Contents
1.
After the tragic Malaysian Airways crash in 2014, which killed virtually 300 individuals, Jason Biggs tweeted, “Anybody wanna purchase my Malaysian Airways frequent flier miles?” After backlash, he tweeted, “Hey all you ‘too quickly’ a–holes- it is a f–king joke. You do not have to suppose it is humorous, and even be on my twitter web page in any respect.” He additionally known as his detractors “losers” who had been “actually looking for s–t to get indignant about” and said how unhappy the crash was.2.
In a uncommon instance the place the tweet continues to be up, again in 2012, Woman Gaga tweeted, “I simply landed in Bangkok child! Prepared for 50,000 screaming Thai monsters. I wanna get misplaced in a girl market and purchase pretend Rolex.” Followers had been lower than thrilled on the tweet, which perpetuated Thai stereotypes.3.
We will not make this publish with out mentioning the famously problematic joke that received Roseanne Barr fired from her personal present. “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a child=vj,” she tweeted about Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. Barr later apologized and mentioned she’d been joking, writing, “I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all People. I’m actually sorry for making a foul joke about her politics and her appears to be like. I ought to have identified higher. Forgive me-my joke was in unhealthy style.” Nonetheless, the harm had been accomplished, and Barr was fired from Roseanne, which killed off her character and was renamed The Conners.4.
In one of the crucial actually head-scratching examples on this record, Blake Shelton as soon as seemingly admitted to killing a turtle on Twitter: “Does anybody know if the Japanese Field turtle is protected in Oklahoma? In that case I did not simply swerve to the shoulder of the street to smash one…” he wrote, then replied “shut up” to backlash and boasted, “I solely have raised over 1,000,000 {dollars} in animal rescue/conservation alone.”5.
Demi Lovato as soon as tweeted a few tremendous tousled trick she pulled on her bodyguard, claiming she’d employed a intercourse employee (who she known as a “girl of the evening”) to go “into his room with out permission” and seize “him in his ‘space.'” She then deleted it and tweeted, “I may tweet one thing about craving jelly beans and it might offend somebody,” and advised individuals to hearken to her music “Warrior,” writing, “Of all individuals I learn about sexual abuse. You do not have to coach me.”6.
After Kevin Hart was tapped to host the Oscars in 2018, his previous anti-gay tweets resurfaced, such because the 2011 tweet: “Yo if my son comes dwelling & attempt’s 2 play with my daughters doll home I am going 2 break it over his head & say n my voice ‘cease that is homosexual.” Hart initially requested individuals to “cease being adverse” about his previous tweets however later determined to step down from internet hosting the Oscars and apologize as a result of intense backlash.7.
In a fair worse instance of anti-gay tweets, 50 Cent as soon as tweeted, “Perez Hilton calld me douchebag so I had my homie shoot up a homosexual marriage ceremony. wasnt his however nonetheless made me really feel higher” together with a photograph of two males in tuxedos working away from an indignant group of individuals.8.
Later that very same month, he tweeted, “For those who a person and your over 25 and you do not eat pu**y simply kill your self rattling it. The world will likely be a greater place. Lol.”9.
Within the wake of allegations of drugging and sexually assaulting a girl in 2012, Cee Lo Inexperienced tweeted, “If somebody is handed out they’re not even WITH you consciously! so WITH Implies consent” and “Individuals who have actually been raped REMEMBER!!!”10.
In what I think about to be a fairly out-of-character transfer, Rashida Jones as soon as tweeted, “This week’s celeb information takeaway: she who comes closest to exhibiting the precise inside her vagina is hottest. #stopactinglikewhores”11.
Kelly Clarkson was equally fairly slut-shamey when she tweeted, “Simply noticed a pair performances from the VMA’s final evening. 2 phrases…. #pitchystrippers” after the 2013 VMAs. Many assumed she was referencing Miley Cyrus, who had memorably twerked on Robin Thicke.12.
Amber Heard as soon as tweeted, “Simply heard there’s an ICE checkpoint in hollywood , just a few blocks from the place I dwell. Everybody higher give their housekeepers, nannies and landscapers a journey dwelling tonight.”13.
Within the wake of the entire Taylor Swift/Kim Kardashian/Kanye scandal, Chloë Grace Moretz tweeted that “Everybody on this business must get their heads out of a gap and go searching to comprehend what’s ACTUALLY occurring within the REAL world. Cease losing your voice on one thing so petulant and unimportant.” Khloe Kardashian replied to her on Twitter with “Is that this the a gap you are referring to,” accompanied by an alleged paparazzi picture of Moretz in a swimsuit together with her butthole uncovered. Moretz, who was 19 on the time, wrote again that the picture wasn’t of her.14.
After a adverse overview of her album Manic, Halsey tweeted, “can the basement that they run p*tchork out of simply collapse already.” Pitchfork’s workplace is within the One World Commerce Heart.15.
Halsey additionally as soon as allegedly tweeted that she was “SO going to jail” attributable to “promising underage followers that I am gonna make out with them.” On the time, then-19-year-old Halsey had a practice of taking kissing photographs with followers.16.
Chrissy Teigen has a quantity of outdated problematic tweets, together with one about Toddlers and Tiaras that reads, “seeing little ladies do the splits half bare is simply…..i wish to put myself in jail.”17.
Teigen additionally cyberbullied then-16-year-old Courtney Stodden after they married 51-year-old Doug Hutchison in 2011. Stodden advised the Every day Beast Teigen had repeatedly advised them to kill themselves. Teigen’s outdated tweets to Stodden then resurfaced, revealing she had written issues like “you. dust nap.” and “go. to sleep. endlessly.”18.
Cardi B has a historical past of calling dark-skinned Black ladies “roaches” on Twitter, writing again to ladies who criticized her with issues like “You simply ugly you appear like a BURNED ROACH.”19.
Machine Gun Kelly as soon as tweeted, “I want 13/14/15 12 months outdated ladies werent allowed to be scorching so I wouldn’t really feel like such a creeper once I take a look at them..Im nonetheless 19.”20.
And Sterling Knight as soon as tweeted, “I wanna know when God determined to make 15 12 months olds so good wanting……its simply plain imply.” He was 21 on the time.21.
Chelsea Handler has made quite a few terrible jokes about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s kids through the years, together with tweeting, “Angelina has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt…he desires the China; she desires Pax and Maddox ##sorrycouldnthelpmyself” after their divorce information broke.22.
She additionally tweeted from the Huffington Publish Twitter account (throughout an Oscars takeover) congratulating Lupita Nyong’o on her Oscar win for 12 Years a Slave, after which selling her e-book Uganda be Kidding Me. “Congratulations #12yearsaslave Go to Africa or purchase #ugandabekiddingme.” The one obvious connection between Lupita’s win and the e-book is Lupita’s African heritage — which, by the best way, isn’t Ugandan).23.
Throughout the identical Oscars ceremony, she additionally tweeted that “#AngelinaJolie simply filed adoption papers #lupitanyongo,” seeming to joke that Jolie was eager about adopting Nyong’o.24.
Talking of Chelsea Handler, she as soon as tweeted, “That is what a f-g chook likes like when he flexes” with a photograph. The tweet continues to be up.25.
Sarah Silverman additionally tweeted utilizing the f-slur, writing in 2010, “I dont imply this in a hateful means however the brand new bachelorette’s a f—-t.”26.
Aaand Amy Schumer did as nicely, writing in 2010, “Take pleasure in skyfall f-gs. I am bout to get knee deep in Helen Hunt. #thesessions.”27.
Rihanna as soon as tweeted a photograph of a rice cake in earrings and sun shades, a transfer many followers thought was a racist reference to Chris Brown’s then-partner, Karrueche Tran, as she captioned it with the lyric from her music “Birthday Cake” with Chris, “Ima a make u my b****.” Gas was added to the fireplace when Rihanna’s finest pal Melissa Forde later explicitly referred to Tran as a “rice cake.”28.
Gregg Sulkin as soon as tweeted, “Wow what a exercise. Needed to run up flights of stairs & all I may consider had been the courageous firefighters climbing the dual towers on 9/11.”29.
And eventually, Lena Dunham — who’s a cis, straight lady — as soon as tweeted this about Pleasure: “After I go, I need my casket to be pushed by way of the NYC delight parade with a plaque that reads “she wasn’t for everybody, however she *was* for us”- who can organize?”What different forgotten celeb tweets are problematic? Tell us within the feedback under!