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According to YouGov, the most popular people in America right now are: 1. Morgan Freeman, 2. Samuel L. Jackson, 3. Tom Hanks, 4. Sean Connery, and 5. Denzel Washington.

However, public opinion, and, in turn, this list, are susceptible to change. So we asked our Facebook followers who became extremely unpopular, and they immediately started sharing names.

From opinionated singers and controversial actors to outspoken activists and beleaguered royals, continue scrolling to check out the ones they mentioned and upvote the submissions you agree with!

#1

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Richard Jewel the guy discovered a bomb, saved countless lives, and was dragged through the mud by the fbi, and the press. When they vindicated him the damage had been done.

Rich Daswick , jewellrichard Report

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Green Tree
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

1996 Atlanta Olympics. This guy was the security guard who saw the bomb, reported it and that started clearing people from the area when it detonated and killed somebody. The FBI initially interviewed him as a suspect and cleared him pretty quickly but in the meantime the new 24 hour news channels absolutely dragged his name through the mud as the suspect. Absolutely shameful.

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#2

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason The woman who got burned with the McDonald’s coffee. That was a pretty horrific injury she got and this was not their first rodeo with high temp injuries.

Laura Phelps Brosi , Erik Mclean / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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T'Mar of Vulcan
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There were 700 - *700!* - complaints about the coffee before Stella Leibeck got burnt. I saw pics of her injuries - they were *horrific*.

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#3

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Sinead O Connor.... she was right all along.

Angel Ivany , Man Alive! / flickr Report

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Referring to when she ripped a picture of the Pope (John Paul II) because of child abuse charges in the church.

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#5

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Anita Hill
* I still believe her.

Reid Rosenbarger , Gage Skidmore / wikipedia Report

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PattyK
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Absolutely told the truth. And now we begin to see what a liar Clarence Thomas was/is.

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#6

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Jack Kevorkian. Death with dignity is important. He was a pioneer.

Sarah Lane , Kingkongphoto / wikipedia Report

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Regina Holt
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Would YOU want to be suffering in pain for years knowing the pain would never end? Would you want your beloved pet dog to be in miserable pain and discomfort that will never end?

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#8

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Vietnam Vets

Jim Rice , sydney Rae / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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talliloo
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i'd upvote this several times if i could. as a kid i didn't understand the treatment of my dad when he returned from overseas - the name calling, the spitting on his uniform. my dad held his head high during it all. after all these years i offered to take him on an honor flight to the memorial and he declined as it still causes him pain...and there is anger there as well towards the protesters. not because they were against the war but that they took their anger out on the soldiers/sailors/pilots who were living up to their oath and not the politicians that were using it as part of the military industrial complex cash machine. however, he is glad to see that those who do protest actions now have realized the separation of those who give policies and actions and those who have sworn to uphold their oath of honor

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#10

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Jack Gleeson, the guy portrayed the most punchable character (Joffrey Baratheon) in Game of Thrones and did his job so well people hated him for no reason.

John Michael Pilongo Report

#11

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Nickelback. They sound like so many other 2000s bands and I don’t get how the hate for them started

Catherine Ferreira , JKMusicGroup / wikipedia Report

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#12

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Dr. Frankenstein's "monster." Grossly misunderstood.

Kevin Jones Report

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Marianne
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the name of the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein was the monster all the same.

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#13

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Janet jackson

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Sergy Yeltsen
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She wore all the scandal of "Nipplegate" while Timberlake stood back and said nothing. And the rest of the world saw how incensed the US got over a bare breast with covered nipple, and said "WTF?"

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#14

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Nicholas Cage. So many people hate his acting. He might have picked the wrong movie here and there but there’s far more worse actors around than him these days!

Koen Devogel , Moritz Barcelona / wikipedia Report

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Hans Georg
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn't he admit himself that he took many bad roles just for the money? I don't think that he is a bad actor.

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#15

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason PeeWee Herman

Camille Zengen , Alan Light / wikipedia Report

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T'Mar of Vulcan
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was caught in an adult theatre BY HIMSELF. Oh, no, how shocking. *Rolls eyes* Who cares what someone does off the clock?

Guess Undheit
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Robert Morris, fundy christian pederast pastor admitted recently to raping a woman starting when she was 12 and doing it repeatedly over years. Meanwhile, rightwingnuts are still more "offended" by Rubens's acts in an adults-only theatre. He was only arrested because creepy pervert cops were looking there instead of looking into churches.

Tabitha
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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yet another actor who the public cannot separate from the fictional character they played. Because his performances were considered to be for kids, the public finding out he indulged in porn if what did it—-even though he wasn’t hurting anybody else.

Nimitz
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Other men in that theater were doing the same thing. However the cop noticed that Paul was looking at other men and decided to target him for being gay. His career was destroyed entirely by a homophobic cop. This was normal at the time. Raiding adult theaters and saunas so they could destroy the lives of queer people.

CSC
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have always loved him. Who cares what he does in the dark, hurting nobody.

Spannermonkey
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow. This prompted me to check the actual story. The version I had assimilated was horrible. The truth not even worthy of comment. Poor bloke.

Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Paul Rubens. Hated that character. I liked him in the Cheech and Chong movies though. Yeah I'm that old.

Patrick Linnen
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What people forget is that PeeWee Herman started out as a raunchy character sketch. All the R rated stuff was cut to make the kids show.

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smithyjones
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Meanwhile, lauren boebert & her boyfriend were boobie honking & peen rubbing in a crowded theater with no punishment

Barbara Wilcock
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How many men (and women) are sat at home doing the same thing. In those days he went to the theatre. So what

Nikole
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was visiting his mom in Florida and I guess felt weird about jerking off in her house, so he went to the theatre (where everyone was jerking off). Absolutely ridiculous how he was vilified.

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Greg Wilhelm
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He went to my highschool and the theatre was in the same town.

Rafael
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It always confused me why the hell was the point of a porn theatre if you weren't supposed to jerk off there. Also, was curious as to why he needed to go to a theatre in the first place when the adult section of the rental place was just a curtain away. No, I don't use dentures, and my pants are at a normal length. Why do you ask?

CarolinaGirl
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean exactly what else is someone supposed to do while in the porn theater ??

CarolinaGirl
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean exactky what else is someone supposed to do in the porn theater?? 🤷

Calvin Smelliott
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whaaaaaaa!?!? He mast-eerr-bates? In a place that plays movies you do that to?!?! How dare he????

MalibuClassicMan
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

PeeWee playing with his pee pee; people was just mad cause they wanted to do the same thing themselves but didn't have the "tool" to whip out I bet.

Eric Williams
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

C'mon people...everybody does it, even the ladies...don't they??

Daniel Molin
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Arrested and charged for possession of child porn.

Pamelot
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4 months ago

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So in the category "who didn't deserve it", I dunno here. An icon for children arrested for perverse behavior in a public place?

Fat Harry (Oi / You)
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh do f**k off. He's an adult and was arrested in an adult theatre. As if adults doing adult things in adult places with absolutely no children involved is a terrible thing. It's not like he's running to be president or anything.

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#17

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Colin Kapernick

Connie Stolz , Mike Morbeck / flickr (not the actual photo) Report

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Fancy Nancy
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He kneeled during the national anthem. That's a poignant and respectful protest! He was bringing attention to black people being treated violently and even killed by cops. That's a real issue.

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#18

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Jonny Depp. Amber Heard was unstable from day 1 and they blamed him for ever that happened without hearing her version in person. Just seeing her lying in court proved everyone wrong immediately.

Sapphire Kozak , Harald Krichel / wikipedia Report

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Gavin Johnson
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Two toxic people meet and one is slightly more toxic than the other. They head to court and their secrets are made public, one has a better council than the other and is the darling of the media, they win the PR battle. The two people are still toxic.

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#19

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Winona Ryder

Suzanne Sherrill , Karon Liu / wikipedia Report

#20

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Al Franken deserved a little shade, maybe - but not nearly the amount of backlash that he got. Currently serving politicians have done 100x worse.

Amhrán Menagerie , Studio-Rebecca Hammel / wikipedia (not the actual photo) Report

#21

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Pamela Anderson, I'm so glad she's doing well these days because the world was absolutely horrible to her

Becky Clarke , elevatefestival / wikipedia Report

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I must have missed a decade or so but why did people hate her? She's not the best actress for sure but there are a lot of bad actors and actresses out there.

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#22

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Jane Fonda, for being anti Vietnam War

Jeffrey Wallen , Georges Biard / wikipedia (not the actual photo) Report

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Marja Berisa
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She was more or less tricked to pose with the gun. She makes it very clear in her autobiography that she never disrespected Vietnam vets or had any "anti-American" opinions. A great lady and a fantastic actor.

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#24

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason MC Hammer. He was called a sell out for doing a (Pepsi, I think) commercial and quickly became unpopular after that. Despite the fact that a bunch of artists made commercials after him and it didn’t matter.

Jessica Lofgreen , Philip Nelson / wikipedia (not the actual photo) Report

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#26

Milli Vanilli. They wanted to be popular by being frontmen, and were sort of bullied into doing it because they were attractive. The real singers were in agreement, so I don't know why Rob and Fab took the hit for everyone involved. The music and videos were great! Wish it had gone on for longer.

Robyn Keating Report

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Penguin Panda Pop
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like the meme with them about people getting famous on TikTok for miming to songs.

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#27

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Whitney Houston.
Drugs and domestic abuse are bad

Ameylynn Spardel , Asterio Tecson / wikipedia Report

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T'Mar of Vulcan
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother, when she married Bobby Brown, said, "She's gonna die." Mom saw it coming. She knew he wasn't going to be any good for Whitney.

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#29

Anne Hathaway

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Phoebe Bean
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She seems nice and I like her movies because she is a good actress. I will never understand the hatred.

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#30

Anyone that spoke out against the genocide early on.

Asim Humayun Report

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