Anytime someone famous does something the general public disagrees with can turn into one. For example, Joss Whedon getting attacked and painted as a woman-hater and eventually chased off of twitter. People saying he was dehumanizing Black Widow in AoU for (spoilers) not being able to have children and calling herself a monster when that wasn't the case at all, but it didn't matter. Just any mob mentality when it comes to famous people not living exactly the way their fans and critics want them too. Drake Bell also comes to mind when he tweeted that he was still going to call Caitlyn Jenner Bruce. They wrote articles about that. Stuff doesn't go away on the internet. Granted, it was not a cool thing to say, but holy crap people can be SO hateful when someone says or does something unfavorable.