Jimmy Kimmel Live! has an awesome segment called ‘Celebrities Read Mean Tweets’ and it’s a real pleasure to watch how stars react to angry posts and troll comments. Some of their comebacks are amazing. The reactions of others are priceless as well. And once in a while, you see genuine surprise that there are people out there who don’t like stars!
Scroll down, upvote your fave mean tweets, and share this post with your pals if you think they’ll enjoy a good laugh or two. Just remember, this is no reason to start bullying celebs or spreading hate.
When you’re done with this post and if you find yourself wanting more, you can find Bored Panda’s previous articles about celebrities reading mean tweets about themselves on Jimmy Kimmel’s show here, here, here, as well as here.
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Same with members of The Rolling Stones. It’s the drugs and booze. It’s pickled their blood.
So THAT’S who Cardi B is. My daughter is into a few of her songs but I think they are awful.
No matter how much love you might get as a celebrity, there will always, always be at least a handful of people out there who dislike you or even hate you. The moral of the story is that you can’t be loved by everyone. So if you’re worried about someone disliking you, just remember that right now, there are hundreds, thousands of trolls hunched over their keyboards, bashing out mean comments about your favorite actors, singers, dancers, and other celebs.
Twitter user JayBird told Bored Panda their opinion about why Jimmy Kimmel's show segment about celebrities reading mean tweets is so popular. According to JayBird, the segment's popularity most likely stems from a desire to laugh and thus "turn the negativity away from you and back to the insulter." In other words, people want to get rid of stress, anxiety, and other negative feelings, and laughter is perfect for that.
JayBird mused that the reason why some people send out mean or hateful tweets to celebrities is because they want fame themselves, so they try to get as close as they can to celebrities. Even if that's achieved through something negative like insulting stars.
What's more, JayBird said that the perfect way to deal with mean tweets is exactly what celebs do on the Jimmy Kimmel show: laugh at them and show everyone that the tweets don't affect them in any way at all.
There are bad ways to deal with haters like getting into internet catfights with them, breaking down in tears, or screaming at passers-by.
And then there are awesome ways to react and feel like a pro. For example, the author of the legendary Harry Potter books J.K.Rowling once used her name in a punny reply to a critic, saying “They see me Rowlin’, They hatin.’” I think that many of us would absolutely love to use our last names as puns. But not all of us are as lucky as Rowling. Or we need a tad more imagination.
But this doesn’t answer the question of why online trolls target celebrities in the first place. Wouldn’t it be better to vent your rage at the gym instead?
According to presenter Rachel Riley, trolls are all “exactly the same” and are after “publicity.” She explained that, in her opinion, trolls target public figures to get more followers. While some of them, who have political ambitions, want to get more people to support their hateful ideologies.
Question is, did Amanda know or even guess where her sentence would end when she started it?
She’s right, how many of the haters have their own damn tour bus and unlimited happy meals? Not many.
John Mayer performing Dave Matthews covers sounds like my hell. My dad and brother like Dave Matthews but I think his songs are just... so boring. Like I've heard a bunch of them multiple times but I literally can't remember a note of them.
Genuine question to Bored panda: How come we can't comment using normal words but some 2 dime hooker is able to promote her business here? Don't you think it's time for a "Report as inappropriate" option?
There is. The three little dots next to the downvote button. I've been pushing those every time I see her. Also tap on her icon and you can report her as well as her comments
There are no three dots for me...
I guess you're using some app. I'm visiting BP on a computer and I have no way of reporting her or her comments. No 3 dots and no possibility on her profile page. But if you and others report her she'll be banned sooner or later I hope.
Are you using the app or something? I don’t see it?
Are you using the app? In the Web there aren't any dots, but if I can get that option by downloading the app, I'll do it. Thanks for the info.
Yeah, doesn't work for me. ugh.
You should jump on that hooker if she's only charging 2 dimes...or maybe pass on it, because at that price, she's probably been around...and around...and around...
Darn, now I want to see the 2 dime hooker!
I don't like the comments on Monsta X's post. It legitimately angers me that people are still blatantly racist, even if they're "just" joking.
I agree too. Uniformed, yes, they are. But same looking? Just because they don't have a big vatiety of hairstyles doesn't mean they are clones. Personally, I find their jawbones and face features pretty different. I'm not a fan of this kind of uniform looks, neither that particular group, but the way people exaggerate here sometimes really makes me sick.
There's an interesting phenomenon called the 'other race effect'. I learned about it in uni psychology. It should be easily searchable. Anyway, what was found that when you aren't exposed much to ethnicities other than your own (and your family and friends are that same ethnicity, say caucasian) people found it more difficult to distinguish individuals from other individuals of a different ethnicity (say, African American). Aparently that is why some people find 'they all look the same'. Sometimes this statement isn't rooted in racism it's because to that person they truly do look much the same. That's what I remember from my uni days anyway. They also found that the other race effect was significantly lesser in people who were exposed to a variety of ethnicities.
Thank, Lucy. Yes, I heard about it and it's an interesting piece of information none the less. However, the real problem here is the approach. So many people are just quick to point fingers in accusation instead of saying "hold on, maybe it's not them, maybe it's me". And that's where most of that racism comes from. Anyway, I've witnessed such extreme cases where someone couldn't distinguish between 3 objectively different looking Japanese actresses. One had a round face with soft looking features, one had an oval face with aggressive looking features, while the other one had more of a square jawbone. Each of them had different hairstyles too. And each of them differently shaped eyes and noses. That wasn't even face blindness, it was rejection to see. Anyway... Whatever. Let's all just be more rational and more considerate. It's a global era, after all.
ikr they look so different from each other wtf
i agree
The comments have zero to do with race and everything to do with these K-pop band members having the exact same style, dress and make-up. No one even implied that "all Asians" look the same, just that THIS particular group of Asians have extremely similar traits, be some natural and but most artificially articulated. Not everything is motivated by racism *eye roll*.
Ohio Hands -
Ohio Hands easy
Deborah Bohan lol
ruchiverma no
Deborah Bohan what
Deborah Bohan ?
Deborah Bohan +
Deborah Bohan love
Ohio Hands haha
Ohio Hands no
You no like-y the joke-y? Ah so, you no learn-y English-y enough-y.
Wwwwwow. I do not like this post.... It's a lot of food for salty people and we don't need that ;-;
Genuine question to Bored panda: How come we can't comment using normal words but some 2 dime hooker is able to promote her business here? Don't you think it's time for a "Report as inappropriate" option?
There is. The three little dots next to the downvote button. I've been pushing those every time I see her. Also tap on her icon and you can report her as well as her comments
There are no three dots for me...
I guess you're using some app. I'm visiting BP on a computer and I have no way of reporting her or her comments. No 3 dots and no possibility on her profile page. But if you and others report her she'll be banned sooner or later I hope.
Are you using the app or something? I don’t see it?
Are you using the app? In the Web there aren't any dots, but if I can get that option by downloading the app, I'll do it. Thanks for the info.
Yeah, doesn't work for me. ugh.
You should jump on that hooker if she's only charging 2 dimes...or maybe pass on it, because at that price, she's probably been around...and around...and around...
Darn, now I want to see the 2 dime hooker!
I don't like the comments on Monsta X's post. It legitimately angers me that people are still blatantly racist, even if they're "just" joking.
I agree too. Uniformed, yes, they are. But same looking? Just because they don't have a big vatiety of hairstyles doesn't mean they are clones. Personally, I find their jawbones and face features pretty different. I'm not a fan of this kind of uniform looks, neither that particular group, but the way people exaggerate here sometimes really makes me sick.
There's an interesting phenomenon called the 'other race effect'. I learned about it in uni psychology. It should be easily searchable. Anyway, what was found that when you aren't exposed much to ethnicities other than your own (and your family and friends are that same ethnicity, say caucasian) people found it more difficult to distinguish individuals from other individuals of a different ethnicity (say, African American). Aparently that is why some people find 'they all look the same'. Sometimes this statement isn't rooted in racism it's because to that person they truly do look much the same. That's what I remember from my uni days anyway. They also found that the other race effect was significantly lesser in people who were exposed to a variety of ethnicities.
Thank, Lucy. Yes, I heard about it and it's an interesting piece of information none the less. However, the real problem here is the approach. So many people are just quick to point fingers in accusation instead of saying "hold on, maybe it's not them, maybe it's me". And that's where most of that racism comes from. Anyway, I've witnessed such extreme cases where someone couldn't distinguish between 3 objectively different looking Japanese actresses. One had a round face with soft looking features, one had an oval face with aggressive looking features, while the other one had more of a square jawbone. Each of them had different hairstyles too. And each of them differently shaped eyes and noses. That wasn't even face blindness, it was rejection to see. Anyway... Whatever. Let's all just be more rational and more considerate. It's a global era, after all.
ikr they look so different from each other wtf
i agree
The comments have zero to do with race and everything to do with these K-pop band members having the exact same style, dress and make-up. No one even implied that "all Asians" look the same, just that THIS particular group of Asians have extremely similar traits, be some natural and but most artificially articulated. Not everything is motivated by racism *eye roll*.
Ohio Hands -
Ohio Hands easy
Deborah Bohan lol
ruchiverma no
Deborah Bohan what
Deborah Bohan ?
Deborah Bohan +
Deborah Bohan love
Ohio Hands haha
Ohio Hands no
You no like-y the joke-y? Ah so, you no learn-y English-y enough-y.
Wwwwwow. I do not like this post.... It's a lot of food for salty people and we don't need that ;-;