Internet Trolls Are Obsessed With Hating Meghan Markle, And It Actually Reveals More About Them Than Her

Saint Meghan Markle posters share memes, parody videos and even point out Game of Thrones levels of production blunders in Meghan’s show — like an accidentally exposed bag of popcorn from Whole Foods while Meghan shows viewers how to pop corn straight off a cob via a paper bag. It’s hard not to get their point when the bagged kernels are right there. 

Commenters descended on the popcorn post, one Reddit account writing, “As Ever, a phony” (a play on Meghan’s latest business venture “as Ever,” which includes her now-famous “flower sprinkles” and offerings of her teas and preserves), while another added, “Damn, imagine being so unlikable that producers won’t even cover for you. ” 

One commenter quipped, “Knowing of her devious and manipulative behavior in the past, I would not hesitate to believe she did ” 

A poster from the anti-Meghan subreddit shared Youtuber Leilani of Barbados’ review of the show, calling With Love, Meghan a “fantasy about herself” and saying that Markle should “stop with the victim narrative.”

That said, Leilani’s videos show an awareness and sense of humor that are lacking in With Love, Meghan. Puns abound from Meghan, but would her critics relent if she was more in on the joke?

Where is the ire coming from?

First, keep this in mind: Psychologist Elizabeth Hines believes the online trolling reveals more about Meghan’s critics than about her.

“Public figures, especially women, function as representations of our individual beliefs and experiences along with our personal biases,” Hines explained. “Because Meghan Markle confronts conventional beliefs about race, gender roles and power dynamics, she inspires admiration from some individuals yet makes others feel threatened.” 

Hines added, “When we judge public figures, it often reveals our personal fears and insecurities along with areas that need our growth.”

However, there are some valid reasons viewers may feel triggered by her persona at this particular time in 2025. Meghan gushes over the fresh eggs from her personal chicken coop in several episodes while grocery bills across the country continue to climb. The Marie Antoinette comparisons were inevitable, especially when the cost of eggs is cracking an already-fragile economy.

And it’s not just the eggs; it’s the fruit platters and crudité plate after crudité plate. One glaring issue critics point out is the insulated privilege of the show. 

In the second episode, Meghan arranges berries for a made-up children’s party with her celebrity friend Mindy Kaling. It’s an abundant display of kiwis, raspberries, bananas and more, shaped into a rainbow that can’t help but sting when grocery prices are soaring. She’s trying to convince her friend to skip hiring party planners and infuse a bit of personal touch into a child’s birthday. It’s sweet, but for some parents, unrelatable. 

Meghan, ever gorgeous, is dressed in both high and low price points: Her pants are from Zara, but her sweater is from Loro Piana. Unfortunately for Meghan, if you’re wearing pants from Zara but a crewneck sweater from Loro Piana retailing at $1,825, one doesn’t cancel the other out. The wealth disparity, coupled with the price of raspberries, is jarring for most average households right now. 

A commenter from a Yahoo Life article wrote, “She really has no clue. Look at me in my expensive clothes cooking with famous people! So obnoxious. Does she think the designers will throw her a bone for announcing that? Everything about her is to put on airs. Normal people cooking would wear sneakers, jeans and a t-shirt under their apron.”

Yet even if the present economic woes of most Americans make her show feel out of place, Meghan describes herself at one point on the show as a “latchkey” kid with divorced parents.

What irks some people isn’t that she’s inauthentic or seems disconnected, but that she’s a Black woman who is living a comfortable and relaxed life. Markle continues to face both clear or more subtle displays of racism because her critics can’t force her into a stereotype or life they think she should have. 

The Daily Mail originally shared a post about Markle with the headline “(Almost) Straight Out of Compton” in 2016 — and while the comment section is filled with people defending her, there are also racist remarks, such as someone referring to her as the “Black Peppa.”

A slew of racist headlines led up to the royal wedding in 2018, ranging from a British reporter referring to Meghan’s DNA as “exotic” to TikToks and online posts pitting Meghan and Catherine, Princess of Wales against one another. Attempting to claim that one of these women is more aligned with the British royal family than the other displays subtle but clear racism.

A commenter on an ITV News post on TikTok apparently saw Meghan as a downgrade for the British monarchy, writing of her new Netflix show: “This is what the Royal family has been reduced to — a cheap, tawdry, merching fake show. What a joke!”

And other TikToks attempting to catch Meghan in “lies” really just show a group of people unable to comprehend a woman who has grown up with varying experiences. She could have eaten fast food as a child and have benefitted from more organic options in her home state of California. They’re looking for cracks in her character because seeing her as something other than what they narrowly comprehend a woman should be, particularly a Black woman, is uncomfortable for some of her critics.

Meghan seems to kick up a paradox of conflicting identities that her fans, critics and viewers of the show struggle to defend or attack. Is she a determined LA girl who loved learning how to compost in high school and made it big, or a narcissistic, nefarious plotter holding “H” (Prince Harry) hostage? The idea that a type-A rich hippie with an aversion to shoes (Meghan’s frequently barefoot throughout the show) is a Machiavellian mastermind aiming to bring down the royal family seems unlikely. You would think the centuries of colonialism would have put people off the monarchy, not someone who geeks out over the shape of egg yolks.

If anything, the worst thing you can say about Meghan’s show is that it’s a little dull — and again, the timing makes picking on the duchess a little too easy.