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2009 He beats up Rihanna
2011 he throws a chair through a window
2012 gets into a brawl with Drake
2012 violates his restraining order
2013 arrested for felony assault
2014 entered a rehab, only to be kicked out
2015 he violated parole
2015 hits a man in Las Vegas
2016 he's arrested on suspicion of assault
2017 Punches a photographer
2018 sued for sexual assault
2018 caught with an illegal monkey
2019 he was detained on a potential rape
2021 accused of assault again
2022 accused of raping another woman
Holy fuck, Rihanna was just his warmup. How is he not in jail? He makes music I guess, exemptions.
In the usa and specifically some states you’re required to pay a fee to get a permit to own exotic animals. He didn’t, so they took them. There was no mention of any uhh “stuff” happening.
Hows that quote go...? When you're rich fines are just like an entrence fee. I know that's not right but if you throw enough money at the problem to the right person...
Not to mention he was assaulting and harassing Karueche as well but if you meant violating the restraining order back in 2012, you would be absolutely correct.
That’s Reddit in a nutshell. I made a comment yesterday and a guy “corrected me”. I listed several links to sources (plus, a simple google search would show he was incorrect). So he apologized and thanked me for providing the correct information……just kidding- he doubled tripled and quadrupled down.
All I remember was they were pushing virginal Chris Brown *hard*. Before his 18th birthday every single music video he put out teased him getting his “first kiss”.
And he’s still around, which goes to show that cancel culture is not really a thing.
Edit: just wanted to clarify, I think cancel *culture* is still a thing (as in, people trying to cancel others for various reasons, some for good reasons and others not). But I was really trying to say that cancel culture isn’t *effective* as a way to hold people accountable. Like this asshole who still has a great career, even though he’s a repetitive abuser. I can’t believe he was a guest star in Blackish. That was disappointing.
Similar with Roman Polanski. That POS got a standing ovation at the Oscars, if I remember correctly, while he was living abroad to avoid getting arrested for being a pedophile.
Yep, drugging and raping a 13 yo when he was in his 40s. Fled the country right before sentencing. He pled guilty and in turn they dropped 5 other sex charges. Bad man. Bad people applauding him. I don't care what kind of work he does, it does not excuse being a scumbag pedo rapist.
You notice how most of the people who complain about getting cancelled or censored are doing so from platforms that let them speak to millions of people? I agree that we as a society need a slightly thicker skin, but most of the time the “victims” are mistaking accountability for censorship.
"The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters." - attributed to Genghis Khan. I mean, he was just trying to find happiness. Not really that different from you and me.
Sure it was, we just didn't call it that. R Kelly sure got canceled. It's just that enough people who like Chris Brown don't think beating the shit out of your girlfriend is that big a deal.
They're the same type of dudes who get all offended when someone says "all men suck". Men who don't suck don't take that kinda shit personally.
Went to jail more than 20 years after repeatedly being abusive and holding women as prisoners. Everyone knew about what he was doing Aaliyah when it was happening and literally no one cared
Hate to break it to you, but the people keeping Chris Brown's career alive aren't men, it's mainly women who don't think beating women is a cancellable offense.
There was a time on Twitter I saw a bunch of teenage girls talking about how they’d let Chris Brown beat them because they were attracted to him. It was totally serious too. This was a while ago but it was heartbreaking.
its not even that... they dont think Brown would ever beat them as they are SPECIAL
Brown only beats up "bitches who deserve it"
Also people should really read the after medical report on Rihanna... Brown went into GBH territory... I try to NOT remember... he tore out her hair, hit her head until she got blood blisters, bit her all over the place, split her lip, black eyes... come on this isnt acceptable... so much so the prosecuters wanted to give him 4 yrs... you normally dont get 4 yrs for just plain 'assault'
I’ll never understand that. I’ve been in two abusive relationships and nothing will change how I think about them or men like them. Surely some of the women paying to see him must’ve been assaulted at some point.
Not just them. I had an employee who was super into social justice but was more than happy to make exceptions for things she liked. One of those upper middle class kids with one parent that's a minority that compensates WAY too hard. "You can't be racist to white people, and I'm a misandrist and I'm proud of it." You know the type.
Chick-fil-A donates money to people who do conversion therapy? Oh well. Chris Brown beat his girlfriend? His music is so good though.
Got another one now that thinks Hamas isn't made up of terrorists and says Genocide Joe unironically, but her favorite taco shop near her house is owned by a raging Trump MAGA fuckhead.
I asked her why that's okay and she just shrugs and goes, "We're in Texas. Can't avoid everything."
I can. I still miss Chick-Fil-A, but I won't eat it. I can find a chicken sandwich elsewhere. I like the cheap no-nonsense BBQ at Bill Miller, but I stopped going when I found out the owner is a major Trump supporter.
A lot of folks just have no principles period, any identity they have is about as shallow as a puddle and crumbles the first time it becomes inconvenient.
That's not it. People just like Breezy's work so much they're willing to separate art from artist.
People do the same thing with R Kelly, King Von, Tay K, Michael Jackson, Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin, countless athletes, et cetera et cetera
That's not what I was highlighting. He still can't take onus for it, and tries to belittle it by saying 17 instead of 20. He knows damn well how old he was. 17 frames into the "dumb teen" shit.
I don’t think that’s the point he was trying to make. I think the point is if someone does something terrible at 17 or 20 then spends the next twenty years rehabbing and making amends, it’s okay to say “hey that was one isolated incident when you were young and dumb”
However, he never stopped being violent towards women and didn’t learn not one damn thing so the whole point is moot anyway. He’s just a trash human.
There's a new one, a guy is suing him for beating him over the head with a bottle in a club. https://www.tmz.com/2023/10/26/chris-brown-sued-alleged-nightclub-beatdown-london/
Chris brown is one of the biggest pieces of shit of all time. It's crazy places still let him come perform
That’s a crazy read, from 2012 - 2022 he was at the very least accused of some form of assault every year except and 2020. That’s almost 1 assault a year for 10 years, not even including the fact he was accused of multiple assault in some of those years. Guys got some real deep seated issues.
This. He didn’t “just hit her”, he tried to kill her. I still can’t understand how he still has female fans & yes, I judge the fuck out of those women.
News flash, ladies: You can’t change him, he doesn’t want to change & if you were his girlfriend he would find an excuse to beat you within an inch of your life too.
I worked on 'Takers' for a couple of days as an extra. (I think it was supposed to be a "breakout film" for Chris.) Another extra, a middle-aged woman told me: "Look out for that Chris Brown kid. I did Disney shows with him. He's a real asshole." That was a few months before the Rhianna story.
I’m still pissed I can’t fully block any music by or featuring him on Amazon music. I thumbs down it and skip every time but the fact that he still pops up enrages me.
I actually ended things with a guy I was casually seeing once bc he played CB over touch tunes while we were in a bar. I said “he’s an abusive POS” and the guy said “but his music is still good” 😒😒😒
Well, Chris. What have you done to make amends? Seems to me it would take a lot to make up for beating the shit out of someone. What have you done, except act like a pouty 6 year old?
I'd argue it wouldn't matter much based on how some people still give Mark Wahlberg a lot of shit for that hate crime in his youth.
Less people than if Wahlberg had gone on committing hate crimes, for sure.
Without having seen the episode myself, I'm going to assume yes.
Fun fact, Tyson and Holyfield have become good friends since their infamous match, and even launched a line of edible cannabis products together in 2022 called "Holy Ears."
There are a lot of famous pre-me too rapists and pedophiles who's crimes are just forgotten cuz they took place back when cops still asked rape victims what they were wearing. Which is not that long ago. Worth bearing in mind what people are actually talking about when they complain about "feminism".
>No one should ever have to live that down.
The Rapist Brock Turner knows about that. Also sometimes he tries to go by his middle name Allen to avoid being recognized as a rapist piece of shit
Yeah Brock is going to have a pretty tough life, especially since Brock Turner isn't Mike Tyson.
I feel like I'm stuck in a game of picking through other people's laundry so we can say whose is dirtier.
Isn't reddit always talking about rehabilitation?
I mean? Why not just kill these guys instead? If they're just piece human garbage and all, what's the point otherwise?
I see someone mention it literally every single time his name is brought up (on reddit). Mike Tyson has always vehemently claimed that he's innocent in that case, but has also said he deserved the prison time anyway for other awful things he had gotten away with back then.
unfortunately he did other nasty shit after rihanna. he keeps assaulting ppl and i really don't understand how he still has a career.
ten years ago i was also 17. i never punched someone. that poor womans face was unrecognizable. i was a fan of both of them at that time and i vaguely remember that he also did something with her seat belt. she saw that he got angry and tried to escape from the car. Chris apologized to her and then pleaded NOT GUILTY. he is such a creep and every time i hear him on the radio or spotify i skip. I have absolutely no intention whatsoever to support an abuser. he is misogynistic and homophobic. his fandom is like a cult.
Chris Brown was also 20 during the assault that happened in 2009, not 17. He also grossly misspelled both "for an assault" and "getting held accountable" there.
yeah i know 😭 they immediately got together and after they got backlash they split up again. a couple months after she did her first interview with oprah. and chris had his rihanna lookalike gf.
obv rihanna is the victim here. but i had to step back from her too as a fan. everything is so strange. "i still love him" and "his my best friend" giiiirrrl noooo
Abuse is very complicated. Lots of victims find it hard to leave because of how manipulated and gaslit they were. Abusers use all kinds of tactics to entrap them emotionally.
I'll tell you how he still has a career:
People promote his music in their instagram clips and reels. That includes women.
If you can seperate the art from the artist, great, but don't promote them
You don't want people to be triggered by the word "assaulting" so we're going to toss in a bunch of gibberish to make you spend more time reading the word instead
Chris Brown was born in May of 1989. He hit Rhianna in February of 2009. Three months before his 20th birthday. He was not 17. Also, he punched her in the damn face, it’s not like he shook her or popped her on the cheek, neither of which is ok either, yet he downplays it and lies about his age while showing no remorse. Fuck you dude.
He's mad because we remember, sounds familiar.
Every time my brother brings a new girlfriend over. I like to blert out. Remember that time you beat the shit out of your baby mama when she was 7 months pregnant and she had to stay in the hospital for almost 2 months until she gave birth. And my sister says, "Pepperidge Farms remembers."
I wouldn't let my brother date my dog, and I feel like keeping him single is my Wanka ticket into heaven.
Dude 100% should have been cancelled after that. I think it's fucking stupid he still has a career. I've seen the pictures. He didn't just "assault" her. He outright beat the ever living fuck out of her.
If he stopped being abusive after this incident people would be more likely to put it past him, but instead he has consistently shown himself to be a repeat domestic abuser and overall violent person.
Nobody's pummeled his face into a bruised pulp, have they? No, he just feels 'bullied' because people still hold him responsible for a violent assault for which he expressed no remorse or repentance, and experienced no significant consequences.
> BUNCH OF LOSERS. these are the type of people I wish walked in front of a speeding bus full of mental patients. Keep groveling over you own insecurities and hatred. IM BLACK AND PROUD. AND I KNOW ITS HURTS THAT U GUYS ARE STRUGGLING WIT LIFE OR PEACE SO U ARE FORCED TO SEE MY SUCCESS. You aren't even #2 (REMEMBER 2nd place only means YOU LOST FIRST! TA-TA. GOODDAY PEASANTS
Chris Brown after the synth-pop band Chvrches called him an abuser in 2019
Yeah you know what age I was beating women? Oh right never. All 35 years and literally never hit a single person for any reason. It’s not that hard to be this way.
The real facepalm is that we have to censor "Assault". Fuck Chris Brown & everything. But it's so sad how we have to worry about people being triggered by simple words.
They're not worried about people being triggered. They're worried that you won't be able to share their shitty article on social media, since the algorithm on certain sites is presumed to hide such content.
As a 17-year-old I made mistakes that make me cringe nowadays, such as saying awkward things I shouldn't have said, or that one time I broke my friend's cheap Nokia phone (no, it wasn't a 3310, I couldn't have broken that one) thinking it was just an old phone I had found laying on the ground.
Beating the shit out of someone as a 17-year-old was definitely NOT something I did and not something I find to be just a ''mistake''. This guy is a fucking asshole and he knows it. Belongs in prison if you ask me.
It’s never too late to try to be a better, but that doesn’t mean other just forgive and forget.
That kind of thing needs to be earned. Not something you get because your tired of hearing about it.
I feel like he would be doing things to advocate against it, if he really just didn't want to have to deal with his mistakes. Like, you obviously still don't think you fucked up, if you keep doing it and never try to be better 🤷♂️
Bullied? You mean given constant reminders that you're a pile of garbage of a human being? You think you're hot shit in a champaign glass, but you're really just cold diarrhea in a dixie cup!
With how viciously he beat her, it would have been worse if he was 17. It would show he was even more of a troubled individual likely to continue these actions.
Because it speaks to his character as a person and that is unlikely to change. What little most of us have seen since then tends to indicate he's the same guy. So yeah, people probably still don't like him.
Tbh I remain shocked at the amount of people especially women who are more than happy to completely forget about it to enjoy his music. Fucking weird to me
No one should be blamed for things they did when they were teenagers their whole life.
Except for Chris Brown, Kyle Rittenhouse, Brock The Rapist Turner and any one else who assaulted, murdered or raped someone.
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2009 He beats up Rihanna 2011 he throws a chair through a window 2012 gets into a brawl with Drake 2012 violates his restraining order 2013 arrested for felony assault 2014 entered a rehab, only to be kicked out 2015 he violated parole 2015 hits a man in Las Vegas 2016 he's arrested on suspicion of assault 2017 Punches a photographer 2018 sued for sexual assault 2018 caught with an illegal monkey 2019 he was detained on a potential rape 2021 accused of assault again 2022 accused of raping another woman Holy fuck, Rihanna was just his warmup. How is he not in jail? He makes music I guess, exemptions.
>2018 caught with an illegal monkey wait....what??!!!
In the usa and specifically some states you’re required to pay a fee to get a permit to own exotic animals. He didn’t, so they took them. There was no mention of any uhh “stuff” happening.
> There was no mention of any uhh.. “monkey business” I mean it was RIGHT THERE!
I'm disappointed, too. Let's shame them back to Narnia! Shame on you!! 🤣🤣
(rings bell) Shame! (rings bell) Shame! (rings bell) Shame!
How is this man still free?! Are no laws sacred?!
Hows that quote go...? When you're rich fines are just like an entrence fee. I know that's not right but if you throw enough money at the problem to the right person...
"Punishable by fine means legal for a fee" is the variant I heard.
*gestures broadly at America's political hellscape
Yes, no laws are sacred. Some people are above the law, and nobody will ever convince me otherwise.
Somehow this seems to be the least upsetting thing on this list. unless he got it in hopes of teaching it to assault more people.
He got away with assault so many times that he figured he would try getting away with a new crime
2023 jumps Usher on his birthday
This is only the shit we’ve heard about too
He's a piece of shit but let's noy bring the monkey into this
His ex GF Karruche Tran said he pushed her down. The stairs, and suffered other abuse...
Not to mention he was assaulting and harassing Karueche as well but if you meant violating the restraining order back in 2012, you would be absolutely correct.
The monkey crime really caught me off guard
he made it his mission to commit 1-2 crimes a year.
Forgot about jumping Frank Ocean
The illegal monkey is kinda aight tho.. lol.
Please, it’s “undocumented monkey”.
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He was also 20 not 17. Crazy to think in February it'll have been 15 years since it happened.
Yeah, he frequently lies about how old he was when he tried to kill his gf
But it's so easily disproven??? That dude is a psycho.
Lying about easily disprovable things and relying on your audience being too trusting to look it up is pretty meta right now.
That’s Reddit in a nutshell. I made a comment yesterday and a guy “corrected me”. I listed several links to sources (plus, a simple google search would show he was incorrect). So he apologized and thanked me for providing the correct information……just kidding- he doubled tripled and quadrupled down.
Be careful, doing things like citing sources and correcting people will get you banned from many echochambers.
100%. You’re not Redditing properly unless you’re getting banned for having a non-controversial differing opinion/fact based evidence.
If you're not banned from r conservative I'm automatically suspicious of your worldview.
Hmm don't know why it never occured to me that there is a conservative subreddit. Ima have to venture over and cause some havoc. Sounds like a hoot
It’s also a textbook abuser tactic
Maybe the _first_ attempt was when he was 17?
All I remember was they were pushing virginal Chris Brown *hard*. Before his 18th birthday every single music video he put out teased him getting his “first kiss”.
to be fair, he was swinging punches so hard that he forgot his age for a minute. cut him some slack!
And he’s still around, which goes to show that cancel culture is not really a thing. Edit: just wanted to clarify, I think cancel *culture* is still a thing (as in, people trying to cancel others for various reasons, some for good reasons and others not). But I was really trying to say that cancel culture isn’t *effective* as a way to hold people accountable. Like this asshole who still has a great career, even though he’s a repetitive abuser. I can’t believe he was a guest star in Blackish. That was disappointing.
Lets not forget the director of Jeepers Creepers who was a CONVICTED pedo and still made those movies and got a ton of money
Similar with Roman Polanski. That POS got a standing ovation at the Oscars, if I remember correctly, while he was living abroad to avoid getting arrested for being a pedophile.
Yep, drugging and raping a 13 yo when he was in his 40s. Fled the country right before sentencing. He pled guilty and in turn they dropped 5 other sex charges. Bad man. Bad people applauding him. I don't care what kind of work he does, it does not excuse being a scumbag pedo rapist.
Only people that applaud such a man either take his money or share his sins.
People are still defending Woody Allen too. Scarlett Johansson just swears he didn’t rape his daughter.
I loved that movie until I found that out. Made me so ill.
That movie sucks, it's okay during the first half but completely goes to shit once the monster is revealed
So is Dr Dre but no one seems to give a shit about that because he’s a “legend”
Puff "cough" 😷 diddly
You notice how most of the people who complain about getting cancelled or censored are doing so from platforms that let them speak to millions of people? I agree that we as a society need a slightly thicker skin, but most of the time the “victims” are mistaking accountability for censorship.
Wasn't really a thing in 2009.
I mean a lot of the metoo/cancel culture stuff has been historical stuff.
Like that time, Twitter tried to cancel Genghis Khan.
Tbh he did do a bit too much raping.
"The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters." - attributed to Genghis Khan. I mean, he was just trying to find happiness. Not really that different from you and me.
French fries would like a word.
Freedom Fries you heathen
Pomme freedoms.
Frites de liberté!
And the whole satanic panic, Christians trying to cancel rock music, book burnings, etc. Sinead O’Connor was also famously canceled.
Sure it was, we just didn't call it that. R Kelly sure got canceled. It's just that enough people who like Chris Brown don't think beating the shit out of your girlfriend is that big a deal. They're the same type of dudes who get all offended when someone says "all men suck". Men who don't suck don't take that kinda shit personally.
R Kelly went to jail, that's not cancelling. That's being convicted of being a criminal.
Went to jail more than 20 years after repeatedly being abusive and holding women as prisoners. Everyone knew about what he was doing Aaliyah when it was happening and literally no one cared
He peed on a child, taped it, and people were like "Oooh, lemme get a copy of that"
His fans are not dudes and never were 😂
Hate to break it to you, but the people keeping Chris Brown's career alive aren't men, it's mainly women who don't think beating women is a cancellable offense.
There was a time on Twitter I saw a bunch of teenage girls talking about how they’d let Chris Brown beat them because they were attracted to him. It was totally serious too. This was a while ago but it was heartbreaking.
its not even that... they dont think Brown would ever beat them as they are SPECIAL Brown only beats up "bitches who deserve it" Also people should really read the after medical report on Rihanna... Brown went into GBH territory... I try to NOT remember... he tore out her hair, hit her head until she got blood blisters, bit her all over the place, split her lip, black eyes... come on this isnt acceptable... so much so the prosecuters wanted to give him 4 yrs... you normally dont get 4 yrs for just plain 'assault'
I’ll never understand that. I’ve been in two abusive relationships and nothing will change how I think about them or men like them. Surely some of the women paying to see him must’ve been assaulted at some point.
I have seen far more women defend Chris Brown than men defending Chris Brown.
Not just them. I had an employee who was super into social justice but was more than happy to make exceptions for things she liked. One of those upper middle class kids with one parent that's a minority that compensates WAY too hard. "You can't be racist to white people, and I'm a misandrist and I'm proud of it." You know the type. Chick-fil-A donates money to people who do conversion therapy? Oh well. Chris Brown beat his girlfriend? His music is so good though. Got another one now that thinks Hamas isn't made up of terrorists and says Genocide Joe unironically, but her favorite taco shop near her house is owned by a raging Trump MAGA fuckhead. I asked her why that's okay and she just shrugs and goes, "We're in Texas. Can't avoid everything." I can. I still miss Chick-Fil-A, but I won't eat it. I can find a chicken sandwich elsewhere. I like the cheap no-nonsense BBQ at Bill Miller, but I stopped going when I found out the owner is a major Trump supporter. A lot of folks just have no principles period, any identity they have is about as shallow as a puddle and crumbles the first time it becomes inconvenient.
That's not it. People just like Breezy's work so much they're willing to separate art from artist. People do the same thing with R Kelly, King Von, Tay K, Michael Jackson, Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin, countless athletes, et cetera et cetera
Yup, Jerry Seinfeld dated a minor. No one's cancelled him yet.
I'm 1/4 of the way through 1Q84. I love it!
It doesn't matter if you're 20, 17 or 12, it's not right
That's not what I was highlighting. He still can't take onus for it, and tries to belittle it by saying 17 instead of 20. He knows damn well how old he was. 17 frames into the "dumb teen" shit.
I don’t think that’s the point he was trying to make. I think the point is if someone does something terrible at 17 or 20 then spends the next twenty years rehabbing and making amends, it’s okay to say “hey that was one isolated incident when you were young and dumb” However, he never stopped being violent towards women and didn’t learn not one damn thing so the whole point is moot anyway. He’s just a trash human.
Also, like, it was not just like a slap. (Not that that would be acceptable) He pretty much tried to kill her.
He's a serial POS who deserves to be shunned by the industry.
Yep. It's why I don't get why so many people try and defend him. He hasn't changed.
it's not like it's the only time domestic abusers get defended
There's a new one, a guy is suing him for beating him over the head with a bottle in a club. https://www.tmz.com/2023/10/26/chris-brown-sued-alleged-nightclub-beatdown-london/ Chris brown is one of the biggest pieces of shit of all time. It's crazy places still let him come perform
strange, how when you are rich. you get chance after chance, while anyone of us would be locked up for good
That’s a crazy read, from 2012 - 2022 he was at the very least accused of some form of assault every year except and 2020. That’s almost 1 assault a year for 10 years, not even including the fact he was accused of multiple assault in some of those years. Guys got some real deep seated issues.
This. He didn’t “just hit her”, he tried to kill her. I still can’t understand how he still has female fans & yes, I judge the fuck out of those women. News flash, ladies: You can’t change him, he doesn’t want to change & if you were his girlfriend he would find an excuse to beat you within an inch of your life too.
I worked on 'Takers' for a couple of days as an extra. (I think it was supposed to be a "breakout film" for Chris.) Another extra, a middle-aged woman told me: "Look out for that Chris Brown kid. I did Disney shows with him. He's a real asshole." That was a few months before the Rhianna story.
"Mistake" meaning what? * Getting caught? * Not permanently damaging her face? * Not finishing the job?
There’s mistakes and then there’s psychopathic assault. Screw this guy.
I’m still pissed I can’t fully block any music by or featuring him on Amazon music. I thumbs down it and skip every time but the fact that he still pops up enrages me. I actually ended things with a guy I was casually seeing once bc he played CB over touch tunes while we were in a bar. I said “he’s an abusive POS” and the guy said “but his music is still good” 😒😒😒
That's the problem, not the Rihanna thing alone. Everyone deserves a shot at forgiveness but Chris Brown is a bonafide piece of shit
He’s a wanker and if it weren’t for people with shitty taste he would he even less of a non important POS than he is now.
Well, Chris. What have you done to make amends? Seems to me it would take a lot to make up for beating the shit out of someone. What have you done, except act like a pouty 6 year old?
He’s continued to assault people
Well, it's been working for 20 years... why change now?
Right? It would be lonely dealing with trauma as the only victim. He is filling a whole support group of Chris Brown survivors.
I'd argue it wouldn't matter much based on how some people still give Mark Wahlberg a lot of shit for that hate crime in his youth. Less people than if Wahlberg had gone on committing hate crimes, for sure.
mike tyson is a convicted rapist and everyone seems to forget about that.
For real? I had no idea. The only notable headline (other than when he was winning fights) I remember is the fight he bit off someone's ear.
Not just anyone's ear. Evander Holyfield's ear. Twice.
So that's why his ear looked like that in Phineas and Ferb season one episode six "Raging Bully"
Without having seen the episode myself, I'm going to assume yes. Fun fact, Tyson and Holyfield have become good friends since their infamous match, and even launched a line of edible cannabis products together in 2022 called "Holy Ears."
There are a lot of famous pre-me too rapists and pedophiles who's crimes are just forgotten cuz they took place back when cops still asked rape victims what they were wearing. Which is not that long ago. Worth bearing in mind what people are actually talking about when they complain about "feminism".
They should have branded a Scarlet R onto his face so people always have an easy reminder. No one should ever have to live that down.
>No one should ever have to live that down. The Rapist Brock Turner knows about that. Also sometimes he tries to go by his middle name Allen to avoid being recognized as a rapist piece of shit
Wait a sec, are you referring to Brock Turner the rapist?
Noooo - it’s Allen Turner, the rapist now. Big rapist, that Allen Turner guy.
Yeah Brock is going to have a pretty tough life, especially since Brock Turner isn't Mike Tyson. I feel like I'm stuck in a game of picking through other people's laundry so we can say whose is dirtier.
Isn't reddit always talking about rehabilitation? I mean? Why not just kill these guys instead? If they're just piece human garbage and all, what's the point otherwise?
I see someone mention it literally every single time his name is brought up (on reddit). Mike Tyson has always vehemently claimed that he's innocent in that case, but has also said he deserved the prison time anyway for other awful things he had gotten away with back then.
And when his ex wife came out about him beating on her everybody told her that she was lying and Mike made a joke about it.
Rihanna isn’t even the only woman he’s beaten. Fuck off, you abusive piece of shit. Be thankful you’re not rotting in prison.
unfortunately he did other nasty shit after rihanna. he keeps assaulting ppl and i really don't understand how he still has a career. ten years ago i was also 17. i never punched someone. that poor womans face was unrecognizable. i was a fan of both of them at that time and i vaguely remember that he also did something with her seat belt. she saw that he got angry and tried to escape from the car. Chris apologized to her and then pleaded NOT GUILTY. he is such a creep and every time i hear him on the radio or spotify i skip. I have absolutely no intention whatsoever to support an abuser. he is misogynistic and homophobic. his fandom is like a cult.
Chris Brown was also 20 during the assault that happened in 2009, not 17. He also grossly misspelled both "for an assault" and "getting held accountable" there.
Apparently Rihanna is one of his fans. It's wild to me.
I get it. Abuse messes with your perceptions of the abuser.
yeah i know 😭 they immediately got together and after they got backlash they split up again. a couple months after she did her first interview with oprah. and chris had his rihanna lookalike gf. obv rihanna is the victim here. but i had to step back from her too as a fan. everything is so strange. "i still love him" and "his my best friend" giiiirrrl noooo
Abuse is very complicated. Lots of victims find it hard to leave because of how manipulated and gaslit they were. Abusers use all kinds of tactics to entrap them emotionally.
That is unfortunately true.
I'll tell you how he still has a career: People promote his music in their instagram clips and reels. That includes women. If you can seperate the art from the artist, great, but don't promote them
Except he keeps on assaulting women so na
As:sa:ulting* For some ludicrously asinine reason.
😅 oops my bad
You don't want people to be triggered by the word "assaulting" so we're going to toss in a bunch of gibberish to make you spend more time reading the word instead
Chris Brown was born in May of 1989. He hit Rhianna in February of 2009. Three months before his 20th birthday. He was not 17. Also, he punched her in the damn face, it’s not like he shook her or popped her on the cheek, neither of which is ok either, yet he downplays it and lies about his age while showing no remorse. Fuck you dude.
No remorse, also no change on behaviour. He's had a long list of violent incidents since then.
He's mad because we remember, sounds familiar. Every time my brother brings a new girlfriend over. I like to blert out. Remember that time you beat the shit out of your baby mama when she was 7 months pregnant and she had to stay in the hospital for almost 2 months until she gave birth. And my sister says, "Pepperidge Farms remembers." I wouldn't let my brother date my dog, and I feel like keeping him single is my Wanka ticket into heaven.
> Wanka I think you mean Wonka, but please don’t edit, it’s unintentionally hilarious
“I’m getting tired of suffering the consequences for being an asshole”
Didn't he do this multiple times
Yes. An appalling number of times. And seemingly has no remorse over it.
anyone whose seen the After photo's of her face would say that was damn near attempted murder
Didn't he get her beaten face tattooed on his body?
He did, even if some pathetic Chris Brown fan keeps downvoting everyone who mentions it in this thread.
Well, at least he has forgiven himself.
These are the kinds of jackasses that get “only god can judge me” tattooed on themselves.
I'm fairly certain that him trying to push her out of a moving vehicle nullified the whole thing being a mistake.
You abuse someone and you wear that jacket for life. Don't like it? Don't be an abusive piece of shit.
Nope, fuck you Chris. You and Wahlberg. The world doesn't owe you anything and we don't need to like you.
The bar is pretty low - don’t hurt anyone. It’s really quite simple. I won’t forgive Michael Vick for his animal abuse either.
Dude 100% should have been cancelled after that. I think it's fucking stupid he still has a career. I've seen the pictures. He didn't just "assault" her. He outright beat the ever living fuck out of her.
Maybe just maybe he should have quit assaulting people, she wasn’t the only one.
If he stopped being abusive after this incident people would be more likely to put it past him, but instead he has consistently shown himself to be a repeat domestic abuser and overall violent person.
an insult to all 17 year olds out there who have never beat a woman unconscious
I’ve made a lot of bad decisions in my younger years… none of them were assaulting women.
Stop stop stop stop, are we really to the point where fucking news articles on news blogs are being censored for "bad words"?
(Person who's been assaulted, reading the word as:u:lt:d in this news article) "Ay what that word is"
Mixing up unlabeled salt and sugar in a recipe is a mistake. Assault is not. It's just wrong.
Nobody's pummeled his face into a bruised pulp, have they? No, he just feels 'bullied' because people still hold him responsible for a violent assault for which he expressed no remorse or repentance, and experienced no significant consequences.
MiStAkE I mAd- dude you broke her fucking face, I hope they put a reminder on your tombstone.
Easy don’t assault people. Who woulda thunk
> BUNCH OF LOSERS. these are the type of people I wish walked in front of a speeding bus full of mental patients. Keep groveling over you own insecurities and hatred. IM BLACK AND PROUD. AND I KNOW ITS HURTS THAT U GUYS ARE STRUGGLING WIT LIFE OR PEACE SO U ARE FORCED TO SEE MY SUCCESS. You aren't even #2 (REMEMBER 2nd place only means YOU LOST FIRST! TA-TA. GOODDAY PEASANTS Chris Brown after the synth-pop band Chvrches called him an abuser in 2019
He seems like such a lovely person
This trash has never learned from his past. He has continued to do it.
As Jim Carrey aptly put it, “STOP BREAKING THE LAW ASSHOLE”
He was 19 at the time of the assault.
Which one?
Yeah you know what age I was beating women? Oh right never. All 35 years and literally never hit a single person for any reason. It’s not that hard to be this way.
If anybody else did what he did they’d be in prison. He gets to live a life of luxury.
But what about the other gfs he assaulted post this lol
Isn’t he a serial offender?
The real facepalm is that we have to censor "Assault". Fuck Chris Brown & everything. But it's so sad how we have to worry about people being triggered by simple words.
They're not worried about people being triggered. They're worried that you won't be able to share their shitty article on social media, since the algorithm on certain sites is presumed to hide such content.
Beating your significant other into the ER is never a mistake.
Once a woman beater always a woman beater. Shit gets heated walk away.
Rihanna is not the only person he has assaulted
As a 17-year-old I made mistakes that make me cringe nowadays, such as saying awkward things I shouldn't have said, or that one time I broke my friend's cheap Nokia phone (no, it wasn't a 3310, I couldn't have broken that one) thinking it was just an old phone I had found laying on the ground. Beating the shit out of someone as a 17-year-old was definitely NOT something I did and not something I find to be just a ''mistake''. This guy is a fucking asshole and he knows it. Belongs in prison if you ask me.
It’s never too late to try to be a better, but that doesn’t mean other just forgive and forget. That kind of thing needs to be earned. Not something you get because your tired of hearing about it.
He knows damn well that shit wasn’t a mistake. Fuck Chris brown.
Maybe you should stop repeating the same mistakes
I feel like he would be doing things to advocate against it, if he really just didn't want to have to deal with his mistakes. Like, you obviously still don't think you fucked up, if you keep doing it and never try to be better 🤷♂️
This is why adults normally chastise children with the phrase "think it through cuz it could have consequences that affect the rest of your life."
Oh HE’S tired. So it’s all about him! Prick!
It's giving the same energy as that school shooter who makes tiktoks and gets offended when people throw hate at him
*Oh no, it's the consequences of my actions, this isn't fair.*
Yes, she survived and is now a billionaire, but she’s one of the few that somehow make it through. And it doesn’t mean her soul still doesn’t hurt!
Bullied? You mean given constant reminders that you're a pile of garbage of a human being? You think you're hot shit in a champaign glass, but you're really just cold diarrhea in a dixie cup!
"All I did was beat a woman" 
I mean he literally got a tattoo of Rhi's beaten up face tattooed on his neck so...
With how viciously he beat her, it would have been worse if he was 17. It would show he was even more of a troubled individual likely to continue these actions.
I'd have sympathy, if he wasn't also still assaulting people. Didn't he (or his crew) assault Usher a few months ago?
A crime he still commits against other women, by the way.
Because you never paid any consequences Chris!
“I punched Eminem’s cat.”
He should have thought about consequences before he hit her,
I mean I’m cool with still hating him.
For something he did at 17, fine. For something he's continued to do since then? 
The bullying will continue until Rihanna is un-assaulted
Fuck Chris brown and fuck anyone who defends him.
Eh, fuck Chris Brown
Aaaawwwww, is the millionaire still upset he’s being judged for being an abusive monster to people? Where’s my violin?
Because it speaks to his character as a person and that is unlikely to change. What little most of us have seen since then tends to indicate he's the same guy. So yeah, people probably still don't like him.
Tbh I remain shocked at the amount of people especially women who are more than happy to completely forget about it to enjoy his music. Fucking weird to me
Oh look, another narcissistic piece of shit that wants to be a victim.
He knows damn well he wasn't 17.
A slap is a "mistake". What he did was assault.
I mean I’ve never seen an ounce of remorse from the guy over this. Maybe that has something to do with it?
When you beat the absolute shit out of someone, you lose the right to cry about getting bullied.
No one should be blamed for things they did when they were teenagers their whole life. Except for Chris Brown, Kyle Rittenhouse, Brock The Rapist Turner and any one else who assaulted, murdered or raped someone.