After Leslie Jones noticed a slew of hate concerning her role in Ghostbusters on Monday, the comedian and actress started taking the haters to task one-by-one.
Update (July 19): Jones has decided to leave Twitter after battling abuse on Monday, and after Twitter seemed to offer no help in eliminating the trolls.
I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart.All this cause I did a movie.You can hate the movie but the shit I got today…wrong
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
In recent years Twitter has seemingly offered no support for those who have to deal with abuse on the social media website. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey did reach out to Leslie late Monday, but at this time we don’t know what kind of conversation they had privately:
@Lesdoggg Hi Leslie, following, please DM me when you have a moment
— Jack (@jack) July 19, 2016
Original story (July 18): Ghostbusters is no stranger to negative attention from a bunch of people who — inexplicably — hate that the film was rebooted with women. For whatever reason, a new wave of hate started appearing in Leslie’s Twitter feed on Monday (perhaps organized by a group of lonely people), and the actress became fed up with it all. So fed up, that she started fighting them to expose a bunch of them publicly and bring awareness to the insane abuse.
Warning: There’s a lot of bad language and possible trigger warnings in these tweets. Unfortunately Leslie had to take on a lot of insulting remarks and racism:
@RyanRodgers12 @Nero so is your mama bitch
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
@Lesdoggg RIP pic.twitter.com/quiQq6sVDO
— OG Meme bone (@billyadams_11) July 18, 2016
@billyadams_11 you really hate yourself
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
@AdaMilked @Alex_The_Geat fuck. Off. And show your real face you fucking coward
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
@TheJakeMitchell it's not called a meltdown when you defining yourself. Pay attention
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
@hellogines cause I dint give a fuck like they don't.get called an ape all day,see how you react.Get the fuck off my feed if u can't take it
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
@Javiertheguy what work you hot for us to see?! OH NONE!! Exactly go back to jacking off to your comic book
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
@Petexxmagico I bet you was happy that figured out how to rhyme words. Now lets learn how to add. You sound like a fucking idiot. Reporting
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
@yungcummies neither is being a useless hateful bitch. There is a whole lot of you.
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
@MikeHyde64 so was your mama I believe the game is named after her
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
@HoolahoopHumbug and you suppose to be grown. What's your excuse or theirs. Fuck off. Real talk
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
@OneBloodRemix YOU. ARE. AN. IDIOT!
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
@piikaa9191 your dick right?
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
Good on Leslie for taking these people to task, but we hope she’s able to mentally ignore all of these people. It’s not healthy for anyone to read so much hate from anonymous internet trolls, and we hope she knows that the good people with meaningful opinions are on her side.
Those on her side include Ghostbusters director Paul Feig:
Leslie Jones is one of the greatest people I know. Any personal attacks against her are attacks against us all. #LoveForLeslieJ @Lesdoggg
— Paul Feig (@paulfeig) July 18, 2016