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When it comes to social media, everything is possible. It can either bring you to unimaginable heights when literally no one has even heard of you, but it can also ruin your career in a blink of an eye. One wrong step and you're gone! Even ordinary people get condemned for voicing their opinions on social media, so as you can imagine it's even worse for celebrities. Here's a list of celebs who failed miserably on social media and lost millions of fans as a result.

Billie Eilish Lost 100,000 Followers Because of a… Corset?

Net worth: $53 million

Everyone knows Billie Eilish for her signature dark hair with bright green streaks and a boyish street style look that completely covers her body from head to toe. But things have totally changed this year! Fans couldn’t recognize Billie Eilish when she appeared on the cover of Vogue in a brand new style.

Not only could they see her body probably for the first time ever, but she was also rocking blonde curly hair and a tight pink corset. Was that the same woman? The backlash was immediate, with more than 100,000 followers hitting the ‘unfollow’ button on Instagram.

Billie Eilish wasn’t discouraged at all, in fact, she revealed that she’s never felt more confident in her life and her career. Thousands of Billie’s fans went to her rescue, telling all the haters to ‘shut it’, but the singer seems to be just fine with her Grammy Award and all.

Chris Pratt Being a Little Bit Too Hungry

Net worth: $60 million

Even loveable characters like Chris Pratt can become victims of social media. Of course, he was the one who created the viral mosquito video, but James Gunn, the director of Guardians of the Galaxy, was the one who nearly destroyed the actor’s reputation as if it was a sandcastle.

All James Gunn did was post a birthday message on his Instagram, congratulating his friend, but instead of some cake image, he revealed a video of Chris Pratt eating an actual mosquito. Yuck! Millions of fans couldn’t believe their eyes and instantly rained him with messages of disappointment.

Someone even suggested he’d get cancelled on Instagram for insect abuse! While Chris Pratt’s career is still pretty much intact, he should definitely be more careful with his Instagram and Twitter posts.

Don’t Mess with a Russian… Harper’s Bazaar

Net worth: $80 million

In 2018, Nicki Minaj, known for her bold looks and even bolder rapping style, took everyone’s breath away when she posted her Harper’s Bazaar cover on Twitter. But it wasn’t her beauty that left everyone speechless – it was the fact that she posed for Harper’s Bazaar in… Russia!

Yep, as you can imagine Russia has quite a bad rep, especially when it comes to all things LGBTQ. The Queen of Rap immediately lost 1.2 million followers, many of which went as far as calling her ‘homophobic’ for having anything to do with Russia at all.

If you’re wondering how things ended up for Nicki Minaj in this story, well, as you can imagine her fame didn’t dwindle even a bit. What’s 1.2 million followers for an artist with 163 million subscribers on Instagram only? She probably didn’t even notice them leaving!

Rihanna and the Hindu God Ganesh

Net worth: $1.7 billion

Rihanna is no stranger to controversial looks and photos, and the year 2021 was no different. Rihanna showed up on Instagram with a topless photo advertising Savage X Fenty underwear. No one would have any problem with that, but the singer paired the satin boxer shorts with a necklace of the Hindu God Ganesh.

Thousands of fans were outraged and truly disappointed in her, calling it ‘religious appropriation’. Ganesh is a Hindu God of luck and wisdom, the Remover of Obstacles and the Lord of Beginnings. He is revered by millions of people all over the world.

'This is really disrespectful to our religion,' one Twitter user commented on the photo. Many fans were very offended by what she did: 'Rihanna !! stop using my religion as an aesthetic !! that Ganesh figurine at the end of the chain :( is a holy and sacred figure for us Hindus.'

Taylor Swift Got Cancelled… for Real

Net worth: $365 million

2016 was a year like many others (most of the years now seem pretty sublime compared to 2020 and what followed), but for Taylor Swift if was a game-changer that sent her into hiding for a whole year. She didn’t appear in the public, nor did she take part in any Hollywood celebrations – it was full-on radio silence for the singer!

Taylor Swift publicly disapproved of Kanye’s song ‘Famous’ in which there was a line "I made that b*tch famous". While Taylor Swift’s outrage was understandable, Kim Kardashian went to her husband’s rescue and published an edited record of Taylor Swift fully approving of Kanye’s song. She even called Taylor Swift a snake!

Fan’s anger was overwhelming as millions of them started writing to Taylor Swift wishing she’d disappeared forever. The young singer took the hit quite seriously and went undercover for a whole year until reappearing with a whole new album and more power than ever before. All those haters had nothing on her!

James Charles Lost 2 Million Subscribers Over Vitamins

Net worth: $12 million

If you’re new to the make-up beauty guru world on YouTube, then here’s a hint – there’s lots of DRAMA. And we mean full-on I’m-going-to-cancel-you-for-not-supporting-me kind of drama that happens there on a daily basis.

One of the later victims to the scandalous nature of YouTube was James Charles, who got dissed by his mentor and ‘mother figure’ Tati Westbrook for publicly supporting a brand of vitamins of a rival’s company. She got mad so much that she released a 40-minute long video telling everyone just how awful James Charles was.

While the was certainly no angel, trying to destroy a man’s career over a small endorsement of some vitamins seems like a bit of an overkill to us. He lost around 3 million subscribers after the incident and had to lay low for some time, but now James Charles is trending with 24.5 million subscribers on YouTube.

JK Rowling Being Openly Transphobic

Net worth: $1 billion

It was the year 2020, we were rock and rolling out way through quarantines and major virus threats, and just when everyone thought that things couldn’t possibly get any weirder, J. K. Rowling stole all the spotlight with just one transphobic tweet.

Suddenly, all hell broke loose, Joanne Rowling started talking about trans women not being ‘real women’, Harry Potter movie stars went on to defending the whole trans community, while gazillions of fans got disappointed in J. K. Rowlings books and even started doubting her sanity.

The whole anti-Rowling crusade has somewhat dwindled down since then, but it looks like her new novel starring a male serial killer who dresses in women’s clothes to get to his victims isn’t going to become everyone’s new favourite read. While thousands of fans officially ‘broke up’ with J. K. Rowling, she herself has cancelled Stephen King, the King of Horror, for stating that ‘trans women are women’. She will soon have no alleys left at all!

Disney Can be Such a Party-Pooper

Net worth: $93 billion

Even Disney can make mistakes and be awful to people. After a certain fundraiser at a school in California made a screening of Disney’s remake of The Lion King without a license. A few months later, the school was fined by Disney, making them pay $250 and then $250 per every showing of the movie in the future.

It wasn’t a big event, so the fundraiser raised only $800. When Disney’s executive chairman found out about what happened, he immediately posted an apology on Twitter, promising to personally make a donation to the school’s initiative.

It turns out even Disney can act like a big Boogeyman in some cases! The school has made an honest mistake, not realizing that they needed a special license to show the movie to a group of people, so in the end things turned out well for them.

Fans Turned Away from Cara Delevingne

Net worth: $28 million

People usually don’t expect too many opinions from supermodels, even when they are smart and vocal about their life choices and philosophy like Cara Delevingne. Maybe that’s why so many fans were taken aback when Cara talked against R Kelly after he got accused of being a predator and even holding women at his home against their will.

Cara Delevingne praised all the survivors of his emotional and physical abuse as well as celebrities like Lady Gaga and John Legend who spoke against R Kelly in numerous interviews. But then Cara Delevingne got a backlash of her own – she started losing fans!

Over 50,000 people followers left the model after her post about R Kelly. Cara confessed that she lost followers every time she spoke about something true to life or controversial, that made people think. In general, she was okay with that.

Even Olympic Champions Lie

Net worth: $6 million

Ryan Lochte, an Olympic swimmer and a 12-time medalist, caused quite a stir along with a few of his teammates when he announced that they have been held at gunpoint and later robbed in Rio. A group of mugs dressed as police officers confronted them, threatened them with guns, and stole their wallets.

This story became an international scandal in a matter of minutes, but the judge was suspicious of some inconsistencies in their story. After the security camera footage got pulled out, the swimmers had to admit it was all a lie – in fact, they were the ones who got drunk vandalized a bathroom at a local gas station!

This lie wasn’t taken lightly by Ryan Lochte’s sponsors – he lost all his connections with Airweave, Ralph Lauren, and Speedo USA, which cost him around $1 million of income.

The Worst Year for Ellen DeGeneres

Net worth: $370 million

So you know how Ellen DeGeneres presents herself as a kind and easy-going person with a loving attitude towards the whole world? Well, it turns out that it’s all been a lie, or at least one of the biggest  Twitter trends of 2020 seemed to think so.

In 2020, all live TV shows were struggling and people were left with no jobs or salaries. While most TV shows fully supported their workers, it turned out Ellen DeGeneres left her whole staff hanging in the air about their future. They didn’t know whether they still had jobs or not!

Suddenly, the whole Internet blew up with people coming forward about how bad Ellen treated her staff and that she’s always been creating a toxic environment at her TV shows. Even a DJ that has worked for her for years complained she was painful to work with. Things got so bad for Ellen DeGeneres that the anti-fans started a #RIPEllen tag on Twitter, meaning she’s completely and totally done with!

Charlie Sheen Got Kicked Out of Two and a Half Men

Net worth: $10 million

Charlie Sheen was notoriously hard to work with on set not only due to his character but also due to his drug and alcohol abuse. Things have gotten so bad in 2011 that Warner Bros. had to stop the production of Two and a Half Men and send the man to rehab.

Everyone was willing to wait, but the actor went on a number on public rants against Warner Bros. and his boss, Chuck Lorre, a clown and a charlatan, among other things. It was then and there that the company decided to let him go.

Well, as we all know Ashton Kutcher quickly came to the rescue and the show went on completely undamaged. Charlie Sheen sued everyone he could for this, but in the end, he was the one who missed out on $160 million (or so) of earnings after being kicked out of the show. Ouch!

Kanye West Shutting Down Taylor Swift

Net worth: $1.8 billion

In 2009, years before Taylor Swift got cancelled and willingly stopped all kinds of social interactions for a year, Kanye West did a stunt that shocked millions of fans on both sides. When Taylor Swift was about to start her speech after winning Best Video by a Female Artist Award at the VMAs, Kanye stormed onto the stage, took her mike, and blurted out: “I’mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!”

He was obviously drunk and ruined the evening not only for Taylor Swift but also for Beyoncé, who was just as shocked to see this happening. Both artists ended up crying backstage, while Kanye West was escorted out of the show.

The backlash was immediate – even celebrities went to Twitter to diss Kanye West for what he did to a 10-year-old Taylor Swift. Naturally, his apology did no good at all and as the scandal unravelled he slowly turned into pop culture’s new villain. He kind of is one today, still!

When Kylie Jenner Went Radio Silent

Net worth: $1 billion

No one expects socialites like Kylie Jenner to suddenly disappear from the face of the Earth – at least, that’s what everyone felt happened when she completely stopped posting anything on her Instagram. Was she ill? What was going on?

It turned out quite the opposite – when Kylie Jenner came back online in February 2018, fans couldn’t believe their eyes. In a candid post, the socialite revealed that she’s actually been pregnant all this time and didn’t want to cause any stress to her or the baby.

She acted like the best mother in the world and shut down all social media or other interactions, focusing on her pregnancy. But after that, she couldn’t wait to tell the whole world about her baby, making her 283 million followers sigh with relief.

Paris Hilton’s Sex Tape Scandal

Net worth: $300 million

It was the year 2004, Paris Hilton was roaming freely and making a name for herself in her first reality show The Simple Life, but everything changed overnight. Her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon leaked the tape with their love-making scene, calling it ‘One Night in Paris’.

Of course, he denied ever doing such a thing, accusing some unknown robber of stealing the tape and leaking it to the Internet, but in the end, he made millions by revealing an even longer version of the original video.

As devastated as Paris Hilton was, she didn’t lose the chance to sue everyone she could, including her ex-boyfriend and the Internet company that distributed the video. She got a compensation of around $400,000, but some people still believe she was in on the whole thing that made her famous for years to come.

Nude Celebrity Photos Got Leaked

Net worth: $160million

Jennifer Lawrence got immensely popular after playing the leading role in the Hunger Games movie series, but in 2014 she rose to fame once again, but for all the wrong reasons.

While cybercrime isn’t something we talk about a lot these days, it certainly happens more often than we think, and even celebs can’t be 100% when it comes to data. In August 2014, the nude photos of more than 100 celebrities got leaked and published on 4chan. Among them were Kirsten Dunst, Kate Upton, and Jennifer Lawrence.

The guys who did this went to jail, but the damage has already been done. While most of the celebrities denied the photos were real, JLaw stood strong, admitting those were, in fact, photos of her, and that she couldn’t believe she was living in a world where something like that was possible. “It’s my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting,” she told Vanity Fair.

Pepsi Ad Fail Starring Kendall Jenner

Net worth: $4 million

The year 2017 was a tumultuous year for many reasons, but Kendall Jenner’s fans remember it mostly due to the cringe-worthy Pepsi ad that hit the Internet hard and quickly became viral as one of the worst ads ever made. Why?

Well, in the advertisement Kendall Jenner used a can of Pepsi to make peace between police officers and a protesting crowd. It was the time when the Black Lives Matter movement was on the rise, so critics were fast to slam Pepsi and its ad for using BLM imagery and trivializing the issue of police brutality against minorities and peaceful protestors.

Pepsi got so much public hate that the company had to take down the ad just one day after its release! We don’t know if there’s ever good timing for an ad like this, but that was definitely the worst moment to release it.

Vanessa Hudgens Got All the Hate in the World

Net worth: $16 million

Vanessa Hudgens might be a gorgeous actress with a huge following, but even she didn’t avoid public humiliation when during the rise of the pandemic she started making posts, calling the quarantine ‘a bunch of bull…’ and saying that all those people dying from the virus was ‘inevitable’.

This attitude made millions of people turn away from her and the backlash was so severe that for a short period of time she became the most hated person on Instagram. She then tried to redeem herself saying her words were taken out of context, but that made everyone even angrier.

Finally, the star wrote an official apology to everyone she offended with her heartless attitude and urged everyone to stay safe at home. Needless to say, people weren’t as quick to forgive or forget this – it’s still being talked about one year later!

Lea Michele, the Awful Human

Net worth: $14 million

Lea Michele’s Glee character, Rachel Berry, can be quite unbearable at times, but did you know that the actress herself was a real nightmare to work with? After Lea Michelle made a tweet, supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, Samantha Ware, her former castmate, stepped forward revealing just how mean, awful, and overall cruel Lea Michele has been to her all the years they worked together.

Samantha confessed that Lea Michele even threatened to "s--- in my wig." Lea Michelle made a half-hearted apology for being “perceived as insensitive” and promised everyone to become a better person in the future. As if that was possible!

Even her Glee co-star, Heather Morris, admitted that Lea Michelle has always been a bad person to literally everyone she worked with, but no one was comfortable enough to talk about it publicly, keeping everything hush-hush. Company HelloFresh severed all ties with Lea Michelle after all those accusations surfaced.

Victoria Fuller Lost Her Cover for Cosmopolitan

Net worth: $1.5 million

Bachelor contestant and reality star Victoria Fuller should have graced the digital cover of Cosmopolitan after winning a group date on the Bachelor TV show, but then something went terribly wrong.

It turned out, the star had been involved in a photoshoot for a clothing line that had the slogan ‘White Lives Matter,’ and that wasn’t something Cosmopolitan could let slide easily. The model’s Cosmopolitan cover was cancelled, despite Victoria Fuller’s attempts to clarify that it was a photoshoot for the campaign aimed to support the white marlin, an endangered species.

Obviously, her explanation didn’t help much, and her Cosmopolitan moment didn’t happen. Instead, Fuller had to make an online apology: “I want to say that I unequivocally reject the beliefs of the white lives matter movement or any propaganda that supports racism of any kind," Fuller posted on her Instagram account.