so I think it's fascinating, the age we live in, where being an attention-whore can get you beat down by hundreds or maybe thousands of people all at once? if you're not familiar with the girl in this video, her name is Jessi Slaughter (or something like that) you can read the story on encyclopediadramatica.com but the short version of the story is that she was putting out youtube videos, generally acting like a brat. But when her video showed up on 4Chan /b/ they decided to try and ruin her life, which included prank calling her, email spamming her, and sending out some sexually suggestive photos that she had posted on her facebook. She became an instant meme.

it's kind of sad to punish an 11 year old so badly for being a brat. but on the other hand, it's great that we live in an age with the internet, because if it's one thing the internet is good for, it's putting people on blast for their bad behavior. it reminds me of this Japanese cartoon called "Akira" which was about a put upon boy who gained super powers from a government experiment, and then after going on a rampage where he destroys his girlfriend and himself, he is absorbed by the spirit of this boy "Akira"... anyway, it's a weird anime, but at one point in the anime, another character says, "imagine if you were to give the powers of a human, to an amoeba..." and she has some metaphorical monolog after that, but that's the whole idea... the internet is like giving the powers of a human to an amoeba... you can have your 15 minutes of fame, but it might not be the way you want it.

maybe this will encourage people to think a little bit more about how they act in public and in what they perceive as private. the sooner we all begin acting like the people we are, and not the people we want to be perceived as, we can work on becoming the people we want to be.