Look back at shocking things from past decades that we were okay with for some reason — including exploitative TV shows, tabloids, paparazzi, talk shows, and cultural moments that just make you gasp in hindsight! Think ANTM photoshoots, crass tabloid front pages, diet culture, casual sexism and racism, bizarro challenges on TV shows, making light of awful things in movies — hello, Wedding Crashers! We’re a mix of laughing at the ignorance of the past, as well as critiquing it seriously.
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Jim Carrey at a 2008 anti vaccine rally. Carrey campaigned for a lift on vaccine mandates and helped spread misinformation in news interviews.
Taylor Swift dating an underage Connor Kennedy, and younger Harry Style and Taylor Lautner.
[tw] John Kricfalusi, the creator of Ren and Stimpy, would openly invite and hire his underage ‘girlfriends’ at the studio.
Dr Phil drags a drunk Todd Herzog on stage for an interview. Todd has since accused show staff of leaving alcohol in his dressing room to set him up.
[tw]Gordon Ramsay became a star by glorifying abusing employees
Courtney Stodden calls out Jason Alexander
[tw]The Dionne Quintuplets were Canadas first surviving Quintuplets, stolen from their parents by the government and put in a human zoo for profit.
2000s teen movies pairing child Disney stars with grown men.
As a millennial, we can never make fun of this generation of kids for being cringe when we used to do this
Celebrities who were fat-shamed by the media
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
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