YouTube Channel Update. Topic: Web, HTML, Tech Just a short note to let my readers know that I will no longer be updating my [jspiritiger] channel on YouTube.
I have officially moved to a new channel: TigerOfSpirit at https://www.youtube.com/user/TigerOfSpirit (Or just click on the link marked "TigerOfSpirit", above)
More on ChristianU2uber & Cyberbullying Topic: Web, HTML, Tech The situation of the cyberbullying being perpetrated against ChristianU2uber has become serious enough that it has finally gained the attention of News sources.
How this will effect the questionable outcome of this situation, is anybody's guess. However, I do hope that the publicity generated will at least bring this to the attention of this young boy's parents, or if they are already aware, will at least force them to deal with this dangerous situation.
Here is an article I discovered on the internet today from World Net Daily:
YouTube community tells kid to kill himself Christian 12-year-old slammed for posting views on homosexuality
A self-described Christian 12-year-old boy who dared post his views on same-sex marriage on the popular Internet video site, YouTube, has since been ridiculed and insulted by tens of thousands of comments that attack the boy, his sexuality and his faith.
"Kill Christianity, and then kill yourself," responded a YouTube community member identified as greenacidfusion.
A commenter calling himself WizzyBoy 520 added, "How do you know the Bible isn't full of lies? You, just like everyone who is against gay marriage, is a mentally retarded bigot. No exceptions. Now go to h---."
Thousands of others have simply slammed the boy by calling him a "homo" or making comments like the one from chao129: "You are against gay marriage because you are a fag in denial."
The boy identifies himself only by the name Scott and the YouTube member name ChristianU2uber. His 13 videos have become a YouTube sensation, approaching 1 million hits over the last four weeks, making ChristianU2ber the thirteenth most-viewed YouTube contributor in the "Gurus" channel over the past month.
With his popularity, however, have come tens of thousands of comments from the YouTube community, the vast majority of them insulting. His video "Gay Marriage – Is It Right or Wrong?" generated over 11,000 comments by press time, mostly critical, many laced with profanity.
ChristianU2uber claims on his YouTube channel, "I am a Christian, and I love to upload videos that teach you what Christianity is all about."
When he addressed the issue of homosexual marriage, however, the backlash grew so furious and profane that even outspoken atheists on YouTube have come to ChristianU2uber's defense.
"I can't believe it. I'm watching these video responses, these comments to ChristianU2uber, who is a 12-year-old, and you people are trying to blast him to oblivion," says self-described atheist TOMMYfromtheBRONX in a YouTube video of his own. "Does everyone have to act 12 years old, just because he's 12 years old?"
TOMMY continues, "Of course I don't believe and agree with what he has to say, but I was saying the same thing he is when I was 12. Instead of mocking and ridiculing this kid, why don't we show him the other side and let him judge for himself?"
"When a person makes an insulting claim, they are more than worthy of ridicule," writes another YouTuber identified as godlessmessiah, "But when the person making the claim is a child who obviously doesn't know better, the last thing we (as atheists) should ever do is what people are doing in this case."
Subjecting himself again to the stream of criticism, ChristianU2uber crafted a response to what he called "hateful comments" made about his videos.
"Before you put another mean comment on one of my videos, I just want you to stop and take a second to listen to yourself," says ChristianU2uber. "A lot of people are putting bad words and really mean comments on my videos, and I really don't like it; it makes me sad. I work hard because on YouTube I want to be informative and I want to teach people that there is a God and to make this world a better place."
He concludes, "Just settle down a little bit. Please? For me?"
At press time, the most recent response to ChristianU2uber's plea for civility came from a poster identified as goatchad:
"I stopped and took a second to listen to myself," wrote goatchad, "But it just made me realize what a complete c--- you are. Please die."
This type of hate that overflows the cup of YouTube often seems out of control and, in my opinion, reflects that we, as a society, have become cold and indifferent to the suffering and pain of other fellow human beings. I sincerely hope that this is not the case.
Most recently on this front is 28 year old Anthony Powell, a Fundamentalist Christian who shot fellow student Asia McGowan for being too "feminist" before cowardly killing himself. He made countless videos expressing his hatred for women who did not treat men as their "king", who were not submissive, and equally espoused his venom of Atheists and posted them to YouTube.
Youtuber Murder/Suicide: The Tragedy Of Asia McGowan And Anthony Powell (Tony48219)
How much tragedy do we have to read about in the news where the motivation is as simple as "hate" before we learn as human beings that such emotion is both detrimental to us and those around us... and will it be too late?
Cyberbullying - Please Read. Topic: Web, HTML, Tech First of all, I want apologize for blogging a second time as this is not typically my routine (I write too much as it is). But I have come across some recent video (I know, "Not more youtube!"), and I felt the situation was serious enough that it deserved attention.
A few years ago, a 13 year old girl named Megan Meier committed suicide after a boy named "Josh Evans", whom she had befriended and become romantic with online cruelly broke up with her. After logging off of her computer, she hung herself in her closet.
She did not die immediately, rather slowly from a crushed larynx a day later.
It was discovered later, through an investigation, that the mother of a former friend of Megan (whom she had a falling out with) had created the screen name and identity of "Josh" in order to spy on her and to toy with her.
The Story of Megan Meier:
Cyberbullying has not been slowed by this tragedy.
Currently, on YouTube there is a 12 year old boy with the screen name ChristianU2uber, who has become the target of hateful homophobic comments, mostly from adults, and video parodies containing his video clips with content that is similarly spiteful.
If you watch the video in it's entirety, at one point the boy says "I used to be gay, but then I decided it's wrong" at about 1:20 in the video. Since then slurs such as "homo" and "fag" have been posted to all of his videos and his channel page on YouTube, as well as going viral onto the web. All you have to do is "google" his name, and the results are staggering.
Nevermind that he is a Christian with obvious Evangelical influences, he's a 12 year old little boy. A little boy who is obviously confused by his own sexual identity and seems isolated by parents who seemingly have no involvement in the cruelty being perpetrated against him, either because of lack of supervision or simply indifference.
I am a mom, so my heart just breaks for this child. It really does.
If you would like to get involved, please contact YouTube and bring this situation to their attention and visit YouTube Abuse. Your voice can make a difference.
Before I close out this blog, I would like to honor a very brave little girl by the user name "PrincessBeexo" who stood up and spoke up for what she believed to be right. Her words, gave me hope for the future.
I'm Published! Topic: Web, HTML, Tech As some of you may or may not know, I have been a freelance graphics designer for a number of years now. Meaning, I don't make money at what I do. Mostly what I create is for fun and not for profit.
As of yesterday afternoon, a few of my designs became published and available on 'Mozilla Labs Personas'.
For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Personas, it is a fun add-on feature for Mozilla Firefox that allows you to 'skin' your browser. You can get this add-on (if you have Mozilla Firefox) at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10900
There are three in total skin designs that are available from me on 'Mozilla Labs Personas', and here they are:
Since I am a huge nature lover, I try to give all of my skins an 'organic' appearance while still maintaining a professional feel.
All of my graphics are created using Corel Paint Shop Professional, as I have never been a particular fan of Adobe Photo Shop. PSP is what I started out with and am more comfortable with.
I hope you enjoy these skins and will use and share them.
