Most Hated People of 2015: Martin Shkreli, Walter Palmer, Kim Davis & More People Who Were Reviled On Social Media [PHOTO]
2015 was certainly a year full of online outrage against people who committed a variety of deemed crimes-both celebrities and those who received 15 minutes of infamy due to the things they had done.
While the celebrities who were often left angering others are still talked about, the others who inspired much hate among the public may have been mostly forgotten by now-but the reasons people hated them will never be forgotten.
Here's our list of nine people everyone loved to hate in 2015:
Jared Fogle
The former Subway spokesman was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison in November after being arrested following a raid on his home in July. He was charged and convicted for possession of over 400 videos of child pornography, as well as for having sex with minors. Needless to say, people no longer cared for the pitchman after the truth came out.
Martin Shkreli
The "pharma bro" was easily the most hated non-celebrity of the year after a series of news making decisions. First, he raised the price of Daraprim, a drug used by AIDS patients, from $50 to $750/ pill in September, and defended his decision as his needing to "make money." He also angered some with his often troll-like tweets, as well as his buying the sole $2 million copy of Wu-Tang's special edition album and lording it over others. However, the internet felt justice was served when he was arrested on December 17 for securities fraud.
Bill Cosby
The former Dr. Huxtable's troubles began in late 2014 when several women came forward with allegations he had drugged and sexually assaulted or raped them over the last few decades. The case only widened in 2015 with more accusations, and the eventual surfacing of a deposition where the actor admitted he had used Quaaludes to drug women and have sex with them. He was officially charged with three counts of sexual assault and arraigned on Dec. 30.
Dr. Walter Palmer
The Minnesota Dentist became one of the most detested human beings in the U.S. after he was revealed to have paid $50,000 to lure famous lion Cecil out of his protected sanctuary, injure him, track him, and eventually kill him to skin him and decapitate him for sport. The vitriol against him was so intense that he was forced to close his practice for several months, and he still has a large number of one-star reviews on Yelp as a result.
Josh Duggar
The reality star and eldest son of 19 Kids and Counting's Jim Bob and Michelle single-handedly managed to bring down his family's successful empire and get their show canceled after reports surfaced that he molested five underage girls-including four of his sisters--about a decade ago. A few months later, he was revealed to be one of the users on the extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison, and was also sued by a porn star who claimed he got too rough and assaulted her during consensual sex. He did it all while famously epousing his family's Christian values.
Kim Davis
Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who inspired hate against her after she defied the law and refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because of her religious beliefs, spent six days in jail for defying rulings that stated she had to provide the licenses. Her office has since issued them without her signature and she is not allowed to interfere with the process of her clerks issuing them. What made her refusals more of a reason for Twitter to respond with anger though was the fact that she herself had been married four times.
Donald Trump
Sure, his lead in the polls proves he's managed to garner quite a bit of support which could land him the Republican nomination for President, but he's also managed to anger more than a fair share of the country as well with his comments made about Mexicans, Muslims, Women, and his reported mocking of a disabled reporter. Needless to say, those that didn't support him in the beginning, have only grown to detest him further.
Julia Cordray & Nicole McCullogh
The co-founders of an app that essentially provided as a "Yelp" for people-and didn't initially allow users to opt-out of being rated by others, met major criticism online, especially after Julia Cordray started deleting negative comments about the app and herself from pages linked to the app.
Rachel Dolezal
Dolezal inspired hatred after the truth about her past was dug up-and she was revealed to actually not be a black woman, and had created several stories detailing abise as a child, claiming her adopted black brother was actually her son, and detailing accounts where she suffered because of her race. However, after the truth came out that she was actually not black, she was forced to resign from her position as the head of the Seattle chapter of the NAACP.