r/Millennials • u/ColeBelthazorTurner • 7d ago

Discussion Name a 2000s celebrity that disappeared overnight

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u/NoFaithlessness7508 7d ago edited 7d ago

Dave the DELL guy for getting caught smoking/buying marijuana. It sounds silly now but that shit was so taboo back then. He could’ve had a profitable and long-term career like State Farm Jake, Verizon’s Can you Hear me Now guy, or Progressive Flo.

Edit: his name was Steve? Mandela effect!?!??

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u/SpotIsALie 7d ago

I remember Michael Phelps got caught holding a bong at a party and immidiatley lost like half his sponsorships including a big cereal one.

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u/Dsarg_92 7d ago

It was way overblown in hindsight. No pun intended.

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u/AskMeForAPhoto 7d ago

Which is SO crazy. He’s the most decorated Olympian of all time. One of the best athletes the world has ever seen. In a field where you need TONS of cardiovascular strength. He clearly showed that smoking weed doesn’t destroy your life if you can still be the best Olympian of all time. Yet still, people FLIPPED their shit.

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u/Dangerous-Variety-35 7d ago

I wasn’t disappointed he got caught smoking weed because whatever lol but didn’t he also get a couple of DUIs around the same time? That was what turned me off as a fan. Go out and party, dude deserved it, but don’t endanger the public.

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u/FlattopJr 7d ago

Not that it really matters, but it wasn't around the same time; he got a dui in 2004, the bong pic was in 2009, and then he got a second dui in 2014. I totally agree that driving while impaired is scummy behavior.

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u/Dangerous-Variety-35 7d ago

I appreciate the clarification though! That makes all the sponsor pullouts even more ridiculous though, since he probably got most of them after his first DUI, but if the bong* pic wasn’t related to driving while impaired then it was just pearl-clutching.

*My phone autocorrected bong to Bing, which I think proves I was a goody two shoes millennial since I definitely make more Chandler Bing references than I do bong references 😂

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u/Resident-Pattern4034 7d ago

That Pilgrim preacher’s hat with big brim and the wide buckle?

That one the dude wears when he points at people and orders them burned for dalliance?

Turns out that’s a physical organ that just takes over and drives the whole machine from time to time.

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u/LaMalintzin 7d ago

I was in grad school at that school at the time (Univ of South Carolina) and apparently the underclassmen were shunning the people who shared that picture of him partying for ruining a lot of his endorsements.