Author Topic: When internet lols goes too far.  (Read 573 times)

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Shuri

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When internet lols goes too far.
« on: July 26, 2007, 03:51:21 PM »
So I was reading a shitty french canadian forum I used to read a few years ago, and holy god what the fuck. there was a thread  that caught my eyes.

Turns out, this girl was a poster that used to be popular years ago on that forum, until she posted a few pics of her in one of those 'post your pic' threads. The pic showed her in a mall restaurant eating with a friend. Unfortunately, the pic didnt show her at her best advantage, which lead to pages and pages of 'lol fat ugly hoe' by other posters, weeks of photoshops, and even crazy creepos who stalker her to her highschool and made fun of her across the yard/cafeteria and some of them went as far as mailing her printouts of the photoshops which lead to a purge of the forum from what I recall. It ended up with her posting a lengthy message about how she had being made fun of all her life and how much she was hurt that her 'haven', the forum, had turned against her. She went into exile after that. Nobody ever heard of her again.

Today's thread that caught my eyes only had this, scanned from todays newspapers
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/344/margounc2.jpg

Since its in french; this is from the orburtuary (?) section, saying that she had passed away and left friends and family behind. There's also message at the bottom from her parents saying that they had accepted her decision to take her own life and that they still loved her and that they will always remember her. Before you scream OMG LOL INTERNET STUNT RIGHT several posters replied saying they had seen it too and werent sure if it was actually the same girls, until other posters came in to confirm that yes, it was the same girl. It may had happened a few years ago, but i'm sure that this whole internet LOLZ backfire she received must had had an impact on her.. Poor girl :(

May this be a lesson to you all when you start taking the internet to real life!




bud

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Re: When internet lols goes too far.
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2007, 04:10:22 PM »
that is pretty sad  :( and incredibly dumb at the same time  :-\
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Mupepe

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Re: When internet lols goes too far.
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2007, 04:10:44 PM »
wow.  that's sad  :(

Van Cruncheon

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Re: When internet lols goes too far.
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2007, 04:15:12 PM »
even the most loathesome of folks on say, oa, don't merit offline harassment. i don't get why you'd squander your free time going after some doofus on the internet in real life, especially a harmless girl with weight issues. that takes a real dedication to assholery even i can't muster!
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Phoenix Dark

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Re: When internet lols goes too far.
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2007, 04:26:46 PM »
I agree :(

In many ways the internet is a free-for-all but to inject that into real life is to go way too far. I would go so far as to say insulting her pic online is fair game (she posted it after all) - stalking her in real life to continue on the behavior is just stupid. Not cool at all
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