Television has never been the same since the advent of the internet. It may be weird to consider now, but a decade ago, there weren't services such as Netflix or Amazon Prime around to cater to our binge-watching needs, nor were we able to stream absolutely everything straight to our laptops, iPhones or iPads. As such, shows such as Orange is the New Black and
have amassed a legion of fans, who greatly appreciate the fact that entire seasons can be consumed in a single weekend.
And yeah, I guess you can say that us Millennials are
incredibly
impatient, but personally, I think that some shows are just
so
good that you can't help but watch the entire thing... in record time. Certainly, it seems that the entire world has spent the past weekend watching all nine episodes of the heavily anticipated second season of
.
The television show, which debuted last year took the world by storm with its quirky sci-fi premise and blatant homage to the eighties. And as such, the young stars of the Netflix production quickly saw themselves catapulted into the limelight. But life isn't always peachy keen when you're knocking shoulders with the rich and famous. Indeed, Finn Wolfhard, (aka. Mike) found himself needing to speak out about some undue attention that he and his fellow actors have been receiving since the second season premiered...
It's safe to say that Finn Wolfhard and his co-stars have had their careers made from starring in Stranger Things. However, it's apparently become a bit much. After several rather aggressive run-ins between the young cast and the public, Finn Wolfhard, has decided that enough is enough. He took to Twitter to urge the die-hard Stranger Things fandom to lay off on the harassment.
Writing on his personal Twitter account, Wolfhard said:
"Hey everybody! I don't wanna ex-communicate anyone from this fandom, but if you are for real you will not harass my friends, or co-workers. Ya'll know who you are."
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"Why I even have to tweet that, I don't know. Anyone who calls themselves a "fan" and actively goes after someone for literally acting and doing their job is ridiculous. Think b4 ya type boiiii"
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Naturally, fans of the hit television show were horrified by the news that the young actors were receiving any abuse at all. One Twitter user replied "You’re doing ur job and making us happy by filming all of these shows/movies, and what do some people do back? harass/attack you guys. Not okay! people need to understand that you guys are jet-lagged and have hours of press. Which requires you to be able to have breaks too!". And other corroborated "The fact that a child has to say this to grown-ass adults is wild".
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Wolfhard's tweet comes after reports that the 14-year-old was subjected to some rather inappropriate comments from model, Ali Michael. The 27-year-old model shared a picture of the child actor on her Instagram story saying "Not to be weird but hit me up in 4 years". The post, which was shared to Michael's 245 thousand followers naturally incited a backlash, with commentators saying that she was sexualising Wolfhard, who is currently underage.
