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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago)

taylor swift, she has been seen hanging out with maga more and more, as she comfortable being a billionaire, and her recent music releases has been very bland as of late, who knows when the fans will turn on her.

Sorbo, couldve stuck with his shows, if he handt gone to a chiro to get a stroke from and then holding a grudge on Xena for like 20+years, plus he had his own show which he controlled, but still screws it up.

Adolf Hitler. Could have just lived a quiet life as a successful veteran and modest painter. But he just had to go on Hittling.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 30 points 3 hours ago

JK Rowling. Everyone used to have a very favourable opinion of her. I remember when the media would worship every tweet she made, as though she brought about world peace. Then she became obsessively transphobic and now that's all people think of when they think of her as a person. At first, I gave her the benefit of the doubt and thought it might be a misunderstanding. But then she went out of her way to make sure everybody knows how transphobic she is. It's become her whole personality. Even Elon Musk, whose own child stopped talking to him because of his transphobia, told Rowling to knock it off because she was harping on transgender issues too much.

[–] MrSelfDestruct@reddthat.com 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Dave Chappell. Should've just shut the fuck up about his transphobia. He also seems like an out of touch rich asshole.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 50 minutes ago

he went opposite of a good legacy, no way was he neutral since his punching up was always political.

[–] geekwithsoul@piefed.social 11 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Surprised no one has mentioned Neil Gaiman yet.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 49 minutes ago

he was canceled almost overnight, when the allegations came out. after sandman season 1.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 points 3 hours ago

He's wisely stayed out of the spotlight (I think he's only popped up once or twice to weakly whine about being misunderstood) so everybody's moved on. Consequently there are still loads of people who haven't heard. I prefer not to think about him as well.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 22 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Rudy Giuliani was known for taking down the mob before being dubbed "America's Mayor." Now he works for the mob.

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

He only took down the mob by working with the Russian underworld, so it was all a ruse that didn't really make NYC safer.

If it wasn't for his media handling of 9/11, he would have been completely irrelevant in the years that followed.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 49 minutes ago

he never hada good or neutral legacy.

[–] MrSelfDestruct@reddthat.com 2 points 2 hours ago

People hated him for taking the soul out of NYC

[–] theedqueen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

John Lasseter. He’s the reason why Pixar/disney had such strong story telling the years he was active. And then it turned out he was a perv. Sooooo disappointing.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Elon musk. I used to think he was smart. Damn, how wrong I was.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I do think he had at least some empathy in the early days. The money destroyed that part of his brain though and he's carttonishly evil now.

That's putting it lightly

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

To be entirely fair, I'm not sure he had the best shot at having empathy, his whole family benefited from the apartheid in south Africa.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Oh yeah. He's absolute scum. There's a Trumpian list I could write but why? The mother fucker threw a Nazi salute. He 100% knew what he was doing.

[–] drekloge@lemmy.today 14 points 5 hours ago
[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 97 points 7 hours ago (4 children)
[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I was mildly uncomfortable with black people as a young child, but my love for comedy made me accept Bill Cosby and many others.

I will not let his shitty actions keep those lessons from me. It has been a good example for me of burning the speaker for transgressions, not the completely unrelated message.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago

We don't talk about Cosby

[–] BobLunch@lemmy.today 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Seems the UK is going through their own Cosby moment right now with the David Walliams allegations

[–] TheOctonaut@piefed.zip 1 points 48 minutes ago

Walliams has been openly a creep for a long time, whether it was confirmed criminal or not. I don't think it's the same. There's just a line of behaviour somewhere where buying books for your kid from a creep crosses from acceptable to unacceptable.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 26 points 7 hours ago

Definitely Cosby. Once a titan, now unspoken.

[–] SatansDaughter@quokk.au 81 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

JK Rowling comes to mind immediately

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 51 minutes ago

she was able to hide in the guise of HP, but when she got rich it was time for her to come out. taylor swift is another one that is slowly becoming part of the right wing crowd.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 68 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I'd nominate Elon Musk. All that motherfucker had to do was nothing but make mediocre electric cars and he'd have had a celebrated place in history. Sure, he was always a ridiculous asshole, but relatively few people looked that closely. Now he's throwing out Nazi salutes and making a public shame of himself. The political right despises electric cars and hence Musk, but Nazis gonna Nazi.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 58 minutes ago

Yeah, he was quite popular right up until a diver rescued some Thai kids (while Musk tried the same in a submarine that didn't fit in the cave), and Elon's mature, grown up response was to call him a paedophile.

The mask fell off that day and he was unable or unwilling to put it back on.

[–] vogi@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago

Yea, he somehow even got on good terms with the younger generation right about that time when he was guest on pewdiepies channel. Something Mark Zuckerberg so desperately tries to achieve.

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Ethan Klein, he was really well liked by the internet at large when he was just a silly little guy posting videos. Now hes a beligerant doofus, sex pest, and genocide advocate

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago)

only to his fans, outside of his audience people dotn know him, and shouldnt. alot of youtubers when shit heel over the years. i feel like he got high off people supporting his defense against another person who sued him for criticizing his shitty pickup video.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, is he a sex pest or just an adulterer?

I've only heard about the adultery.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 47 minutes ago

adulterer, vexacious litigant as a defensive measure against his allegations, and a pro-zionist mf.

[–] susieq0044@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Huang. Putin. Woody Allen. Rowling. Gerhard Schröder. Jackson Pollock.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 42 minutes ago

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putin never had a good legacy, lol.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 19 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Did Putin ever have a "good legacy" in the first place?

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 4 hours ago

I think it was more for awhile people did not know where he was going with things. I mean he had a career in the kgb so in some ways he seemed like bush senior to me.

What did Jackson Pollock do?

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 18 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Jimmy Savile. I don’t want to hear any other suggestions where they havent fucked hundreds of children and corpses. That is now the barrier for entry in this contest.

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