So, on Reddit (not a good place, I know), the most upvoted comment to a post saying “You get a call from a woman and it makes you angry. Who is she?” was “Ellen ‘Degenerate’”. (Their words, not mine). Since it was hugely upvoted, why is she so bad? All I know is that she is a talk show host and a lesbian.

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    She and her wife, Portia de Rossi, live here in the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire. A couple of months ago at the local Coop in Burford, they repeatedly hit my heels with their stupid shopping trolly. When I turned around to point this out, I couldn’t help noticing 18 cans of Faxe lager in their cart PLUS 6 bags of crisps, and some items that looked like sex toys.

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    Abused her staff. Create a toxic environment. Sustained it. Thrived in the toxicity.

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    I’m unsure. I’m not interested in celebrities. Though I have seen some clips of her show where she has been pretty rude to her guests. Her name also appears in the Epstein files.

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    She’s fake. That’s her biggest sin.

    You ever meet someone who is nice to your face and then talks so much shit about you behind your back? Or that mean girl who must be the center of attention that she will denigrate anyone for even the littlest issue? Also, the perpetual victim.

    That’s Ellen.

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    She often overstepped the guests’ boundaries. For exampled she pressured Mariah Carey into drinking alcohol as a toast to “not being pregnant” in order to force her to admit she was pregnant. Carey later said she didn’t want to discuss her pregnancy due to a history of miscarriages. She also got really aggressive towards a guest for not having been invited to her birthday party. That’s just her on-camera behavior. There are numerous stories of her being an asshole to basically everyone behind the scenes.

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    She has close ties with Pedo Diddler (P. Diddy) and when he got arrested she took off to Europe out of fear of being involved trying to claim it was because of Trump. She is abusive and treats staff like crap.

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      This is incredibly hard to believe. Do you have sources for these claims?

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        Can you not conduct a search? It was a pretty big deal, numerous staff or former staff comments, it basically led to her calling it early.

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          You should always check sources and keep them to later recheck validity before spreading any info around. Cross check it with 5 real sources to be sure.

          It’s no one else’s job to do your home work for you.

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            You understand that this is social media, right? It’s not a junior midterm paper.

            You got a bunch of questions? It would have been faster to type them into Google than it took to berate and lecture the person who bothered to answer your stupid question.

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              Or just block you. Less of our time and energy wasted.

              Spreading misinformation isn’t you doing anyone a favor. It’s just you being a shit stirrer. No one owes you their energy.

              Bye Sheila.

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            Meh, not really. In my view it’s more like: you read something, you doubt it, you investigate.

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          I figured the search would reveal a ton of trashy celebrity rag stories, and it would take some time to see whether more reliable news stories would support any such contentions. Since the original commenter believed the allegations, perhaps that person already had some strong sources in mind.

          The ridiculous part of this is that Ellen would have fled to Europe to avoid prosecution or connection to sex trafficking by P. Diddy. I am already aware of the “treated staff poorly” allegations, and they are all over this thread.

          Going and researching other people’s ridiculous claims is often a waste of time. Do I need to research whether NASA actually went to the moon or if there is an ice wall at Antarctica that holds the oceans in?

          I just wasted 5 minutes looking at the allegations about Ellen fleeing to Europe, and it looks like they may have been started by Elon Musk. Should I also investigate whether a diver helping rescue a trapped soccer team in Thailand is a pedophile or Barrack Obama’s birth certificate?

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    A couple things I know of related to her talk show: 1) She kind of ‘showed her true colors’ by being snarky and mean-spirited (“haha, it’s all just fun”) towards many a guest, even making some cry or weirdly putting them on the spot when talking about a traumatic thing in their lives; 2) She was seemingly revealed to be a toxic a-hole behind the scenes to her staff and others. This is evidently not unique at all among talk show hosts, but paired with #1, it kind of sunk her reputation, it seemed to me.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_DeGeneres

    In July 2020, ten former employees of The Ellen DeGeneres Show accused DeGeneres of creating a “toxic” on-set atmosphere of “racism, fear, and intimidation”, including failing to address executives sexually harassing female employees and making “racist micro-aggressions and abuse” to or about employees of color, firing employees for taking medical and bereavement leave, and replacing her own crew with non-union workers during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.[63][64] The allegations, which the employees made anonymously to BuzzFeed News, followed previous reports of hostile and bullying behavior, such as a former employee’s allegation that DeGeneres fired him for setting up a GoFundMe page to cover medical costs not covered by their workplace health insurance.[64][65]

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    Don’t know, don’t care.

    90% of celebrity personalities are dog shit. News at 11.

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    She’s been outed as not being the nice person she appears to be on TV. There was a big controversy a few years ago that some of her crew had a lot of stories about her behaviors behind the camera that show that she wasn’t such a nice person to the people who helped make her show a reality.

    I don’t remember specifics, but it’s not hard to find if you go looking for videos or articles on it. From what I remember, it was the typical diva sort of behaviors like don’t look her in the eye and being rude to others. Nothing too too serious like sexual assault but still not nice stuff and people view her as a phony since.

    There were also some things she did to guests like when she “forced” Mariah Carey to reveal she was pregnant by offering her alcohol and Mariah basically had to admit she was pregnant as to why she wouldn’t drink alcohol. Kind of a shitty thing to do to someone.

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      I saw a short about margeret cho , she said while working with her, degeneres was being a bitch to her(in chos in words), she did not acknowledge cho’s existence in her later years. you may think cho was embellishing, but with the other evidence came out against ellen, im keen to say she might be right.

      DEGENERES conveniently fled to UK/EU around the time DIDDY was convicted/setenced, so that adds another layer of suspicion. almost immediately after diddies conviction.

      Also family guy made a parody how horrible she is, taken from real events that happened behind the scenes.

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      to reveal she was pregnant by offering her alcohol and Mariah basically had to admit she was pregnant as to why she wouldn’t drink alcohol

      kind of lame that the only reason people can imagine for not drinking an alcohol is “i am pregnant”

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        Lol, but maybe she just didn’t want to lie. Simpler. You’re right - i bet at that time the idea of “just not drinking” would be ridiculed by the press and general public - but it’s for that reason that Carey might fear she’d get caught up in a bigger lie trying a different excuse.

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          she’d get caught up in a bigger lie

          how would she get caught in a bigger lie? it is her fucking business when she does or does not want to drink alcohol. and even if she drank alcohol some other time, does not mean she must be in mood for it every waking moment. i know, hindsight is 20/20, but the point is that people need to normalize not getting drunk and not having to explain to anyone why they don’t want to.

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            I think the implication is that the other big reason for not drinking that people would jump to is substance abuse. Even if untrue, once the rumor starts it would be out there.

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            but the point is that people need to normalize not getting drunk and not having to explain to anyone why they don’t want to.

            Yeah, they do, but this was in the past. 2008. Article: The Mercury News

            I’d go as far to say that back then people would still have the old fashioned idea that all celebrities are “masterful drinkers” who are allowed one or two glasses of champagne in the middle of the day with ellen degeneres.

            As such, they have narrow-minded views towards sobriety.

            Ergo, Carey’s options are

              1. tell the truth, “I’m pregnant so I don’t want to drink”
              1. Decide that gregnancy is more embarassing than sobriety, and thus just say “Nah I don’t feel like it” - But this is 2008 so perhaps people will start to theorise that she A) “can’t hold her liquor” or B) had a close friend/family member succumb to alcohol issues, which might lead to paparazzi, or C) decide that she’s pregnant anyway. Celebrities do not like inviting more scrutiny unto themselves, so route 1 beats route 2
              1. (lie) Make up a compelling reason - “I’m a mormon/methodist/muslim,” “I’m observing a religious festival,” “I’m doing a dry month to support someone/charity,” "my friend lost their life from alcohol - " All of these lead to more lies or more questions later down the line.

            #1 is true, short, and something people would have found out anyway.

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      I thought this platform didn’t censor information? If free speech doesn’t exist here, I’m out.

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      In it was a video of Killery Clinton and Huma Abedin (Weiner’s girlfriend) tying a 5-year-old girl down on a table and cutting her face off while she was still alive.

      Imagine still believing shit like this in 2026. The literal president of the United States, the current one, is a child sex trafficker, but you still need to believe the shit that was obviously meant to distract you from the real pedos.

      The FBI took the laptop from the NYPD and said it was horrifying and would be released in three days. I remember the events clearly

      You remember Weiner’s laptop, and maybe even an article about a file called “insurance policy,” but the rest is 4Chan mind rot.

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      Yo get mental health help, I didn’t have to check to know this is nonsense.

      Edit: I had to check because come on this is too insane https://sd.vern.cc/fact-check/hillary-clinton-snuff-film/?__goaway_challenge=resource-load&__goaway_id=e86d8500f91b2d7477ab5ae610211f9a&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F

      Edit2: I genuinely wish you luck on your mental health journey. I’m sorry you’re going through this

      also adrenochrome can easily be made adrenaline is readily available I dunno why you’d get it this way??

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        They just joined today and this is their only post. It’s most likely a troll post on a throwaway account.

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        You must not have read the Epstein files, which are full of these people talking about eating the flesh of children whose meat has been infused with adrenochrome, meaning they were in mortal terror and being tortured when they died. Their term for it is “jerky.” As in things like, “I walked my jerky across the street.”

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          No I did not see that, link me to it? I can’t find it, a primary source please.

          also i’m fairly certain such meat wouldn’t do anything? have you ever had animal meat? it would also have such chemicals and be mostly indistinguishable in terms of adrenaline content. You’d just digest it?

          “Adrenochrome is mass produced and commercially available to the public, and is not a controlled substance.”

          so you can just… get it without that?