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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.

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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.

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

Ryan Bruce , Rich Esteban / wikipedia Report

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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?

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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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30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason Greta Thunberg

Jenna-Maria Andersson , Kushal Das / wikipedia Report

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

She deserves all the praise even if only for that Andrew Tate stunt.

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

Yeah, her recent statements regarding Palestine justify her not being popular.

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

because she stands with Palestine, against the attrocities they are victime of? yeah, sure, blame someone for being against a genocide...

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

I think people are forgetting that she was dragged through the mud when she was just a little girl, she wants to make the world better. Whats wrong with that. Also people keep attacking her looks....wtaf, she is a beautiful girl but even if she wasnt, wtf does it matter?

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

It's sad her other activism has resulted in the splintering of the Fridays for Future movement in Germany. Of course she has the right to speak out on other matters - everyone does - but in this case, it has weakened her prime cause, which was the climate and environment.

Ionescu Popa
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apparently the damned soul cerinamroth and her doomer friends, some of them hidden among jews, made the dhs owners of this site to ban me permanently and erased the comments exposing them. i damn all of u and ur families to burn in hell together with the whole dhs and their families, no matter ur deeds and arrangements. this is what beasts like u deserve! animals hurting people just bcz any sunray will melt their ediffice of lies built for milennia. anyway, sending few dozens millions of u to the hellfire makes already a good monday. its only a pity ur victims wont see u all burning, bcz u made so many innocents suffer!

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Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I dont think shes massively hated in general. There is very much a certain corner of the internet that doesnt like young women who are angry and not sexy. Also, climate change action both stresses and bores people; she bears some of the brunt of that tension I think.

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

she started in a way and ended in the opposite one, so the things which were true in her first period are reversed now. i used to like her too back then.

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

My main problem with Greta Thunberg is that she talks like no one is doing anything, when in fact, a lot of people all over the world are doing amazing things. I think to ignore or minimize the works of so many people is simply wrong.

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

truth is she had some positive impact this way. also, what she said might not be technically true, but it is practically so: all the long and costly efforts are ineffective and surpassed by the damage made every day. as long as any effort is recognized, it hurts nothing to say they lack a systematic and pro-active approach.

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

people like to make fun of people who go out of their way to protect wildlife, yet even the smallest controversy will make thousands of people go absolutely batshit.

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

Initially she was cool, now she's too self important for my liking. Too entitled now.

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

Could you explain what she's said that makes you think she's self-important? From what I've seen/heard of her in interviews and whatnot, she comes across as very normal and very grounded.

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

"Unpopular Without Any Good Reason"? Really?! She sided with Hamas terrorists that raped women, tortured families and kidnapped babies. She's nothing more than a racist c@#nt

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

Every single thing she does is brutally examined by people who want to hurt her mentally and physically. Not everything has been perfect, but I admire her courage and believe she will end up doing more for to make the world a better place than any million average boomers. And as long as she's taking down morons publicly, I'll support her

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

People don't want to hurt her physically, they just want this pathetic little hypocrite to go away. If she had any If she had any moral backbone whatsoever, she would go after the world's biggest polluters, but she doesn't say a peep about them because she is just a puppet.

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

Greta is one of the biggest heroes ever. I'm Swedish, but still. Nobody messes with Greta!

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

She deserves more than respect. She’s a very courageous young woman!

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

And we should be hopping up and down mad about climate change too. Planet is dying while companies profit.

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

Shes a perfect combination of things fragile people hate: female and young

Ionescu Popa
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4 months ago

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you will be shocked how powerful the young females are in this world. sure, it takes a powerful man to complete this, but otherwise, neat...

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

No reason? Really? She's a phoney. If she actually cared about the environment, like she claims to, she'd be going after the two biggest polluters in the world, but she doesn't. I wonder why. She just regurgitates political, talking points. She's just a useless Marxist. She doesn't have any thoughts of her own. And when questioned about something that's dodgy, she ignores the question instead of answering it. She has no moral consistency, which is not unlike her followers. She claims to be all about the environment, but of course she now talks about all of the far leftist talking points. She's an absolute NPC.

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

Actually, Greta's never expressed public political views except for her pro-environmental message - which she's worked out by herself, by reading up on climate change. She is absolutely consistent. Of course those who want the oil companies to ruin the world for humanity will insult her with everything they can think of, including inventing claims that she's a far-left activist and so on (not that I understand why being left-wing is such a bad thing). Greta is in fact going after the biggest climate change villains in the world and doing so by working with hundreds of thousands of others around the world - we need laws to change in order to fix climate change.

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You only get one chance to make a good first impression, she didn't get that memo.

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

She made a great first impression, and each one after that. You, on the other hand, ...

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F**k no. F**k this brainless muppet. When she started she probably wanted something good. But not later.

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Supporting a terror act is not ok, not even for Greta.

Roan The Demon Kitty
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

supporting the pointless killing of over twenty thousand defenceless children and babies isn't a good look either.

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Nope. Smug, uninformed, entitled little turd.

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What has she ever accomplished apart from screaming "How dare you?" Poor thing, manipulated by her parents.

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

Launched one of the largest, if not the largest international protest movements?

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i dont know if her good start was also fake, but when u serve wallenbergs and rotschilds to bring down weu, u dont deserve appreciation.

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

OK, now I understand why you think Winona Ryder is evil. Something against the Jews, perhaps? Have a couple of downvotes.

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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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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.

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