Post ITT when you can pinpoint the moment someone's career died.

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Zugzwang: Jan 2, 2005; You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.; Ramrod XTreme

Kanye West going on Alex Jones' show and proclaiming how much he loves Hitler.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2023 13:42

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 22:33

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Spinz posted:

Is he? Oof I'm sorry I read this

Makes me FURIOUS

I grew up seeing my dad beat my mother

The stupidity of people still shocks me

Yeah, at the time, his dimwitted fans were engaging in some weapons-grade victim blaming against Rihanna.

To this day, he throws a tantrum at anybody who calls him out for it.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2023 17:58

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syntaxfunction posted:

Counterpoint: Seinfeld already ended, so his career was already over.

idk, Julia Louis-Dreyfus went on to star in Veep.

OTOH, Jerry made Bee Movie.

So I guess it's a mixed bag.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2023 02:48

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I think Bryan Cranston (who played dentist Tim Whatley) was in some stuff too.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2023 03:16

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emSparkly posted:

No, people were still on team Kanye for that poo poo. And for his crazy Christian phase, and all this other crap that would have destroyed anyone else that slid for Kanye because he's hip-hop's quirky David Lynch type guy. He had to become a nazi for it all to finally scare off fans and money.

Yeah, his corporate partners/sponsors started dropping him around a year ago when he really dialed up the anti-Semitism. I forgot that his appearance on InfoWars was like two months after he wore a "WHITE LIVES MATTER" shirt at a fashion show. Things, uh, went downhill from there.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2023 02:25

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acejackson42 posted:

Holy crap, I thought these guys made that one ridiculous video and that was it, but nope, they did a bunch of poo poo and were even on MTV. I don't remember things being so bleak musically that things like this would get airplay, but maybe I've memory holed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TH5ibABP4U

At least they inspired this review (quoting their Wikipedia page):

quote:

A writer for the Warsaw Business Journal attempted to describe their music: "Imagine an impassioned triceratops mating with a steam turbine, while off to the side Daft Punk and the Bee Gees beat each other to death with skillets and spatulas. Imagine the sound that would make. Just try. BrokeNCYDE is kind of like that, except it also makes you want to jab your thumbs into your eyeballs and gargle acid."

# ¿ Oct 9, 2023 20:10

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Seth Pecksniff posted:

I mean it killed her career in anything remotely plausible and she fell into the right wing grift circuit as a result

https://twitter.com/thymetikon/status/1131702577878503425

lmao she still has the doctorate whose thesis depended on misunderstanding that legal term.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2023 04:23

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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:

"It usually bends more..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD7OgAdCObs&t=900s

The New York Times published a glowing article about him in July, lol

# ¿ Oct 14, 2023 13:57

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Jelly posted:

don't read books until they're all released.

I put off reading the books for years, figuring I'd do it when GRRM finished them. Welp

# ¿ Oct 17, 2023 00:52

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Samovar posted:

I seem to remember reading up to the third book, thought something along the lines of 'any time anything good seems to happen to an ostensibly good person in this book, something horrendous happens immediately afterwards. Why should I continue to read this series when I could get the same results from reading non-fiction, but which also passes on real information?' and fully disengaged from it.

I would say in hindsight that that is the most thankful I've been for dropping a piece of media, but that would be a lie (stopped reading Harry Potter after the... Fourth book, I think?).

You stopped at a good place with Harry Potter, since book 5 is 900 pages of mostly teen angst. It is unbelievably painful to read.

Speaking of which, has JK Rowling been mentioned in this thread yet?

# ¿ Oct 17, 2023 05:57

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Froghammer posted:

UK transphobia attacks trans people from the left ("this is an insidious plot to undermine women's rights")

Not just UK; that's the line I see from many American grifters who claim to be "Democrats who think the left is crazier than the right nowadays" or whatever.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2023 23:50

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Tbf, the problem with Suicide Squad wasn't Will Smith. It was just a dogshit movie.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2024 01:36

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Kevin Smith grew up working class and was literally a convenience store clerk when he made Clerks. I'd characterize him as a decently smart and funny dude who has never lost sight of how lucky he is to have his life and career. Out of all the famous directors, he's gotta be one of the ones who'd be best to hang out with.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2024 06:53

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Nicki Clyne left Battlestar Galactica to spend more time with her friends in NXIVM :thumbsup:

# ¿ Mar 25, 2024 17:33

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In many cases, performers aren't even *allowed* to sing live. They have to lip sync. There have been cases where the audio fucks up at the Macy's parade or whatever and then the singer who was on TV at the time gets trashed in the press. But literally every other singer was lip syncing too. :shrug:

# ¿ Mar 25, 2024 21:09

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Dapper_Swindler posted:

I am sorta shocked they never tried to milk those movies more.

They clearly ran out of jokes, and IIRC they even made fun of their lack of new material in the movie itself.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 01:35

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Poo In An Alleyway posted:

Jesus Nick you loving rear end in a top hat

Evidently her therapist later told her that Nick never loved her. Can't imagine why :thunk:

Her recent (ok, 2020) memoir is supposed to be very good. I still need to read it.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 12:11

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 22:33

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Bill is a predator and has accumulated a long list of victims over the years. Hillary couldn't even press Trump much on the Access Hollywood tape because Trump was ready to parade out Bill's many accusers and ask why she stayed married to that guy.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 12:57

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