#PinkSlipped: Careers Ruined by Social Media

Stars who couldn't survive the Twitterverse.

#PinkSlip - Twitter, Instagram and other social media platforms have been instrumental in helping stars reach wider audiences than ever before, and have even played a hand in creating stars from whole cloth. (Remember where Justin Bieber got his start?) But what the Internet giveth, the Internet can taketh away, and nobody knows that better than the following victims of online scandals. From Meek to Azealia, here are some celebs whose careers have been ruined by social media.(Photos from left: Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for Samsung, John Sciulli/Getty Images for Nasty Gal)
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Meek Mill - Deciding to step to Drake, whom he accused of not writing his own raps, turned out to be not the brightest move on the Philly MC's part. Despite Meek's attempt to expose the Toronto native as a fraud, Drake's retaliation was swift, ruthless and included not one but two diss tracks and endless memes that even had Will Smith laughing. To add insult to injury, one of the diss tracks — "Charged Up" — landed in the top three on the Billboard charts. The internet dragged Nicki's boo for days. That said, Meek's album Dreams Worth More Than Money certainly got a boost from the Feud of the Year, so maybe the joke is on us? Don't count him out just yet. Mr. Mill might have a comeback in him.(Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)Iggy Azalea originally planned on denying that she had any cosmetic surgery: - “I thought I would deny it because everybody else I know denies it. It’s kind of a normal thing… I had a positive experience with it and I think it was obvious… It’s lame to deny something so obvious."(Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for NARAS)

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#PinkSlip - Twitter, Instagram and other social media platforms have been instrumental in helping stars reach wider audiences than ever before, and have even played a hand in creating stars from whole cloth. (Remember where Justin Bieber got his start?) But what the Internet giveth, the Internet can taketh away, and nobody knows that better than the following victims of online scandals. From Meek to Azealia, here are some celebs whose careers have been ruined by social media.(Photos from left: Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for Samsung, John Sciulli/Getty Images for Nasty Gal)

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