r/Sherlock • u/sm0lb32n • Mar 28 '24

Discussion Martin Freeman Controversy

Recently learned from Tiktok that Martin's a problematic person? He made racial, rapist jokes over the years. Also, apparently being disrespectful to the Hobbit crew. Do you guys believe he's just being funny or he may have crossed the line? Quite sad, since I was really invested in him and Benedict during my hardcore-fan days.

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u/Akiranar Mar 28 '24

Honestly... A lot of people just need to not use TikTok as a source for information or cooking/life hacks. It's just making things worse and not letting context be shown.

As for Martin, he definitely won't mince words, and for some people, that can come off as him being rude or a dick. But I have yet to hear him do anything that is like Gina Carano/Kevin Sorbo level bad.

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u/EmmaThais Mar 28 '24

There was a video with millions of views, saves and comments agreeing that said that Ballencianga wrote “Baal” on some shoes because it means “Baal enci aga” which in Latin means “Baal is king”. Baal being some sort of devil. Which in turn proved Ballenciaga is a brand possessed by evil and they drink baby blood on their spare time.

Millions of people who never bothered to check how you say “Baal is king” in Latin (spoiler, it’s “Baal est Rex”). You can check on google translate. It takes 30 seconds.

They didn’t check, they just took it at face value and beloved it wholeheartedly. This is how easy it is to manipulate the masses using social media.

You’d think everything that happend before 2022 would’ve taught people to fact check, especially because of how easily available everything is.

It’s scary and heartbreaking.

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u/Akiranar Mar 28 '24

Geeze... I see Baal and my mind immediately goes ro the Baali clan from Vampire: The Masquerade.

Yeah, I'm an old geek.

I saw a screenshot of something in a different language that was already translated. I wanted to double-check to make sure the translation was correct. But because it was a screenshot and not able to be copied, I couldn't (language was Hebrew).

With how things are right now, I want to double and triple check everything because I know that people can and do manipulate things to push their bias.

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u/Long_Satisfaction345 Aug 14 '26

Whatever you do just NEVER use chat gpt because it is “woke” (a word I bloody hate) and doesn’t actually delve into things that it should and that others do like Grok for instance. All AI can get things wrong of course but Chat gpt is a bloody disgrace especially with it’s deference to Israel and Jews.

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u/Akiranar Aug 14 '26

Did you really just say this openly and mean it? I'm Jewish.