If you’re an avid social media user, it’s quite likely that you have blocked a person or two on certain platforms, maybe even have been blocked yourself. And there can be hundreds of reasons for that, from someone being rude or creepy, to being in a fight, among numerous other scenarios.
Chances are, the people with the longest ‘blocked’ list are those with the biggest following, who are often celebrities. But despite being regularly put on the pedestal or having millions of fans, they’re only human, too, which means they might also block you if you do something they don’t like.
Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community recently opened up about what they did that got them blocked by certain celebrities. Ranging from jokes gone wrong to misunderstandings, and beyond, some of their stories are rather amusing, so if you want to see what can get you blocked by someone famous, continue reading to find out.
If you scroll down, you will also find Bored Panda’s interview with a social media expert, Part-time Faculty in Marketing at Mike Ilitch School of Business at Wayne State University, Nick Mattar, who was kind enough to answer a few of our questions.
#1
Not a celebrity, but the Head and Shoulders twitter account blocked me because I tweeted them every day for a month asking why they don’t have a foot wash line called “Knees and Toes”.
I still don’t understand why they don’t!
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#2
I told Ted Cruz to sit on a cactus on Twitter years ago. He blocked me and then my account got banned. I appealed it with just “Come on guys it’s Ted Cruz” and to my surprise they unbanned me.
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#3
I was blocked by Lufthansa for asking if they had in flight waffles, and if they called them “Luftwaffles”.
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#4
Not really a “celebrity” but Joel Osteen blocked me on Instagram for calling him out on his preventing people from taking refuge in his mega church during the hurricane.
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#5
I got blocked on Twitter by OJ Simpson in 2020 for asking him if he plans on purchasing the new Bronco in white when it’s released.
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#6
James Blunt once parked his car in front of my driveway and I couldn’t get my car out :-(.
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#7
Got blocked by Kid Rock for saying he looked like a less masculine version of Dr Phil.
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#8
I got blocked by Ron DeSantis because I spent two solid weeks on Twitter telling him to go f**k himself.
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#9
Way back I got blocked by a local weatherman. He was wearing a blazer that was super wrinkled. So I tweeted to him and the station that he should’ve ironed his blazer. The next time he came on screen, he wore a different blazer but it was an ugly bright yellow mustard color. So I tweeted, I said iron your blazer not put on an uglier one. Got blocked after that, haha. .
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#10
I got blocked by Gary Barlow from Take That.
Gary, if you’re reading this; whatever I said, whatever I did, I didn’t mean it.
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#11
Posted the picture of a younger, balder Elon Musk in a reply to him.
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#12
KAT VON D
I made comments about how she’s happy to slap “Chemicals” on her face in the way of her make up brand, and inject chemicals under her skin for her ink in her tattoos, and happily be paid to do this for others.
Yet the “Chemicals” in the whooping cough vaccine for her baby was unsafe and I called her a bad mum.
I was blocked within minutes and then she released some statement on her Instagram about being a “New” mum who makes mistakes.
Anyway, Shes a narcissistic small timer big time wannabe.
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#13
Ellie Goulding was talking about how meat was bad for you on instagram. I — being the insufferable teenage debate brain I was — wrote an entire essay explaining why she was wrong, the benefits of eating meat, how morality is based on more than someone’s diet etc. I spent about half an hour constructing it. She simply replied *“You have too much time on your hands”* and blocked me.
She wasn’t wrong lol.
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#14
My friend got blocked by Dr. Phil forever ago on instagram. all he asked was “Are you a real doctor?”.
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#15
Scott Baio blocked me for tweeting the following: “Crazy how Scott Baio played a genius in Baby Geniuses 2 and plays a dumb**s in real life, that’s some impressive range.”
Knowing he saw it delights me to this day.
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#16
Kim K blocked me and I can’t remember why, but badge of honour.
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#17
I was blocked by James Charles on Grindr lol and it was the real him he verified and everything I reached out as a joke like oh yea I doubt it but no we talked for a while, anyways I asked him if he wanted to go to the club with me he just left me on read then I said oh sorry it’s not under 18 night and he instantly blocked me 💀.
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#18
When the Mars rover played a black eyed peas song on mars I tweeted “Great, now the martians will definitely be hostile” and got blocked by Will.I.Am. I didn’t even mention him or anything so I’m kind of at loss as to how he saw it lmao.
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#19
In the 8th grade, I called Dr Phil daddy on Instagram & he blocked me for that.
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#20
Got blocked by the Smashing Pumpkins and Billy Corgan Facebook pages because I pointed out that Billy looks like a grown-up Caillou and could benefit from some better-fitting clothes. I’ve been blocked for six years now.
Edited to add: now banned by the official Smashing Pumpkins Reddit sub. I’m on a roll!
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#21
On Twitter, I asked Gene Simmons, from KISS, if the Kiss cologne smells like his nutsack or Paul Stanley’s. He blocked me.
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#22
Not me, but my best friend got blocked by Tony the Tiger’s Twitter account because she followed enough people who liked some furry content at some point, and whoever was running that account absolutely salted the earth to make sure no furries were following Tony.
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#23
Frank Ocean dropped out of Coachella last year two days before I was supposedly to see him live claiming he broke his ankle, so I DM’ed him saying “send me the xrays” and he blocked me.
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#24
One day about 25 years ago, Steve buscemi was walking around horatio street down in greenwhich village. He was talking on a cell phone when he stepped onto the street to cross to the other side. As soon as he stepped onto the street, it was clear that he had blocked the path of an oncoming bicycle. Steve buscemi was hit by a teenager on a bicycle. That teenager was me. He probably doesn’t remember, it wasn’t a particularly hard hit. Now whenever I see him on screen, I have to let everyone around know that I hit him that one time down in the village.
Also, it was the first time I ever considered the dangers of cellphones. I can’t remember the exact year but I remember the knicks were freakin awesome. Ewing, Starks… maybe ‘94.
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#25
I told hulk hogan I wasnt his brother, so he blocked me.
on google plus.
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#26
I got drunk one night and tweeted Olive Garden that “your endless pasta bowls are b******t because you ended mine when I took off my pants”…
Was blocked within 5 minutes and loved showing people that. After a year they unblocked me so I guess it’s automated.
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#27
I was massively into the Glee fandom back in the day
Dot Marie Jones (who plays coach beiste) would always tweet in CAPS and one day I just replied something like “WHY DO YOU ALWAYS TYPE IN CAPS” and got blocked lmao.
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#28
Not really a celebrity but there was a local realtor named Peggy Hill. I started posting king of the hill memes on her FB page and she blocked me.
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#29
I got blocked by Metallica on Facebook years ago when they posted themselves in expensive suits and I called them posers.
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#30
Told Mark Hoppus I was “a big fan of his because Green Day was one my favorite bands in middle school” on Twitter. Got blocked.
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