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Mantas Kačerauskas

30 Famous People That Became Extremely Unpopular Without Any Good Reason

According to YouGov, the most popular people in America right now are: 1. Morgan Freeman, 2. Samuel L. Jackson, 3. Tom Hanks, 4. Sean Connery, and 5. Denzel Washington.

However, public opinion, and, in turn, this list, are susceptible to change. So we asked our Facebook followers who became extremely unpopular, and they immediately started sharing names.

From opinionated singers and controversial actors to outspoken activists and beleaguered royals, continue scrolling to check out the ones they mentioned and upvote the submissions you agree with!

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Richard Jewel the guy discovered a bomb, saved countless lives, and was dragged through the mud by the fbi, and the press. When they vindicated him the damage had been done.The woman who got burned with the McDonald’s coffee. That was a pretty horrific injury she got and this was not their first rodeo with high temp injuries.Sinead O Connor.... she was right all along.Monica LewinskyJack Kevorkian. Death with dignity is important. He was a pioneer.Brendan FraserAnita Hill * I still believe her.Every woman named KarenVietnam VetsJack Gleeson, the guy portrayed the most punchable character (Joffrey Baratheon) in Game of Thrones and did his job so well people hated him for no reason.Dr. Frankenstein's "monster." Grossly misunderstood.Nickelback. They sound like so many other 2000s bands and I don’t get how the hate for them startedPeeWee HermanNicholas Cage. So many people hate his acting. He might have picked the wrong movie here and there but there’s far more worse actors around than him these days!Janet jacksonSchool TeachersColin KapernickJonny Depp. Amber Heard was unstable from day 1 and they blamed him for ever that happened without hearing her version in person. Just seeing her lying in court proved everyone wrong immediately.Pamela Anderson, I'm so glad she's doing well these days because the world was absolutely horrible to herWinona RyderAl Franken deserved a little shade, maybe - but not nearly the amount of backlash that he got. Currently serving politicians have done 100x worse.Jane Fonda, for being anti Vietnam WarGreta ThunbergSkeletorMC Hammer. He was called a sell out for doing a (Pepsi, I think) commercial and quickly became unpopular after that. Despite the fact that a bunch of artists made commercials after him and it didn’t matter.Whitney Houston. Drugs and domestic abuse are badMilli Vanilli. They wanted to be popular by being frontmen, and were sort of bullied into doing it because they were attractive. The real singers were in agreement, so I don't know why Rob and Fab took the hit for everyone involved. The music and videos were great! Wish it had gone on for longer.Edward Snowden.Anne HathawayAnyone that spoke out against the genocide early on.
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