10 People Who Went Viral for All the Wrong Reasons

Famous or infamous? We'll let you decide. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re looking at notorious times people were turned them into internet celebrities, but not for the pure reasons they likely dreamed of. Our countdown of people who went viral for all the wrong reasons includes Dan Bilzerian, Hawk Tuah Girl, Logan Paul, and more! What other cases did we miss? AP Dhillon smashing his guitar at Coachella? The Kylie Kakes chaos? Trevor Jacob’s plane stunt? Or something else? Let us know below!
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[@CJLX805]

I didn't see number one coming lol

[@user-vl8xk3lg3f]

So reasonable criticisms of diversity hire makes someone ALT RIGHT, MISOGYNISTIC, RACIST. TROLL?

[@BeyondersTheGreatAlmighty-u6o]

Hawk tuah girl combine with the suddenly identical scene in The Boys Season 4 make me extremely feel vomit. 😷😷😷😷😷😷

[@panteral3]

Of course you take the anti GG side with zero consideration for actual facts. As brainless media shills at least you didn't fail to disappoint in your pathetic partisan ignorance.

[@jonnym4670]

how dare fans want the products they buy to be made for them

[@northleedspoppa]

In defence of hawk tuah,kim Kardashian got famous for doing it badly On no planet was that a two hander

[@vanessastegall]

Kim got famous off of a sex tape.

[@jerbsherb4391]

To be fair, she is actually a funny person. She has a great personality, even though she is known for that.

[@frosty287nab]

​@@jerbsherb4391please tell me you didn't just say Kim is a funny person!? 😂 Go watch the Tom Brady roast and I'm sure you'll change your mind

[@apv5774]

​@frosty287nab I think they meant Hawk Tua girl

[@edwardramos2691]

@northleedspoppa No lies detected…

[@MootEndymion752]

You know society is doomed when doing something dumb and dangerous gets you viral, but doing good and safe things is unpopular and considered cringe or boring.

[@feraltaco4783]

Plus, these people commit felonies for views. And, apparently, that's okay.

[@grandreefer]

Lol. Society is only doomed if we judge all of it on simple internet trends. You should really get out more.

[@PapaJeff58]

Being 66 years old I can say this. The world was a much better place before all this social media crap started.

[@Shebeast3]

🎉👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@zyanycto]

This really started with the kartrashians.

[@ChillPlanet88]

I call bullshit it’s always been like this in some way we just have a front seat to it now course of social media

[@2012svk]

Being 30 years old I totally agree. Social media killed interaction between people. Now instead of communicating with each other everybody is staring to their phones

[@McGoogger]

im only 23 and I agree.

[@PricefieldPunk]

Seeing Hawk Tuah girl getting to met celebrities and making all this money off nothing just makes me want the world to end already

[@GalvatronStudios]

Meanwhile, people who have actual talent and practically drain all of their resources just to get some kind of recognition get absolutely nothing. It's truly sickening how far our world has fallen.

[@GalvatronStudios]

@@lateksipumppu you know not everybody cares about politics right? Lmao

[@gamersplaygroundliquidm3th526]

@@lateksipumppu Yeah not all ppl care about the BS political propaganda...

[@combatcarl]

If by famous people you're referring to Zach Bryan, Hawk tuah girl is his girlfriend. They already were a thing before she became a meme.

[@TheGhostofMrArthurs]

you just mad some chick publicly talking about how she sucks a dick, is getting her paid, meanwhile all the ones you sucked wont even get you a callback

[@GalvatronStudios]

Hawk Tuah girl just proves how overshadowed talented people are compared to people like her.

[@Gurra88]

I like how the simps call you "jealous" for not liking her. I don't mind successful people but I'd appreciate it if their fame comes from actual talent.

[@ItsJr]

Sad as it is, Hawk Tuah girl goes to show that no matter how much you try, someone will always be more successful than you just because.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Hawk Tuah Girl is getting a Reality Show...Humanity we can do better than this.

[@apv5774]

Are you serious?

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

@@apv5774 Unfortunately Yes...she is getting a Reality Show.

[@ZenKnights]

At this point, i dont know how the world really works

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

@@ZenKnights Act or do something stupid...Get Famous.

[@slowanddeliberate6893]

We as a society are getting dumber and dumber...

[@AndersonTenecela]

Seeing Hawk Tuah girl trending is prove that society is doomed the fact someone like her can get famous so quickly

[@legitdragon6202]

Yep our priorities are so f'd up

[@mrnobody2683]

We need help

[@nicholascooke5263]

Couldn’t agree more!

[@Ironmonk036]

That “ Hawk Tuu” was a teacher in TN who got fired, she didn’t quit her job. Man, please do your research.

[@TheMePercent]

We’re definitely doomed.

[@JGrath029]

Good thing we have WatchMojo covering all these viral people and making them more viral 👌

[@msbigredmachine]

You’re right, you know. I’m kinda ashamed to be here watching lol.

[@audreym3908]

I'm just curious as to HOW someone got "famous" for doing *checks notes* being filmed for saying/doing nothing.

[@yaha5081]

This way I don't give them views tho

[@WatchMojo]

[@kevindagame]

Famous for no reason. Sad, you can make millions just for doing dumb shit

[@Phanthief95]

The only one I accept is Mason Ramsey (the Wal-Mart yodeling kid). He has a thriving music career & he deserves it because of his talent.

[@jlhflex]

What's even sadder is that so many people follow these type of people and make them famous! Can't be famous without millions of idiots following them. That It's truly what's scary. Goes to show you that our society more dumb people than smart people

[@xavierprz]

I bet you would love those millions. 😂

[@SPAnComCat]

What about making Money from Content Farms Featuring Celebrities that are Complete Brain-Rot? *[Sarcasm]*

[@kevindagame]

@@xavierprz sure I would. But I’m doing ok and don’t want to be famous

[@tbecker97204]

You should include *"Rachel Dolezal"* the White woman who "pretended" to be Black and was President of the Spokane, WA chapter of NAACP.

[@cameronhermann9400]

WTF?

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

Logan Paul’s visit to that Japanese forest shouldn’t have gone viral.

[@Spawnwick_Boseman82820]

He brought that on himself, 🖕🏿 Logan Paul

[@ScarysReviews]

and he NEVER should have been given chances in boxing or wwe.

[@TheGhostofMrArthurs]

@@ScarysReviews dude fucking crushes it in WWE though. perfect heel, and very VERY good in the ring, considering no training

[@GalvatronStudios]

@@Jeremiah_Rivers76 everyone on this list shouldn’t have gone viral. There are so many people with real skills and talent and yet they’re shunned because someone like Hawk Tuah girl exists and somehow it's better. It truly boggles my mind how our world thinks. 20+ years ago stuff like this would’ve been forgotten about in 24 hours.

[@amonrodriguez3518]

Ya that dude is pathetic. Paul is a horrible human being

[@Aivottaja]

How is Logan Paul not serving time? He's a financial criminal.

[@SPAnComCat]

*EXACTLY!!!*

[@snarkxmaiden]

No, he's just a criminal. His scams aren't his first crimes.

[@SPAnComCat]

@@snarkxmaiden Yes, and it ONLY makes it Worse!

[@tylergoodman3560]

Remember: Not all attention is good. 💯🎉

[@frosty287nab]

All publicity is good publicity! It doesn't matter if people are talking bad about you they are still talking about you and in this country at this time that's what makes money Edit: Not saying that the ways these people got famous are ok by any means I'm just pointing out the facts of the country we live in

[@letitbeknown8126]

Me: "Sorry, i did something really stupid." Social Media: " WAIT!!! DO IT AGAIN AND LET US CATCH IT ON CAMERA!!! YOU'LL BE FAMOUS AND MAKE MILLIONS!!!"

[@MrQ12elve]

reminds me of when 'bart simpson' said 'i didn't do it' and became a celebrity hahaha

[@ck-1649]

That means people on the internet are dumber than you are if you think about

[@CrimsonNineTail]

We have truly fallen as a species.

[@DragonKing-jz7pn]

For 13 minutes, iv been asking "Who tf is this?"

[@cakeisavegatable]

Thanos was right…

[@MrQ12elve]

he was right, but flawed he zapped some good ones and missed some bad ones hahaaha

[@RubyJones-zj4fu]

Hay I love here too and we have morals and think it's a crazy train but we are happy in our cabin on the woods far away from the crazy . Well as much as possible 😅

[@gamleskalle1]

Yep

[@Areniapixie]

I can’t wait for the day we stop making stupid people famous 🤞🏻

[@chrismeulen8108]

never gonna happen.......

[@MrQ12elve]

they have to get rid of social media entirely for that to happen, and like the person before me said its never gonna happen

[@IFever_]

So Hawk Tuah and How bout dat, became famous, for what? 1 was drunk the other is a chav. No skills, no inspirations etc. Society is fucked, if we actually think these people deserve that attention

[@magicmatt8130]

Hawk tuah girl doing a podcast it should be called, let me hawk tuah ya 😂😂😂😂😂

[@MrQ12elve]

that has 2 meanings hahahahahaa

[@Lazyseq]

You need to join her market team 😂😂😂

[@Shebeast3]

😂😂😂😂

[@luke_1234]

Hawk Tuah girl and her friend nobody cares about

[@AKking27]

Clearly ppl Do otherwise she would not be famous

[@jlhflex]

Wait she had someone with her?? 😂😂

[@AroonYousufi]

I read The Hawk tuah girl was paid $15K just to make few minutes appearance at some club... I have lost my hope in Humanity at this point!

[@jp3813]

People are really acting as if this is the first WatchMojo video to cover the subject becoming famous for dumb reasons instead of being like the 5th iteration that started nearly a decade ago. Society has been supposedly "doomed" for 10 years now.

[@CJLX805]

I knew Hawk Tuah would be on here lol....

[@legitdragon6202]

Proof that as a society, our priorities are f*** ed 😂

[@jasondavis2995]

What gave it away😂

[@braceletboi01]

@@jasondavis2995The thumbnail obvs☠️

[@CJLX805]

​@@legitdragon6202I know

[@etr-bw8us]

I knew this video would show 10 people who went viral for all the wrong reasons…

[@jamesbooth-qx2yx]

That dude London is Eff'd up!!

[@EjaygamZ]

Bahd babbie got caught outside and laid out 😂

[@user-jg6pi2si8v]

No talent hacks get all the attention while people struggle to get by it’s time that people got real and shunned all the show offs

[@hhova29]

That hawk tuah girl is portraying herself as a “sweet humble girl,” while her so called cousin was on here and instagram claiming the family was distraught trying to put it all past them, and notice the common bs, trying to capitalize from stupidity. This world is truly sad.

[@IamACanadian47]

All of this crap has one thing in common, it came from America 🤦‍♂️

[@spiceupyourlife7755]

Here we go 🙄

[@gfear24]

soooo, all the Brits on this video are, American? Also, Nicole Arbour is a Canadian. Half of this list is people who are NOT American. FFS

[@britaeirikr8609]

Is Bhad Baby in black face?

[@CXP3D]

People literally killed themselves in that forest, and Logan had the audacity to film a dead body of someone who died by their own hand. How can that make you famous, like it’s not funny or cool or anything.

[@mini696]

Hawk Tuah Girl is proof Satan walks amongst us.

[@D_Lassiter]

No, my Grandma returned home after what would've been my Father’s 80th birthday. Don't mention her again, you've been warned

[@Arctic-void-z7f]

Didn’t Nicole also abuse her ex boyfriend Mathew Santorino

[@ScarysReviews]

yes

[@docgiggles130]

She was abusive both verbally and physically. She claims her video was comedy, but she is so rotten that I don't believe any part of it was a joke when she made it.

[@jonathanwaddell2716]

I've only heard of the top 3 the Hawk tuah girl the catch me outside girl and the blonde fairy dude. Hawk tuah is still at the point of this video less then a month old. Its crazy how big it is.

[@khoehl1525]

What the hell is a Hawk Tuah?

[@dertruppenfuhrerdesletzten1020]

Spit on dat ting

[@khoehl1525]

@@dertruppenfuhrerdesletzten1020 Ok mean a bj?

[@dertruppenfuhrerdesletzten1020]

@@khoehl1525 just search it

[@chrismeulen8108]

@@khoehl1525 are you too dumb to google?

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Spitting on someone junk.

[@billymiles6870]

The Cash Me Outside Girl told Phil that nobody knew how he was until she went on his show. Bish nobody knew who YOU were until you went on PHIL"S show.

[@amonrodriguez3518]

Wtf

[@zanethind]

Hawk Tuah girl proves how far society has come to fall for just a piece of fame and how anything now can be used for fame. You really can get rich by anything. She is definitely the perfect lady for this video

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

4:46 The Literal definition of Throwing Everyone under the bus.

[@randomreviews4278]

Who are all of these people

[@cybercop3108]

It literally says on the thumbnail that they are viral people.

[@randomreviews4278]

@cybercop3108 never heard till I watched this video

[@cybercop3108]

@@randomreviews4278 skill issue

[@UCONN_HUSKIES]

They're all your family members.

[@GalvatronStudios]

People who got famous by doing literally nothing while having zero talents whereas people who have actual talent and do everything they can to even get some sliver of recognition get absolutely nothing

[@jlhflex]

9:24 Really tells me our society is getting dumber and dumber. If you're familiar with the movie Idiocracy. THIS is it!!!!!

[@Bdear1]

The comics absolutely have always followed life at the time, & the issues going on. Even using them to fight world badies, some who would maybe get along w/the grp, & fighting the heroes.

[@sarahserenityqueen117]

I finally understand what hawk tuah is and I'm about to puke

[@chrismeulen8108]

knowing that spitting on a dick exists, makes you puke?

[@TheGhostofMrArthurs]

WatchMojo - "QUICK! Figure out a topic where we can capitalize on the Hawk Tua girl!!"

[@ASirensFlame]

Thanos needs to keep snapping

[@pearlsaremybestfriend]

Badd baby really didn't lie. After that showing , Phils Show was trying really hard to get noticed w young ppl. After she came on and blew up he did receive more attention .

[@danielmitchell6940]

Whats worse is the people that made her viral and rich. No talent.

[@spiceupyourlife7755]

No one knew who she was until she got on his show

[@donaldbermudez7771]

Why does the wannabe Korean dude look like Kristen Wiig lol

[@chrismeulen8108]

this video should have been called "people who went viral for the dumbest reasons"

[@onlychild8784]

Hawk tuh girl really made me made because you got people out here with real extremely creative talent but some chick say one dumb thing now she's making millions while the talented people can't even get some on the street to stop and hear them out

[@Prkwon]

Lady with the religious views...you do speak for the rest of us. We have bad PR as it is.

[@zanethind]

For a 16 year old Courtney looks like they got so much plastic surgery done and no way do they look like 16. They look damn 34. Oli London proves how a full circle moment can happen since they wanted to look like Korean and Koreans want to look white

[@MatthewKarns123]

All of this makes me glad that I am older and do not waste my time following "pop culture". The collective intelligence of the general populous is that of an extremely brilliant goldfish.

[@stevencooke6451]

I stopped watching his video very quickly.

[@jacobdrolet4262]

Amazing video Rebecca from watch mojo of people that went viral the wrong way and shouldn’t get famous for it too,fantastic job.

[@BlenderStudy]

Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! The world is turning weirder each day. @.@

[@davidmatheny1993]

I have two friends who had a silly picture from a wedding go viral on Reddit back in like 2016. It likely would not have blown up if not for the war in the common section started by insecure men who played the "she's way out of his league" card. A bunch of strangers and some friends kindly called that out, and they started getting calls for interviews from local TV stations, CNN, and even a German TV crew came to Georgia to interview them. They have been happily married since 2017, and they lead a campus ministry at UGA.

[@Shebeast3]

wowsa

[@Deathfacesmiles]

Just goes to show you can make the world a worse place to live in and you can get away with it. All these people are horrible and should be locked away.

[@demiopeseitan6965]

For some people, any publicity is good publicity.

[@SPAnComCat]

UnFortunately so...

[@darteaga1785]

You forgot the OG: light saber kid. I’m pretty sure he became a lawyer that focuses on cyber bullying cases.

[@nv4699]

I thought he quit school

[@jeremywilliams5141]

Dishonorable mention: Jennifer Schulte aka BBQ Becky

[@SirsasthNigam.]

0:46 the Boys ' politics are better satire than her and CinemaSins

[@icetruckthrilla]

i dont get the whole hawk tuah thing; some KZbin channel trying to get attention for itself asked a sexual question on the street in a city late at night to someone who was out having fun possibly drinking and she probably tried to have fun with it

[@joshuariccio9754]

Of course Woke Mojo would call comicsgate an "Alt Right Conspiracy" while ignoring the fact that all these woke comics are FAILING because their not interesting

[@samoftheiam5441]

Stop

[@Pretty_flacko866]

They really gon give hawk tuak girl a reality show

[@mikeawesome9212]

You missed watchmojo. How you guys have gone viral for posting dumb videos that are loaded with BS 9 times out of 10.

[@robbyrd117]

Hailey Welch should not be on this list. Her "hawk tuah" response was said as a joke. While she wasn't entirely incorrect, she mostly said bc she (correctly) thought it was funny. She's since started a production company, copyrighted that phrase, and is beginning a standup career. I believe she can hit it big, and hope she does!

[@OFT49]

I remember the howbowdah, saying that almost all year

[@bardock00n25]

Hawk tuah being hated, but KIM didnt make the list as #1 , crazyyyyy

[@markabele8794]

I've never heard of these people and I'm not sorry I didn't see anything they made.

[@scottk8244]

Nicole Arbour is not a comedian

[@Desmondm35]

"You can tell a lot about a society by who they make famous." Can we promote more classy things and people instead of women sexualizing themselves

[@gfear24]

If you look though the history of comedians, the ones who have lasted the longest, at the ones who use their comedy to punch up. The ones who only use it to punch down tend to fizzle out in just a couple of years. Perfect example of that is Nicole Arbour.

[@nodnarbleahcim5097]

For all of us on here complaining about why these people are famous, we're just as complicit for enabling it because we're talking about them.

[@kramerolp]

Chick Filet Girl

[@Swordtee40]

I legit forgot about Logan Paul getting famous for a stupid viral moment. But the Hawk Twah girl is right behind Logan Paul for me. They both did the extremely stupid and now they’re famous. WTF.

[@BombaclatXX]

Jack doherty fo sho has a place in this video..

[@RequiemDead]

I don't think "hawk tuah" was for a wrong reason at all...she didn't ask for it for the attention, it came naturally. She also does not give off clout chasing demon energy.

[@kaleighcoutermarsh4922]

Jimin is a global superstar. You could at least get his name right.

[@Kurasunoninki-sha]

wow. i forgot all about Nicole Arbor

[@SirsasthNigam.]

1-The Royal family perpetuates a society where people born with inferior DNA by random chance are forced into slavery 2-Black Bolt is given two-way communicator as writers forget the basic things about main character- If he talks , he emits sonic scream, so He trained himself to not speak and communicate with sign language , How would giving him two-way communicator work ? . **Even Echo writers knew throughout the series that Maya Lopez is deaf and Mute and communicates with Sign Language hence there is not a single scene that showed her with two way communicator unlike Black Bolt in Inhumans** 3-Medusa - absolute jerk to everyone around her except her family, making you feel sorry for everyone she meets on Earth and has no storyline 4- Maximus- seems more heroic and better protagonist than entire Royal family despite being **main antagonist of Inhumans** **The supposed bad guy overthrow a corrupt government to end slavery without spilling any blood. In what universe is Maximus not the hero of the story?** 5-Inhumans final episode You don’t care about anything happening We never see Attilan and its people **In a single episode , They use random plot twists out of nowhere to make Maximus, the only good person in Royal family, more evil than the Royal family who learned nothing from their time on Earth and are still racist idiots they were from Episode 1**

[@mkasppdo6463]

Hmm I’m so glad that I recognized just 2 people Social media SUCKS … glad I’m no longer on it anymore

[@mikep9312]

As innocent as it sounds for someone to "go to jail for life", it would be an absolute nightmare for the jail holding Dan there that long, it would be a massive human rights violation and an inquiry as to why an inmate serving over a year hasn't yet been transfered to a prison would surely arise, no prisoner in modern U.S history has been made to serve a life sentence in the confines of a county jail to date, there's a laundry list of laws and logistical reasons as to why lifelong offenders are moved to prison to serve out a life sentence, issues of healthcare access, occupancy constraints, cruel and unusual punishment, yada yada, but once again Harvey knows his stuff, people forget he's a lawyer!

[@Davidsenzacoloranti]

funny how you talk about hawk tuah as if it hadn't come up only about a couple of weeks ago.

[@chaseboy225]

Thank you for agreeing that Hailey Welch became famous for the wrong reason.

[@gamersplaygroundliquidm3th526]

I met a girl at a bar one night and we started dating a week later, about 3 days after that she was leaving my house one night and said ill call u after school tomorrow, I was like I didn't know u were going to college she said "no, I'm a senior in high school!!!! I was 28 she was 17 , I was so confused all her friends were in their mid 20's except one and I met her at the bar, I never thought in a million years she was illegal she was half a foot taller than me too so it just blew my mind/....

[@dannygonzales3331]

No publicity is bad publicity personified

[@bernardomello842]

Who’s Shakira O'Neal?

[@blondeofthedead]

Love Broken by Carol! ❤😂

[@cartoondude5384]

Sexy red should be on this list.

[@ScarysReviews]

many VIRAL vids are by idiocy, some, luck. others we ask WHY, HOW. and, if One wants to be viral, will they sacrifice everything by doing something stupid or have to do something even dumber to keep that momentum? a show and MERCH for hawk tuah!? desperate much!

[@pankajbhatt101]

Logan Paul famous way before that incident 😂😂😂😂 check your facts

[@Chasm65]

It's not a crime to be famous, but what do you want to be famous FOR?

[@headred76]

None of this is new, ‘fashion’ is the same - everyone wanting to wear what other, sometimes famous people wear. It’s mental!!

[@Sparkle1306]

You all act like ppl weren't famous for dumb things before the internet. This has been happening forever. I'm not mad at the hawk tuah girl. She is making the most at random opportunity.

[@amonrodriguez3518]

Didn’t catch me outside turn the into a rap career or OnlyFans or some bs. Still nothing to be proud of, but uh still getting money

[@eugenethomas1636]

I think both but rapper first, her phrase became a meme but not for long

[@amonrodriguez3518]

@@eugenethomas1636 ya true not for long lol.

[@Pretty_flacko866]

5:54 she's a Hero ❤❤❤ That's the right reasons

[@soulcrusher25]

"The internet is insane" No the internet is just dumb.

[@YouTubegirl20243]

TBH, that Hawk Tuah thing, isn't even that great, so she got famous/viral for basically making a spit sound 🙄 so what? 😐🤦‍♀

[@robboostph6689]

7:03 got punished for standing up for God's Law. That's just awful.

[@rhovenom04]

I dont see anything wrong with hawk tuah. She literally invented a word. Not ground breaking, sure. But in 10 or more years, people will still say that word tbh. She has a contribution to the society even if the word is not that even important. She gets famous and rich, sure. Why does it matter?