I told myself I wasn't gonna do it. I went all day, going back and forth over whether or not to post about this shit today, and I was winning the argument not to do it. Everything was going fine, I was starting to snowball ideas for some leftist rant or whatever, all the while masochistically absorbing all the Rebecca Black
Ok, so granted, the internet brings out the worst in anonymous, hateful douchebags and maybe wishing death on her is a bit much, but "cyberbullying?" Come on. Listen, the thing about cyberbullying is that it's picking on someone and holding them up for public scrutiny on the internet when they aren't trying to put themselves out there. Taking a phone pic or video of some nerdy kid doing something dumb or a girl shitting her pants or something and putting that all over the internet so everyone can humiliate her - that's cyberbullying. Spamming someone's facebook page with hateful comments and going out of your way to harass someone who's trying to maintain a low, normal online profile - that's cyberbullying. Getting a ton of hateful criticism over your incredibly shitty song and video that YOU uploaded to youtube YOURSELF - that's just backlash.
Now, I'm obviously not a Justin Beiber
Here's a tip Georgina - if you don't want to have to worry about feeling the urge to kill people who viciously insult your untalented 13-year old daughter's horrible song, then don't pay a shitload of money to record it and make a video for it and then post it on youtube and spend even more money to promote it, you stupid cunt.
Just because you love your kid and you think her singing is great and you think she should be entitled to have all her dreams of fame and pop stardom come true, doesn't mean the rest of the fucking world agrees with you, and frankly we're fed up with you shitheads forcing your kids on us like we should give a shit. Money can buy a lot of things, studio time, a producer, promotion, payola and attention, but it can't buy talent. There's a really creepy thing going on more and more these days where the stage parent is merging with the pageant mom and we're getting this whole new slew of way too overbearing and pushy parents dressing their tween-age kids up like they're going out clubbing and trying to make stars out of them. It's fucked up on a number of levels. Besides the well-documented issues we're already painfully aware of with girls who were raised doing those horrible fucking pageants since they're 5 years old who grow up and become completely fucking emotional messes with eating disorders and self-image issues that would make Karen Carpenter
Ah... much better.
I guess the upside to all this is that there have been a ton of funny ass meme's that have sprung up over this shit. Part of me feels guilty for clowning on a little girl and part of me doesn't. Like, the part that thinks Rebecca's going to end up in therapy and rehab before she's 18 feels bad, but the part that thinks the far more likely scenario of her making sex tape with a pseudo-celebrity and parlaying that into her own E show doesn't. Regardless, if she was raised worth a shit, she would still just be the cutest and most popular girl at whatever middle school she's attending right now with a modest collection of Facebook friends and a huge crush on Justin Beiber, instead of the biggest 15-minute running joke on the web right now. So, thanks unscrupulous stage mom, for introducing the world to your 13-year old little nugget of comedy gold!
It works on so many levels!
This shit is serious son, serious...
Much credit to the Know Your Meme website for the images and inspiration, and to Rebecca Black for seein' her frans on fried egg, fun fun fun fun...
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