Caleb McLaughlin talks the hate he got for Stranger Things and being the least liked by fans

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https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/...ence-racism-stranger-things/story?id=90601065

“Stranger Things” star Caleb McLaughlin is opening up about racism he said he experienced from some of the show’s fans.

“At my first Comic Con, some people didn’t stand in my line because I was Black,” McLaughlin said in a video filmed by an audience member. “Some people told me, like, ‘Oh, I didn’t want to be in your line because you were mean to Eleven. Even now, some people don’t support me because I’m Black, you know?”


When he would question why fans saw him as the least favorite character on the show, his parents pointed out the “sad reality” of the situation and said it was because he was the “Black child on the show.”

Well this explains why he was FINALLY given a solo book this summer to ZERO promotion (I found out by accident while looking for another book).

 

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https://www.insider.com/stranger-things-caleb-mclaughlin-racism-fandom-2022-9

McLaughlin said that racism affected him "a lot" as a child, and he wondered why he had the least amount of social-media followers out of his castmates and wasn't as favored by the fandom despite the fact that he had been on "the same show as everybody from season one."

Same story for almost every single black boy that is on a show like this.

They have the least of everything versus the others.