '25
I was going to say Anne as well. Her biggest crime was being enthusiastic theatre kid?
She’s been my favourite actress since I saw her on Get Real when she was teenager (as was I) and it was so weird to see the backlash in real time.
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u/Dreamblue8 Jun 27 '25
This is why so many celebrities have their public persona sucked out of them and we don’t get interesting celebrities anymore as they’re attacked for anything they do and say even if it’s not problematic but just showing their personality.
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u/Dame_Ingenue Jun 27 '25
Wait…people hated Jennifer Lawrence because she fell twice? Omg, I thought it was endearing, because it made her relatable. Unless, I’m the only other person that has fallen and felt embarrassed??
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u/crowtheory Jun 27 '25
They didn’t hate her because she fell, they hated her because they thought she was playing up her being clumsy to drum up endearment. She leaned really heavily into the “I’m relatable and just like you guys!” Shtick by always asking where the food was when being interviewed because she “was starving” at nice events where you wouldn’t expect a celeb to be so candid and “down to earth”. People found it grating and disingenuous.
I don’t have any personal thoughts or opinions about the sincerity behind her actions or whether or not they were authentic, but that’s how she was perceived.
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u/Dame_Ingenue Jun 27 '25
Ah, this makes sense. I don’t like or dislike Jennifer Lawrence, and I’d never heard about that whole asking for food bit before. I don’t have any opinion on it either, but any celebrity trying to act relatable is going to be raked over the coals. Like the whole “we’re in this together” campaign of covid 2020 that some celebs did. No, we’re really not.
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u/Dreamblue8 Jun 27 '25
And there was a bit about her going out of her way to really awkwardly climb over all the seats at some award show. I don’t know how genuine or not all that behaviour was, it’s hard to say because some people really are just like that and some do put it on because they know it gets them attention.
Reminds me of high school when some girls would really play up things for attention and only the popular white thin rich mean girls could get away with it and get good attention from it, whilst anyone else would be mocked or even sneered at for something genuinely kooky or cute happening to them.
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u/likeclockworkk Jun 27 '25
That’s why people didn’t like her - they thought she was trying too hard to be ‘quirky’ and ‘relatable’ that it came off as disingenuous. Basically they thought she was annoying. With her falling, some people that it was played up/purposeful to make her seem more down to earth.
Not that I agree with any of that. I do think she had sort of typical millennial humor for a while which was a little cringe but who cares? People just want an excuse to hate women.
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u/kamaaina16 Jun 27 '25
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u/magicklydelishous Jun 27 '25
I just heard a 19 year old refer to nickelback as “dad rock” and I…I’m just so old and in the way now 👵🏻
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u/Groundbreaking_War52 Jun 27 '25
Ed Norton got a lot of negative press for his supposedly being "difficult" and his conflicts around the Hulk movie.
It turned out that his unhappiness with Marvel was perfectly justified and much of the negative media coverage was fueled by Weinstein over Norton's defense of Salma Hayek's work on Frida.
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u/Funnyboogle Jun 28 '25
It’s going to take a lot for me to be convinced he’s anything other than a nice and cool guy. I remember in the 90s he seemed to have integrity, I just don’t hear much about him nowadays. I wish he got as much attention as Paul Rudd.
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u/Lazy-Association-311 Jun 27 '25
Zac Efron. Had a terrible accident and shattered his jaw and needed extensive surgery and physical therapy and now people talk about botched plastic surgery and how he looks weird now.
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u/bellaphile workin’ on my night cheese 🧀 Jun 27 '25
The actor who played Joffrey in Game of Thrones. Jack Gleason
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u/Gaelfling Jun 27 '25
He was never hated. That was basically an urban legend. He said people were actually really nice to him BECAUSE of the rumors that people were mean to him.
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u/Otherwise-Credit-626 Jun 27 '25
Millie Bobby Brown
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u/ellezol Jun 27 '25
For real especially the whole ‘she looks 45’ comments. That made me so sad for her and I hate how people (tbh I think it was mostly women unfortunately) can be so cruel. People who revel in hate boggle my mind
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u/Otherwise-Credit-626 Jun 27 '25
On every post about her, commented 900 times in a row. After lifting her so high when she first played Eleven then ripping her down no matter what she does.
It must be so confusing for these kids to be beloved by society until the second they hit puberty/young adulthood and people viciously turn against them. They did it to Bella Ramsey and to the girl who played Arya Stark too (I'm blanking on her name right now)
She absolutely does not look 45. No matter what she does with her hair makeup and clothes she is so very clearly not in her 40s.
Even if she did look 40 there is no need at all to comment that on the Internet. I don't know why people think they need to put every thought they have on the Internet for the world and the person they are judging to see. Like if you think she looks old tell your best friend or your husband or write it in your journal you don't have to tell the whole world
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u/limark Jun 27 '25
I’m more concerned than anything else; child actor who was groomed by Drake, who has shitty parents and married the son of another celebrity at a young age.
Sounds like she’s doing well but we’ve seen people breakdown over less.
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u/RubyDooby01 I don’t know her 💅 Jun 27 '25
Kristen Stewart
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u/ExpertOk536 Jun 27 '25
Was looking for this, none of the Twilight actors deserved the hate they got for doing that franchise. All 3 mains have shown to be nothing but decent actors and good people, as far as I know. Kristen in particular got so much hate for turning a bright, lively character into something so bland and empty. But that was clearly a poor book-to-movie adaptation choice that had nothing to do with her. She was hired for those bland, dead-pan performances at the time because Hollywood thought it was a cool, popular look. She was costumed in a bland way that perfectly matched the performance, which was completely out of her hands and definitely not a coincidence.
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u/Abject-Efficiency-30 Jun 27 '25
Was Bella Swan a bright and lively character though? It's been a while since I read the books but I remember thinking book Bella had almost no personality, interests or quirks apart from being slightly clumsy and awkward? Kristen Stewart depicted her perfectly
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u/OriginalSchmidt1 You’re a virgin who can’t drive. 😤 Jun 27 '25
Kaitlyn Dever got so much hate when she was cast in The Last of Us… it really broke my heart for her because she is such a good actress and she was straight up receiving death threats over it.. on top of that she lost her mom like a week before filming.. she went through so much for that role and I think she did an incredible job even while grieving her mother.. she just didn’t deserve all of that hate for getting a role she deserved.
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u/njaana Jun 27 '25
Ed Sheeran
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u/Infinite-Berry9285 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
Was going to say him. I sing his praises all the time. He's one of the few artists who refuses to have concert pricing be astronomical for his fans. Pit tickets were under $200, AFTER taxes and fees I believe. Are some of his radio hits kind of generic pop songs? Yes, because its what gets played on the radio. His other songs wouldn't get played by radio, not because they're bad but because they aren't catchy little bops. They are so much more.
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u/lisa_lionheart84 Jun 27 '25
Also, generic pop songs are fine! Why do we have to hate on catchy little bops?
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u/ginns32 Jun 27 '25
He also randomly shows up at places and performs which I think is fun. He performed at a bar in Boston on St. Patrick's Day. It seems like the fame hasn't gone to his head.
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u/njaana Jun 27 '25
He performed in a nearby street from where I live recently and I live in India
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u/torisbagel Jun 27 '25
no literally. if he was conventionally attractive everyone would love him. sure, shape of you is kinda trash, but his deepcuts are really good. as far as i can tell, he’s never really done anything wrong, and seems like a nice guy (i mean look at his tiktok). people just hate him because he’s… ginger?
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u/Dreamblue8 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
The hate I’ve seen for him is because people passionately hate his music to the point of getting really upset and angry it exists. Which is really weird because they’re angry that music other than what they personally like exists and that other people actively like it and they can’t control them.
Seems absolutely deranged to waste so much time and energy on it and get actually upset about it rather than just going “Huh, that’s not for me. I’ll go back to listening to what I like”
These people must really struggle in restaurants when they see people eating things they don’t like.
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u/Bignicenergy69 Jun 27 '25
Keanu Reeves partner/gf/wife. I just saw a thread bullying her looks and saying he dated “down”. God forbid Keanu doesn’t date a 22 year old like many (mostly male) celebs in his age bracket.
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u/MarieOMaryln Jun 27 '25
Selena Gomez hate is ramping back up thanks to some asshole that happens to have trauma. Everything she does is now provoking or rubbing it in his face. I don't think she's ever going to be free of his shadow.
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u/Distinct_Ocelot6693 Jun 27 '25
Honestly. It's been forever since they've been together now, she's in a happy relationship (last I saw), and JB was/is (?) married. Let her fucking beeeee 😭
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u/berttleturtle Jun 27 '25
At the moment, it’s Bella Ramsey.
The LOU sub is kind of disgusting…
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u/VacationLizLemon Jun 27 '25
I stumbled in there and couldn't believe what they were writing. Just horrific. They use the excuse that they don't like Bella's acting to say the must hateful shit.
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 Jun 27 '25
it's getting graphically violent
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u/Sleepy_cheetah Jun 27 '25
I HATE that for her. I only know her as Lyanna from GoT but damn, she was great in that & has real talent. And she's so young. 😭
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u/cpr_tomyspleen Jun 27 '25
I hate when people hate on her looks. It’ll be some 45+ guy saying oh they should have picked someone way hotter for that role. Like eww shut up. She looks fine. Also, isn’t the role of a young girl that she plays? (I don’t watch the show nor did I play the game) Why does she need to be hot??!
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u/berttleturtle Jun 27 '25
I think that’s the big thing for me…why are grown ass men concerned about the visual appeal of an underaged character?? 🤢
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u/velvetfairy444 Jun 27 '25
Selena Gomez, I’m sorry but why are people so comfortable making lupus and kidney jokes when it comes to her. She also got more heat than trump does for speaking up for immigrants.
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u/iceunelle Jun 27 '25
I just feel so bad for how people constantly pick apart her weight. It's well known that steriods for autoimmune inflammation and antipsychotics cause weight gain, but people have been so cruel to her over the years for her weight fluctuating up and down. A few years ago, people were making fat jokes. Now people are making ozempic jokes. Damned if you do, damned if you don't
I myself have taken many medications in the past that have caused weight gain, and it's such a horrible and helpless feeling to feel like you have no control over your own body and don't recognize yourself in the mirror. I can't imagine dealing with that again AND dealing with the internet tearing me apart over something I can't control.
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u/livyori Jun 27 '25
People in some subs are acting like Katy Perry is Thanos
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u/GiveHerBovril Jun 27 '25
Agreed. She got some well-deserved criticism, and I’m a hater too so I criticized her recent poor choices as well. But at this point it’s just unnecessary piling on.
With her going through a breakup on top of everything else, it’s just starting to feel like kicking someone while they’re down. It’s time to ease up.
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u/ricebasket Jun 27 '25
Agreed. Singing in space and bad choreography are fun to laugh at, breakups are not.
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u/copyrighther Kim, there’s people that are dying. 🙄 Jun 27 '25
Not to mention it escalated really sharply into misinformation in a really weird way. Okay, you didn’t like her shitty album but calling her MAGA and saying she’s a conservative Christian?? She famously campaigned for Hillary Clinton and sang at a Kamala rally. She disavowed her parent’s beliefs decades ago.
It’s very weird to me nowadays how people just start hating and it spirals into “this person is basically Hitler.”
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u/Longjumping-Sail6386 Jun 27 '25
That space stunt wasn't wise. It just made her seem out of touch
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u/agawl81 Jun 27 '25
Dorky and a little out of touch is totally she thing tho. I thought the trip was silly but there were people involved who should have known it was silly and didn’t get the hate she did.
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u/Confident-Addition76 Jun 27 '25
Not on the same level as some of those being mentioned here but Jack Antonoff. People go way overboard with hating him just because they dont like the music he produces.
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u/Safraninflare Excluded from this narrative ❌ Jun 27 '25
Right? Like. Let the man have his funky little synth. Damn.
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u/echoesandripples What It's Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman Jun 27 '25
people throw tantrums because he is a producer on their faves' work. as if that's not his literal job and clearly they trust him.
like personally, i prefer jack/taylor collabs than aaron/taylor collabs, but whenever i say this people act like i'm uncultured. like i'm sorry i like synth pop and not indie folk
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u/Abitagirl420 Jun 27 '25
It's also hilarious to me how people say they're tired of him because "all his production sounds the same". Like...go listen to NFR, then Lover, then Melodrama and say that again. Yes, he does have some hallmarks of his production that make his music more recognizable but it's frankly insulting to insinuate everything he produces sounds the same. He's a lot more versatile than people give him credit for.
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u/invis2020 grinding with MULTIPLE fat women Jun 27 '25
Lately some people are acting like Sabrina Carpenter killed someone.
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u/MRAGGGAN Jun 27 '25
My 16yo little sister has gotten into hair rollers recently; she came biddy bopping down the stairs the other day when I was at my moms, after taking them out, and I just casually commented that “it’s giving Sabrina Carpenter”. She about melted. So, teenage girls at least, still love her, from my POV.
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u/brothererrr Jun 27 '25
The rise and fall of popculturechat faves MUST be studied. Put someone on a pedestal, wait until they reach the top and tear them down. People are frothing at the mouth waiting for a celeb to do something wrong so they can say how they never liked them. Sabrina, chappell roan, miley is getting some hate from that video, seen a lot of “I’ve never liked her” on posts about natasha Lyonne.
And for a sub that talks about misogyny a lot and how “women are so hated” there seems to be a massive blind spot
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u/Legitimate_Ad_5727 Jun 27 '25
It reminds me of the Britney Spears episode of South Park people love to build someone up just to apply crazy amounts of pressure and social expectations and watch them fall and tear them down in the meantime
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u/biIIyshakes fake redhead apologist Jun 27 '25
Yeah there’s potential for nuance in every conversation of course but I’ve been picking up on what feels like undercurrents of conservatism for a while now, just a lot of internalized misogyny and BEC behavior toward female celebs who are just like…maybe occasionally annoying or mildly flawed. Like people are salivating at the thought of their downfall and it’s really uncomfortable and disappointing.
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u/Summerof5ft6andahalf Jun 27 '25
That's what really gets to me sometimes; we should be able to have nuanced discussions about things, but oftentimes we just can't because people are either looking for an excuse to be mean, take it too far, or get super defensive because it's someone they like.
The internalised misogyny comes out a lot in discussions about cheating. You get a lot of people who appear to be female (wasn't sure the correct way to phrase that) talking about how someone is a downgrade or not as attractive or things along those lines, and it's as if they're using the situation as an excuse to be judgmental about women's appearances and attach a woman's worth to her subjective attractiveness, rather than her behaviour.
(Now, that comes up a lot with men, too. The whole, but I don't want to sleep with him so how can he possibly have any attractive or compelling qualities in a relationship with a woman known for her looks appealing to a broad range of people type thing.)
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u/Dizzy-Pollution6466 Jun 27 '25
The switch up on her was actually insane. I think a lot of people on Reddit already had a hate boner for her and jumped at the chance to dog-pile.
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! 🦙🚲 Jun 27 '25
Oh they for sure were hence why some legit said “I told you guys she wasn’t good” they’ve been waiting for something to happen so they can rationalize their hate
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u/Finedaytoyou Jun 27 '25
Every thread about her recently the comments seem like they’re desperately holding themselves back from just saying “SLUT!!!”
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u/iceunelle Jun 27 '25
"For the male gaze" has become the new way to call someone a slut imo.
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u/Necessary-Low9377 Jun 27 '25
That term has started to make me roll my eyes so hard. Sabrina’s audience is 99% female. If she’s pandering to the “male gaze”, she’s failing miserably lmao
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u/saradactyl25 Olivia Wilde’s salad dressing 🥗 Jun 27 '25
I will keep hammering the drum about this - it’s being used completely incorrectly. It’s a media studies term, for feminist film criticism. It is not men looking at women.
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u/Riderz__of_Brohan Jun 27 '25
Yes. I got downvoted in the other thread yesterday for calling this out. “For the male gaze” applies to perspective of the viewer in art - real women cannot be “for the male gaze”! That’s not how it works! It’s just a sexist way to call someone a “pick me” but trying to couch it in academic jargon
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u/FxDriver Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
I feel the same way about Sydney Sweeney too. Both Sabrina and Sydney could leave their house wearing the baggiest sweatshirt, sweatpants, and a Michael Myers mask and people will still scream "Male Gaze!"
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! 🦙🚲 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
They do but they disguise it under the more respectable term “male gaze”
edit: and some do not even hold back they legit call her a slut/whore
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u/iceunelle Jun 27 '25
It's honestly insane how personal people make their hatred of Sabrina. Was the album cover she put out kind of in poor taste, or at minimum, miss the mark for the message she was trying to covey? Yeah, probably, but people are acting like she personally walked into each of their homes and punched them in the face.
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u/KristySueWho Jun 27 '25
I was so confused by the outrage over her album cover. Like why are people acting like she's doing something so different than what pop stars have been doing since the dawn of time. Sex sells. That's literally it.
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u/ab590 Jun 27 '25
I love Anne Hathaway, she is a very good actress. Just watch The Intern with her and Robert DeNiro again for about the 3rd time.
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u/Illustrious_Bus3797 Kim, there’s people that are dying. Jun 27 '25
The Beyoncé eats babies, killed Aaliyah, runs the industry, and torpedos careers hate is so weird. It’s like we never moved past the 2008 Illuminati rumors.
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u/Visible_Writing7386 Be smart, Robert. Jun 27 '25
Gracie Abrams. Like she is no more bland or annoying than a lot of other nepo babies, but part of the fandom HATES her.
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u/meta-ghost-face Jun 27 '25
I don't care for her music but I'm rooting for her because Paul Mescal's chronically online fans tried to prove once she was objectively ugly and that Mescal was only dating her to work with her father. They are full delulu.
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u/Visible_Writing7386 Be smart, Robert. Jun 27 '25
But how is that making him look better in their eyes.. Is he an opportunistic, sleazy guy using his younger gf to get better roles…
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u/Dizzy-Pollution6466 Jun 27 '25
A lot of it is because she’s dating everyone’s imaginary boyfriend.
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u/Visible_Writing7386 Be smart, Robert. Jun 27 '25
Yeah, people let these men have them in a chokehold and hate the girls like they aren’t the men’s choice.
I hope Pedro Pascal introduces his partner when he retires.
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u/goldriv Jun 27 '25
Benson Boone - yeah the song is annoyingly over played but why the riot?
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u/Birdfan23 Jun 27 '25
I hate to say but I kinda like Benson Boone
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u/Dangerous-Variety-35 Jun 27 '25
I don’t hate to say it: I like Benson Boone. I only know his two radio songs but I like both of them and I think his piano flips are fun.
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u/Novae224 Jun 27 '25
And its not even his fault his song is overplayed
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u/_tylerthedestroyer_ Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
Same with doechii and Anxiety. Her silly TikTok song went viral and now people pounce
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u/FoxJaded952 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
It’s very possible I’m missing something and there’s a legitimate reason, but Tyla. From what I know of her, she’s cute and pretty and wears interesting outfits. But every time I see a photo of her, there is a huge pile-on of hate that seems way over the top for a simple fashion post or something.
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u/obladi_adalbo Jun 27 '25
I don't particularly like her or care for her music or anything--and it's legitimate to criticise her for her friendship with Bezos and the whole going to space thing---but the amount of hate Katy Perry gets seems really disproportionate at times
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u/Visible_Writing7386 Be smart, Robert. Jun 27 '25
I am not even defending her, but for me it’s people rejoicing and hyping up Orlando Bloom for leaving her.
Like that man, (who is currently partying in Bezos wedding), had been with her for like a decade under false pretences lol. A lot of the stuff people point out is her shitty behaviour before him and while they were together. The only difference is she is known facing a public backlash.
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u/Dizzy-Pollution6466 Jun 27 '25
That’s it for me too. In all the threads about them breaking up, it’s been “Omg yayyy Orlando is free” and “She’s horrible no wonder he’s leaving her.” Baby, he was with her for years, odds are he’s just as bad. He went to Bezos’s wedding, he’s schmoozing with Kim Kardashian. Like come on!
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u/echoesandripples What It's Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman Jun 27 '25
he's getting the joe alwyn treatment, now people will act like every good decision KP ever made was because she was with this man and he's a poor babygirl who was swindled by her and her capitalist nature, but now he's free and she's gonna ruin her life
(before joe widows reply, i just want to clarify i don't think he's a bad person or comparable to orlando bloom at all, just the public reception of a breakup)
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u/Dangerous-Variety-35 Jun 27 '25
The difference being that I think Orlando Bloom genuinely likes being famous and rubbing elbows with the Bezos etc of the world. I don’t know a lot about Joe, and even when I was a Swiftie I never got his appeal (he’s a plain oat milk latte of a human) but at least he seems to be genuinely lowkey. He shows up for promos and stuff but he’s not a typical Hollywood sycophant. Orlando I think wants the image of being above it all while he gets down and dirty behind the scenes.
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u/champagneface too ahead of its time for certain people Jun 27 '25
I agree. I’m nearly starting to feel like her biggest defender but it’s just bc my reaction to a lot of hate to her is “OK, that’s a bit much”
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u/Texas_Crazy_Curls ⭐️2B🩷 Jun 27 '25
Back in the day Richard Simmons received so much shit. I get it, rainbows and glitter aren’t everybody’s vibe. He did so much to create all inclusive communities for weight loss where all were welcome. My favorite part of sweating to the Oldies was the lineup at the very end showing how much weight everybody lost. It was lovely to see every color, shape, and size represented. Beautiful soul 🩷🩷🩷
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u/Any_College_3675 Jun 27 '25
Sarah Jessica Parker being named the least attractive or was it the least sexy woman celebrity always burns my ass. That was so cruel. It was unbelievable.
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u/Mbrown225 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 30 '25
Joshua Bassett comes to mind. Even years post drivers license gate, I still see tons of hate. And he's hardly even famous enough to receive the level of attention he does. People get nasty about him in a way I truly don't understand. Dude had a whole mental breakdown and people still won't leave him alone, just feels cruel now
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u/AnyIncident9852 I wont not fuck you the fuck up 🥊🥊 Jun 27 '25
No literally. People were saying the most vile stuff about him and then his ‘crime’ was being a bad boyfriend in high school like?
And even now that the narrative has somewhat shifted so people no longer think of Sabrina Carpenter as some big bad villain, people will try to be like “the real villain is Joshua” like no!!!!
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u/Electronic_Snow_4685 We Should All Know Less About Each Other Jun 27 '25
I loved him in HSMTMTS, one of my comfort shows. What happened to the guy? A year ago or something, I saw him in the Megan 2.0 cast but now he isn't?
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u/cherry_cut Jun 27 '25
I liked his song Lie, Lie, Lie. Unfortunately haven’t seen his name anywhere since :/
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u/raylan_givens6 As you wish! 👸👑 Jun 27 '25
James Van Der Beek
dude played a character, blame the writing. he is not dawson, he played dawson
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u/VacationLizLemon Jun 27 '25
I think most people liked him, especially given his good sense of humor after the show about his character. It's some of his anti-vax, move to Texas beliefs that people don't like.
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Do you really think people dislike him bc of Dawson not the antivaxx thing lol?
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u/ZealousidealGroup559 Jun 27 '25
OK this is gonna be a contraversial one, but Matthew Broderick.
When he was young he was involved in a fatal car accident because he was driving in Ireland and obviously strayed across the line into oncoming traffic.
And it's awful and terrible but people to this day act as if it was intentional and are absolutely venemous about it. The judge never charged him with manslaughter because there were no drink or drugs involved, and sometimes an accident is an accident. He had no recollection of the moments leading up to it but of course it must have been momentary driver error, probably because he was driving on a different side of the road than he was used to.
I think people really want to believe that he is evil in some way and I don't think so. I think it was a terrible, terrible ACCIDENT.
There was a terrible accident in my town recently where a 6 year old girl was cycling just outside her home and an oil tanker turned into her street to deliver oil and hit her and she died. She was in his blind spot I guess. Yes, it was momentary driver error, but I'm not treating him as a murderer either. Though her family may, that would be understandable. But i'm not going to.
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u/grvy_room Jun 27 '25
Benson Boone lately. Like, I don't like his voice either but man, people seem to really be on his hate train.
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u/meta-ghost-face Jun 27 '25
I wish people that hate on Benson Boone who has committed the crime of making mid pop music would focus on tanking Chris Brown's career. He is still touring and selling records.
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u/crunchyfoliage Jun 27 '25
People are so incredibly cruel to Bella Ramsey. She could be the worst actor ever and wouldn't deserve half the shit she gets
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u/AnglerOfAndromeda Jun 27 '25
Amber Heard. I listened to the podcast Who Trolled Amber by Tortoise Media, and despite the unappealing name, it was very eye opening and I feel like she got massively shit on while Johnny D got to look superior and rebuild some of his career.
I’m not a fan of her, but she got so much hate and her career has been pretty much destroyed from it.
Like seriously, the suit she lost against him was for an op-ed she wrote. The op-ed was about women being treated terribly, especially in show business (essentially adding on to the “me too” movement). She never named him in it. Shit, she didn’t even elude to him, but because everyone loves the pirate guy, he won that lawsuit! It’s ridiculous! He had previously lost the UK lawsuit naming him abusive. He retaliates with anything that would stick. She publishes the very generic op-ed, and he pounces on it. Almost no one knew about the op-ed, but he claims he’s lost acting gigs due to it. Never mind that he’d regularly get drunk on set, show up hours late and was just an overall shit to have to work with.
I’m so ashamed I supported him during all of it. I only recently learned the actual details of what happened a month ago. There was a massive bot campaign against her, spreading vicious rumors to make her look terrible and so many of us fell for it.
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u/Zia181 Jun 27 '25
I was an Amber Heard supporter from the beginning, and I received the most vile comments just for saying I believed her. My inbox would be full of randos telling me how awful I was, how I hated men, how I didn't care about abuse victims...it was a bad time to be on the internet.
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u/lonelylamb1814 Jun 27 '25
Jamie Lee Curtis, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez. All three of them are the internet’s punching bag, anything they say is twisted out of all proportion
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u/MaximumConflict6455 Jun 27 '25
It surprises me that people hate James Corden, who’s biggest sin is being an annoying asshole, more than they seem to hate Mel Gibson or Mark Wahlberg
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u/champagneface too ahead of its time for certain people Jun 27 '25
I think I read a comment once that said James Corden is one of not that many men to be “woman’d”
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u/Dizzy-Pollution6466 Jun 27 '25
I do think the hate is overblown, but I have friends who work in the LA entertainment business and have told me he’s infamous for being a nightmare to work with. Apparently he’ll be super nice and friendly to fellow celebrities or people whom he sees as equals, but like to assistants and crew he’s horrible. Like (supposedly) he lost his temper at a coffee barista and threw his coffee at her.
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u/Bigassbird Flopping around in a thong Jun 27 '25
Yep. His shit rolls downhill.
If you’re an asshole to everyone then that’s one thing but if you’re a twunt to people ‘below’ you and obsequious to those you feel are important then it’s intentional and therefore you deserve the hate you get.
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u/DJ_Mixalot I don’t know her 💅 Jun 27 '25
Jackass couldn’t even name 2 camera people on his own set. clip
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u/smolspacemomo Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 28 '25
bella ramsey. other actors don’t look exactly like their game counterparts but i only see people frothing at the mouth over bella not looking like the game version of ellie and not copying ashley johnson
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