Image Jumping - Public Figures Who Used To Represent A Certain Image That You/Many Admired, But Now They Have Completely Abandoned That Image

[The Pink Panther]

Here's a fun idea. Can you name any public figures who used to represent a set of ideas that were impactful and liberating, representing a sort of cultural revolution of sorts and then it turned out that they actually represented the opposite of what you thought they stood for or they abandoned that image for a cleaner safer image?

I'll start: Most knew Sacha Baron Cohen as a satirical clown who baited politicians and regular people with his kooky characters by making them do edgy shit on camera to make them look like fools until his ADL speech in 2019 revealed that he did this because he wanted to push that somehow people are naturally and he was baiting them to show how people basically do everything he baited them to do normally. As well as that, he was one of the edgiest comedians out there...and all of a sudden he's now against any form of edgy humor on social media parroting the whole hate speech talking point, pretty much "Do as I say, not as I do."

Edited for grammar.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

A guy that used to be my avatar: LeBron James.

Did not admire him or think he was the second coming of MJ, but his situation of throwing the Rockets GM under the bus and acting like a politician over a ball player in the last 4 to 8 years was when he began to cross the line.

You unfortunately can’t say this to NBA fans online, unless you want to get triggered and be called a hater, while your favorite league was almost cancelled because China embarrassed you.

 

[Mister Qwerty]

Howard Stern. Was the King of all shock jocks back in the day and now has turned into everything he used to ridicule and make fun of.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Laura dern and Kathleen Kennedy. Dr Ellie settler was one of my first childhood crushes and Kennedy was a producer on some of the best hits of the 80s and 90s (e.t. gremlins 1 and 2, goonies, the Indiana Jones movies, and IK just a producer but still) then they both made last Jedi with dern dying her hair ugly pink and Implying her character admiral fish breath is a man hating lez who went down on princess Leia. All under Kennedy's iron fist control of lucasfilm.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

Howard Stern. Was the King of all shock jocks back in the day and now has turned into everything he used to ridicule and make fun of.

Guess, same can be said about Eminem. First he was provocative and politically incorrect, then turned into shit and rapped about Trump being orange, which is the most politically correct thing you can say since 2016.

 

[Spunt]

Graham Linehan. One of the funniest comedy writers in British TV history, Father Ted and Black Books are some of the greatest sitcoms of all time, now he's, well, this.

A man who wrote irreverent, surrealist and taboo-smashing humour, where nothing was taken seriously and nothing was off the table, now spends his time as a humourless, miserable Commie arguing with trannies on Twitter and calling for censorship of things he doesn't like. I seriously wonder if he's had a stroke.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Stephen Colbert started out as a parody of conservative pundits bitching about Obama. Yeah, it was clearly making fun those pundits, but the understanding was that it was making fun of the insane people screeching about him and wanting him thrown out. Hell, one of his favorite targets was Glenn Beck, who was absolutely insane at that time. He never straight up attacked conservatives; it was never poisonous and it was never insulting. The stuff he joked about was stuff even conservatives agreed on.

Fast forward to Trump getting elected. Colbert's unironically become the very thing he mocked relentlessly during Obama's administration. All of his jokes are "Orange Man Bad" jokes and he keeps screeching about Trump getting impeached, jailed, or thrown out. It wouldn't bother me so much if there was even a drip of irony in all of this, but there isn't. One second he's mocking stupid people looking for ways to get the president out of office and now he's become one of those people without even a hint of self-awareness.