Why We're Worried About Millie Bobby Brown

Publish date: 2024-05-06

No one saw 2018 as being the year that Netflix icon Millie Bobby Brown became the face of homophobic tweets. Let's be clear: Brown herself didn't partake in any cruel behavior. Rather, her image and name were used without her consent in homophobic slurs online. 

According to USA Today, one such tweet read, "I was in McDonald's today and saw Millie Bobby Brown, went up to her and asked for a picture when she yelled '(expletive) you (homophobic slur)-looking homo walrus h*e burn in hell' and beat me up till I blacked out then left on her private jet, someone stop her." Posts like these were often accompanied by the hashtag "TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown."

The constant memes became too much for Brown — who, may we remind you, is a child — and she soon quit Twitter. She later addressed the whole thing while accepting an MTV Movie & TV award for best performance in a show via a pre-recorded video. "Since I know there are many young people watching this — and even for the adults, too — they could probably use the reminder that I was taught: if you don't have anything nice to say, just don't say it," she said. "There should be no space in this world for bullying, and I'm not going to tolerate it, and neither should any of you." 

This goes without saying, but Brown shouldn't have ever had to remind her haters of common human decency.

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