Who is a celebrity you used to really like, but don't anymore?
Who is a celebrity you used to really like, but don't anymore?
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Mike Rowe.
Had a really good following when he did Dirty Jobs and then did a hard pivot to conservative, anti-union, pro-profiteering talking head.
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In recent years, television personality Mike Rowe has amassed a wildly popular following due to alleged working-class straight talk about topics ranging from the affordability of college to reasserting a culture of pride in craftsmanship and labor. From his 5.2 million Facebook followers to his cable programs, his everyman schtick, on its surface, can be very appealing: after all, who doesn’t love a hard day’s work and loathe detached, ivory tower eggheads?
But hiding under his superficially appealing blue-collar façade is dangerous ideology, one funded by the Koch Brothers and other far-right, anti-labor corporate interests and specifically tailored to pick off a certain constituency of Home Depot Democrats while pushing political impotence, anti-union narratives and anti-intellectualism. Through a clever combination of working class affectation and folksy charm – often exploiting real fears about a decline in industrialization – Rowe has cultivated an image that claims to be pro-worker, but primarily exists to line the pockets of their boss.
Our guest is Street Fight Radio's Bryan Quinby.
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I have to agree with this. He has become such an asshole.
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Snoop Dogg. Black man playing songs at an orange man’s klan rally, at this point Martha Stewart is more gangster than he is.
By the same token, my respect for Kendrick went up 1000% after his halftime show.
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Yup, coward has been in hiding since the first negative articles came out. Just another sad human showing his greed over what is right.
Hmm maybe there should be a new strain out there sold as Snoop Sellout Kush.
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If I ran a grow op I’d name that strain and funnel the proceeds to help trans kids with counseling and support, just to point the middle finger directly at their latest boogeyman.
Shame since he’s been an icon for so long and helped a lot of kids with the football program, but I guess above a certain level of wealth the only religion you follow is money and everything else including morality is just an opportunity for profit.
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I'm ok with people shutting the fuck up and disappearing when they get called out for being arseholes. In fact, I wish more people were capable of that.
I must have missed the latest Snoop Drama, but don't bother to update me - I don't care about Snoop. He always struck me as a dude that's just constantly baked and will say yes to pretty much anything without too much scrutiny, so he can turn up pretty much ANYWHERE. That's bound to backfire eventually.
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JK Rowling. Why can't she just shut up and write kids books?
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In that regard I have to praise Stephanie Meyer: she made her money and then fucked off, never to be heard from again.
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I'm pretty sure she still writes books.
Though she's been writing some Netflix animated series lately.
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I’m not sure who ever decided it was a good idea for celebrities to write their own brain garbage into social media accounts instead of having their media team handle it. It’s like how you’d never get Hollywood actors appears in a toilet roll advert until the ones they did in Japan got onto the web, and now it’s totally normalised for them to be undignified. I guess all of this coincided with the old star system being replaced by the primacy of IPs and endless “franchises”, where once the film poster used to just show Sandra Bullock and say “look, it’s Sandra Bullock you idiot” and that was enough.
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Will Smith because of what he did to Chris Rock. Guy isn't a genuine role model anymore.
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Yeah. He got slappy wid' it.
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Na-na na-na na na-na!
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Pussy can make man crazy.
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I think Scientology is also somewhat involved
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Will Smith because of what he did to Chris Rock
Honestly even now the whole things looks so staged, almost like they were planning for it to be some kind of inside joke and it went wrong?? I just dont get it, never will.
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Neil Gaiman
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Gaiman stole all his best stuff from Tanith Lee.
She takes all the Disney princesses and rewrites them as evil; Cinderella is a witch who drives the Prince insane and Snow White is a vampire.
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Same
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too bad he really 2 good series going on, the series cancelled them both, not because of his sexual harrasment/assaults, now they cant continue due to publicity anyways.
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Bill Cosby. I was raised on Bill Cosby albums and TV shows. I can't listen to him any more.
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My family had "The Best of Bill Cosby" album when I was a kid and we listened to it a lot. Some of the funniest bits on that album and I always had warm memories sitting and listening to them.
Then it comes out that he's a complete monster. All those family memories tied to that now, it really sucks.
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He's one of the few people who's work I can separate from the monster, but only because it was my first comedy album as a kid
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American Beauty got me to like Kevin Spacey. Kevin Spacey got me to stop liking Kevin Spacey.
E: mother ducking autocorrupt
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Damned shame as he was one of the finest actors working.
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Swimming With Sharks is such an under-rated gem.
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It's not a Lemmy thread without some Star Trek references
Robert Beltran (Chakotey), Roxan Dawson (B'Elanna), and Manu Intiravmi (Icheb).
All three of these actors fell off after ST:Voyager and became vile conservative shit posters. I know Robert especially likes to respond to anti Trump or anti Trump Policy tweets the other ex cast members make with "both sides" arguments.
It's sad in my eyes, but I do hold ST on a pretty high pedestal.
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Aw I didn't know about Roxan. That's honestly really sad
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Add the chick from season 1 of the mandelorian. She's super gross and trumpy.
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It's extremely funny that she ruined her own career, including a likely spin-off starring her, because she wouldn't stop comparing the criticism of conservatives and their beliefs to the mass persecution and murder of Jews during the Holocaust.
It's also extremely funny that she went on to make a movie with The Daily Wire, no one saw it, it got called woke for being an action movie starring a woman.
To top that off, it's also extremely funny that The Daily Wire is FULL of people who couldn't cut it in Hollywood, so they kept self-financing their own shitty movies, and are now in financial trouble.
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gina carano? the former mma laday, ? who was also in ra3.
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Chakotey AND B'Elanna?! My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined 😫
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Chakotey AND B’Elanna
Well they were Maquis after all..
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Well, I always kind of hated Beltran as an actor. Really disappointed about the other 2 though, I had no idea.
Edit: I'm not seeing anything whatsoever on Google about Dawson related to Trump or even the Republicans, aside from one single Reddit post with a similar comment.
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Weird. There used to be screen shot receipts I saw years ago.
Maybe she scrubbed it and turned a leaf? I hope so at least because B'Elanna was my favorite character.
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Dave Chappelle and Dwayne Johnson.
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Why the rock?
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Why the rock?
I believe he refused to endorse Kamala and then like a true coward said he was keeping his political views private, its was pretty sad. The pathetic coward was terrified of a maga boycott of his garbage movies.
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Also of his volunteering with Oprah in Hawaii with the huge fire. Weird seeing humans that have exorbitant amount of money that can actually help, and they're just passing out water bottles to the people that lost their homes saying that "they wish they could do more to help/hope things work out for them." It was a publicity stunt at the expense of people who lost everything.
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hes also a very difficult actor to work with in the industry, hes known as the "ellen degeneres" of male actors. must have as much if not more attention as the lead in a movie, or as much action or more action than other people. also hes pretty much attention seeker, and people compared him to dave bautista, dave is actor, and he only wanted the glory of a movie star.
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Dave jumped off the cliff into the asshole abyss
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musk
There was a time when SpaceX and Tesla seemed like they were gonna change the world for the better, less co2, going to Mars and he even gave a few talks at astronomy events where he spoke about how carbon capture on Mars could be used to make rocket fuel (which is real and has been done btw) and bring starship rockets back, and how that same tech could be used on earth to help fight global warming. The future was gonna be amazing and I honestly believed he was gonna help make it happen
there's a real reason marvel had him in iron man 2
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Yeah, I was never a true believer or fanboy, but back before he lost his mind and fired his PR department, I was cool with the electric cars, space exploration, solar roofs, trains, and even fun flamethrowers.
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Honestly thought there were gonna be downvotes on this one about people saying how Elon never invented anything or founded anything and it was all a persona. I believed it though and all that climate change stuff I thought was genuine.
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Honestly thought there were gonna be downvotes on this one
same but I still wanted to say it. ngl I kinda believe a lot of people base their opinion of what someone is saying just off the upvote/downvotes ratio without thinking about it as much as they could, so the upvotes on this one may have been caused by the first few people seeing it agreeing with it
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Will Smith. More so for his inauthenticity than the slap.
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It goes back aways, but Dennis Miller went from borderline "edgy" to complete wimp and GW simp after 9/11.
Total 180
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Jack Black.
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What’s wrong with Jack Black?
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He basically defended trump when his music partner made a joke.
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jack black has always been a cringey loser, I'm glad the rest of the world is finally waking up to it.
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I could only tolerate him in Airborne (1993), one of my all time favorite movies. I'm not gay, but Shane McDermott...
And the girl, Brittney Powell, pretty hot. Movie had a lot of younger actors before they went big. Seth green, Alanna ubach, jack black.
Orange county (2002) also, kinda forgot he was in that.
Nacho libre is sort of tolerable, but not because of him.
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I still reckon his only really good non-Tenacious D work was Nacho Libre. Everything else has been a load of saccharine nonsense. Even Nacho is kinda saccharine, but it at least has a whacky style to it. "Chancho, when you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room. Just for fun."
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I never liked him. Not for any particular reason really. It's just the vibe I'm getting from him. He doesn't seem authentic.
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Same, loved him when i was little
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why do you people love celebrities so much?
if someone handles a ball nicely, writes a book, sings a song or plays guitar, like them for that and stop assuming they must also be wise in family advice or politically savvy
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You have to be incredibly good at something for me to ignore you being an asshole. There are also certain things that are unforgivable even if the art is good.
It's like Cosby was funny, but he drugged and raped people, so it's hard to laugh at him now.
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Absolutely, but I think you misunderstood me...
Let's pretend for a moment Cosby is not a rapist; why do anyone infer that, because his comedy was good, he would be a good role model or have savvy life advice to give or know about politics, etc?
I completely agree with you that it's is almost impossible to enjoy whatever celebrities do (art, sports, etc) if they are horrible people. however, that line is subjective. Many would still like Cosby if we had found out he does not donate to charity or even if he is an absent dad or if he were a terrible driver... obviously the rapist thing goes too far
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Speak for yourself.
People can decide for themselves on what their standards are and what integrity means.
As it should. It’s part of how a person learns independent thought and critical thinking.
You’ve made your choice. Now Leave people to their’s.
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Chuck Norris.
As a kid growing up in Texas in the 90s, Walker Texas Ranger was cool. Early internet memes about him were hilarious.
Then he said if he were elected president he would "Tattoo an American flag with the words, "In God we trust," on the forehead of every atheist."
Ever since I've been the killjoy, saying "fuck Chuck Norris" to anyone making a Chuck Norris is tough joke.
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jackien chan, he went SHILLING FOR THE CCP sometime ago, and was ousted from HK film industry for that, and he couldnt even make it as a party member. i saw him making news again because he was in cobra kai, that isnt going to save his fame. also abandoned one of his daughters in canada with no money,.
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Same deal with Steven Seagal, used to think he was a badass. Now the shitbag is clinking glasses with Putin and can totally still beat up multiple stuntmen.
You know who actually was a badass and didn’t say a goddamn word about it? Bob Ross. Most people don’t even know he spent years in an Air Force uniform before painting those happy little trees and trying to bring some joy to people.
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I can’t even remember the last time someone said a chuck Norris joke…oh yeah it all died suddenly when he came out as an ultra Christian and revealed he didn’t understand how jokes work. He started correcting people that his tears do not actually cure cancer.
I think MySpace was still a thing back then.
What a bizarre moment that was.
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Dave Chapelle
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Dave Chapelle
Yup, he turned into a dick as he got old. A lot of celebs do that, or they cant afford that PR team anymore that used to make the look like they werent aholes.
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hes basically, why is everyone getting upset about my transphobic jokes. and then all the conservatives start flocking to his show.
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Hulk Hogan, anyone?
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Terry Bolea sucks so bad.
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hot dog skin, and hair of a china doll.
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Whenever I hear his theme song, all I can think of is trailer trash rednecks
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Neil Gaiman amongst many others named here.
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Joe Rogan!
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Yeah early podcasts of hearing a dude talk about scouring the jungle so he can lick a frog for DMT was awesome.
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his early podcast with kevin smith was hilarious because at one point kevin smith stands up to stretch his legs and he was so high he forgot to sit back down
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Dick pills and Fleshlights forever!
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Ricky Gervais.
Liked him ~ The Office, Extras, podcast period, even some of his Golden Globes hosting, but now I find his "edginess" and mugging grating.
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Tooooo CHALLENGING for you?!
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:)
Saw that whole special a few year ago. Love him.
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Ricky Gervais.
Liked him ~ The Office, Extras
Seems to me his shtick got old right around the time "Lifes too Short" came out, that show started out with a few funny gags but by the end of it I was seriously stuck that this entire show was them making fun of a little person for no good reason.
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At some point I realised his "ironic" depictions aren't ironic at all, he genuinely is just an average bigot who likes punching down.
The only difference between him and some racist sexist ableist playground bully from the 1950s is Gervais has managed to convince a swathe of people that is ironic and edgy somehow.
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There's a fine line between poking fun at everything and being insufferably smug, and I reckon he's crossed it a bit. The difference is forgetting to include yourself in 'everything'.
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I was a big fan of the superman portrayal of Dean Cain. Turns out the shit bag is as far away from the ethos of superman as you can be. Fuck him for staining a childhood favorite portrayal of one of my favo characters.
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so many actors became looney christians and or right wing after series of strokes. sorbo is another, and jim cavaziel. Mel became one after he made real antisemitic remarks(and apologized ina condescending way).
i think another one is the shazam guy, the actor hes a scientologist?
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Roger Taylor and Brian May from Queen. Not due to them being overt assholes, but about how the treated the cinematic legacy of Freddy Mercury.
The blocked a movie idea with Sasha Baron Cohen playing Freddie in his flamboyant, over the top lifestyle as they wanted it to be 'more about the band' and they wanted Freddies death to be the middle part of the story, where the last half was them two (as Roger Deacon had walked away from them) protecting Freddies legacy.
I mean, the reason people loved Freddie was over his larger than life persona, and I'm convinced Cohen could've struck the note between the over-the-top, the fabulous and the pesonal Freddie.
Instead we got BoRep, which was an awful movie with a polished up storyline and danger free scenes. Also it was horribly edited.
I must say, they haven't done horrible stuff, they are decent individuals. But they got their succes out of working with Freddie yet they fail to see why everybody was so enchanted by Freddie and not so much by themselves.
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Roger Taylor and Brian May. John Deacon was the bass player and he retired when Freddie died.
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Shit mixed those up, I wrote Deacons' name further down in the comment too...
fixed
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Kevin Spacey. Bill Cosby. Danny Masterson. Steven Tyler. Anthony Kedis.
They are all gross now that I know more about them; some moreso than others.
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To be fair, RHCP has never been more than 75% awesome
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Yeah honestly I debated putting that one in. Under the Bridge is a solid song, and flea and the drummer are independently good.
Honestly just wanted to remind people he admitted to dating a 16 year old when he was 24.
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For me Bill Cosby was not surprising. Danny Masterson was disappointing. I havent yet heard what Steven Tyler or Kevin Spacey did and now I'm afraid to Google it. I have no idea who Anthony Kiedis is.
...just looked them all up...sigh, yeah. I'm with you. It does make it impossible to appreciate the art with that knowledge.
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cringey how miley kunis and asthon kutcher were shilling for him, and then fleeing to the europe, because they are facing criticism or connection to him/ SA. Ellen did the same thing with diddy.
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I kind of feel for people who were close with people who were outed as sex offenders, because they didnt come in on monday "Hey, Danny! How was your weekend?" "Bro I spiked a girls drink and raped her in my car, it was awesome." I worked with a guy for years, his daughter had "issues" and then one day it came out that he was a sexual abuser of his own daughter. Which explained her mental health issues. In that case he quit his job, got his affairs in order and pled guilty. But I still remember thinking he was a great guy, until he wasnt... now I'm going to find it really hard to not pop his nose out the back of his fucking head if I ever run into him again.
Now throw in the potential "attention seeking" behaviors that could happen with famous people, people hoping for a payout, jilted exes and someone you have known for years swearing up and down they didnt do it... Id want to support my friend too.
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I feel like I'm the only one who was always creeper out by Kevin Spacey. American Beauty just seemed like blatant confirmation he was no good to me.
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Ashamed to admit I was once (pre-Sachs phone call) at least intrigued and open to the idea of liking the noted sex pest and abuser Russell Brad. Stuff has continued to get worse.
Had been a fan of Kevin Spacey, too.
Gaga and P!nk have also gone done in my estimations somewhat, but unlike everyone else no serious reason for it.
Obligatory Gaiman and JK Rowling, too.
Edit: oh, and Luis Scott Vargas. Abandoned his pregnant wife for someone else, and started shilling crypto. 😵🤷🏼🙆🏾♂️
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A comedian called Brendan Burns said “he looks like the personification of hepatitis” in a special and I hear that every time I see Russell
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I got about a dozen YouTubers and streamers that fit in this box.
It seems to be inevitable. They either stop posting or streaming, or they reveal themselves to be kind of messed up.
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Anyone with colored hair that screams at the camera in their face is banned from my network. Can't subject my kid to that trash.
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Iskall85 for me.
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Kevin Spacey
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I used to like Katy Perry's music in high-school. Now shes super cringe hanging out with basically our version of Lex Luthor so I dont listen to her music anymore.
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Katy Perry. She got brain rot from dating Russel Brand.
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Kelsey Grammer.
I still can't believe he's riding the Trump train, and is returning as Beast for the new Marvel films at the same time. The cognitive dissonance is confounding me.
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Adding Louis CK to the list. I used to like his shows, and genuinely found the writing and his takes to be thoughtful and helpful. Finding out he was gross and shitty the whole time sucked.
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I never understood this take. Like, did you not actually listen to the shit he said when you "liked" his shows? Did you not see the skit where he went on a morning interview and told his female interviewer that he was going to jerk off to her later and there was nothing she could do about it? If so, how was it actually surprising to hear he jerked off infront of a female coworker after he told her he was going to do it? You can separate the art from the artist all you want, but at some point you have to realize that all that art came from somewhere.
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I believe that skit was about christofascist suppression of masturbation so it was appropriate at the time. The interviewer was surnamed "Fapper".
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A lot of his humor was based on things you want to do but don't. So exploring dark desires that you should not act on is reasonable for comedy. Then it comes out that he did some of that stuff and it's not funny anymore.
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I didn't see that skit.
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Him and every celebrity flying monkey that rushed to his side to defend him.
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hes it disappointing he had the foreknowledge to shield his "cancellation" by moving it all online shows. he pratically came back amonsgt conservatives people and men who dint know his past history.
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Sarah Silverman, said the palestinian babies need to die because theyll grow up to be terrorists then turned off comments for a year on ig, she said more than that had a whole tirade, ruined her. Shes back now pretending she didnt say anything, pr team put in work. My post on her reddit got deleted so I stopped caring about telling ppl, but this made me remember.
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Really enjoyed the sarah silverman show, learning this and the cop in her show who was jimmy in bobs burgers went to the jan 6th riots really ruined it for me.
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Carlos Sobera, a really great TV host in Spain, with the boom of sport betting websites and almost no regulations on the ads, he became the face of one of those websites with very aggressive tactics.
He also started to appear on ads for a payday loan company.
So he was promoting gambling and high interest small loans that are used by gambling adicts.
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Warren Ellis, though his forum looked super cult-like even at the time. He seemed like one of the good guys.
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I don't follow other people's private activities, but this one hurt a lot. He remains one of my favourite authors, and having him disappear from publishing leaves holes in my library (Trees and Injection, in particular).
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Tobey Maguire, "the worst tipper, the best player, and the absolute worst loser."
Read More: https://www.looper.com/10857/hollywood-wont-cast-tobey-maguire-anymore/
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Throughout that entire article, only the poker stuff had anything to actually fault Maguire with, and it appears to depend entirely on what Molly Bloom said.
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Brad Pitt seemed cool at one point then he got his first divorce.
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A divorce is grounds for disliking somebody?
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In the wake of his divorce there were a handful of comments from Jennifer Anniston that suggested he was abusive. This has since been backed up by his last wife and several of his kids.
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I wouldn't be surprised if he turns out to be insufferable in real life, but he got too long of a list of movies I love!
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Oh, Garrett Borns. Such fantastic pop music, got accused of grooming, retired.
Came back, years with a whiny track about that, not even good, so bad, I guess it broke him.
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Mamet went full MAGA
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Kind of makes you wonder if he understood his own plays, right?
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Too long a list.
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David Draiman. Sadly I can’t listen to the guy sing anymore without my brain thinking of the horrors he is actively supporting.
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He's hardly a celebrity but I'd say Van Neistat (Casey's brother)
I was all in when he started his YouTube channel and found him really relatabe and interesting but it took less than half a year and it became painfully obvious that he's only doing it for the money and it shows. That's about the fastest I've gone from discovering a new interesting person to losing my respect for them.
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rob of isaip, the actor became a Hollywood addict(trying to stay relevant in the industry and basically he became his own jokes of what his isaip used to joke about ) his post-steroid phase of the show interviews(during the pandemic ones) make seem like hes so pretentious.especially one he "rescued a stray dog, and reunited the family" no you dint, you were planning to keep that dog until a "pet investigator on social media was planning to dox you for almost stealing the dog. and he starting collaborating with questionable characters(football star, ryan reynolds and the uk football team), people in those videos said he seemed so fake as a person, especially now they had plastic surgery.( the whole cast besides charlie and danny had plastic surgery of some sort), they said they were so sad because theya re trying to stay young and in spotlight of HW. sad they dont wont get much work outside of ISAIp, and thier other shows arnt that good.
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there is something about celebrity worship to be inferred from the fact that there is only 1 non-american celebrity listed in this tgread (spanish news anchor).
that or it is selection bias
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Kevin Smith.
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I don't exactly follow him but why? I've never heard anything controversial he did.
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I think people here are taking OPs question a little bit to seriously and Kevin Smith is 100% a valid answer. The question was about someone you "liked" and don't "like" now. Not, who turned out to be a horrible person.
Kevin Smith hasn't done anything controversial and genuinely seems like a nice man enjoying life and good for him. But, artisticly his movies have fallen off considerably in my opinion and lack any effort/message. Personality wise he's also made a major shift. Previously being more thoughtful and critical of things to now kind of just gone full "happy stoner shill".
As someone who grew up in 90s New Jersey Kevin Smiths and his early work will always hold a special place in my heart but I'll probably never watch anything new he'll ever make the rest of my life.
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Not OP, but mildly controversial was his movie Red State. It was a not-so-subtle take on the Westboro Baptist Church and their stance on gays.
Or maybe they're still upset about Jersey Girl, which was way too common and wholesome for the guy behind Jay and Silent Bob.
(Hot take: if Jersey Girl didn't have Smith or Carlin, it would've been mildly praised at the time and then mostly forgotten)
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I've gotten into arguments with friends about this, but decades ago I stayed home from work sick and watched his Netflix special about how he got kicked off a Southwest flight for being too fat. I was raised religious and have evolved my thoughts over the years, but his parents were in a audience, and he said some of the most crass shit I've ever heard. My parents would've washed my mouth out with soap if I said what he said. I understand overall he's very generous, but seeing his special left a bad taste in my mouth.
Plus, jorts.
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