These Celebrities Caused The Downfall of Their Own Careers

Felix Kjellberg

YouTuber Pewdiepie was caught using some anti-Semitic language and posting Nazi propaganda in one of his posts in 2017. He also used the N-word in one of his livestreams in the same year. He issued a swift formal apology that said the word was used "in the heat of the moment, and one of the worst things” he could have possibly thought of. “I’m not going to make any excuses as to why I did it, because there are no excuses for it.”

Veronica Rose & Jason Sampson

These YouTubers published a photo with the caption "2 years of Cultural Appropriating" so they could show off their newly dyed dreadlocks. They clearly didn't care about the harm they were doing, and social media users fired back. Black people are still stigmatized for wearing dreadlocks, but this weirdo couple didn't seem phased. They never even apologized.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.