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The homophobic millie bobby brown 'meme' really isn't funny and being gay doesn't gives you a pass to harass an actual child to the point of deactivation. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. — ️ Radicles ️ (@radicles_) June 14, 2018 When the Duffer brothers’ sci-fi epic Stranger Things first landed on Netflix, it became a cultural phenomenon and turned its 12-year-old star, Millie Bobby Brown, into a household name. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. Stranger Things Kids Audition Tapes, Millie Bobby Brown. Critics accused those sharing the memes of "bullying" Brown, while one person with the handle @thelovelessclub defended them, claiming: "It was made by the gays as pure satire and mock of [sic] people who are actually homophobic. Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown has quit Twitter after she was made the subject of a bizarre series of memes.
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The meme is similar to one started around three years ago when Twitter users added fake captions to Demi Lovato's Snapchats to make her appear fatphobic and ableist. #TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown is a hashtag cataloguing a series of troll quotes and stories that are homophobic, Islamophobic, offensive and insensitive in nature falsely accredited to Stranger ThingsMillie Bobby Brown. "For those of you unfamiliar: the joke here seems to be that it's so wildly out of character and unbelievable for Millie Bobby Brown to act violently or intolerant, presenting her as such makes people laugh," the Vulture reporter wrote. Bizarre trend saw Twitter users post fake quotes and attribute them to the Stranger Things star in an apparent attempt at satire. Why Millie Bobby Brown is Leaving Stranger Things... - YouTube