Who is a person you used to admire a lot but have completely lost respect for and why?

Jack Horner the paleontologist. He uncovered some stellar finds in the 70s, wrote some important papers on dinosaur behavior and life cycles, and was one of the scientific consultants for the Jurassic Park series. A massive star for any paleontology kid of the 90s-00s. But he had some whackass ideas ranging from Triceratops not being a valid genus to T-rex being an obligate scavenger to pushing his Build A Dinosaur project, which had the intended goal of making Jurassic Park real with genetically defective chickens. And he'd push these ideas to the public directly rather than submit actual papers for peer review, which is just plain academic dishonesty. And his image has completely crumbled over the past few years as it came out what a terrible human being he is. Apparently his groundbreaking research on Maiasaura involved him "borrowing" other people's finds and then not giving them back, in 2012 he married one of the students at the college he worked at while she was 19 and he was 65 (they divorced a few years after), and he was recently listed in the Epstein files where he sent a personal e-mail to Epstein thanking him for "a lovely weekend with the girls." He apparently had a lot of friends in high places making generous donations for the colleges he worked at, which is a can of worms in itself. But yeah. Awful scientist, awful human, and a massive stain in the history of the community.

It's my comfort show so it's sad to say, but most of the main cast from That '70s Show. 

Oprah, oh my God don't get me started.

Bill Cosby was once a very wholesome character, until the truth came out.

Back in high school, I loved my French teacher. She was so kind to me and encouraged me at every opportunity and I always did my very best in her class. She was part of the reason I wanted to become a French teacher. Cut to when I was in college and working part-time at McDonald's: one night this lady pulled up to the drive-thru speaker and was crazy rude. Just unnecessarily nasty! She pulled around and it was...my French teacher from high school. Lost all respect for her at that moment, and gave up on my French teacher aspirations (not totally because of her).

The punk band Anti-Flag. They were really good, did a great show, and had a great political message. Then we found out that the singer is allegedly a serial rapist. Whether the rest of the band members knew or not is still debated. They disbanded the DAY the allegations came to light, and have vanished from the internet.

Niel Gaiman. I enjoyed his work but he is dead to me now. It was the way he spoke about the allegations of sexual violence that turned my stomach.

Tiger Woods. Sad state for a gazillionaire.

Dr Oz, he was my MIL’s cardiac surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in the mid 1980’s when that’s all he did. He seemed to be genuine, empathetic and skilled heart surgeon at the time. What u see him promulgating and endorsing now is a far cry from the man I met years ago, I am very disappointed

Ellen DeGeneres. The whole "be kind" persona while allegedly treating her staff like garbage behind the scenes... that hypocrisy just killed it for me.

John Kricfalusi. He's what got me into animation and art, and I'm truly grateful for that. But he's a very sick man who hurt a lot of girls.

Joss Whedon. He was one of the reasons I got into writing and film making when I was younger. (Luckily Peter Jackson is the other and he's not done anything that I know of beside not wear shoes and drink copious amounts of tea) Finding out he was a abusive prick and cast would not let him be alone with Michelle Tractenberg whilst shooting Buffy and Angel, both shows I loved growing up has tainted them for me. And his treatment of Charisma Carpenter aswell. Then there is the stuff around Justice League

Thomas Edison. Always thought he was this cool inventor growing up. Nope. He was just a rich jerk who stole other people's inventions and profited off of them. He used a team to help him invent things, but took sole credit for them. He also actively tried to suppress other inventors to try and corner the market. The man was a giant d*****.

Cesar Chavez.

I used to love woody Allen

Rolf Harris was a national treasure at one point. I loved his TV show and wanted to be a cartoonist. My uni had a bar named after him with a picture he did when he came to open it. When a friend of mine who worked at the BBC first told me the rumours I didn’t believe her, a few years later of course we all knew. He wasn’t as bad as Savile but in a way that was worse because I always found Savile creepy.

I'm gonna date myself for saying this...but Steve Jobs. I was an absolute Apple fanboy growing up in the 90s; I even asked my dad to gift me shares in Apple as birthday presents (back when they were a much more reasonable $20-ish a share). I thought he was the tech equivalent of the second coming of Christ for how he returned to Apple to bring it back from the brink of extinction to the world's most valuable company. Only near the time of his death in the late 2000s did I find out about his bad side. Things like how he decided to forsake his own daughter, how he used to park in the handicap spaces at Apple buildings (plus how he always bought a new car every 6 months so that he could take advantage of a legal loophole where he didn't have to put license plates on his car), and how he went around espousing lies that eating lots of nuts and doing cleanses could cure people of cancer. (That latter one eventually did him in.) I know that "visionaries" are complicated people like the rest of us, but boy was he a special kind of a******.

Alice Munro. She was a brilliant short-story Canadian writer. Her collections often focused on life in small-town Ontario and her nuanced portrayals of women and girls and I admired her work so much that I accumulated a modest collection of her books. But it turns out her pos husband regularly SA’d her youngest daughter, and when she found out about it, she iced her daughter out and stayed with her pedo husband until he died in 2013. I’m going to get rid of all the books when I do my spring cleaning.

Will Smith comes to mind. Used to love his movies and of course, Fresh Prince. But now I just seem him as a broken, sad human being.

Well if I’m being honest I initially admired Elon. Admired not worshiped. Getting more people behind battery powered vehicles, space x. But I now see him for the embarrassment and crook he is

My dad. I grew up and matured and my eyes were opened. Lots of shit I couldn't see before or didn't want to or wasn't able to understand.

I had a law professor who really believed in me and supported me when I was having a hard time. He helped me get a really good job. After our graduation ball he sent me an email saying he had a crush on me and it shattered everything. I thought he supported me for my brain not because he had sexual feelings for me. This still affects my professional confidence

Ea-nāṣir, but he sent me poor quality copper too many times and he is dead to me now.

My grandparents. For putting the church above caring for their own children.

The emeritus King of Spain, Juan Carlos I... It turned out he was a womanizer who cheated on his wife with as many women as he could (and the queen was perfectly happy with her infidelity), cheated on his taxes, and collected commissions from countries like Saudi Arabia. Now he lives in Abu Dhabi and will continue with his prostitutes, never returning to Spain to avoid paying taxes.

Gwen Stefani. From edgy & cool to Kentucky-fried trad wife sharing oxygen with F***** Carlson. I mean, there were hints (Simple Life), but, yeah. Big ol' disappointment.

My mum. I used to hold her leg as a boy, now, after 2 stabbings and being told I'm going to a children's home every 5 minutes.. nope. This is a heap of the other reasons why my son will always smile and never be subjected to wickedness.

I used to like a lot Anthony Kiedis and the Red Hot Chili Peppers but I cannot close my eyes to the sexual allegations and his preference to extremely young women. It disgusted me.

Win Butler of Arcade Fire... I always figured he and the band were pompous tricks, as Wayne Coyne of Flaming Lips said but admired their musicianship and songwriting. Turns out he is a major sex pest and had never held himself accountable since the allegations went public.

Bill gates ... Let's hope he really helps people in Africa

That guy from The Apprentice.

Snoop showing trump support just ruined him for me

Tom Cruise. Thought he was a great action star growing up, then later saw how much he creeps on younger actresses and now don't care to watch his movies anymore. Not to mention he's kind of a nut.

Russell Brand -He used to speak of compassion and universal acceptance. Now he’s closed minded and judgmental

Kanye west. Aligning himself with the KKK, aligning himself with Nazis, saying chattel slavery was a choice, the constant attention seeking, Satanic symbolism in his art, i could go on....

Bill Cosby. I grew up on the Cosby show, loved the idea of an upper middle class intelligent Black family...I was even sad when his son got killed that time, Ennis. And then the slipping of mickies came out and I cant even look at the show anymore. I love all the actors on the show but he really ruined a good time for me.

It has to be Bill Cosby. I absolutely loved him because he seemed to be such a great father . My husband and I saw him in Vegas and paid extra to sit right next to the stage. We were almost the only white people there. I happen to fit the exact look of the woman he used to r***. Most of them were white and blonde. As he was leaving the stage he came up to me! And shook my hand and said I have to go home now beautiful. I was so excited but also wondered why he came up and grabbed my hand instead of one of the beautiful black women that filled the room and were right next to the stage too. I believe to this day if my husband hadn’t been with me I might have been another one of his victims. It’s so sad 😞 because I loved his that he had been married such a long time too and always thought of them as the perfect family. Wow.What a drag.

I used to love Mitch Hedberg. I still do, but I used to, too.

Nicki Minaj…I mean I don’t know if I would say I “admired” but I was definitely a huge fan. Now I can’t even listen to what used to be my fave tracks

The downfall of Bill Burr is wild to me. He ripped on hypocrites and scumbags for 30 years then jumped in bed with them and chucked it all away. The weirdest part is that he seems baffled as to why people turned on him. I don't understand how self awareness can completely evaporate overnight. 

Marilyn Manson. As a young, budding Metalhead, Antichrist Superstar was a formative album for me, and I was in the apparent minority who liked The Golden Age of Grotesque. I also remember how intelligent and thoughtful he seemed during interviews, including his one for Bowling For Columbine. Then I found out what an abusive prick ol' Brian is behind the scenes, and I can no longer in good conscience listen to any of his music. I couldn't even say I was surprised when he did a song with Ronnie Radke, one of the most despicable sacks of shit to ever disgrace the Metal scene, up there with Tim Lambesis, Jon Schaeffer, David Draiman and a certain rampant paedophile who was forcefully removed from this mortal coil not too long ago.

Noam Chomsky for being in the Epstein files.

Lance Armstrong

Guiliani. He’s not in my political party, but after 9/11 I kind of admired him. I thought. “well, he’s a republican, so I doubt I’d vote for him, but if he goes on to be President someday, he’d at least be rational and open to compromises.” Boy was I wrong. Left his place in history on the altar of shitler.

Russell Brand. I thought he was a good guy. I was wrong.

Neil Gaiman.

Lawrence Krauss

Eric Clapton When he came out as an anti-vaxxer during COVID, I thought it couldn't get worse... and then it did. Him being an anti-vaxxer is the least of his problems.

My dad was my hero when I was little. I now see him as a racist, sexist, judgmental person he really is. His and my mom both. He expects her to serve him because it’s in the bible. He looks down on me for not cooking everyday and waiting on my husband hand and foot. He also loved my ex husband because he put me in my place when needed. I am honestly just waiting for them to die. It’s sad really.

Conor McGregor. From 2013-2016 he was the fighting pride of Ireland and maybe the best MMA fighter on the planet. Then he began publicly campaigning for a boxing match against Floyd Mayweather, and that was the moment where his ego seemed to eclipse his judgment,, because that seems like the first domino that fell in the start of his downfall.

Rob Schneider and Jim Breuer. I used to really love both of them from SNL, standup and movies, but they both went deep into conspiracy theories and MAGA and have lost their minds.

My mom. It took me a long time to realize she’s a narcissist and an abusive woman. She abused my wife behind my back and then brought my kids into it, so I cut off all contact and haven’t spoken to her or my father in years.

My uncle, i use to look up to him, and one day we were talking about some social issues and shrugged his shoulders and f*** em. I was taken back. Then I started to pay attention a little more on his language and social stance, I learned real quick he had no intellectual insite, just populist opinions, bigotry. Turned out to be one of the most close minded people I have ever met.

The Kennedy Family. It was still fucked up that Joseph P Kennedy had a Lobotomy performed on his daughter Rosemary..

Nicki Minaj ffs, when will she know her entire fanbase is comprised of the groups shes attacking.