The cast of the Ghostbusters reboot will have developed some pretty thick skin over the last few months, oweing to the fact the movie was universally hated before it even came out.
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For one of the girls, Leslie Jones, however – the Internet trolls proved to be a bit too much this week.
I reckon the final straw came when one troll Photoshopped her Twitter handle on a homophobic Tweet:
As you can see, instead of ignoring the comment, Leslie Jones ReTweeted it (so as to dispute she wrote it) and eventually went into full-on Twitter meltdown mode:
Some people on here are fucking disgusting. I'm blocking your filthy ass if retweet that perverted shit. Just know that now bitches!!
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
Ok I have been called Apes, sent pics of their asses,even got a pic with semen on my face. I'm tryin to figure out what human means. I'm out
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
I don't know how to feel. I'm numb. Actually numb. I see the words and pics and videos. Videos y'all. Meaning people took time to sprew hate
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
Twitter I understand you got free speech I get it. But there has to be some guidelines when you let spread like that. You can see on the
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
I'm so tired of it. Why is this still a fight? I want to hate so bad but I can't because I know it doesn't fix anything and just make me sad
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
Stop letting g people get away with being ignorant. You stupid people to shut up. Tell them to shut up real talk. Say something.
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
I'm tired of everybody not believing they can change something. We are the people we can change anything if we want. We stop eating spinach
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
Spinach? What?!
It does seem strange to imagine a Hollywood superstar sitting at her laptop, losing the plot over what some trolls are saying on Twitter. If you go on Leslie Jones’ Twitter now you’ll see hundred of Tweets of her just losing her shit over all this.
For some reason she keeps on posting and ReTweeting all the abuse she’s getting, so the trolls naturally keep sending it:
I just don't understand pic.twitter.com/N9xWoXPttu
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
Exposing I hope y'all go after them like they going after me pic.twitter.com/ojK5FdIA0H
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
Really horrible shit like that. Obviously no one deserves that kind of abuse and harassment but at the same time, come on. Is this Leslie Jones’s first day on the internet? Everyone knows that the internet’s a ruthless place. Some of the biggest arseholes in the world are on the internet getting away with being racists, homophobes and all the rest of it on a daily basis. One of the deals you make when you became a famous movie star and join Twitter is that strangers are going to be mean to you sometimes. That’s just life.
Although having said that, it seems Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wants to have a word:
Hi Leslie, following, please DM me when you have a moment
— jack (@jack) July 19, 2016
Maybe Leslie Jones is onto something here.
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