Fact check: Did Millie Bobby Brown donate $1,000,000 to LGBTQIA+ community to help them ‘find a cure’? Here’s the truth
Millie Bobby Brown has become the talk of the town, not because of a new movie or a red carpet appearance, but because of a viral claim surfacing online that has taken her fans by surprise. Social media users have been sharing posts alleging that the Stranger Things actress has donated $1 million to LGBTQIA+ community to help them “find a cure”. Has she really said this? Here’s the truth.
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Millie Bobby Brown LGBTQIA+ donation viral claim
The claim surfaced after a tweet from @DropPopNet instantly went viral. The tweet read, “Actress Millie Bobby Brown donated $1,000,000 to the LGBTQIA+ community. ‘I hope they find a cure,’ the actress stated.” The same post has been tweeted from several accounts believing it to be true. A lot of people are outraged and others are asking if she really said this.
The truth behind ‘I hope they find a cure’ statement
The viral claim is false. The tweet from @DropPopNet is a satire mistaken to be true. The bio of the X account which has 47K followers reads, “Parody Pop Culture”. Hence, the claim that Millie Bobby Brown donated $1 million to the LGBTQIA+ community to help them “find a cure” is completely false.
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Millie Bobby Brown is known for her charitable and advocacy work. She has supported UNICEF, campaigns against bullying and mental health awareness causes.
The ‘Millie Bobby Brown is homophobic’ meme
This isn’t the first time that that the actress has been falsely attributed to fabricated quotes and homophobic statements to her. In 2017, users on X fabricated and circulated false quotes claiming that Brown said or did homophobic things. The meme involved X users adding fake anti-LGBTQIA+ captions to photos of Brown. What started as satirical trend soon became offensive. So much so, that the actress had deactivated her account amid massive trolling.
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In fact, Millie Bobby Brown is an ally to the LGBTQIA+ community. In a 2022 interview, speaking about LGBTQIA+ representation in Stranger Things, she was quoted as saying, “Can I just say, it’s 2022 and we don’t have to label things… So many kids out there don’t know, and that’s OK. That’s OK to not know. And that’s OK not to label things,” which shows her supportive stance towards young people exploring their identity.
