Yesterday, when browsing the web, I found a very interesting article published by GMA. A girl, whose online pseudonym is Jessi Slaughter, got bullied – on YouTube. I personally couldn’t believe this, so I started investigating the case.
Let me first start off by stating the obvious: I’ve been using YouTube for a long time. I know YouTube and how its users work. When you mess with YouTube – prepare to get messed with back. You simply don’t mess with YouTube without getting loads of hate comments back. That’s the way it works.
Even though the article made YouTube-users sound bad – they’re not. Believe it or not, but the average YouTube-user doesn’t do much online. It posts a few videos and spends the rest of the time commenting on other videos in the hopes of building up a large subscriber-base. Not a lot succeed with that though.
The thing about Jessi is that she doesn’t understand trolls. When they start hating on you, you don’t hate back. If you choose to do so – not only will you get hated back even more, but you may even become epic. That’s what happened in 11-year old Jessi’s case.
She started publishing YouTube-videos about how much sex she used to have with her boyfriend – and well, obviously, people reacted. When they started doing so, she didn’t shut up.
Instead, she started posting more videos where she kept talking to the people that had started bullying her. When that occured, some of the people started threatening her to death. Some even hacked her computer and her YouTube account.
That’s pretty low of someone to do if you ask me – hacking YouTube accounts. Getting your computer hacked today is so easy that I won’t even include it in my list.
Anyhow, I hope you’ve learned your lesson. If you ever post a video to YouTube – prepare to get hated on. It doesn’t matter what kind of video you upload or what you think of it. Once it gets uploaded – someone will hunt you down. And when that someone does so – simply ignore it. Why?
Well, if you don’t…
