Him and Ahmed Best had targets painted on them after Star Wars fans blamed them for The Phantom Menace being poorly written. Ahmed was lucky to have been able to reach a point where he overcame thoughts of suicide from all the aggressive Jar Jar hatred and became better engrained within newer Star Wars properties.
Unfortunately, Jake Lloyd hasn’t had the same kind of bounce back, primarily because of his mental health battle. It sucks too because imagine how fucked up anyone would end up if they were a child who was made out to be the reason why a film in a beloved movie series was bad. And because of this, their classmates mocked/bullied them regularly while older strangers wished the worst on them. Even after his reckless driving arrest, floods of “now this is podracing” jokes were commonplace.