Bill Cosby.
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JK Rowling comes to mind immediately
I'd nominate Elon Musk. All that motherfucker had to do was nothing but make mediocre electric cars and he'd have had a celebrated place in history. Sure, he was always a ridiculous asshole, but relatively few people looked that closely. Now he's throwing out Nazi salutes and making a public shame of himself. The political right despises electric cars and hence Musk, but Nazis gonna Nazi.
Yeah, he was quite popular right up until a diver rescued some Thai kids (while Musk tried the same in a submarine that didn't fit in the cave), and Elon's mature, grown up response was to call him a paedophile.
The mask fell off that day and he was unable or unwilling to put it back on.
Yea, he somehow even got on good terms with the younger generation right about that time when he was guest on pewdiepies channel. Something Mark Zuckerberg so desperately tries to achieve.
I think it’s inevitable, his “good reputation” was just by being less well known. Lots of people are like that, they seem ok or even good, until you get to know them better
JK Rowling. Everyone used to have a very favourable opinion of her. I remember when the media would worship every tweet she made, as though she brought about world peace. Then she became obsessively transphobic and now that's all people think of when they think of her as a person. At first, I gave her the benefit of the doubt and thought it might be a misunderstanding. But then she went out of her way to make sure everybody knows how transphobic she is. It's become her whole personality. Even Elon Musk, whose own child stopped talking to him because of his transphobia, told Rowling to knock it off because she was harping on transgender issues too much.
Rudy Giuliani was known for taking down the mob before being dubbed "America's Mayor." Now he works for the mob.
Jimmy Savile. I don’t want to hear any other suggestions where they havent fucked hundreds of children and corpses. That is now the barrier for entry in this contest.
Elon musk. I used to think he was smart. Damn, how wrong I was.
I do think he had at least some empathy in the early days. The money destroyed that part of his brain though and he's carttonishly evil now.
That's putting it lightly
Oh yeah. He's absolute scum. There's a Trumpian list I could write but why? The mother fucker threw a Nazi salute. He 100% knew what he was doing.
To be entirely fair, I'm not sure he had the best shot at having empathy, his whole family benefited from the apartheid in south Africa.
Surprised no one has mentioned Neil Gaiman yet.
Adolf Hitler. Could have just lived a quiet life as a successful veteran and modest painter. But he just had to go on Hittling.
Ethan Klein, he was really well liked by the internet at large when he was just a silly little guy posting videos. Now hes a beligerant doofus, sex pest, and genocide advocate
Wait, is he a sex pest or just an adulterer?
I've only heard about the adultery.
only to his fans, outside of his audience people dotn know him, and shouldnt. alot of youtubers when shit heel over the years. i feel like he got high off people supporting his defense against another person who sued him for criticizing his shitty pickup video.
John Lasseter. He’s the reason why Pixar/disney had such strong story telling the years he was active. And then it turned out he was a perv. Sooooo disappointing.
And yet, people haven't turned against Toy Story the way they have Harry Potter
Toy Story is a collaborative effort made by many people. If Tom Lassiter had his name written in a death note, Pixar would still have made movies.
Harry Potter was entirely written by JK Rowling; the movies, games, and merch are adapted from the novels. Write "Joanne K Rowling" in a death note, no more Harry Potter.
Also Rowling uses her money to aggressively bankroll right-wing political causes. (She's best known for the transphobia, but also materially opposed Scottish independence). As such, she has affected more people than Lassiter, though Lassiter's crimes definitely were worse for the people he did them to.
Dave Chappell. Should've just shut the fuck up about his transphobia. He also seems like an out of touch rich asshole.
Ronald Reagan
taylor swift, she has been seen hanging out with maga more and more, as she comfortable being a billionaire, and her recent music releases has been very bland as of late, who knows when the fans will turn on her.
Sorbo, couldve stuck with his shows, if he handt gone to a chiro to get a stroke from and then holding a grudge on Xena for like 20+years, plus he had his own show which he controlled, but still screws it up.
Chomsky, Gates, Steve Jobs, Tim Apple, the Democratic party
funny how jobs was killed by his owned hubris. feel like political parties shouldnt be part of legacy
Chomsky hit me hard
Allow me to introduce Michael Parenti!
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjob0rkb9-tZlCvHAKse_HtF6
Huang. Putin. Woody Allen. Rowling. Gerhard Schröder. Jackson Pollock.
Did Putin ever have a "good legacy" in the first place?
Nate Bargatze
No idea who that is
Google will confirm he's a comedian by trade, and pretty funny. But he showed up at the UFC thing on that guy's lawn in DC, and didn't really address the wave of hate he got by ruining his neutral image; not in the slightest.
It was a bad look, to say the least.
Comedian that has specials. He was photographed at trump's ufc fight hanging with all of the r's.
Person: Trump People: Israel
They never had that.
Lots of people outside the region had sympathy, and wanted to help. Now, much less so.
I think if Trump had never run for president, he'd have been remembered as a rich guy that hosted a tv show. Most people wouldn't have bothered to learn about all the shitty things he's done. I don't think he had many super fans before politics, but certainly less people hated him.

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