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. 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.
