Hannah Marder
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After the tragic Malaysian Airlines crash in 2014, which killed almost 300 people, Jason Biggs tweeted, “Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?” After backlash, he tweeted, “Hey all you ‘too soon’ a–holes- it’s a f–king joke. You don’t have to think it’s funny, or even be on my twitter page at all.” He also called his detractors “losers” who were “literally trying to find s–t to get angry about” and stated how sad the crash was.
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In a rare example where the tweet is still up, back in 2012, Lady Gaga tweeted, “I just landed in Bangkok baby! Ready for 50,000 screaming Thai monsters. I wanna get lost in a lady market and buy fake Rolex.” Fans were less than thrilled at the tweet, which perpetuated Thai stereotypes.
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We can’t make this post without mentioning the famously problematic joke that got Roseanne Barr fired from her own show. “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” she tweeted about Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. Barr later apologized and said she’d been joking, writing, “I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me-my joke was in bad taste.” Still, the damage had been done, and Barr was fired from Roseanne, which killed off her character and was renamed The Conners.
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In one of the most truly head-scratching examples on this list, Blake Shelton once seemingly admitted to killing a turtle on Twitter: “Does anyone know if the Eastern Box turtle is protected in Oklahoma? If so I didn’t just swerve to the shoulder of the road to smash one…” he wrote, then replied “shut up” to backlash and boasted, “I solely have raised over a million dollars in animal rescue/conservation alone.”
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Demi Lovato once tweeted about a super messed up trick she pulled on her bodyguard, claiming she’d hired a sex worker (who she called a “lady of the night”) to go “into his room without permission” and grab “him in his ‘area.'” She then deleted it and tweeted, “I could tweet something about craving jelly beans and it would offend someone,” and told people to listen to her song “Warrior,” writing, “Of all people I know about sexual abuse. You don’t have to educate me.”
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After Kevin Hart was tapped to host the Oscars in 2018, his past anti-gay tweets resurfaced, such as the 2011 tweet: “Yo if my son comes home & try’s 2 play with my daughters doll house I’m going 2 break it over his head & say n my voice ‘stop that’s gay.” Hart initially asked people to “stop being negative” about his past tweets but later decided to step down from hosting the Oscars and apologize due to the intense backlash.
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In an even worse example of anti-gay tweets, 50 Cent once tweeted, “Perez Hilton calld me douchebag so I had my homie shoot up a gay wedding. wasnt his but still made me feel better” along with a photo of two men in tuxedos running away from an angry group of people.
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Later that same month, he tweeted, “If you a man and your over 25 and you don’t eat pu**y just kill your self damn it. The world will be a better place. Lol.”
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In the wake of allegations of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2012, Cee Lo Green tweeted, “If someone is passed out they’re not even WITH you consciously! so WITH Implies consent” and “People who have really been raped REMEMBER!!!”
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In what I consider to be a pretty out-of-character move, Rashida Jones once tweeted, “This week’s celeb news takeaway: she who comes closest to showing the actual inside of her vagina is most popular. #stopactinglikewhores”
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Kelly Clarkson was similarly pretty slut-shamey when she tweeted, “Just saw a couple performances from the VMA’s last night. 2 words…. #pitchystrippers” after the 2013 VMAs. Many assumed she was referencing Miley Cyrus, who had memorably twerked on Robin Thicke.
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Amber Heard once tweeted, “Just heard there’s an ICE checkpoint in hollywood [sic], a few blocks from where I live. Everyone better give their housekeepers, nannies and landscapers a ride home tonight.”
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In the wake of the whole Taylor Swift/Kim Kardashian/Kanye scandal, Chloë Grace Moretz tweeted that “Everyone in this industry needs to get their heads out of a hole and look around to realize what’s ACTUALLY happening in the REAL world. Stop wasting your voice on something so petulant and unimportant.” Khloe Kardashian replied to her on Twitter with “Is this the a hole you’re referring to,” accompanied by an alleged paparazzi photo of Moretz in a swimsuit with her butthole exposed. Moretz, who was 19 at the time, wrote back that the photo wasn’t of her.
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After a negative review of her album Manic, Halsey tweeted, “can the basement that they run p*tchork out of just collapse already.” Pitchfork’s office is in the One World Trade Center.
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Halsey also once allegedly tweeted that she was “SO going to jail” due to “promising underage fans that I’m gonna make out with them.” At the time, then-19-year-old Halsey had a tradition of taking kissing photos with fans.
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Chrissy Teigen has a number of old problematic tweets, including one about Toddlers and Tiaras that reads, “seeing little girls do the splits half naked is just…..i want to put myself in jail.”
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Teigen also cyberbullied then-16-year-old Courtney Stodden after they married 51-year-old Doug Hutchison in 2011. Stodden told the Daily Beast Teigen had repeatedly told them to kill themselves. Teigen’s old tweets to Stodden then resurfaced, revealing she had written things like “you. dirt nap.” and “go. to sleep. forever.”
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Cardi B has a history of calling dark-skinned Black women “roaches” on Twitter, writing back to women who criticized her with things like “You just ugly you look like a BURNED ROACH.”
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Machine Gun Kelly once tweeted, “I wish 13/14/15 year old girls werent allowed to be hot so I wouldn’t feel like such a creeper when I look at them..Im still 19.”
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And Sterling Knight once tweeted, “I wanna know when God decided to make 15 year olds so good looking……its just plain mean.” He was 21 at the time.
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Chelsea Handler has made numerous awful jokes about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s children over the years, including tweeting, “Angelina has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt…he wants the China; she wants Pax and Maddox ##sorrycouldnthelpmyself” after their divorce news broke.
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She also tweeted from the Huffington Post Twitter account (during an Oscars takeover) congratulating Lupita Nyong’o on her Oscar win for 12 Years a Slave, and then promoting her book Uganda be Kidding Me. “Congratulations #12yearsaslave Go to Africa or buy #ugandabekiddingme.” The only apparent connection between Lupita’s win and the book is Lupita’s African heritage — which, by the way, is not Ugandan).
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During the same Oscars ceremony, she also tweeted that “#AngelinaJolie just filed adoption papers #lupitanyongo,” seeming to joke that Jolie was interested in adopting Nyong’o.
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Speaking of Chelsea Handler, she once tweeted, “This is what a f-g bird likes like when he flexes” with a photo. The tweet is still up.
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Sarah Silverman also tweeted using the f-slur, writing in 2010, “I dont mean this in a hateful way but the new bachelorette’s a f—-t.”
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Aaand Amy Schumer did as well, writing in 2010, “Enjoy skyfall f-gs. I’m bout to get knee deep in Helen Hunt. #thesessions.”
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Rihanna once tweeted a photo of a rice cake in earrings and sunglasses, a move many fans thought was a racist reference to Chris Brown’s then-partner, Karrueche Tran, as she captioned it with the lyric from her song “Birthday Cake” with Chris, “Ima a make u my b****.” Fuel was added to the fire when Rihanna’s best friend Melissa Forde later explicitly referred to Tran as a “rice cake.”
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Gregg Sulkin once tweeted, “Wow what a workout. Had to run up flights of stairs & all I could think of were the brave firefighters climbing the twin towers on 9/11.”
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And finally, Lena Dunham — who is a cis, straight woman — once tweeted this about Pride: “When I go, I want my casket to be driven through the NYC pride parade with a plaque that reads “she wasn’t for everyone, but she *was* for us”- who can arrange?”
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