Noah Schnapp He became famous for his role as Will Byers in the hit series Stranger Thingsproduced by Netflix in 2016. Playing the protagonist gave him great popularity, which was evidenced by the enormous support he received when came out as homosexual in the first days of January of this year.
Even so, the popularity of the actor Stranger Things quickly faded when a video of him saying racist insults went viral, resulting in a wave of criticism towards the actor. That scandal was followed by another caused by his controversial views on the conflict between Israel and Palestine. He himself is of Jewish descent, so it was no surprise to the public when he sided with Israel; However, a video of him playing happily with two tags that said “Zionism is sexy” and “Hamas is ISIS” was too much for the public, who proceeded to start a campaign to cancel it.
His once extremely favorable public image is completely shattered, with fans of the saga Stranger Things calling for it to be removed from production. His public image is so bad, that someone went so far as to falsely report that The actor had been hospitalized after breaking his neck in a cycle accident, to the delight of hundreds of Internet users. The news spread quickly on social networks, several people they happily shared the news with comments like “Finally”, “Is the bike okay?”and the like.
Shortly after, the news was denied, the actor is fine and the accident never happened. After finding out, people started calling for him to be written out of the series anyway, lamenting that the news was fake.
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