Millie Bobby Brown: Stranger Things fans defend star from ‘disgusting’ and ‘unfunny’ homophobic memes

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown is being defended by fans after the memes that forced her to quit Twitter resurfaced online. “Millie Bobby Brown homophobe jokes have to be the most unfunny thing ever,” one fan qwrote, with another saying they ‘were never funny”. Another expressed shock that the memes were still being used, writing: “People are STILL making homophobe Millie Bobby Brown jokes? ?” Millie Bobby Brown quit Twitter in 2018 because of ‘satirical’ memes that misattributed homophobic quotes to her One Twitter user branded them “f***ing weird and distrubing”, with another stating: “Honestly, the Millie Bobby Brown homophobe joke makes me feel bad for her.” “The way Twitter talks about Millie Bobby Brown is so nasty I literally just know we're going to get public apologies 10 years from now when she's farther removed from this situation and starts talking about how badly everyone treated her,” another widely shared tweet read.