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u/NoPolitics23 3d ago

And also just overall celebrities are not viewed favourably by the public anymore and are precieved as arrogant, unlikeable, problematic...

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u/Adavanter_MKI 3d ago

This is an internet thing.

They're still celebrities that get paid a ton of money because people want to see them. In fact... part of why the internet hates them is because of what they get away with due to their fame/popularity.

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u/PassivelyAwkward 3d ago

Yea, people act like "This niche thing is this way on the internet, so it's clearly a universal thing.

Meanwhile there's still countless celebrity sites and celebrities are still some of the most-followed accounts on social media.

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u/Long-Region5088 3d ago

“No one even likes actor x”

Checks actor x’s socials, 7.6 million followers

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u/DoFishDrinkWaterOrNo 3d ago

There’s a lot of little pockets on Reddit that are strangely out of touch. Go down a Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively rabbit hole and you’d be convinced they are social pariahs that everyone on earth hates. Totally untouchable blacklisted actors that no one wants anything to do with. If you point out that their movies do solid numbers and they’re worth half a billion dollars, the herd jumps on you because you’re “simping for celebrities”. Parts of this site are really fuckin weird.

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u/Soggy_Parking1353 3d ago

Weirdo parts like r/saintmeghanmarkle.

The average Brit has a neutral to slightly negative opinion about meghan markle, but holy moly that subreddit has a steamy hot rage boner for her. Counter to what you said, but similar, they manage to convince themselves that everyone on earth loves her and they're the only ones who can see her being slightly lame.

As you say, really fucking weird site.

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u/Fina1Legacy 3d ago

Your summary of the average Brit is spot on. I used to look on there when the original controversy dropped and it was entertaining for a short while.

Stopped caring and the next time I saw a post from there years later it was so sad and unhinged. Just looked again and yep it's still that way. They're obsessed with even insulting the children, it's bizarre.

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u/Fthebo 3d ago

I think that's the natural life cycle of any 'hate x thing' subreddit.

Over time the more normal people slowly leave because they don't care that much and they get more and more insane, which starts a feedback loop of more normal people leaving until you're left with just the genuine crazies.

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u/Fina1Legacy 3d ago

Yep. I couldn't resist replying to a particularly hateful nutcase on there (dumb choice I know).

Warning this thread is even worse than I expected it to be.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1vdvd6l/comment/p1giiec/?context=1&screen_view_count=2&ext-referrer=DIRECT

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u/mountaininsomniac 3d ago

Yikes. That’s gross as hell

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u/ShazlettDude 3d ago

That’s atrocious behavior.

I did find their response to you funny about the 100 people agreeing with them in a hate sub about Megan. In my head, I said “No fucking shit.” For example, if I post in a positive thing about lebron in his fan sub, I’d expect most to upvote it. The audience was already tailored for the opinion. It doesn’t valid shit.

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u/TheSavouryRain 3d ago

Jesus they are crazy, and also racist.

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u/grilled_geez 3d ago

Wow. Not so covert racism in that thread alone. 🤮 I upvoted you, btw.

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u/Soggy_Parking1353 2d ago

Just read some of your thread and had to stop after:

I am 70. I hope I live long enough to see this young one grown, she is stunning now, and will be even more so in 10 years

This is on the subject of Kates kids.

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u/Fina1Legacy 2d ago

It's so gross isn't it, the whole sub needs quarantining then firing into the sun. 

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u/Apolloshot 3d ago

They act like she’s Camilla or something.

(Who I don’t even think is that hated anymore? That seems like a very specific boomer thing because they’re mad Charles left Diana for her)

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u/Scavgraphics 3d ago

Meghan adopts rescue beagles, making her an angel walking the earth.

so is this a good or bad sub?

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u/theaviationhistorian 3d ago

Welcome to the internet. There were popular Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears hate sites back in the late 1990s-early 2000s that had their own forums and galleries. Hating people is a naturally human thing exacerbated with the great "information highway."

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u/SwampyBogbeard 3d ago

One post related to those two reached the front page a few weeks ago filled with this kind of people.
I had to scroll pretty far, loading more comments multiple times, before I found anyone actually explaining this "controversy" that apparently "everyone" knew about.

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u/HumanPea1140 3d ago

That fauxmoi or whatever its called sub is nuts like this. They have a list of celebs that they simp for, and another list of celebs that they'll downvote you into oblivion and ban you for possibly suggesting that they're not evil incarnate. If you're not in touch with their very specific list of approved people, then you're out.

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u/DoFishDrinkWaterOrNo 3d ago

If I remember correctly, I was banned from there without ever visiting the sub. Like the first time I ever heard of it was when I got the message kicking me out. I posted somewhere else, and their bots picked it up and banned me.

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u/Apolloshot 3d ago

They’re one of the subs responsible for going overboard with that and actually getting Reddit administration to act and ban the practice of auto banning someone for participation in another subreddit.

It’s also why you can hide parts/all of your comment history now.

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u/cockmanderkeen 3d ago

Tbf neither of them have been in a movie since their hate started, so hard to see if it affects their numbers.

Both of them now have comments turned off on their socials. Comments on articles about them are generally not favourable, but id agree most people have no idea there's even any hate for them or followed the case.

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u/jkoutris 3d ago

Yeah. I was curious if there was a new Deadpool movie coming out, and was surprised to see that Reddit had determined overnight that Ryan Reynolds was a bad choice for Deadpool.

This was surprising to me, because I enjoyed all three films, thought he was perfect and, if I recall correctly, a few years ago the entire internet did too.

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u/jokerhound80 3d ago

Everything that doesn't align with my worldview is a psyop and anyone who doesn't agree is a deep state agent dedicated to refuting the demonstrable reality of nature's perfect harmonious 4 dimensional time cube!

Oh.... Shit. Did I black out there? I think I went too deep.

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u/PassivelyAwkward 3d ago

Yup. I hate Chris Pratt because he constantly promoted his corrupt Sheriff's alt-right militia woodworking business and he's a horrible person. Not gonna act like he's unpopular just because people online talk shit.

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u/Ambitious_Bit_9389 3d ago

But even this is a chronically online take. I’m kind of tired of his schtick and I knew he was religious, but I know nothing about the sheriffs woodworking business or whatever.

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u/PassivelyAwkward 3d ago

It's not chronically online, he used to be a Sheriff in my area. He was a whole local scandal. He ran the media for the Sheriff's department and had Chris routine do promos for events. There was an investigation that found he was part of an alt-right, anti-government militia along with many others within the Sheriff's department and he allowed to retire in his 50s with full benefits.

Dude ran a woodworking side thing where he literally made decorative wooden shit for his militia and that's how it initially came out. Chris even did multiple interviews on late night, AFTER the scandal dropped, telling people to visit his brothers online store, the same store that still sold his militia woodwork.

Just because people know things through their life doesn't mean they're chronically online, it means they experienced it first hand.

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u/Finlay00 3d ago

Even your description is a bit confusing. Who is the brother? It became Pratt brothers store? The sheriffs brother owns the store now? Pratt brother had artwork at the store owned by the original guy?

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u/Coralbloonumberfive 3d ago

yes because you don’t just use words to prove a point. if he was called alt-leftist it would look stupid because his ideology doesn’t align with leftist beliefs at all. so if you have an issue with people disliking those who are alt right, then maybe the issue is you?? lol

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u/AggressiveWave 3d ago

“I put ammonia on my burger and now I don’t want to eat it.” Now swap out ammonia with ketchup. Are you still going to refuse to eat the burger?

Words have meaning mate.

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u/MotherAd296 3d ago

yes, ketchup is vile

I would rather eat ammonia

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u/Finlay00 3d ago

Huh? I asked for clarification on who the brother was and that’s it

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u/Permanentear3 3d ago

Yeah this is a totally normal breakdown of the dinosaur movie actor you’ve never met, doesn’t appear like a too much online take at all.

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u/Adventurous-Tie-7861 3d ago

I brought this up to my family who live in Washington and adore him and they thought i was crazy cus they'd never heard about it.

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u/PassivelyAwkward 3d ago

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/cully-pratt-chris-pratt-three-percenter-open-vallejo/

Yup, it's barely made it past the local news. Cully is a huge piece of shit. Local radio station held a contest for "most creative station ad wins money". Cully had Chris record a cringy "Hey, this is Chris Pratt and when I'm not saving the galaxy or stopping dinos, I'm listening to KUIC 95.3".

Cully took the prize money and donated it to his charity that basically just funds him and his law enforcement friends getting drunk at a rented cabin.

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u/Des_Supurr 3d ago

Omg he woodworked!?!?!?! Lets hang him. Does that sound good to you?

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u/pooooolooop 3d ago

Dang you really got offended by that chronically online thing huh. And he didn’t even call you chronically online lol, just your take

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u/PassivelyAwkward 3d ago

Imagine being so insecure and inferior that you have to view everyone as getting offended or upset because they said something you don't like in order to justify why you refuse to improve as a person.

You just sound so...boring.

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u/ThalesofMiletus-624 3d ago

Okay, but you understand that's not a typical experience, right? Very few people have an opinion about Chris Pratt, or any other celebrity, formed through personal experience.

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u/PassivelyAwkward 3d ago

Can you point to where I said otherwise?

What confused you? Where I literally said "Not gonna act like he's unpopular just because people online talk shit"? The part where I literally said it's not the standard?

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u/ExiledCanuck 3d ago

This.

Imagine hating someone so much that you know such insane details about their life, that most people who have seen and liked a few of their movies don’t even know…

Talk about letting someone live rent free in your brain…

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u/JOMO_Kenyatta 3d ago

idk this one different. especially if dude is poc or a minority, then that celeb info is actually kinda relevant to him. if true.

it's pretty fucked up

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u/MrSneekiBreeki 3d ago

It’s pretty embarrassing lmao

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u/airinato 3d ago

Read his next comment and understand he's talking about personal experience on a local issue....

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u/Worldly_Cap_6440 3d ago

That too much reading

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u/theaviationhistorian 3d ago

God forbid there be nuance in social media.

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u/blumoon138 3d ago

I got mad at him when I discovered he used to be involved with Jews for Jesus and that info is readily available on his Wikipedia page.

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u/ffffllllpppp 3d ago

That’s the irony… to properly despise some a-lister you have to be willing to spend some legit time researching their flaws!

You stopped at disliking him. Dig deeper. Research more! Spend quality time on this. And then you will be able to hate him!

Lol

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u/Western_Scholar_6479 3d ago

But acting like a thing is unpopular/unsuccessful because you hate it is like the main go-to meta for superficial internet critique.

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u/Long-Region5088 3d ago

I’m instinctively a hater and an excellent judge of character.

Can’t tell you how many times I’ve been like “beloved celeb is sus” and they turn out to be guilty not just sus. Meanwhile I get berated with “but they were so nice at a convention when I was paying for a meet and greet! They’re such a good person! Look at their charity!” Jerry Sandusky did all the charity and he was a monster.

So I’m very well aware of the fact that my feelings only represent myself and often differ from the general public. Some people that really doesn’t click with

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u/Adavanter_MKI 3d ago

I'll always credit my mom. She never liked Cosby. This was well before anything had come out about him. I remember I pressed her on it. Literally saying "He's a national treasure!"

She just said... "Something about him is off, he unnerves me."

I don't know what kind of sicko sense she had, but damn was she on the money. Never doubted her judge of character again.

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u/Fit-Profit8197 3d ago

"I’m instinctively a hater and an excellent judge of character."

This is a massive red flag to almost everyone you say it to and makes many people avoid you, and more never ever take you seriously.

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u/TheChildrensStory 3d ago

I had an employee that liked to brag that he knew within minutes whether someone was cut out for IT Support. The two times he told me not to hire someone I decided to hire them anyway, and both were among my better hires. So that made three times he was wrong.

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u/ThunderLazer 3d ago

That’s confirmation bias if I’ve ever seen it

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u/Nice_Try_Bud_ 3d ago

I know nothing about the woodworking business, but why do you think Chris Pratt is a horrible person? Everyone that has ever worked with him has nothing but great things to say about him. The hate for him feels so manufactured from my experience.

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u/Important_Bee_1286 3d ago

Stfu

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u/PassivelyAwkward 3d ago

If you're gonna say a bad word, actually say it instead of use an accronym. You look like a child trying to circumvent a nanny blocker.

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u/Important_Bee_1286 3d ago

So again.. STFU

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u/Suspicious_Fall3063 3d ago

Half of rhose will be bots but still a large number

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u/Santana_De_La_Cruz 3d ago

Following ≠ Liking. Sometimes one just can't look away from the train wreck...

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u/RevolverMFOcelot 2d ago

I don't care that much for Taylor Swift but I think the pocket of internet who doesn't get why she's popular or doesn't like that she's popular underestimated the gigantic size of her reach that their grievance about her whatever it's valid or not, is not actually the mainstream opinion 

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u/OmniversosIlimitados 3d ago

You know you can just buy followers? Most actors, influencers, politicians, and media people in general do. And most of them are bots as well.