Random Celebrity Social Media Posts That Totally Backfired (20 items)

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  (#1) James Gunn

  James Gunn was swiftly dropped from the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise after the discovery of a series of old Twitter posts. The posts in question were penned and posted before Gunn began work on the franchise and touched on a series of controversial subjects. Gunn made jokes about serious topics including adult relations with children, sexual assault, the Holocaust, and AIDS. He momentarily shutting down his Twitter and deleted the tweets shortly after various news outlets reported on them, but screenshots were widely shared online.

  A Walt Disney chairman released a statement following Gunn's firing:

  The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him.

  Gunn defended himself on Twitter, releasing a series of tweets arguing his past jokes were merely an aspect of his previously provocative sense of humor. He went on to claim his humor has since evolved and he would be unlikely to make such jokes again in the future. 
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  (#2) Roseanne Barr's Derogatory Tweet Aimed At A Former Obama Adviser

  Roseanne Barr's Twitter feed has been full of conspiracy theories and biased tweets for the past decade, but one in particular she posted on May 29, 2018, really had her in hot water. The Roseanne co-creator and star tweeted about Valerie Jarrett, a Black woman who is a former Obama adviser. In a string of Tweets, Barr likened Jarrett to an ape.

  After receiving a slew of backlash from her peers and the Twittersphere alike, Barr issued an apology, saying: "I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. Forgive me - my joke was in bad taste."

  Unfortunately for Barr, no one wanted to pardon her comments. ABC canceled Roseanne. ABC Entertainment president, Channing Dungey, said, "Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show."

  Barr's representation, ICM Partners, also dropped her. In an official statement, the company said:

  We are all greatly distressed by the disgraceful and unacceptable Tweet from Roseanne Barr this morning. What she wrote is antithetical to our core values, both as individuals and as an agency. Consequently, we have notified her that we will not represent her. Effective immediately, Roseanne Barr is no longer a client.

  Barr said she was leaving Twitter in the midst of the aftermath of her comments.
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  (#3) Betsy DeVos's Tweets About Pencils

  Betsy DeVos - the Michigan billionaire who supposedly bought her way into the White House - tweeted a picture of her first day on the job as Secretary of Education. Throughout her confirmation hearings, DeVos faced an onslaught of politicians and citizens questioning her qualifications. Her opposition maintains she has never taught in a public school, she has no training as an educator, and she and her children have never even attended a public school. DeVos critics even made jabs about her stance on gun in schools.

  Despite this, she was confirmed after Vice President Mike Pence broke a tie vote. On her first day on the job, she tweeted a picture of herself, asking: "Now where do I find the pencils? :) " and people were not pleased. The Twitterverse came for dear ol' Betsy, mercilessly mocking her and presenting her as an anti-public school GOP shill. 
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  (#4) Representative Who Opposes Obamacare Posts Controversial Poll

  Staunch Obamacare hater Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., thought she'd fire up her constituents by asking via a Twitter poll what they thought about repealing the health care law. Unfortunately for her, 84 percent of people who voted - or about 6,700 people - didn't want congress to repeal it.

  However, as CNBC pointed out, it's possible her poll was slightly influenced by Democrats. Obama White House Press Secretary Eric Schultz retweeted the poll to his more than 23,000 Twitter followers. 
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  (#5) Model Dani Mathers's Body Shaming Snaps

  In July 2016, Los Angeles-based model and former Playboy Playmate of the Year Dani Mathers posted snaps from an LA Fitness location body shaming a fellow gym member. In the snaps, Mathers holds her hand over her face in mock laughter while a nude woman stands in the background. Text on one of the snaps reads: "If I can't unsee this then neither can you."

  The snaps immediately went viral - and caused enormous backlash. Mathers faced serious vitriol on Twitter; she is, after all, a model body shaming a nude woman in a locker room for millions to see. LA Fitness turned the photos over to the police and banned Mathers from ever setting foot in any of its locations again. Mathers was also indefinitely suspended from her job on The Heidi and Frank Show, a radio program. 

  Mathers offered a hasty apology:

  I just wanted to acknowledge a photo that I accidentally posted on Snapchat earlier today and let you guys know that that was absolutely wrong, and not what I meant to do. I have chosen to do what I do for a living because I love the female body and I know that body shaming is wrong and that's not what I'm about, that's not the type of person that I am. That photo was taken to be a personal conversation with a girlfriend, and because I am new to Snapchat, I didn't realize that I had posted it and that was a huge mistake.

  Mathers plead no contest to charges filed against her for the incident, and she received three years of probabtion. 
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  (#6) Bill Cosby's 'Meme Me' Tweet

  Amidst all the high profile accusations against him, Cosby tweeted a photo of himself asking people to "meme" him. If his intention was to show he has a sense of humor, it sure backfired. Popular memes included scathing phrases highlighting the once-beloved comedian's criminal actions against women.
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  (#7) Amanda Bynes's 'Ugly' Tweets

  When Amanda Bynes began her downward spiral, she took to Twitter to express her emotions, Tweeting over and over again that people were "ugly." Everyone from Rihanna to the Obamas were caught in the crossfire. 

  All these tweets, among other questionable public antics, helped lead to Bynes's placement on psychiatric lockdown in 2013.
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  (#8) CeeLo Green's Tweets About Consent

  In 2014, CeeLo Green tweeted out some controversial comments about rape, implying that unconscious women have already consented to sex. Further tweets framed his belief that only people who remember being assaulted were actually victims. To say people were incendiary would be an understatement.

  It didn't help that CeeLo was also accused of sexual assault himself and plead no contest to slipping ecstasy in a woman's drink. Green mysteriously left The Voice around the same time. 
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  (#9) Charlie Sheen's 'Digits' Tweet

  Charlie Sheen was attempting to send a private message to Justin Bieber, but instead, he accidentally tweeted his phone number to the world. According to reports, Sheen received a myriad of calls and texts, but the Two and a Half Men star had fun with it - by answering the phone with "Ray's Pizza" or his infamous slogan, "Winning!"
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  (#10) 50 Cent's 'No Special Kids' Tweet

  Not exactly known for his political correctness, rapper 50 Cent caused quite a stir when he tweeted to one of his fans that they looked "autistic." He then followed it up by saying he didn't want any "special ed kids" following him.

  The rapper received backlash from celebrities and special needs organizations, and he eventually apologized for his insensitivity.
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  (#11) Anthony Weiner's Package

  It's the tweet that led to the 2011 political scandal known as "Weinergate." Congressman Anthony Weiner accidentally tweeted a photo of his own wiener to a 21-year-old girl in Seattle. He immediately took it down and claimed his account was hacked, but it was too little, too late.

  Weiner eventually resigned after 'fessing up to the tweet, but his career never got back on track.
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  (#12) Chris Brown's Ebola Tweet

  Not one for politeness, Chris Brown has said some, well, questionable things on his Twitter account over the years. But he made headlines in 2014 for tweeting about the Ebola virus, calling it a form of "population control" - as opposed to a deadly disease that has taken over 4,000 human lives. 
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  (#13) Kenneth Cole's #Cairo Tweet

  Fashion designer Kenneth Cole took to Twitter to comment on the dangerous protests occurring in Egypt in 2011. Cole, in misappropriating the hashtag utilized to spread awareness, suggested that all the violence was over his new spring collection. Cole ultimately made an official apology, saying: "[M]y attempt at humor regarding a nation liberating themselves against oppression was poorly timed and absolutely inappropriate."

  However, Cole made another controversial tweet in 2013 about Syria, causing the public to question whether he learned from his behavior the first time around.
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  (#14) Jaden Smith's Cool Guy Tweets

  Jaden Smith likes to drop his wisdom on the world every now and then, including through tweets that say "How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real" and "If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent People On The Planet." 

  While it may seem as though he's just attempting to be hip and cool, the public reacted negatively to his posts.
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  (#15) Hulk Hogan's Tweets About His Daughter

  For some reason, wrestler Hulk Hogan wanted to tweet out a picture of his daughter's legs for the entire Internet to see. To say that came back to haunt him would be an understatement. Immediately, Hogan was accused of incestuous behavior and being an all around "creep."  

  It didn't help that at the same time a photo surfaced of Hogan rubbing oil on her butt while she was wearing a bikini. 
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  (#16) Mary J. Blige's Misspellings

  In 2009, Mary J. Blige attempted to strike back at critics who questioned her smarts by trying to say that they're underestimating her intelligence. Unfortunately, the tweet backfired, since she spelled "intelligence" wrong and confused "underestimate" with "understand estimate."  

  The singer-songwriter apologized for misspelling the words, while also misspelling "misspelling."
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  (#17) Jason Biggs's 'Frequent Flier' Tweet

  After a Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down in the Ukraine in 2014 (the second Malaysian Airlines flight to go down that year), Biggs took to Twitter to make a joke about the situation.

  298 people aboard perished, and Biggs did some major PR scrambling to delete his tweet and apologize profusely on The View.
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  (#18) Donald Trump

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  In September 2015, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump thought it was a good idea to invite the public to ask him questions over Twitter. Maybe not the smartest move after the mogul's many controversial statements on topics like immigration and Islam.

  Tweets came pouring in with questions like: "Your wife Melania immigrated from Slovenia but didn't become a US citizen until she'd been [here] for 20 years. why wasn't she deported? #AskTrump."
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  (#19) Russell Brand's Katy Perry Photo Blast

  Back in 2010, Russell Brand tweeted a picture of his then wife Katy Perry -featuring a Perry with a perturbed look and not a hint of make-up. The picture was immediately deleted, and the couple divorced about a year later.

  Reportedly, Brand said that he unwittingly posted the unflattering image and that the incident had no effect on his relationship.
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  (#20) Roland Martin's Anti-Gay Tweet

  First Roland Martin got suspended, then he allegedly got the boot from his job as a CNN commenter after he sent this anti-gay tweet out into the world. The journalist and TV commentator also tweeted that any New England Patriots player spotted in a pink suit "needs a visit from #teamwhipdat*ss." 

  Following the tweets, CNN suspended Martin and issued a statement: 

  Roland Martin’s tweets were regrettable and offensive. Language that demeans is inconsistent with the values and culture of our organization, and is not tolerated. We have been giving careful consideration to this matter, and Roland will not be appearing on our air for the time being.

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