I bet Drake wishes he had never made a diss track against Kendrick.

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*Smollett maintains it was not a hoax; more details incoming.

He claims he was attacked not by the two men who were arrested for the crime (who later claimed he'd paid them to perpetrate it), but by two entirely different men. 

"Good ol' Barbara Streisand tried suing a photographer and picture publishing company for doing work to document coastal erosion in California because her massive oceanside property just so happened to be along the coastline and in a portion of the pictures. She sued for $50 million for privacy and security concerns. Streisand's lawsuit drew more attention to the photos than the coastal erosion research ever could. Had she not said anything, those pictures would have been seen only by the people interested in the study, and her house would have just been some mansion on the coastline.

*Note: this isn't the exact photo, but it is the house.

"My favorite part of this was that she said, 'My lawyers advised me not to talk about this. But they never said I couldn't...*sing* about it.'

I would pay to see her lawyers' live reaction to this."

"You got it whether you wanted it or not. And if I recall correctly, you couldn't delete/remove it at first. Apple had to come out with an update to allow you to delete it."

"The worst part was that you had to free up enough space on your phone to download it as part of the update. It took a significant amount of space and required people to remove a lot of their own data to replace it with that album."

"I still can't get rid of it. I've fully deleted it upwards of 10 times, and once in a while, my iTunes will start playing again, and that damn album is back. I don't use iTunes at all. This may be my last iPhone because of that. It was the straw that broke the camel's back."

While meme images had to be approved on the site, you could just screenshot what you'd made and share it yourself.

Cosby was convicted of sexual assault in 2018, but this was later overturned in 2021 because a previous attorney general had entered into a non-prosecution agreement with Cosby.

"That was the most tone deaf, cringey shit I’ve ever seen."

"A jail with a pool and a hill view terrace. "

Ellen did not reply to the backlash, but the video was deleted.

DeGeneres ultimately apologized, staffing changes were made, and perks increased, after a Warner Bros. investigation found that the show was run with "deficiencies." Still, DeGeneres's reputation never recovered. Ellen ended in 2022.

"As if there weren't nearly 100 **actual** female astronauts before them.

Katy Perry floating in front of a camera holding a dandelion with tears in her eyes pisses me off, and I genuinely don't get pissed off about this sort of stuff, but the way they tried to market it and how she acted and *who* put them up there is just so inconceivably dumb when you remember that they touted it as the first all-female spaceflight in history.

That doesn't matter when they were all literally tourists. It's a participation trophy for the rich."

"It was amazing how much they tried to turn it into a moment of empowerment when it was flaunting a wealthy 20-minute girl's trip into sub-orbit.

There are nearly 100 women who have been in space who have dedicated their lives to studying science, the world, astronomy, physics, flight, who have gone through the rigorous training to make it up there, and, of course, the countless other women in engineering, mathematics, aerospace, etc., who made those flights possible. Real heroes for young women and people of all identities and backgrounds to look up to around the world. And no doubt it took a colossal effort to get someone like Katy into space from teams dedicating long hours and their lives to making space travel doable.

That trip made it feel like Katy was trying to make herself the hero and idol. I think the world saw through it. I fully believe going up there would be a transformative experience for anyone, and I'm glad they all enjoyed and appreciated that experience. But to use it in a way to say, 'you too one day can be on a yacht' was the message I think most people took from it."

Dr. Luke sued Kesha for defamation for her claims, and the case was settled out of court.

"Basically, she wrote an article for her blog, and later sold it to the cut about being in a 'toxic' mom group, and because the internet is forever, people linked it back to a mom group that included Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore. The drama went viral, and I don’t think she came out the winner in it, largely probably because Hilary and Mandy have reps at America's Sweethearts (I’m sure the truth is no one is 100% innocent, but def an example of something backfiring PR wise imo)."

A source told People there was a "misalignment of values" and that "Friends naturally drift apart." 

"I think it helped that Harrelson clearly had no idea how an AMA was supposed to work.  He wasn’t trying to be an ass.  He genuinely believed he was here to promote Rampart."

"And that 'Let me be Frank' video where he was in character. What?"

Netflix, which released House of Cards, was not involved in making the video.

According to Drake, though, the (false) news of a second secret child was actually leaked by Drake himself in order to bait Kendrick.

"Legitimately thought she was saying that sarcastically to highlight the hypocrisy of the situation.

Like him getting rid of the very people who were doing the type of work that people don't realize is important, yet Americans themselves wouldn't do."

"That is what she meant. It just came out horribly for television, viewing, etc. I understood what she was saying, but the execution wasn't great."

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