The way the “homophobic Millie Bobby Brown” meme made the actress give up Twitter.

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Nobody frankly believes Millie Bobby Brown operates over homosexual guys with newer automobiles. Just like no-one genuinely feels Millie Bobby Brown throws piping hot McCafes at people who use pleasure T-shirts at McDonald’s. Just like no-one in all honesty thinks that Millie Bobby Brown bullies gay guys by moving within their texts and shedding f-bombs (the one which rhymes with maggots).

But what anyone don’t believe does not matter, as Millie Bobby Brown, the 14-year-old star of Netflix’s Stranger products, deactivated the girl Twitter fund this week, reportedly responding to assertions like these.

These boasts are included in the TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown meme, which consists of low-effort photographs — generally screengrabs from Brown’s Snapchat — pasted more with absurdly homophobic comments.

At first glance, the meme was alarming and in poor taste. Falsely portraying this young girl and youngsters celebrity as a raging homicidal bigot are heinous, and Brown deleting their Twitter in order to avoid this maelstrom is actually a logical reaction to the internet’s festering orgy of toilet laughs. Continue reading →