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The Ghostbusters remake, starring Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Kate McKinnon, has been a target for "Ghostbros," fans of the original movie who made it a point to negatively rate the film and its trailers on websites like IMDb and YouTube.
Some of the messages Jones had received were shockingly racist and gave a sad feeling of what it's like to be a black woman on Twitter.
After tweeting several examples of hateful, racist comments she received on the social media platform, her account was hacked and used to publish homophobic messages.
She decided to quit Twitter altogether, saying she felt exhausted and numb from all the hate.
Her last series of tweets are below:
"I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart.All this cause I did a movie.You can hate the movie but the shit I got today...wrong.
"I don't know how to feel. I'm numb. Actually numb. I see the words and pics and videos. Videos y'all. Meaning people took time to sprew hate.
"It's so sad,most of these comments sound like they are from ignorant children. "I'm the source of AIDS?!" WTF!! These people hate themselves.
"You have to hate yourself to putout that type of hate. I mean on my worst day I can't think of this type of hate to put out.
"As much as you want to thinks actors ain't human I want to give you something to think about. I work off pure passion for this game.
"I'm more human and real than you fucking think.I work my ass off. I'm not different than any of you who has a dream to do what they love."
And then she signed off...
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