“You could genuinely cause so much damage to her reputation and it’s weird as f**k.”Īnother fan wrote that “yall evil as f**k for ruining millie bobby brown like this shes a literal angel and her career could end cause of some dumbasses who think using violent homophobic memes with a minor is funny. They continue: “She is a f**king child and you are cracking jokes about her hating gay people and wanting to kill them when she hasn’t done anything wrong? Millie Bobby Brown onstage at PaleyFest (Frazer Harrison/Getty) Millie Bobby Brown, who found fame as Eleven in Netflix’s sci-fi show Stranger Things, has left Twitter because of Photoshopped images that have turned her into a homophobic meme.
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“You are grown adults, editing photos of her with captions that include the f slur, violence against lgbt community for comedy and it’s f**king gross.” Thank goodness for people like this (zunbarya/twitter) There has been a backlash against the meme, especially since Brown deleted her account, with one user writing that “pretending millie bobby brown, a literal child, is a violent homophobe for memes is f**king disgusting and not funny at all. Ironically, it appears her last post was a quote-tweet of the Being Me Campaign, an anti-bullying group. The star had 2.28 million followers before she deactivated the account. Why would I be scared of a faggot?” Terrible (godcyruss/twitter) Posted by someone who called the original Snap – not this one – a “photoshop” (psychosociaal/twitter)Īnd another obviously doctored image says: “I hate the word homophobia. One tweet, for instance, shows a Snapchat post by the actor with “just ran over a faggot cant wait to kill all these gays off” photoshopped over it. Many of the posts attribute obviously false quotes like “We don’t need gun control, we need faggot patrol” to the British star. Millie Bobby Brown attends the 2018 Time 100 Gala (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty) This has not stopped the damaging meme from spreading, however, with one popular tweet posted on May 12 saying “Millie bobby brown arriving at pride” above a video of someone driving a car into several protesters. Many have pointed out that Brown, who was one of the first recipients of MTV’s gender-neutral awards last year, has long been a vocal supporter of LGBT rights. The Stranger Things star said on the The Guilty Feminist podcast she has noticed a gross change in comments made.
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“these millie bobby brown homophobe jokes have got to go like even god rested… she literally had to leave twitter years ago because of it you people are genuinely weird,” read a series of tweets from one user.Īnother said: “some of you have gotten way too comfortable bullying millie bobby brown for her entire childhood and saying it’s “just a joke” like it’s actually bizarre…”.Brown smiles during her Instagram video (milliebobbybrown/instagram) The actor, who has long been an advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights, has not rejoined the social media platform since.įans have understandably leapt to Millie’s defence. Twitter users then jumped on the trend, inventing their own ‘racist’ and ‘homophobic’ reactions with Millie, alongside the hashtag #TakeDownMillieBobbieBrown. The original tweet that reportedly started the cruel trend read: “I saw Millie Bobby Brown in the airport and asked for a pic and she said “only if you remove the hijab” and I said “it’s my faith” and she aggressively pulled it off my head and stamped it on it.”
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The 18-year-old actor, who was just 14 at the time, was forced to deactivate her Twitter account after being turned into a bizarre ‘anti-gay’ meme, with thousands of users attributing fake homophobic and racist comments to her – presumably in an attempt at ‘satire’. Millie Bobby Brown fans are jumping to the actor’s defence after memes from 2018 have resurfaced online, as the new season of Stranger Things dropped on Netflix last week.