Famous People You Used to Like But Now Dislike Due to Their Social Media

magma69

Roddy Doyle, I don't even have to explain that one. That "tribute" to the Buncrana tragedy was just so inappropriate. Just seemed opportunistic to me.

Graham Linehan. He was the guy that made all these brilliant comedies and turn outs to be a real sanctimonious douche on Twitter. Loves to have digs at the CC (which I commend him for tbf) but has no interest in pointing out the backward elements of other religions, most notably Islam. Has a sneering condescension to anyone that doesn't have the same political views as him.

Richard Dawkins. Ok after reading the God Delusion and the whole bitchy tone of the book I thought he is probably a bit of a dick but his Twitter showed him to be a very nasty man.

Ricky Gervais. I'm still a huge fan of his work but I found his constant waffling on about Atheism on his twitter nauseating. It was all he harped on about. ZZZZ

darkpagandeath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfqAkUXKT5Y

NSFW....

KingBrian2

Zig and Zag were great but they have become too into commercialisation. Lost the appeal from when I was younger. More interested in selling a brand then being as they were. Zag not surprised you could expect him to be enamoured by the lifestyle of the celebrity. Zig on the other hand was always laid back and playful. Kind of lost touch with his roots. Both of them don't appear anymore.

The_Valeyard

Buzzfeed and similar websites were great before they became moral crusaders and sjw.

Bunny Colvin

magma69 wrote: »

Roddy Doyle, I don't even have to explain that one. That "tribute" to the Buncrana tragedy was just so inappropriate. Just seemed opportunistic to me.

I didn't see this but I'll guess it featured some lads down the pub discussing it?

foxy farmer

KingBrian2 wrote: »

Zig and Zag were great but they have become too into commercialisation. Lost the appeal from when I was younger. More interested in selling a brand then being as they were. Zag not surprised you could expect him to be enamoured by the lifestyle of the celebrity. Zig on the other hand was always laid back and playful. Kind of lost touch with his roots. Both of them don't appear anymore.

There's an animated version of Zig and Zag on rte channels for kids lately. To my mind they've developed an English accent as well!!

Birneybau

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

I didn't see this but I'll guess it featured some lads down the pub discussing it?

Exactly, just exploitative.

The_Valeyard

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

I didn't see this but I'll guess it featured some lads down the pub discussing it?

Yep. And Brussels terror attack thrown into the mix

magma69

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

I didn't see this but I'll guess it featured some lads down the pub discussing it?

Bingo.

Bunny Colvin

Birneybau wrote: »

Exactly, just exploitative.

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Yep. And Brussels terror attack thrown into the mix

I often see his posts pop on my Facebook, same feckin thing every time. More cringe worthy than anything tbh!

bmm

Leo Vraedker, (spelling) No contest!

The_Valeyard

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

I often see his posts pop on my Facebook, same feckin thing every time. More cringe worthy than anything tbh!

I'm not judging, we all have different tastes, but do people actually find his stuff funny or am I just not getting it?

Birneybau

Kim Kardashian. Preferred when she was shy and retiring.

Edward Hopper

Simon Pegg, he really comes across as a self absorbed prick on social media. That paired with the fact he hasn't made a good film for years means I'm no longer a fan.

Birneybau

Edward Hopper wrote: »

Simon Pegg, he really comes across as a self absorbed prick on social media. That paired with the fact he hasn't made a good film for years means I'm no longer a fan.

Good call, yeah, stopped following him myself. Far from Tom Cruise he was raised.

callaway92

A lot of sports stars.

Actually, there are too many sports stars to name that shouldn't be using any social media. It's inevitable that teams, some of which already have, will ban their players from using social media period.

Social Media in general (especially Twitter) brings out the absolute worst in people. They seem to have no issue writing disgusting things and think it's ok to say them. It makes my mind boggle so much.

Bunny Colvin

The_Valeyard wrote: »

I'm not judging, we all have different tastes, but do people actually find his stuff funny or am I just not getting it?

I think what he's trying 'to go for' is writing a conversation that the typical Joe soap has down his local - which is the supposed pulse of the nation. Still, doesn't change the fact that it's usually not very clever or funny.

larrykinney

Maureen (Moe) Tucker, drummer with The Velvet Underground. I'm a huge fan of The VU but Moe's gone way down in my estimation since I saw her FB page, full of utter xenophobic garbage, really unpleasant, the kind of stuff Trump supporters drone on with. Not cool, Moe

Birneybau

Birneybau wrote: »

Kim Kardashian. Preferred when she was shy and retiring.

When exactly was that?? Before she was conceived?? :pac:

Birneybau

Deleted User wrote: »

When exactly was that?? Before she was conceived?? :pac:

Was a joke.

Birneybau

Birneybau wrote: »

Was a joke.

Ah yeah..thought as much :pac: .....

05eaftqbrs9jlh

I really appreciate those Roddy Doyle pieces. I have conversations like them all the time in the pub. I relate to them and recognise the nuances of the conversation with someone you're acquainted with but sort of cold with. It's a very unique literary style and it's neither "good" nor "bad"; you just like it or you don't. If you don't like it, you probably didn't understand what he's about to begin with.

mzungu

larrykinney wrote: »

Maureen (Moe) Tucker, drummer with The Velvet Underground. I'm a huge fan of The VU but Moe's gone way down in my estimation since I saw her FB page, full of utter xenophobic garbage, really unpleasant, the kind of stuff Trump supporters drone on with. Not cool, Moe

Now that is a shame.

Birneybau

Johanna Bumpy Hoagie wrote: »

I really appreciate those Roddy Doyle pieces. I have conversations like them all the time in the pub. I relate to them and recognise the nuances of the conversation with someone you're acquainted with but sort of cold with. It's a very unique literary style and it's neither "good" nor "bad"; you just like it or you don't. If you don't like it, you probably didn't understand what he's about to begin with.

Give over. I 'get' it and fcuking hate it.

I dread the day Bono dies.

Richard Hillman

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Yep. And Brussels terror attack thrown into the mix

And Prince and Joey the Lips and Alan Rickman and David Bowie and Bill O'Herlihy and Maureen O Hara and Joe Cocker and Ian Paisley and Robin Williams and Rik Mayall and Christine Buckley and Peaches Geldof and Shirley Temple and one of the Everly brothers and Nelson Mandella and Lou Reed and Stephen Ireland's granny.

In fact, if the 2 gob****es at the bar are not talking about somebody dieing they are shoving Roddy's politics into it.

05eaftqbrs9jlh

Birneybau wrote:

Give over. I 'get' it and fcuking hate it.

I'd wager you drink alone.

Birneybau

Johanna Bumpy Hoagie wrote: »

I'd wager you drink alone.

Nah, me and this condescending twat have a few pints and stupid conversations about the Rotunda and dead celebs.

Ruu

Does Virgil from WWF count as famous? He would think so.

Rothko

Birneybau wrote: »

Good call, yeah, stopped following him myself. Far from Tom Cruise he was raised.

ArnoldJRimmer

Stephen Fry and his well documented hissy fits on Twitter.

And fully agree on Roddy Doyle, The whole auld lads talking about a celebrity dying was ok once or twice, but the Buncrana one was cringeworthy

Chain Smoker

Fry, Linehan, Dawkins and Gervais were the four that immediately jumped into my head

Fry and Linehan are really just suffering from being a bit earlier to the social media thing than most. They had a solid 2-3 years of almost exclusively hearing from sycophants and it's made them react really poorly to any kind of criticism.
Gervais has always been a bit of an idiot.
Dawkins has reached that point in life where any guy like him will be drifting into self-parody. Unfortunately he's doing it about as publicly as he could manage.