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The video is hilarious. That's a fact. He needed to have a sense of humor about himself, and it would take the sting of the attacks away. As long as you try to
by ebbv 13y ago
The video is hilarious. That's a fact.
He needed to have a sense of humor about himself, and it would take the sting of the attacks away. As long as you try to fight it and hold on to the belief that people are wrong to laugh at your hilarious video, then you're going to lose. Because you're wrong.
He chose to record himself acting like a jackass and then left the video laying around. Yeah, a lot of dickheads acted like dickheads in response. But that's going to happen in life. Rather than getting bent out of shape because some random stranger told you to kill yourself, take it for what it is; someone displacing their own self hatred on an easy target.
I was hoping this article would have him saying something like:
"On reflection, honestly, the video is hilarious. I can laugh at it now. It was embarrassing at the time, but I am glad people got joy out of it."
Oh well. Hopefully one day he'll grow as a person and find some self respect within himself rather than blaming others for his own lack of self esteem.
- richforrester 13y agoDid you read the part where he lost whatever friends he had? Not exactly something that would help you in life. I feel bad for the fella. Yes the video is hilarious, but he didn't "have it coming". Public embarrassment is not exactly something you dismiss that casually.
- taybin 13y agoHe was a teenager. Have a heart.
- swk99 13y agolol wow what a stupid comment. Go kill yourself you worthless cunt.
- srean 13y agoI was with you till you described him as "acting like a jackass" and started being judgemental. Downvoted.
- flatline 13y agoWhen I originally read about how much trouble it caused him, I was shocked at how bad the abuse was. I had seen the video and thought it was in more or less good fun -- it was cute. I, however, was an adult looking at this thing in a completely different social context than the kid in the video. Perhaps you, too, forget, or were never exposed to, the type of mob mentality that runs rampant through school-age kids forced into a structured institutional environment for 10+ hours a day. Random people on the internet got a laugh out of it. His schoolmates, on the other hand, used it as a source of cruel torment. Laughing it off generally does no good with school kids, unless you are already extremely popular. And if something like your weight makes you stand out, it's 1000x worse. There is almost certainly no better way he could have handled the situation - he was lucky that changing schools was enough to (apparently) stem the flow. It was a serious situation that was way out of control, not a matter of a few of your buddies giving your a hard time for doing something stupid.
- mratzloff 13y agoDo you think that perhaps the humiliation, shame, and complete social rejection by friends, peers, and strangers alike could make you lose your sense of humor about a stupid video you recorded when you were 14? When a teenager who is barely out of adolescence and is already picked on for his weight and nerdy interests gets hit by something like this it's basically a hydrogen bomb on whatever meager social acceptance he had accumulated up to that point. In other words, give the guy a break.
- alan_cx 13y agoI hope that one day you too will grow as a person, and regret that. Luckily for you, all you did was post words semi-anonymously, not a video that identifies you to your friends, peers and colleagues. You are unlikely to ever be held to account, congratulated or hated, personally, day to day, for your words. More over, today we know a lot more about the consequences of these things. They had no idea back then. Its wrong to apply today's standards tot he past.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoIf all 15 year olds were possessed of the monumental maturity, courage, and self-assurance necessary to exist in a world they cannot escape that treats them with contempt and hatred 5 days a week and merely let it roll off like water off a duck's back the world would be a very, very different place.