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From shocking allegations to unexpected backlash, some celebrities find themselves the target of the Internet’s harshest criticism almost overnight. Whether due to personal controversies, misunderstood roles, or public missteps, once-adored stars can quickly face waves of online hate. Dive into the stories behind the sudden turnarounds in public opinion and discover what triggered these internet uproars.
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00:00i did i did my stunts because i thought that that's what everyone did tom cruise over here
00:05no i'll be the first me not the next tom cruise thank you very much welcome to miss mojo and
00:10today we're looking at once beloved celebrities who the internet decided they hated almost
00:15overnight what do you mean what do you what do you mean what do you mean
00:22david harbour lily allen's 2025 album included some devastatingly brutal takedowns of her
00:29cheating ex considering she had just divorced stranger things star david harbour it didn't
00:41take the internet long to connect the dots timed almost perfectly with the rollout of the netflix
00:47show's final season the internet was alight with speculation jokes and downright vitriol towards
00:53harbour he goes on to explain that his hesitation stands from how highly reported the split was
00:58in the media not always accurately depicting the story he continues i'm protective of the people
01:04and the reality of my life users began compiling evidence of harbour's potential mistreatments of
01:10allen within weeks allegations arose that harbour's co-star millie bobby brown had filed a complaint
01:15against him for bullying it only added fuel to the fire one shocking report claims before season five
01:21began shooting the 21 year old complained about being bullied and harassed by david on the set
01:27filed pages and pages of allegations anna gunn we're supposed to learn pretty young that the actors
01:33aren't the people they play on tv but for years breaking bad star anna gunn was dogged by legitimate
01:39hatred over her character skylar white happy birthday to you happy birthday
01:54the wife of secret drug kingpin walter white skylar got a lot more hate for character traits than her
02:01dangerous sociopathic husband ever did i am not in danger skylar i am the danger a guy opens his door and
02:08gets shot and you think out of me no i am the one who knocks gunn ended up on the receiving end of
02:16some truly heinous and intolerable cruelty from online users in 2013 the online abuse and death
02:23threats she endured compelled her to detail her experience in an op-ed for the new york times and i
02:29just felt that it was important towards the end of the show i wrote an op-ed for the new york times about
02:33it because i'd been asked about it so much and it seemed to me that it was reflecting how we still
02:39are perceiving gender roles john mulaney the stand-up comedian's friendly self-aware persona
02:45came back to bite him in 2020. john mulaney struggles with substance use disorder his divorce
02:51and his new relationship with actress olivia munn seemed to hit the headlines almost all at once it's been
02:58very incredible and she's kind of held my hand through that hell um and we're having a baby
03:05audiences felt betrayed particularly because much of his comedy had revolved around his marriage the
03:10whole event inspired a new round of think pieces about parasocial relationships and social media's
03:16obsession with people's personal lives i got married yes and i had a little girl yeah yeah
03:24oh my god mulaney and munn have since had two children together and he has launched a successful
03:31and experimental netflix talk show everybody's live with john mulaney it may have been an early
03:37birthday celebration for olivia who turned 43 on july 3rd but the x-men star loves honoring her two
03:43special guys too last month proud mom paid tribute to john in a cute father's day post rachel zegler
03:50it's common for fans to have strong feelings about casting but this went way too far i will elbow
03:56everyone out of the way to play that part uh but it was very sweet and it was a very short audition
04:01process for me i did one more screen test and then it was just so exciting from the word going ever since
04:06she was announced as the live-action snow white rachel zegler has been a magnet for internet abuse
04:12zegler's criticism of the original animated feature left her open to backlash there's a big focus on
04:18her love story um with a guy who literally stalks her weird weird so we didn't do that this time
04:26the fact that she's latina was enough to make some fans irate about her being cast it was reminiscent
04:33of criticism lobbed toward hallie bailey when she was cast as the little mermaid two years before for
04:39some snow white's disastrous critical reception was laid at zegler's door even though the movie had a
04:45lot of things going against it good things were nurtured and allowed to grow i remember
04:57do you brie larson like i'm my hair is on fire you know and it's this like cool like thing yeah allow me
05:04to show you my first take this was my first attempt at it breaking barriers doesn't always
05:12make everyone happy brie larson's casting as captain marvel in the 2019 movie made her the first woman
05:19to lead an mcu film the announcement saw the oscar winner hit with a wave of hate from superhero fans
05:25i have nothing to prove to you larson's feminist statements calls for more diverse pools of press
05:31tour interviewers and valid criticism of marvel itself for its lack of diversity at the time made
05:37her a target for abuse all these new relationships being built and you know we kind of get to come
05:42back and meet each other again see each other again there's a real i think affection among the cast
05:46members except for no this is terrible the movie itself became the victim of review bombing on rotten
05:52tomatoes both before and after it was released pedro pascal on the internet one day you're everyone's
06:00husband the next day millions of people are filing for divorce everyone's like daddy daddy yeah daddy
06:07daddy right and then a year later he's like in everything now because he's hot and big and
06:13everyone's like go the way dude video footage of pedro pascal rubbing co-star vanessa kirby's arm
06:19touched off an unexpected maelstrom of harassment and allegations of inappropriate behavior users unearthed
06:26every possible piece of footage of him interacting with his female co-stars in order to smear him that
06:32wasn't very fair though we really weren't doing no i didn't think so we protested back but we were
06:36talking too much no but we were speaking softly ultimately the smear campaign has largely been
06:43attributed to a british anti-trans activist whose problem with the actor seems to stem from pascal's
06:49support of the trans community pascal's response was far more classy and dignified than it had to be
06:54but that's only because they wrote my name down before you asked the question because they're so
07:00good at games yeah jennifer lawrence we get there and i'm like where's the pizza
07:07oh my god you want me to order it and i just like looked at her and i was like
07:15skyrocketing to fame and critical acclaim as the headliner of a major franchise jennifer lawrence is not
07:21your average movie star the hunger game star brought a refreshing authenticity to her public
07:26persona that the internet loved until they didn't jennifer lawrence is known for her unfiltered candor
07:32many love her for it but actress chloe seminy isn't among them in an interview with v magazine chloe
07:38says she finds the oscar winner quote annoying and crass while doing press for die my love she even
07:44confessed that she understands why people began to turn on her over exposure and her insistence that she
07:50wasn't like other hollywood actresses made what was once seen as relatability come across as fake
07:56lawrence says she knew the public perception had turned a corner when ariana grande parodied her on
08:02saturday night live just like a snackaholic i mean i love pringles if no one's looking i'll eat like a
08:07whole can like every day is my cheat day you know what i mean oh oh how annoyingly relatable kendall jenner
08:14the people i was following were so iconic and amazing michael jackson's done it britney spears has
08:20done it beyonce has done it pink the list goes on the kardashian jenner clan are magnets for envy and
08:27criticism they're often seen as the epitome of out-of-touch wealthy people who are famous for
08:32being famous hi hey what are you doing literally nothing i'm just in my closet in 2017 kendall jenner
08:41starred in an embarrassingly wrong-headed ad showing her ending a tense standoff between protesters and
08:48police by offering the cops a pepsi the internet reaction was so swift and brutal that the ad was
08:54removed the very next day jenna's lack of social activism and lack of sensitivity in starring in the
09:00ad was a one-two punch of cringe that social media just couldn't resist this is just going to be the
09:06biggest lesson learned for you but i really don't even know what to do at this point like it's really
09:14depressing and it bothers me every single day blake lively the behind the scenes of it ends with us has
09:20more twists than the movie itself lively accusing baldoni of sexual harassment on set and also alleging
09:26he waged a smear campaign aimed at damaging her reputation legal battles between executive
09:32producer star blake lively and director star justin baldoni have been ongoing since before its release
09:39videos of lively's less than kind behavior in a series of interviews went viral first of all
09:45congrats on your little bump congrats on your little bump what about my bump
09:53you've got two nice ones was she on her best behavior no but was the timing suspicious very much
09:59so lively and her legal team thought so too she alleged that the bad press and sudden downturn in
10:05public opinion was the result of a calculated smear campaign carried out by baldoni's team the complaint
10:11also alleges that baldoni fearing lively would make her claims public hired a crisis management team
10:17to destroy her reputation whether the sudden hatred was a genuine phenomenon or the result of public
10:23relations magic is hard to pass but the timing was questionable yeah be a disney princess ever oh
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10:49anne hathaway and the worst thing you know it was so awful people thought that i did it intentionally to
10:54get like you know to wind up in papers and stuff when the star of les miserables won her oscar it was
10:59like the opposite side of the same coin anne hathaway's professional success seemed matched only by the hate
11:06she was receiving on social media on a daily basis hathaway muddled through a co-hosting gig at the 2011
11:13oscars with james franco who effectively blamed her for the weird chemistry uh here you are hosting the
11:19oscars in 2011 with james franco we sucked we sucked then the internet began to see her as inauthentic
11:28trying too hard to be likable of all the terrible things people in hollywood could do it's interesting
11:33that this became such a focus reflecting on it years later hathaway said the online hate actually
11:39threatened to make her unhirable you don't love yourself when someone else says horrible things to
11:44you a part of you is always going to believe them yep and i so then it was like okay i don't want to
11:51believe these people what celebrity do you think got a bad rap for no reason tell us in the comments
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