Only ones who dissapointed me were Star Trek: Voyager actors. Its the only thing I got attached to as a kid.
Robert Beltran - Commander Chakotay
Roxann Dawson - B’Elanna Torres
Both transphobes and trump supporters who won’t shut up about no one wanting to invite them to Star Trek stuff anymore.
I used to feel bad for Rob because he got such a shit treatment in ST:V in terms of writing and because his character fell victim to Jamake High water’s grifting (look him up if you want to see why 90’s native american characters kinda suck).
My parents, unfortunately.
My mother. Turns out she’s a narcissistic, fascist Trump-loving Norwegian, who’s only been to the USA twice. Last time we spoke, she defended the killing of Good and Pretti, stating that innocent lives can be taken in order to get the Somali fraud.
I don’t talk to her anymore.
Bill Cosby
I used to think Musk was ok.
I didn’t know anything about him other than he was investing in EV’s which I felt the world desperately needed, at a time when it felt like big oil was squashing the uptake.
Same, I thought he was out to try and save the world from climate change. For me the illusion shattered when he tried to kill California HSR because he would make less in cars. It was never about the environment, it was about being “cool” and then cornering the market.
Yeah for me it was the Thai kid submarine fiasco. He offered a dumb idea in a life threatening situation and when it was rejected by professional underwater cave diver rescue guy Musk accused the guy of being a pedo.
Emir kusturica was my nr 1 director since forever until I found it he works for Putin now.
Black Cat White Cat and Underground were my favorite movies.
WHAT?? No… And I saw him live with his band, The No Smoking Orchestra. Turns out I’m never listening to them again
Yeah I have great and now tarnished memories of that band as well…
I wouldn’t say horrible, but the shine definitely faded off Will Smith.
He’s made some poor choices over the years.
That Bill Cosby guy…
Honestly liked the Cosby show, and even his standup. Was very disappointed when I heard.
would not say “hero”, but I did like a lot of Michael Jackson’s music when I was younger.
let’s not pretend he didn’t do anything just because he could settle/pay off everything …
For me it was the other way around. I was a kid when the only thing he was in the news for was that he had to go to court again. Only later I found out why he even was famous and that he had a lot of good music.
Neil Gaiman. I fucking loved Sandman and damn near everything else he wrote. Finding out he’s a total scumbag has basically ruined a lot of very dear memories.
Yeah, this one hurt.
Good Omens too. Can I pretend it was written entirely by Pratchett?
Read books by Tanith Lee.
Gaiman stole the idea of Death, Evil, and Madness being related from her books.
I asked for Sandman two Christmases ago, before everything came out. Im still glad I read it, it’s good, but I wish I would’ve gotten used copies so at least he didn’t make money off it
I used to love Joss Whedon from everything he made. I grew up watching Buffy, and loved Firefly, then Marvel got him for Avengers and I was excited for him to be getting such a big break. He later Agents of Shield which I also loved. But then it came out that he was an abuser. His whole persona of championing strong women was merely a facade to hide this.
Learning that Michelle Trachtenberg (RIP) had a clause in her contract while working in Buffy (2000-3) at age 15 that she was not to ever be in the same room as Whedon alone opened my eyes to just how bad things are. Not just how bad he was, but how well it was known that he was an abuser and no one did anything about it. That’s just how things were.
I have a hard time watching Buffy or any of his works anymore, just knowing now that he was behind these things.
Yeah, it also gives me some closure with firefly being cancelled… like I the fox executive cancelled Firefly because he didn’t like Whedon, now I know why he didn’t like him. Or at least a probable reason.
And it didn’t give him a chance to be weird and creepy with Summer Glau.
Any more than he already had been. Least we forget she was introduced to the show naked in a box. The man was big into the ‘born sexy yesterday’ trope.
God, the entirely of Dollhouse was the most problematic thing I’ve ever seen in retrospect (regarding the born sexy yesterday trope) and I can’t believe that past me didn’t see how messed up everything about it was. That the dolls were turned into helpless blanks between jobs and constantly sexualized in that state was so messed up.
JK Rowling
I literally learned to read so I could read Harry Potter books so I didn’t have to wait for bedtime for my dad to read them to me; even though I was a “boy” I badly wanted to be Hermione Granger when I grew up
it’s really heart-breaking that she became so deranged and hateful, a lot of us loved her books growing up
I started reading for the same reason, except it was he Narnia books and my gramma 🫡
I hope for you you bexame what you truely are, stranger
Yeah me too. I literally started to read because I couldn’t wait for mum to start reading and wanted to read past when she stopped.
I was literally sneaking away to read. My parents knew and turned a blind eye, not believing their luck that their son was rebelling by reading haha. I’ll always thank JK for my love of reading. But fuck her politics.
Hulk Hogan. I was such a huge Hulkamaniac as a kid, brother.
Same. I remember thinking he was such a hero when I was like 8. What a douche canoe.
Used to love watching the Cosby show and watching his stand up specials…
When I was a kid I had one of his stand up specials on cassette and I regularly listened to it to fall asleep.
Fatherhood was a great book, and I say this as someone that won’t be having any kids.
He had that bit about being in trouble so much as a little kid he didnt know his name was bill, he thought it was Jesus Christ. Too bad hes a predator of the highest degree.
It’s worse for GenX, we watched Fat Albert and learned about things like drugs and prejudice from it. The Cosby Show happened during my cynical, anti-wholesomeness teen years so I didn’t watch that so much.
Bill Cosby, fersure…
but there’s a musician called Paris, and I don’t know if he became horrible,
but he definitely seemed to have lost it, & gone over to the dark-side, at 1 point…
Black musician, switched from calling out shit to just pushing more darkness.
NOT like Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, or the main guy from Public Enemy Number One, who ( that I know-of ) held-to positive/proactivity…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_(rapper)
Actually, I think all ideologues go in the bin, now, in my view…
IF anyone pushes ideology instead of objectivity/correct-reasoning/evolving-worldview-to-match-evidence/spirituality, THEN … they’re just pushing their-own ideology’s totalitarianism, & not outgrowing ideology-the-category.
After the dictatorship-tippingpoint gets crossed by Trump, & the mass butchery of Civil War Part2 begins, then that’ll make more sense.
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