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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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5 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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5 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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5 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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5 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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5 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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5 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.

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#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.

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Marianne
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5 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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5 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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5 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.

Wintermute
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I'm not up on my celebrity gossip, but from what I understand is that he got really nailed by a divorce settlement that left him paying a BUUUUNCH of money in alimony, and on top of being kind of bad with money to begin with, he had to make money quick and took bad jobs. On top of being an eccentric dude and marrying Elvis Presley's daughter, it was just too much for trash tabloids not to get all dumb about.

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Nitka Tsar
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like him and his acting. The fact that he didn‘t use his real name to forward his career from the get go is something I very much like about him for instance. And I really like some of his movies.

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

Actually, he did use his real name in his very first movie - Nicolas Coppola. Watch the credits for Fast Times at Ridgemont High...

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Annik Perrot
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was a quote about a French actor from the 60s who played in a lot of "navets" ("turnips", as we call bad movies here) "He played in à lot of bad stuff, but he himself was never bad."

DiscoMamaNea
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Willys Wonderland not ONE word spoke watch it you’ll see but still pretty badass

CG
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I also liked his voice over as Spider-Man Noir from Into the Spiderverse.

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Kris
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Christopher Lloyd never says no to an acting role because to him, money is money and who is he to say no to it. He has made some garbage movies with a few gems thrown in. No one talks about him. I respect both of them very much. Nic Cage in National Treasure and Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future and Addams Family were my childhood!!

Aww but Eww
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Con Air - great film! Mega hair ... Face Off - terrific acting ... City of Angels - hard feelings! There was a lot of good stuff

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

It just feels like the same acting no matter the character. I just don't see much acting beyond the same mannerisms, facial movements, and voice... Um, ok... I'll think on it.

kay321
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually won't watch a film if he's in it because I can't stand his voice, but it's not a reason to hate him, just don't watch anything with him in it and its easily solved.

Doofnuts
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like almost all of his movies a lot. And taking bad roles for money, ummm, isn't money why he's in show business?

iseefractals
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's a fantastic actor, but his money management skills aren't that great, leading him to owe obscene amounts of money to the government in back taxes....which is why he has 42 movie credits in the past 10 years, having 6 film credits each for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 alone. In his more "serious" work, he was noted to have a habit of being very intense, over-the-top outbursts, bordering on manic.....something that he embraced even more while working on low budget, cash grab PoS that almost no one will ever see. Essentially, making the best of a bad situation.

UKGrandad
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's a massive Elvis fan with a huge collection of Elvis memorabilia. It all went wrong with Lisa Marie when he told her that he'd married her because she was, to him, the ultimate in Elvis memorabilia.

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

Nick Cage just caught the consequences of his own actions. When he adopted evangelical Christianity he dove into it HARD and people saw a lot lot lot of parallels with John Travolta's nosedive into Scientology. At least Cage pulled out of it and stopped shoving religion down people's throats. His career is rebounding since he got out of the cult

DennyS (denzoren)
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He is far from a bad actor, I would say he's very good at bad roles. Everyone has their opinion but growing up movies like Face Off and Con Air were so cool lol

Jeff Hunt
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great actor. Poor money manager. You do what you gotta do.

Pamelot
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wasn't there a lot of media promotion then despite about his relationship to Francis Coppola (sp.?) or someone famous like him?

Danni
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it's the opposite, he chooses amazing movies, sometimes he doesn't ruin them with his terrible acting.

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

The "National Treasure" movies are, in fact, a national treasure in themselves!

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

I don't care what anyone says, I love Nic Cage. Our family has a Cage Off (Nic Cage movie marathon) every so often. I'm watching Gone in 60 Seconds as I type this.

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

He is really hitting his stride with these horror movies lately

SkippityBoppityBoo
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Leaving Las Vegas was such a tough film to watch but his acting? He was so good in that role.

bas moelard
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's just doing what he loves best: acting. Let this man do what he does best.

Bex
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He has some good, some bad, but he's AMAZING I the film Adaptation. I highly recommend it to everyone!

Stryker Tyger
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think he started as a good actor, but along the way, he realized he'd get more fame if he embraced his less orthodox side, leaning heavily into his craziness. He's either loved or hated, almost no inbetween, but no matter what, he's popular.

Okokok!
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thinking of many great actors who did lots of s****y stuff just to earn some money (Michael Cane, Robert Foster, Peter O'Toole etc.), he is just one of them and his recent work put out a better good to bad movie ratio than 10 years ago.

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger can't act at all and everyone loves him, had he not been a steroid freak he would still be in Australia.

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He lost me when he married Elvis Presley's daughter, a more blatant money grab I have not seen ever.

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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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5 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?

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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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5 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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5 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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5 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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5 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.

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Penguin Panda Pop
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5 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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5 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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5 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.

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#31

Hanson.
They were a talented bunch of kids and they became a joke because they were kids singing a pop song. That everybody loved.
(sincerest apologies for misspelling Hanson!!)

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Janos Schumacher
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mmm Bop is upsetting because it's a too perfect pop song. Of course everyone liked it. You can't possibly not like it. That's why it is a terrible song. It says nothing and means nothing. It's like Mungo Jerry "Summertime". You can't not like it. And, again, that's why it sucks. And yes, I like Mmm Bop and Summertime.

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#32

I always thought Howard Dean got canceled by media, the same media that normalizes Donald Trump.

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Matthew Currie
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Agreed. He said "yeah" a little too loud and the press, eager for one-line characterizations for a public they consider too dumb to understand things, killed him over his "yell," which is a worse sin than actual mismanagement. Like Muskie for his tears which were worse than lies, Gore for being "boring" which is worse than being wrong, McGovern for his "mistakes" that were worse than his opponent's crimes. Too bad. Dean's a good person, and smart, if a bit short tempered in the face of fools. A social liberal and relatively conservative fiscally, a minority lieutenant governor who ascended when the governor died, and became popular because he did a good job. He'd have made a good president.

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#33

Bjork! She is a legendary artist. That Swan dress was maybe not the right choice, but they roasted her for a long time.

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#34

Anne Hathaway and Brie Larson. There was a period when Anne couldn’t do right and nobody seems to know why. Brie, again, comes in for a lot of hate and she doesn’t seem like a bad person

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Zoey Bear
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anne again? Never knew there was any hate towards her. Little fact, her name is actually pronounced Annee and not Ann.

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#35

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Victoria Beckham. Not a fan myself, but did she really deserve all the haters? Esp after Beckham was unfaithful? And then his lover became a z-list celebrity for a while? I'm not so sure. Usually the 'sisterhood' supports women when that kind of thing happens, but women just never warmed to her. I've never really understood why she became so unpopular.

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

The fact that she never smiles, never shows any human warmth, or personality for that matter.

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#36

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Women. All of the women

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Zoey Bear
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5 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, I didn't know my husband hated me. Edit: Eeks, that was meant to be a joke. Sorry to anyone I offended.

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#37

U2. Yeah Bono has a big mouth but they got involved in loads of eco-warrior stuff decades before it become acceptable. And they released some tremendous albums too..

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maka paka
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nah, i'll never forget Bono going mental cause the person on the street wasn't giving enough money to charities in his mind. Just as he bought a 7 million pound house with about 20 bedrooms for like 4 people. Absolute hypocrite

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#38

Billy Ray Cyrus. Some gave all. is still one of my favorite songs to play

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

I mean, he made a smash hit with a black, openly gay rapper/country singer. Anything he does for the rest of his life will be examined and exploited to hurt him by people who hate gays and black people. Bonus points cause Lil'NasX is sometimes non-binary, so people will hate even more. Cis-het white bigots will hate on him for all time. You saw what happened to Bud Light

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#40

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Megan Markle

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

Her desperation, and that obvious fake smile she wears, make her very unlikable. It doesn't have anything to do with her skin color, it's how she acts like an entitled, self absorbed, riding the coat tails of her brother and sister in law brat for attention. Harry seems miserable with her whenever they are out, and I don't think her late mother in law would appreciate how she behaves.

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30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Chris Pratt. People were actually hating on *him* because of what Peter Quill did in Infinity War. I’ll never understand people who can’t separate actors from their characters.

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Full of Giggles
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s not why people hate him. It’s because he says a lot of s****y things off camera.

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