c/celebrity-social-fails

Caught myself posting a deleted scene as a live premiere, oops

That time I suggested a celeb take a social media break and she did the opposite

I commented on a reality star from Dallas who kept posting drunk rants at 2am, told her to log off for a week and clear her head. She replied saying I was 'hating' and then live-streamed herself yelling at a drive-thru speaker for 20 minutes. Her follower count dropped by 3,000 that night, which honestly proved my point better than I ever could. Has anyone else gotten a direct response from a celeb and watched them double down on the cringe?

Katy Perry's deleted apology post still has me laughing

Last month she posted this long apology for a fashion line collab, but the photo attached was literally a blurry selfie from 2016 with a filter that made her look like a ghost. She deleted it after like 20 minutes, but the screenshots were already everywhere. The whole thing was so chaotic, like she wrote it at 2am after a bad dinner. Has anyone else seen a celeb fumble a fix-it post worse than that?

My favorite singer replied to my comment, then deleted it 10 minutes later

I finally got a reply from this indie artist I've followed for years. She answered my question about her gear setup and it was actually helpful. Then she deleted it real quick, probably realized she wasn't supposed to reveal that. I had a screenshot saved within 5 seconds, so I got lucky. The whole thing made me wonder how many celebs quietly fix their slip-ups like that. Has anyone else caught a reply before it vanished?

Shoutout to my cousin who caught my 'at the beach' post from 2019

Last month I reposted an old throwback pic of me on a boat in Miami, but I captioned it like it was current. My cousin commented 'this is from 2019, I was there with you, remember the jellyfish guy?' and I froze. I ended up deleting the whole post because the replies were roasting me for like 2 days straight. Has anyone else accidentally recycled an old celebrity-style fail and had someone call you out with receipts?

Remember when celebs used to post from their actual phones? That one backstage moment stayed with me

I was thinking back to like 2014 or so when a certain pop star accidentally posted a pic of their tour rider with the price tags still on the catering menu. Real grainy photo, probably from a flip phone in the green room. It got deleted in like 4 minutes but I still remember the comment section being pure chaos for a whole day. Anyone else miss those raw, unpolished posts where you could tell no assistant was involved?

That time Drake liked his own apology post twice in 2018

I was scrolling through Instagram last week and remembered when Drake accidentally double tapped his own apology post back in October 2018. It was right after the Pusha T beef, and he dropped this whole long caption about moving on. But he liked it himself twice within like 10 minutes, and fans screenshotted it before he could undo it. The second like had a timestamp that lined up perfectly with when everyone was roasting him in the comments. I still laugh thinking about how his PR team probably told him to just leave it alone. Has anyone else caught a celeb doing something similar with their own posts lately?

Just realized I've been tagging celebs wrong for 2 whole years

I used to think tagging a celeb in a funny fail post got their attention, so I'd throw @mentions on every meme. Last week I tagged Dwayne Johnson on a video of a guy tripping and his team actually replied with a copyright warning. Apparently that's not how it works, you gotta @ them in a comment on THEIR post, not yours. Has anyone else been doing this backwards and getting roasted for it?

TIL a B-list actor's typo made me rethink my own angry replies

I was scrolling last Tuesday and saw this actor from that old CW show accidentally reply to a fan's comment with a grocery list instead of a comeback, and it got 40k likes because people thought it was a bit. It hit different because normally I fire off snarky responses to celebs without thinking, but seeing how one botched tap can flip the whole joke made me wonder if I've ever been the punchline without knowing it. Has anyone else had a celebrity mishap on social media that actually made you double-check your own posting habits?

Just found out celebs can pay to hide their likes and it blew my mind

I was reading some social media news site last night and stumbled on this fact that big celebs can actually pay for a feature that hides their like counts from the public. I thought the like hiding thing was just a regular app setting for everyone, but apparently there's a whole paid tier for verified accounts that does it automatically. Like, I remember seeing Taylor Swift's posts with zero likes visible and just assumed she turned it off herself, but it's apparently some behind the scenes deal. This was on a marketing blog that tracks influencer stats, so I don't know how reliable it is, but it matched up with some screenshots I saw from a celeb gossip account. Has anyone else heard about this or am I just late to this whole thing?

My cousin made me watch a celeb's 'apology' video and we both cringed into next week

So last Tuesday my cousin Rachel comes over and she's like 'you gotta see this', and she pulls up this influencer's Instagram Live where she's trying to explain why she posted a photo of herself at a private jet with the caption 'sustainable queen'. The video was 14 minutes long and she spent 9 of those minutes staring off screen while her assistant handed her notes. Rachel and I just sat there, and at one point she actually said 'I'm not like other celebrities, I research everything' and then the next slide on her story was a spelling error in the word 'environment'. We rewound it like 4 times because it was so painfully awkward. It got me thinking, do these people ever watch themselves back before they hit post? I mean, a 30 second self-review would catch half this stuff. Has anyone else been forced to watch a full celeb apology video and just felt secondhand embarrassment so bad you had to turn it off halfway?

That livestream where she apologized for 20 minutes but never actually said sorry

Spent a whole lunch break watching a celeb's apology stream after their tone deaf post. It took me 15 minutes to realize they were just describing how hard their week was. Not once did they admit fault. I had to rewind to double check. Has anyone else sat through one of these thinking they missed the actual apology?

That celebrity workout video was a 6 minute ad, not a routine

Tried that influencer's 30 day challenge she hyped on IG and her "quick abs" video was just her pitching a $200 app after warmups. Learned to check the comments first, anyone else get baited by these professional product placements?

PSA: double-check the date before you post a throwback, learned that one in Phoenix

On Tuesday I shared what I thought was a funny throwback pic of a celeb eating a hot dog at a game, but it was actually from last week, not 2018. The account was brand new so people assumed I was leaking current stuff, and one fan actually called the celeb's team about it. Took me 4 hours to clear up the confusion and the celeb's PR person sent me a weirdly polite but firm DM about privacy. I guess my lesson is to always check the EXIF data or reverse search before you post anything nostalgic. Has anyone else had a throwback get misread as current news like this? What did you do to fix it?

That paparazzi tweet roast made me rethink my whole posting style

Last month a fan account called out my caption on a red carpet photo for being too scripted, said it looked like my publicist wrote it. They were right, I used to copy those generic promo lines word for word. Now I write like I talk, even if it's messier or shorter. Has anyone else gotten roasted in replies and actually changed how they post?

My cousin's 3-hour deep dive on that deleted tweet changed how I see PR fails

We were talking about that singer who posted an apology for a typo and then deleted it 10 minutes later, which made everyone screenshot it and turn it into a meme. My cousin, who works at a small ad agency in Austin, said the delete is always worse than the mistake because it proves you saw the backlash and panicked. Has anyone else noticed how celebs who leave the cringe post up actually get less heat than the ones who scrub it fast?

That live-tweeted breakup was a masterclass in what NOT to do

Saw a famous singer post 14 updates in one hour during a breakup, then delete them all, and the screenshots are already in 3 gossip accounts... has anyone else noticed they always forget the 'pause before posting' rule when they're emotional?

Watched a celeb's face filter glitch mid-live and now I check mine before every story

Last night I was watching this actor I follow do an IG live Q&A and their face filter just melted halfway through. Their eyes went huge, then their chin disappeared, and they had NO idea for like 15 seconds. It got clipped and reposted everywhere. I laughed so hard, but then I remembered I post stories to my own 300 followers and I've never once previewed a filter. So now I'm asking, has anyone else caught themselves doing the same thing before going live? I feel like celebrities never learn from this stuff but I definitely am.

That influencer's 'private' snapchat story was actually public, ouch

So my cousin swears by this fitness influencer's tips, right? She told me to follow this guy's 3 day split routine. Turns out the influencer accidentally posted his real meals and workouts to a public story when he thought it was private. The routine was basically 2 protein shakes and a 45 minute walk, nothing like the paid plan he pushes. My cousin wasted 2 weeks on that before the fail got screenshotted everywhere. Has anyone else caught a celeb slipping up and exposing their real routine vs their sponsored one?

Visited the Getty and saw a celebrity try to delete a bad pic in real time

At the Getty Villa last weekend, I watched this actor fumble his phone trying to untag himself from a group shot a fan posted, but the wifi was so slow he just stood there for 5 minutes, has anyone else seen a celeb do the awkward delete dance in public?

That time a star's 'apology' was just a reposted meme, argue with me

Last Saturday I was scrolling through the feed and saw a well known actor post a long apology for a bad take, but someone in the comments noticed the exact same text was a meme format from three years ago. The actor just copied the joke and added their name at the end. Half the replies were laughing, half were genuinely offended that they didn't even bother to write their own words. I sat there with my coffee at a diner on 5th and Main trying to figure out which side was worse, the laziness or the fact that people believed it. So here's my question, is a copy pasted apology better than no apology at all, or does it make the original fail even bigger? I'm leaning toward it being funnier, but I want to hear if anyone thinks it crossed a line.

That red carpet post where the phone fell in the fountain changed how I check replies

I was scrolling through the celeb fail tags last Tuesday and saw this clip of an actress trying to film herself at a premiere in Miami. She did the whole spin thing and her phone went straight into the fountain. What got me is she posted the blooper anyway, and then replied to a fan who asked if it was staged with a screenshot of her insurance claim. That made me realize I never double check what I attach before I hit send. Now I always zoom in on my photos and read my caption out loud. Has anyone else had a moment where a celeb's small slip made you totally change your posting routine?

That week when Chrissy Teigen posted the same tweet 4 times in a row

Last Tuesday I saw Chrissy Teigen accidentally post a photo of her breakfast 4 separate times on Twitter with the same caption. It must have been a glitch or she was really distracted, but people piled on making jokes about her liking eggs too much. I felt kinda bad for her because I've done that with texts to my mom before. Has anyone else noticed a celeb totally mess up a simple post like that?

That time Chris Pratt accidentally posted his grocery list instead of a tweet

I remember back in 2014 Chris Pratt shared what looked like a tweet about his day, but it was just a list that said "eggs, milk, bread, and a new pair of socks." He left it up for about 20 minutes before deleting it, and people screenshotted it like crazy. It was funny because he seemed so normal and forgetful like the rest of us. Has anyone else caught a celebrity mixing up their personal notes with a public post?

Old Drake post from 2010 still haunts him I bet

Was looking back at old celebrity tweets the other night and stumbled on a Drake post from like 2010 where he tried to use the word 'swag' in a sentence and it came out super cringey. Took me a full 30 minutes just to find the screenshot because it was buried in some old Buzzfeed article from 2012. Anyone else got a fave cringe post from a celeb that they think they wish they could delete?