All posts tagged: haters

Barry Keoghan’s Online Haters Make Him “Not Want to Go Outside”

Barry Keoghan’s Online Haters Make Him “Not Want to Go Outside”

Published by Sam Flores

There are those who close their social media accounts, those who move to a ranch away from prying eyes, and those who decide to address the issue. Online hate towards celebrities is certainly nothing new, but recently, some artists have decided to talk about it openly in an effort to stem the emotional and physical damage. Robert Viglasky/Netflix Such is the case with actor Barry Keoghan, who recently described the daily pressures he faces in an appearance on SiriusXM. “There’s a lot of hate online,” Keoghan said. “There’s a lot of abuse of how I look.” While some of his fans are lovely, he noted, it was the gratuitousness of the attacks he is subjected to that hurt him. The 33-year-old Irishman, who just landed on Netflix with Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, boasts a multifaceted career that will soon see him play the Joker in The Batman 2 alongside Robert Pattinson, and then Ringo Starr in a series of Beatles biopics alongside Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, and Harris Dickinson. Still, there is a segment …

Mike Krzyzewski’s Final Insult to Duke’s Haters

Mike Krzyzewski’s Final Insult to Duke’s Haters

Published by José Betancourt

Bad news to the many, many Duke-basketball haters out there: It appears that you’re going to have to put up with the Blue Devils in all of their punchable smugness, with their fade haircuts and the skinny blue letters on their swelling chests, their floor-smacking defense and their clean, net-twitching shots, for at least another day, if not another generation. Four years after Jon Scheyer took over as head coach from the legendary Mike Krzyzewski, his record is a wonder: At just 38, he has reached 100 wins faster than any other coach in Atlantic Coast Conference history, and for the second year in a row, he has the NCAA tournament’s top-seeded team—if a shaky, young one. His 42–2 mark against conference rivals in the past two seasons is so dominant that when North Carolina finally got a win this season, fans stormed the court—in February. “He’s done a magnificent job,” Krzyzewski told me this week. He added that a number of times, “I’ve said, ‘You’ve done that better than I would have if I …

Dylan Mulvaney Is Finally a Broadway Leading Lady, Haters Be Damned

Dylan Mulvaney Is Finally a Broadway Leading Lady, Haters Be Damned

Published by Sam Flores

Mulvaney weathered that storm—and gained more notoriety and followers in the process. But when it was announced that she was stepping into the role of Anne Boleyn in December of 2025, she experienced deja vu, with conservatives criticizing her casting, calling it “woke” and lamenting on social media that they “made Anne Boleyn trans.” There were so many negative comments that the Six social media team made its X account private. “The protection, safety, and support of the Six cast has always been, and remains, our highest priority,” said Six producers in a joint statement. “While we welcome passionate engagement with the show, aggressive, threatening, or abusive behaviour is never acceptable.” “All of a sudden, the far right started attacking me and the show,” Mulvaney says, sipping her cocktail. “And I’m like, since when have you ever cared about Broadway? They don’t care. They would have never gone to see this, and if they had, they would hate it even if I wasn’t in it.” While it’s arguably more ridiculous than Beergate, this go round, …

Elon Musk Haters Have Found a Hilariously Easy Way to Make Money on Polymarket

Elon Musk Haters Have Found a Hilariously Easy Way to Make Money on Polymarket

Published by José Betancourt

Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk has long garnered a reputation for being massively wrong in his promises and predictions about the future. In 2024, for instance, he said that AI would become “smarter than the smartest human” by 2025. He said his company’s SpaceX Starship rocket, which is still exploding during test flights, will land on Mars this year. Like clockwork, he’s predicted that self-driving cars will become a reality “next year” every year for well over a decade now. He promised robotaxis without human safety monitors by mid-2025, which the company still has yet to accomplish. We could go on and on. In short, it’d be far easier to count the occasions on which he’s been right than when he’s been wrong. Now, as NBC News reports, users on online prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are making big bucks off of Musk’s astonishing track record for being wrong about the future. Case in point, Polymarket user David Bensoussan made a ten percent return after betting $10,000 that Musk wouldn’t follow through on …

Thank you to the haters for spurring Europe forward, EU’s top banker says  – POLITICO

Thank you to the haters for spurring Europe forward, EU’s top banker says  – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

“But if anything it has been good, and we should say thank you to the bashers, because I think it has given us a complete realization of the fact that we have to be more focused,” she added, especially on “innovation” and “productivity.”  In the last few days at the Davos summit, Trump said Europe was not heading in “the right direction, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Denmark “irrelevant,” and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick berated Europe during a VIP dinner with European officials and business leaders — reportedly prompting Lagarde, who was in attendance, to walk out of the event in protest.  But Lagarde also struck an optimistic note Friday, detailing her “very, very strong belief” that Europeans and Americans share similar values and ultimately need to come together.  “I personally — and this might be my emotional side, sorry about that, we women tend to be emotional — I think we have to think of the people,” she said. “And I have huge trust and affection for the American people, and I know that at the end of the day, the deeply rooted values will prevail.”  European leaders scrambled this week to figure out how to respond to an increasingly hostile U.S. administration. …

The New England Patriots are back. Don’t get their haters started.

The New England Patriots are back. Don’t get their haters started.

Published by Sam Flores

For fans who love the Patriots and rivals who have loathed them, the franchise being good again this soon wasn’t among their 2025 expectations. Barry Inciong first felt a change during New England’s unexpected October win at Buffalo. Soon after, interest surged in the gameday meet-ups he organizes between Patriots fans in Orange County, California, and at road games. It suddenly felt like the clock had been turned back a decade. The possibility of New England being truly good wasn’t on the radar for Brendan Cashman, a 48-year-old Patriots fan from suburban Boston. When his brothers discussed football last summer, it was often around the University of North Carolina’s upcoming season — not because any of them attended the school, but as a show of support for Belichick in his first season coaching in college. “We don’t talk about that at all anymore,” Cashman said, because as soon as the Tar Heels flopped under Belichick, the family’s beloved NFL team was off to its best start since 2019, the last Patriots’ Super Bowl season. New …