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* [[Kathy Griffin]] after her infamous photo shoot in 2017 where she [[Off With His Head|goes Robespierre]] on [[Donald Trump]]'s effigy. Which didn't endear her to many people. In a surprising twist, this led to sudden cancellation of many contracts she had, from a casino gig to Squatty Potty ad campaign. Even CNN fired her. [//pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2017/06/02/crybully-kathy-griffin-tries-to-become-a-victim-of-her-sick-photo-shoot/ So she decided] to [[Never My Fault|paint herself a victim and blame Trump]]. It didn't seem to help. Must be [//www.mrctv.org/blog/kathy-griffin-orchestrated-campaign-and-older-white-guys-are-preventing-me-work a conspiracy of old white guys]. Because either that, or she became less funny. Or maybe even those who hate Trump's guts agree that this "makes you wonder about the mental health of the person who did it" and steer clear.
* No matter how much [[Robert Pattinson]] diversifies his portfolio, he's probably not going to be forgotten as "the sparkling vampire from ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''" for a long time.
* [[Ozzy Osbourne]] will always be remembered for biting the head off a live bat on-stage (he thought it was a prop, and there's debate as to whether or not the bat was already dead when it was handed to him.) Still, better that than drunkenly peeing on the Alamo, which got him banned from Texas for nearly a decade.▼
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* J. Bruce Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line who happened to be the highest-ranking White Star official to survive the ''[[RMS Titanic]]'' sinking. One day a chairman of a premier shipping line (which was at some point acquired by JP Morgan who wished to build an [[Mega Corp|international shipping conglomerate]]), a day or two later an overnight pariah in the eyes of the public, no thanks to sensationalist coverage especially in America, where the anti-Ismay smear campaign was orchestrated by William Randolph Hearst who was [[Strawman News Media|in control of the press]] back in the day and had a falling out with Ismay, bashing the living daylights out of the beleaguered chairman with derisive nicknames like "Coward of the Titanic" or "J. Brute Ismay". Ismay was haunted by the spectre the ''Titanic'' incident for the rest of his life, and was unable to recover from it. His reputation was damaged so much that most if not all portrayals of him in ''Titanic''-related media cast him in a wholly negative light, either as a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] bent at chasing the fabled Blue Ribald maritime speed record and thus attract more investors (in reality, the White Star Line was more after passenger comfort and luxury than pure speed) as in the case of the 1943 [[Nazi]] [[Propaganda Machine|propaganda film]] ''[[Titanic (1943 film)|Titanic]]'', or just some White Star figurehead who should have known better. To his credit though, he was far from the callous villain he was often portrayed as; the ''Titanic'' did have more than enough lifeboats (or at least more than enough according to the outdated standards of the time), and that he too helped usher many other passengers into lifeboats before finding a spot for himself. To this day, Ismay's (undeserving) notoriety [[Sins of Our Fathers|spilled over to his family]], who apparently received hate mail in relation to Bruce's indiscretions.
* [[J. K. Rowling]] of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fame couldn't shake off criticism from the LGBTQ+ community and the ''Potter'' fandom for her many statements on [[transgender]] people - this includes supporting Maya Forstater, who lost her employment tribunal against her former employer after tweeting "men cannot change into women", and stating "If sex isn't real, there's no same-sex attraction. If sex isn't real, the lived reality of women globally is erased". Needless to say, many in the HP community, including the principal actors of the films, have condemned Rowling; fan sites began to distance themselves from the author over her views, criticizing the hypocrisy in an author whose works espoused messages of tolerance, acceptance and empowerment being thoroughly intolerant of trans people's existence.
* [[Marie Antoinette]], for the (in)famous "Let them eat cake" line [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|that she didn't even say]]. Although she got loads of worse associations in the century after the revolution, based on what the libel pamphlets claimed she did.▼
* Gerald Ratner. He ran a company making very cheap jewellery. At one function, he said in his speech: "We also do cut-glass sherry decanters complete with six glasses on a silver-plated tray that your butler can serve you drinks on, all for £4.95. People say, "How can you sell this for such a low price?", I say, "because it's total crap." His company's stock dropped by £500 million and, in British business circles, such a gaffe is referred to as "a Ratner.▼
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** NPR interviewed a pilot whose callsign was Poo. He refused to go into detail as to how he got it.
** Honestly, too many callsign stories to list here, but many, many, [[Rule of Three|many]], can be found with a Google search.
▲* [[Marie Antoinette]], for the (in)famous "Let them eat cake" line [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|that she didn't even say]]. Although she got loads of worse associations in the century after the revolution, based on what the libel pamphlets claimed she did.
▲* Gerald Ratner. He ran a company making very cheap jewellery. At one function, he said in his speech: "We also do cut-glass sherry decanters complete with six glasses on a silver-plated tray that your butler can serve you drinks on, all for £4.95. People say, "How can you sell this for such a low price?", I say, "because it's total crap." His company's stock dropped by £500 million and, in British business circles, such a gaffe is referred to as "a Ratner.
* These days, the words "Catholic priest" have basically become synonymous with "[[Paedophile Priest|paedophile]]" thanks to case after case worldwide of priests preying upon children (particularly, young altar boys)–many of them covered up by church authorities and only now coming to light. If it weren't for the cover-ups, no doubt more people would notice that the vast majority of priests ''aren't'' child molesters.
* Pretty much anyone who is well-known mainly via supermarket tabloids.
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* Animals will be stereotyped accordingly to one trait, or one mishap by a member of the species. This is especially noticeable in Dog breeds; just ask anyone with a Pit Bull type breed.
* [[All Psychology Is Freudian|All psychologists sit in couches, talking about your mom.]]
▲* [[Ozzy Osbourne]] will always be remembered for biting the head off a live bat on-stage (he thought it was a prop, and there's debate as to whether or not the bat was already dead when it was handed to him.) Still, better that than drunkenly peeing on the Alamo, which got him banned from Texas for nearly a decade.
* Assuming you trust that stories on [[The Daily WTF]] aren't made up, the conclusion of [http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Special-Delivery.aspx this story]: Brad (probably not his real name) used to be known as '''the''' senior trader at Æxecor (probably also not its real name). Brad is now known as "the guy who bought an enormous pile of coal by accident".
* After a spate of crashes in [[The Seventies]], the DC-10 got a reputation as an unsafe airliner, even years after some of its design flaws were fixed. Try mentioning the plane in an aviation forum some time.
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