“But the fact that that fun is coming at the expense of a 14-year-old girl raises questions of whether this type of humor is also a form of bullying,” Abad-Santos added. However, as Alex Abad-Santos of Vox wrote, “That the meme is being remixed and laughed at by LGBTQ people creates a context of reclamation that would be missing if LGBTQ people weren’t the ones having fun with it.”
The Millie Bobby Brown memes are to be enjoyed by the gays only It was made by the gays as pure satire and mock of people who are actually homophobicĪnd the entire idea and meme of mbb being homophobic originated from this iconic stan twitter moment. I think y’all aren’t getting the point of the millie bobby brown meme? Sarah Emerson of Vice’s Motherboard wrote, “It’s difficult to say for certain, but the meme may have gained popularity as an LGBTQ in-joke.”Įmerson cited these two tweets as examples, with one even saying that only those from the LGBTQ community can share in these jokes.
It’s only a joke if we do itĪccording to websites Motherboard and Vox, some members of the community have been sharing these memes as part of the fun because it’s supposedly ironic. So it would seem strange that some members of the LGBTQ community would consider it fun to target an ally like Brown. She has an anti-bullying Twitter side account that is supposed to “share love and positivity.”Īs a vocal supporter of LGBTQ rights, she was selected for MTV’s gender-neutral awards last year, and she showed her support for advocate groups like GLAAD and the ACLU during the event. There’s a certain irony in these attacks on Brown, given that she’s also an advocate against bullying and supports anti-bullying groups and their efforts, like the Being Me campaign. But that didn’t stop the actress from deleting her Twitter account last Wednesday. Many Twitter users– many of her owns fans– condemned the fake memes and voiced their support for Brown. This had also happened before to artist Demi Lovato, who had been accused with fake Snapchats of being fatphobic and ableist.
Ironically, this may have started in the stan– a portmanteau name for “super fan”– communities, so some of those spreading the fake memes were her own fans. While was suspended on Twitter and the tweet deleted, this sparked the hashtag #TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown and led people to come up with fake stories, Snapchats, and memes of their own. The trouble started in November 2017 when a Twitter user with the name made the fake accusation against Brown of snatching her hijab at the airport. Seriously? This is why we can’t have nice things when we bully kids to show how ironic we are. The sad part of this story is that some members of our community had also spread these memes as a kind of in-joke.
She was also the youngest person to be featured in TIME’s 100 most influential people.Why bullying kids like Millie Bobby Brown is never a good thingįourteen year old actress and noted LGBTQ ally Millie Bobby Brown of the Netflix series Stranger Things deleted her Twitter account after fake memes of her being a homophobe and Islamophobe spread. To everyone posting under the #TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown hashtag get a life! Millie is a 14 year old girl so why are people saying such awful things about her? Most of the “tweets” that are angering people are false and can not even be found on her account, people need to do theirīrown will make her feature film debut in the upcoming 2019 film Godzilla: King of Monsters, and will once again reprise her role as Eleven in Netflix’s Stranger Things. Omg Millie is such a strong person and she didn’t say any of these things on the hashtag #TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown it’s all lies obviously but it’s really mean so stop. Here are some examples of the many anti-gay tweets that made Brown quit Twitter:īrown, who is an avid supporter of LGBT rights and an anti-bullying advocate, was quickly defended by her fans on social media. The hashtag #TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown not only shows Brown as homophobic but also includes fake stories, racism, and body shaming quotes. The inappropriate tweets that picked up steam on the social media platform started around November of last year and resurfaced once more this month-concurrently when Pride Month is celebrated. The actress was the subject of homophobic gay tweets, causing her to leave millions of her followers. Breakout star Millie Bobby Brown, mostly known for her character “Eleven” in the hit Netflix series Stranger Things left Twitter.