History OvershadowedByControversy / RealLife

* Rainfurrest was a MediaNotes/FurryFandom convention formerly held in Seattle, Washington. It was created in 2007 to give the Pacific Northwest a new furry con after the demise of Conifur Northwest. However, the 2015 incarnation quickly became known both inside and outside the fandom for extreme misconduct. Attendees - and some event staff - were caught abusing drugs and vandalizing the hotel, and other attendees were found to be wandering around the con and public spaces in the Hilton hotel wearing fetish gear (some were even spotted wearing ''used adult diapers''). Two staffers were charged with assault (one sexual, the other regular), and the whole con nearly ended prematurely when a guest tampered with a smoke detector to hotbox their room. In the end, the Hilton [=SeaTac=] sent the con organizers letters announcing that they would no longer host Rainfurrest, and other regional hotels filed suit. The organizers tried to move Rainfurrest to another hotel for the 2016 incarnation, but the reputation of the 2015 incidents caused the con to terminate for good and its staff to disperse. Nowadays, both inside and outside the fandom, the [[CondemnedByHistory legacy of Rainfurrest seems to be limited entirely to the misdeeds of its last installment]].
* The [[Creator/BlizzardEntertainment BlizzCon]] 2018 convention is mostly remembered for the intense fan backlash to the revelation that the then-latest game in the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' franchise, ''VideoGame/DiabloImmortal'', was to be [[MobilePhoneGame mobile]]-[[NoPortForYou exclusive]] after teasing fans of a new ''Diablo'' game being in the works for several months, thereby leading fans to believe they were working on ''VideoGame/DiabloIV'' (which was later announced at [=BlizzCon=] 2019); their decision to announce it as TheClimax to a convention aimed at Blizzard's most dedicated audience, [[DidntThinkThisThrough which is all but exclusively made up of]] [[Platform/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] [[DidntThinkThisThrough gamers]] who had paid $200 each to attend the event in hopes of seeing a mainline ''Diablo'' game; and Blizzard designer Wyatt Cheng impulsively and insensitively asking "Do you guys not have phones?" in response to the crowd's booing when he confirmed there were no plans for a PC port, which revealed that he had been [[DidntSeeThatComing taken by surprise]] by [=BlizzCon=] attendees' negative reaction. Cheng's question rapidly became a [[MemeticMutation meme]] used to mock corporations failing to understand their audiences.

* Mexican Voice Actor Creator/MemoAponte started his career in dubbing with the Latin Spanish dub of WesternAnimation/FindingNemo as a child, and had a pretty prolific career thereafter, with some of his most recognizable roles including Phineas Flynn in WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb, Dash Parr in WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1 and Cody Martin in the Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody. However, most of his career has since been overshadowed by accusations of sexual abuse by many of his former girlfriends, which caused [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor his work offers to immediately cease]], and mostly because of the content he uploads unto his [=YouTube=] channel, including appearances from underage girls[[note]]One of which admitted to being sixteen ''on camera''[[/note]] and most infamously his cosplay videos, which are often panned for involving doing overly sexual and digusting stuff while being dressed as characters whose target audience is ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids children]]'', which has also managed as of recently to cross over to the United States.

* Creator/MelGibson had by the late 2000s his film career taking a backseat to his chaotic personal life, most infamously the incident where he went on an anti-Semitic rant while being arrested for drunk driving. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20151125061654/http://moviebob.blogspot.com/2015/05/whos-real-speed-bump-on-fury-road.html As Moviebob put it]], this made ''Film/LethalWeapon'' and ''Film/MadMax'' not go along in the 80s nostalgia wave, and the latter's successful revival in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' went out of its way in the promotion to show Gibson wasn't involved.

* [[Creator/JenniferDianeReitz Jennifer Diane Reitz (Chatoyance)]] had a rather storied computer programming career in the mid-1990s working with companies such as Interplay as well as founding Happy Puppy, a gaming website that at one time was ''the'' most visited gaming website on the Internet. Nowadays, if you mention her name, the first thing that comes to mind is her ''[[FanFic/TheConversionBureauTheChatoverse Chatoverse]]'' TCB stories, their ''extreme'' misanthropy and her vitriolic response to [[CantTakeCriticism any criticism]] of her setting. Outside of her stories, she is also infamous for her radical transgender and feminist viewpoints.

* Australian philosopher and professor Peter Singer is widely regarded as a leader in the animal rights and utilitarian movements, but his numerous viewpoints, as a result of taking is utilitarianism to the logical extreme, that conflict with conventional morality have gotten him resoundingly criticized by many other groups, and he has been called "the most dangerous man in philosophy" and similar epithets by many publications. He is particularly infamous in the disabled community for his advocation that the severely disabled should have fewer rights than other people and that medical money spent on treating them would be better spent on fixing temporary ailments of otherwise healthy people; he has frequently been labeled a eugenicist due to these beliefs. He has also campaigned for nonhuman animals being granted the same rights as humans (apart from in cases where the rights would be impossible for the animal to exercise, like voting), which has gotten him assailed by activists for civil rights, women's rights, and others who advocate that the well-being of marginalized human groups should take priority, and has even insinuated that he is uncomfortable with the existence of things such as music and art, finding them wasteful when many people around the world still lack necessities.

* Creator/LouisCK's longtime career as a comedian and actor took quite a toll in November 2017, when he got caught in the [=#MeToo=] movement after numerous women accused him of sexual misconduct, which he eventually admitted to. He tried to make a comeback afterward, but in December 2018, leaked audio from a Long Island stand-up set revealed him apparently making jokes at the expense of transgender people and the victims and survivors of the 2018 Parkland shooting. As a result, this killed off whatever respect the public (specifically his former fans) had left for him. He self-released his 2020 special ''Sincerely Louis C.K.'' to generally favorable reviews, but its eventual win for Best Comedy Album at the 2022 [[MediaNotes/GrammyAward Grammy Awards]] led to strong controversy[[note]]it occurring not long after Creator/WillSmith's altercation with Creator/ChrisRock at the UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s and its ensuing fallout didn't help matters either[[/note]], seemingly indicating that his reputation has yet to fully recover.

* [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood Golden Age]] actress Creator/HattieMcDaniel, the first African-American to win an Academy Award, was dogged for much of her life by accusations of [[StopBeingStereotypical selfishly perpetuating harmful stereotypes to advance her own career]], as she usually played submissive servant characters such as {{Mammy}} in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', the role that landed her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. [=McDaniel=] for her part saw no shame in it, famously [[DeadpanSnarker quipping]] that if she wasn't ''playing'' a maid for $700 an hour she would probably be ''working as'' a maid for $7 an hour.

* Pound 2019 is most frequently remembered for the [[ProducePelting crab thrown at]] [[UsefulNotes/FGCAces Juan "Hungrybox" Debiedma]] after he won the Melee Bracket with its biggest HighTierScrappy Jigglypuff.
* The [[UsefulNotes/ElectronicEntertainmentExpo E3]] 2019 convention accidentally doxed over 2,000 journalists and gamers with their website leaving their personal information available with just a single link click. They didn't help themselves at all by calling it a "website flaw," as if it were only some arcane loopholes that let people access the page rather than a link openly displayed on the main page. A class-action lawsuit was quickly put together, and it was put in serious question whether E3 had been completely killed by the incident, as it seemed unlikely anyone would be willing to hand over their information again. They tried to regain trust, but a [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID]]-related cancellation in 2020, a disastrous 2021 online-only event, and two lack-of-interest cancellations in a row prevented it.

* Fredric Wertham tends to be remembered less for his contribution to the US Civil Rights Movement, and more for being the author of the infamous 1954 book ''Seduction of the Innocent'', which produced a moral panic about comic books and led to the creation of UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode.

* The vuvuzela is a kind of horn that is deeply integrated in UsefulNotes/{{South Africa}}n culture, but it is ''extremely'' infamous internationally for the loud, monotonous drone it produces when blown, to the point that it can cause permanent hearing loss to unprotected ears. Vuvuzelas received intense backlash at the 2010 [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup World Cup]] that was hosted in South Africa, and there was even a case where a teenage boy's local neighbour became so frustrated with him blowing his vuvuzela during the Cup [[OffingTheAnnoyance that he decided to kill him]] by gunshot. As a result, many major sports leagues worldwide, as well as the Olympic Games and future World Cups, officially banned their use at their events afterwards.

* Willy Moon and his wife Teddy Sinclair [[note]] Also known as Natalia Kills [[/note]] are now more infamous for their repugnant attitude and abusive comments towards one of the contestants (even going so far as Kills accusing the contestant of copying her husband and comparing him to a serial killer) in the New Zealand version of ''Series/TheXFactor'' in 2015, resulting them getting quickly sacked from their judging duties and tarnishing their names forever.

* Willy Moon and his wife Natalia Kills are now more infamous for their repugnant attitude and abusive comments towards one of the contestants (even going so far as Kills accusing the contestant of copying her husband and comparing him to a serial killer) in the New Zealand version of ''Series/TheXFactors'', resulting them getting sacked from their judging duties.