I am by nature sometimes an angry, complaining, little brat. I am aware of this and so I try to rise above it. I fail several times a week at this task but I truly do not wish harm on anyone other than the regular earwig that now stalks me in my home (another story, another blog et vlog). Anyway I was doing my daily narcissism check on YouTube when I stumbled across today’s Featured video: Introducing NEW YouTube Mobile!
YouTube has a new and improved mobile site for your cell phone, cool, and I thought I’d watch this guy’s review. It was a fine review and very informative. Now per usual YouTube commentators you have the cyber bullies leaving stupid comments like “Is this guy gay?” “You’re video is gay” “Stop shaking the phone fagot” and so on. If you know me I get really dramatic and angry when this happens to my videos! Now this lucky guy who gets featured on YouTube is subject to the same garbage. What is it in our nature that we feel that we can just be so evil to anybody? YouTube is an amazing place where you can share and express your creativity to the fullest and sadly it is also the place where people go to be bullies! And there is no other word for it!
These bullies rule the world with their negativity from comments like “this is so gay” to “you suck” and my favorite “Dude, you have too much time on your hands.” Let’s be frank that if you took the time to Google their user names you will find a trail of negative comments showcasing that they are doing this to a lot of other YouTube users. Anonymity is the YouTube Bully’s best friend and it gives them this power to do and say whatever they want online.
In one instance, I bullied the bullier a few years ago. He had left negative comments about my video and so I look him up, found his trail, dedicated a website to him, and sent all his harassed users this website where they could express how they felt. I was into Heath Ledger’s Joker and felt like Robin Hood stealing from the rich and giving to the poor using his same tactics against him. Later the video was taken down by Warner Brother’s but all in all I did not feel better about the situation. I bullied the bullier thus becoming the thing I hate.
Now back to this video Introducing NEW YouTube Mobile!. I was pretty upset with the outcome of many users writing nasty things to this nice guy and figured this time instead of making a big scene I’d just write the person being bullied. In the letter I pretty much said that his video was good and I liked it and it didn’t matter to me if he was “straight, gay, or an alien.” I sent this guy a letter of encouragement because in truth when I get attacked that’s all I want is one person to say, “I liked your video.” Everyone deserves a chance to hear that.
Here’s the final word to those YouTube bullies who enjoy their anonymity a little too much. You call us “gay” and you tell us how much we “suck” and how we have too much time on our hands. Well in about 10 minutes I can find your YouTube history and count the 30 videos you watched today. And it seems to me that you, dude, have too much time on your hands!
Touché, touché, sashay, away!
Dedicated to TheWillofDC
