A few weeks ago I posted a video of little girls saying “pig eyes” to strangers on the internet over their video-blogs. Recently, one of their ilk was bullied by a large group of internet “pranksters” (mainly 4Chan’s /b/ message board) and apparently her life was “ruined.” Basically what happened is the girl in question—fake-internet-name Jessi Slaughter—was a “total bitch” in a video she posted to Youtube. People from 4Chan saw that video and decided to retaliate by posting her real name, address, and telephone number all over the internet—which led to a series of prank phone calls, unwarranted pizza deliveries, and other mature gags of that nature. She responded with a (NSFW) video that is all-at-once funny, sad, confusing, and scary.
The whole story is pretty absurd and sad and weird and raises a lot of questions about the appropriateness of young-girl-video-blogs in general and the potentially harmful way the collective “trolls” of the internet respond. Gawker’s Adrian Chen explores these questions in his exposé on the Jessi Slaughter saga.
It’s funny that this post is two spots above a post from Steve making fun of a different little girl on youtube. That’s some good reporting, Lou.
THE CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!
Dad doesn’t know how computers and the internets work. They also don’t know how to not make bad situations worse. Idjits.
I can’t stop listening to the remix.
When I have kids, I plan on telling them that every asshole in the world is on the internet, and when some asshole shit goes down, ignore it, because it’s just a bunch of assholes stinking up the place. Maybe they will avoid putting anything online that they don’t want to end up smelling like shit.
@ eldepeche, you could get a jump on things by naming your kids “Butt” & “Poop.”
internet commenter graham pointed out irony on the portland mercury blog.
-relevant cat meme photo-
just because she’s a little girl doesn’t mean she doesn’t have to deal with trolling when she acts like a total bitch on youtube.
I lolled all day yesterday when this was going down.
I have to agree with Eirick… watching the sobbing, “You dun goofed up” video first made me think, “Aww, intertubes… look what you did!” However, I then watched her initial video and thought, “Oh. Alright, then.”
Ebaums did it, obvs.
So Dad knows all about the cyberpolice and backtracing, but he doesn’t know that computers can be turned off? Unfortunately, I suspect the type of parents who really need to catch wind of all this are probably the type least likely to be paying attention.
The absolute worst thing she could’ve done is post that video, because that’s exactly what they were hoping for.
Sure seems to me like she’s reveling in the attention, even in this video. “Someone noticed me!”
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