[dismantlethesun]

I feel it is hard to change you reputation so long as people remember your previous actions.

For most of human society, memory was constrained to the brain, which fuzzily remembers at best, and within mere years only can make summaries of past events.

Now with high quality video from phones, voice records, and text preserved in perpetuity, people can not only merely remember a person held inane ideas, but also see exactly what, when, and in which context they held those ideas.

So long as that's possible, it's easy for others to critique by saying "people can change, but X person said Y and that's beyond the event horizon for me".