25 Modern Day Folk Heroes We Want To Know

A common misconception about folk heroes is that they have to be good people. Generally, you’ll see people questioning if we should call a criminal a folk hero at all. This is a misunderstanding. Modern folk heroes come in all packages, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Folk heroes are merely people who have tapped into the social consciousness, garnering newspaper headlines because of something they’ve done whether good or bad. Most of the time folk heroes are everyday people with little to no power but somehow upset the system or take matters into their own hands. Their actions only make us more curious about who they are. Want to see who made our list? Here are 25 Modern Day Folk Heroes We Want To Know.

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