(c) Sky News 2018: Millie Bobby Brown quits Twitter after anti-gay meme campaign She is also the youngest person ever to feature on TIME’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.īrown will make her feature film debut next year in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. One of the first recipients of MTV’s gender-neutral awards last year, Brown wore a blue ampersand pin to honour the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Together movement to accept her prize. Some have suggested the campaign, which coincides with Pride Month, was an “inside joke” within the LGBT community, based on the premise that Brown would never behave in such a homophobic way.
In reality, the Emmy nominated actress is a vocal anti-bullying campaigner and active supporter of LGBTQ+ rights.įans have jumped to her aid, calling society “messed up” and saying homophobia is “not something to joke about”. When her handle is typed into the Twitter search box, a blue page now appears with the message: “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”Ī second account, set up by Brown last summer to tackle bullying is still active, as is her Instagram account which has nearly 17 million followers. The British star now appears to have deactivated her verified account which had nearly 2.3 million followers. One tweet includes a video of a car driving into protesters and includes the caption: “Millie Bobby Brown arriving at pride”.Īnother shows a picture of Brown looking out of a car window with the caption ‘Looking away from all the gay f**s xoxo’. “You could genuinely cause so much damage to her reputation and it’s weird as f**k.”Īnother fan wrote that “yall evil as f**k for ruining millie bobby brown like this shes a literal angel and her career could end cause of some dumbasses who think using violent homophobic memes with a minor is funny.Anti-gay memes using the hashtag #TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown were shared on the social media platform along with photoshopped images of the star, who is just 14. They continue: “She is a f**king child and you are cracking jokes about her hating gay people and wanting to kill them when she hasn’t done anything wrong? Millie Bobby Brown onstage at PaleyFest (Frazer Harrison/Getty) “You are grown adults, editing photos of her with captions that include the f slur, violence against lgbt community for comedy and it’s f**king gross.”
Thank goodness for people like this (zunbarya/twitter) There has been a backlash against the meme, especially since Brown deleted her account, with one user writing that “pretending millie bobby brown, a literal child, is a violent homophobe for memes is f**king disgusting and not funny at all. Ironically, it appears her last post was a quote-tweet of the Being Me Campaign, an anti-bullying group. The star had 2.28 million followers before she deactivated the account. Why would I be scared of a faggot?” Terrible (godcyruss/twitter) Posted by someone who called the original Snap – not this one – a “photoshop” (psychosociaal/twitter)Īnd another obviously doctored image says: “I hate the word homophobia. One tweet, for instance, shows a Snapchat post by the actor with “just ran over a faggot cant wait to kill all these gays off” photoshopped over it. Many of the posts attribute obviously false quotes like “We don’t need gun control, we need faggot patrol” to the British star. Millie Bobby Brown attends the 2018 Time 100 Gala (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty) This has not stopped the damaging meme from spreading, however, with one popular tweet posted on May 12 saying “Millie bobby brown arriving at pride” above a video of someone driving a car into several protesters. Many have pointed out that Brown, who was one of the first recipients of MTV’s gender-neutral awards last year, has long been a vocal supporter of LGBT rights.
Brown smiles during her Instagram video (milliebobbybrown/instagram)