Samantha Brandbergh

A note to this article: since this has been published, there have since been 2 other internet “scandals” that have come to light. Austin Jones, a singer and Internet personality has allegedly sent young girls videos of him “teaching them how to twerk” and sending them messages on Facebook, as told by some of the recipients in videos on YouTube. More recently, a video, filmed by Viner Carter Reynolds has leaked online, showing he and his now ex-girlfriend talking, clearly intoxicated. In the video, he attempts to force his then-girlfriend, who is 16 years old, to perform oral sex on him, even though she stated she was uncomfortable with the situation. The video ends there, so what happened after is unknown. As always, these two young men still have people, mainly young girls, defending them for their actions. Why young girls still continue to defend and try to justify sexual assault is beyond me, and the fact that these situations are still occurring is very shocking.

I miss this show so much, most of the animated stuff out now it kind of dumb, to be frank.

Yeah, I totally agree. Some have said that they whole point of Vine is to please the “ADD Nation” we seem to have now, since the videos are only 6 seconds long. But yeah, I agree that most of it is not really of any value, as you mentioned.

Yeah I agree with you, because I’ve heard stories of her song “Pretty Hurts” being passed from artist to artist before Beyonce picked it up. It’s a great song, but you still have to wonder what her real viewpoints are.

Thanks, Lauren! And yeah, the anonymity or maybe the feeling of being invincible because of their popularity could be a factor.

I agree. They don’t accept the responsibility, but I also think that they don’t realize that they have it in the first place. They want to seem like normal people and not on a level higher than their followers or viewers, but they are and they don’t come to terms with how what they are doing or saying is affecting millions of people.

Yes, but when put into perspective, they do have a lot more responsibility than every day people. These people have millions of followers on multiple social media platforms watching their every move, and these people look up to them and view them as some sort of role model, and when things like what’s mentioned in the article happen, it makes you think why they would do these things, not just because they’re famous on the internet, but for the lack of them being decent human beings without a sense of what’s right and wrong.

Okay but this article isn’t about “cyber-bullying” cases, and even if it was, doing so is a lot easier said than done. You can’t really just close your computer and walk away knowing that these people have gone as far as to rape people. Not exactly cyber-bullying.