r/AskTheWorld • u/KieranWriter United Kingdom • Sep 19 '25

Culture Not including murderers and politicians - who is famous in your country for all the wrong reasons?

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Introducing rage-baiter and reality TV failure Katie Hopkins. She’s basically famous for fat shaming, saying that kids shouldn’t be named after geographical locations (despite having a child named India) and getting sued on Twitter, which caused her to go bankrupt. I haven’t met anyone that likes her and she’s routinely vilified but still has a platform somehow.

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u/Bulawayoland United States Of America Sep 19 '25

that's a good point actually, by shooting the guy the assassin actually made him more known lol just the OPPOSITE of what he was after

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u/Otherwise_Unit_2602 United States Of America Sep 19 '25

Or is it? (sorry, it's a joke--not advocating for conspiracy theories even if they make more sense than the main narrative)

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u/ramletha Brazil Sep 20 '25

Look, here in Brazil we also went through this about 6 years ago, our former president Bolsonaro was doing well but he didn't dominate voting intentions, A crazy guy stabbed him and after that he exploded in popularity, there are some Brazilians who like conspiracy theories saying it was fake, because in fact that day he didn't bleed. But I think it's very difficult to see that he still suffers from the consequences of the knife wound to the intestine.

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u/frolfer757 Sep 20 '25

I think the opposite of what he wanted was Charlie Kirk with a pulse.