“2020. What a year,” says literally everyone as they tuck themselves into bed each night. But few have had their “off-year” examined under such a large microscope as Ellen DeGeneres, whose long-rumored diva behavior and toxic workplace she presided over at The Ellen DeGeneres Show finally caught up with her.
And while her show is back on the air (and welcoming a limited, masked live studio audience), it’s safe to say her public image took a hit. That’s translated to her losing the most followers on Instagram in 2020 as anyone on the platform.
GamblingDeals looked at data compiled by Social Blade to reach the conclusion, observing a loss of 545,000+ on Instagram and another 612,000+ on Twitter.
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But she wasn’t the only celebrity to shed some major fanbase. And oddly, the top three celebrities to lose fans are all either LGBTQ or lost fans for being anti-LGBTQ.
Coming in at number two on Twitter (and number three on Instagram) is gay make-up kingpin Jeffree Star, who saw 487,151 followers vanish on the platform after a number of scandals including being accused of sexual misconduct.
And it’s probably not a shock to learn that the number three fan-dropper on Twitter is Harry Potter author JK Rowling, whose Twitter page had 350,826 followers magically disappear in a cloud of smoke after inexplicably becoming the cis, straight spokeswoman for anti-trans viewpoints.
Cam
Being held responsible for their behavior. No problem.
WashDrySpin
WOW the problems of billionaires…
glennmcbride
I used to watch Ellen every day at 3:00 but Judge Judy’s time slot was suddenly changed from 4:00 pm to 3:00 and Judge Judy won.
Harley
Judge Judy rules forever.
Larry
What will you do when Judy moves to Amazon or Netflix? I forgot which one she is moving to.
glennmcbride
If Judge Judy moves to Amazon or Netflix, I am covered.
MHaumesser
Ellen has an estimated net worth of $414 million! I’m sure she’s really not all that bothered by people not following her on Twitter
Cam
Bothered enough to do her whole show entrance about it, to have the show issue multiple apologies, and to claim they were fixing all of the stuff people complained about.
SPEEDOSWIMMER
Ellen was bothered enough to change her hair-do to a dorky hair-don’t.
winemaker
Enough on the continuing drama about ellen degenerate. Nobody really gives a rats ripe ass about this overcompensated and arrogant bag of rotten gas. She’s always bringing up the ‘gay thing’ as if it’s so damned important as if she has nothing else to offer and what she has to offer, I’ll pass thanks.’. And why does the gay community continue supporting her just ’cause she’s gay.? Really if she were a guy, she’d be just like a lot of the men here in San Francisco, rude, obnoxious and nasty, in fact she does look look a lot like a lot of the men here
C_Alan
@winemaker Please leave the area.
Dijonaise
Bitter qween alert!
Cam
If you’re going to be this predictable, could you at least try to be interesting or funny?
Josh447
Everybody has their rotten side.
Just part of the deal called life.
Chrisk
winemaker
“Degenerate” is a right wing slur for her being an out Lesbian from shitbags like Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh. Get out of the right wing echo chamber once in a while diphshit.
Onecaddy13
Wait!! I thought we were done talking about Ellen.
ElPillo
I support that, but Queerty is enjoying being a bitch too much
Mack
I doubt that very many talk show hosts or the likes are always liked by EVERY EMPLOYEE. Many comedians are insecure and they sometimes takes it out on the people around them. But people like Ellen have brought the LGBTQ community to the forefront. And the uptight queens who don’t get all the attention that she gets are jealous.
Cam
Translation, Ellen can abuse people because you like her.
rray63
Mack, don’t you know you will be vilified for not going along with the group think? If social media has judged and passed sentence, well by all that’s holy it HAS to be true. All those poor folks on Twitter, Facebook, etc. What will they do? Oh, they will find another Ellen, praise her to high heaven, give her all sorts of accolades and then when they have her on top of the world and she has some money they could potentially get, they will rip her down from her pedestal. Look at all the folks in here who don’t like her and remember, you MUST think exactly like they do, or ELSE. Hope that helps.
Cam
In other words, a hostile or abusive work environment is fine with you.
Chevelter
I don’t personally care for Ellen’s show, not because I have anything against her, i’m not interested in celebrities babbling, but I will note that her ratings are up this year.
Alex_S
I wonder why didn’t you mention that the sales of JK Rowling books are up for the first times in years and Harry Potter is making a lot of money again. “The series’ publisher, Bloomsbury, has reported its most successful first half in over 10 years, The “Harry Potter” franchise is a key factor in the growth, which nearly quadrupled its profits with sales rising by 17%. The publisher told the outlet that print sales of the books grew by 8% from mid-July to the end of September.”
Surprise, right?
Alex_S
So she probably doesn’t care about her twitter subscricers, as long as people are buying her books.
Cam
Sales of ALL of their books are up because of Covid. The 17% refers to all of their books.
Alex_S
Read the original report on the Guardian. “The backlash against JK Rowling’s views on transgender law reform has failed to dent the popularity of the Harry Potter author’s books, with publisher Bloomsbury saying they have proved a lockdown hit, pushing revenues at the group’s children’s division up more than a quarter.”
So it’s not just all their books, it’s certain franchise which improved publisher’s financial report.
james7
ive always found it kind of weird that a sixty something woman tries to dress like and wear her hair like a 15 year old boy. Ellen most closely resembles the 15 year old Justin Bieber, and even he has outgrown that look.
Terrycloth
If they cancel the ellen show they will probably replace it with…another talk show. I love Kelly Clarkson’s show..Drew Barrymore’s show seems kind strange..can’t put my finger on it.
o.codone
27 comments and 6 of them are from CAM. 22%. This guy cannot shut TF up. Nobody wants to hear from CAM, every story, over and over, multiple posts, every story all the time. Just stop. CAM, everybody knows you are Eduardo1985. The clue is that you’re the first to comment on every story every time. Yes, you’re in prison, we understand, sorry about that, but, you’re ruining the comment section again, just like you did 5 years ago. Stop.
Chrisk
Why don’t you two kiss and make up. Jesus Christ grow up.
michael_totzke
It’s a free world. And YOU’RE free to scroll on by. The fact that you DON’T says much more about you than it does Cam.
michael_totzke
Ellen is TOAST. Bland white tasteless TOAST.
Terrycloth
@ Speedoswimmer…I saw that new ugly hairdo ellen is now sporting..she’s really trying to butch it up. What’s next , a wife beater T shirt and tattoos ,??