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re: Wait, so James Franco got #MeToo'd and cancelled for having consensual sex with adults???

Posted on 4/30/26 at 11:28 am to
Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 11:28 am to
My biggest reaction is with Rogen and Dave, even accounting for the DMs to the 17-year-old, I just found out about.

I never read much about this, only seeing headlines. After seeing this video and the posts in this thread, I read up on it.

My conclusion is that Franco did some weird stuff, but Rogen and Dave are pieces of shite for bailing on him like that.

He must have been cancelled right before the clock ran out. Because the TJ Miller and Aziz Ansari "metoo'ing" pretty much ended the movement for rational people.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 11:32 am to
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If they had a pattern of doing so? Yes.


Franco had messages with I think two 17 year olds. Never had sex with them and from the accounts we know, never had sex with an underage girl. Is messaging two girls a pattern?

You wouldn't try and talk with your brother or friend and try and help him in some way. Or at least try and talk some sense into him? Give some advice or something? People make mistakes.

This is not drop your flesh and blood worthy offense. They were clearly doing it so they didn't damage their career by association and let them take a moral high ground.
Posted by RohanGonzales
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 11:57 am to
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Put Russ and Donald in a locked room and the first one to quote an actual bible verse wins and gets to leave


TDS oozes everywhere
Posted by wesfau
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 12:01 pm to
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You wouldn't try and talk with your brother or friend and try and help him in some way. Or at least try and talk some sense into him? Give some advice or something?


Maybe they did?


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They were clearly doing it


Were they? I honestly missed that in the article, if so.
This post was edited on 4/30/26 at 12:11 pm
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 12:10 pm to
Doesn't sound like it.
Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 1:11 pm to
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Maybe they did?
according to James, neither did.
Posted by wesfau
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 2:38 pm to
Well, they're shite family and friends, then. Certainly an intervention of sort was called for.

Posted by iwyLSUiwy
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 2:46 pm to
I will say, despite Rogen being what seems like a pretty big douche, his newer comedy on Apple+, The Studio, is freaking hilarious. Well worth a watch.
Posted by JasonDBlaha
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 6:18 pm to
I can’t say that I’d blame Franco. He was rich and famous and living in LA during a time when social media was non-existent and college girls were much more open to getting aggressively hit on by random guys.

Say what you want about Franco, but you can’t deny that he’s an incredibly versatile actor and has a lot of charisma. Way more talented than Rogen by a mile.
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 6:28 pm to
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He was rich and famous and living in LA during a time when social media was non-existent



He ran the school from 2014 to 2017.



Posted by JasonDBlaha
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 6:35 pm to
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He ran the school from 2014 to 2017.


Social media culture in 2014-2017 was nothing like it is now
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 7:00 pm to
But you can't say it was non existent. Facebook was 10 yrs old by 2014. Twitter was 8.
Posted by JasonDBlaha
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 7:17 pm to
Yeah sure it existed then, but there was absolutely a difference between today's generation of college girls versus college girls in the early to mid 2010s. You can't deny that.
Posted by tide06
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 7:45 pm to
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As was Russel Brand... His was a combo of sleeping with young girls (legal age in the UK and the girls parents actually arranged it) and his conversion to being an in your face Christian.

They took him down because he went hard right and was an easy target having slept with nearly every attractive woman in Great Britain.
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:59 pm to
Ho's are ho's. There may be more but c'mon, we're talking wanna be actresses who are hot, needy and trying to impress their teacher.
Posted by drizztiger
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Posted on 5/1/26 at 6:44 am to
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They took him down because he went hard right


Yeah, that was it.
Posted by wesfau
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Posted on 5/1/26 at 8:36 am to
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They took him down because he went hard right


Think you got that backwards, hoss.
Posted by tide06
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Posted on 5/1/26 at 8:55 am to
Russell Brand was an avowed atheist liberal who is a self admitted sex addict.

He never had anything brought against him during me too even when he went libertarian during Covid over the shots.

Then he converted to Christianity, went right and all the sudden the accusations on cold cases start showing up from nowhere.

The timing and optics on it are just like the crazy woman who went after Trump for rape a couple years back.

Also side note, he lives down the road from me and after interacting with him a bit and seeing him around I don’t think he was acting at all for his role in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”. Like that’s just who he was/is, only now he’s Christian and right wing libertarian.
Posted by whatiknowsofar
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Posted on 5/1/26 at 9:01 am to
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His was a combo of sleeping with young girls (legal age in the UK and the girls parents actually arranged it) and his conversion to being an in your face Christian.


Lmfao
Posted by drizztiger
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Posted on 5/1/26 at 9:02 am to
Interesting take.
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