Stephen Fry deletes his Twitter account after BAFTA joke

[Serpha]

So 3 comments and we have international crisis? Mark my words, WW3 will fought on the internet, with words not with nukes!

[SteveZombie]

Fry has always been an asshole, so this is no surprise.

[Deleted]

Bet he is regretting ever saying this now, makes him look like a hypocrite.

I love Fry but even I cringe at this quote often posted online

[Tinykong]

She looks like a bag lady. If I saw that woman walking down the street, I would think she was homeless. Only thing that gives it away is the jewelry.

[Yrrildur]

It's weird that he didn't respond in a more sensible way, as I would expect from him. However, this might also have been the last drop and now he deleted his acc to have a more peaceful life. Social media as a whole is something that can be a huge burden for people.

[Linkedblade]

Yeah let's bully the guy who is manic depressed. God job internet.

[Ryme]

Bet he is regretting ever saying this now, makes him look like a hypocrite.

In what way, specifically? Because it doesn't at all.

[DarkAmbient]

I love Stephen Fry but he can be quite the drama queen. As suggested earlier, it might be due to a bipolar episode.

[Devonitar]

It basically means a crazy homeless lady carrying too many bags

Huh, well, she did look like one of these.

[Deleted]

Fry has always been an asshole, so this is no surprise.

You're aware he's personal friends with a hell of a lot of famous people in cinema and television including the person in question. In Britain we call this banter among friends,

[TwistedSkull]

Since they hired Anita cencorship will rule surpreme on twitter.

[Xargoth6634]

Twitter is a useless waste of space anyway; it just serves to make our society stupider. Zero fucks given about it or this.

[Deleted]

It's weird that he didn't respond in a more sensible way, as I would expect from him. However, this might also have been the last drop and now he deleted his acc to have a more peaceful life. Social media as a whole is something that can be a huge burden for people.

He is bipolar and known to be a pain in the arse to work with, things like this happened more than once

[Deleted]

Huh, well, she did look like one of these.

Exactly thus why it was funny and what most were thinking

[Sting]

[video=youtube;zqPcjm-X5GQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqPcjm-X5GQ[video]

Bet he is regretting ever saying this now, makes him look like a hypocrite.

If anything this reinforces his point. He makes a joke between friends, and a horde of people barrage him because they think it's offensive. Fuck those people.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Common fact; people are usually more vocal about negative things than positive. I suspect no guarantee more people found it funny

I don't agree more people found it anything although personally I find it kind of mean. But also kind of funny knowing that they are friends.

So no I don't slight him especially knowing he is bipolar. But I also think trolls should be banned and blocked from this kind of harassment towards him. But he I imagine wouldn't because he didn't.

So I see this entire situation as lose lose.

[Belize]

Twitter is dying, they reported another 2m losses this quarter. You have to wonder if the endless news about people getting offended and causing online lynch mobs is in some way related, I know for a fact I wouldn't risk using it in today's world and I'm a public nobody.

Or maybe people finally realized nothing intelligent can be said in 140 characters or less, and thus are leaving in droves before the "idiot virus" takes over their brains and turns them into drooling idiots, spamming 50 different emojis after everything they write

[Thrif]

I miss when over sensitive people who can't take jokes still hadn't discovered internet. It was a much nicer place.

[Deleted]

In what way, specifically? Because it doesn't at all.

He said that people being offended should shrug it off, throwing a hissy fit and deleting his account is hardly the response that vid suggests.

[SteveZombie]

You're aware he's personal friends with a hell of a lot of famous people in cinema and television including the person in question. In Britain we call this banter among friends,

I mean I get his initial joke was a jab amongst friends. But his little kneejerk and ragequit come as no surprise.