Tokio Hotel and the perils of growing up online.

[mothwing]

I am not sure whether to laugh or cry. I have to admit that I never quite got the hysteria about the German band Tokio Hotel, but then, I have always been too old for that kind of fannish band support.
My friends might have cried bitter tears in earlier years when BSB had a fight, or TT split, but somehow, music was never important enough for me to care that much. Sad teenage life, no? Well. It did save me some tears, and, when  I look at the kids I'm teaching today, some embarrassment, too. I am so glad that we did not grow up on the internet, seriously. jaywalker23  showed me one more reason to be glad.

A while back, a girl uploaded the following video in which she told off all the Tokio Hotel haters for dissing her favourite band. They were all jealous anyway, she said. They had no business dissing her band, she said. They should stop trying to diss them or they'd diss them back, she said.
 

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Of course, being as hilarious as it is, it received very nasty reactions. People dressed up and imitated her. People laughed about her. People got her video on the gossipy music news on telly and laughed about her. And now, there is this video here:

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... in which she says that she's grateful for all the people who'd given her a piece of their mind and who'd told her off for being a Tokio Hotel fan, that she'd realised now that it was indeed very silly to be a fan of that band and that she'd now seen the error of her ways and was thankful for that.

Isn't it ... scary?

Internet fame is scary. Thanks to YouTube, loads of people now know what this girl looks like, and everybody who finds out her user name can just go and tell her off or imitate her and insult her and tell her off and laugh about her
Of course it also serves her right for uploading such stuff, but it's got to be dangerous to her mental health to be laughed at by that many people.

Comments

[lordhellebore]

Hordenmentalität anyone? Ohje. Das erste war ja schon bescheuert genug, aber das zweite ist schlimmer, finde ich. Ich hoffe nur, meine Tochter lässt sich 1. nicht so leicht von was abbringen was sie mag nur weil irgendwelche Honks im Internet ihr erzählen wie bescheuert das ist, und 2. wird sie sich hoffentlich besser ausdrücken können. Und 3. generell intelligenter sein. *sigh*

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Absolut! Ich hab auch Angst gekriegt, als ich das Zweite gesehen hab - aber ich glaube nicht, dass du dir um Hannah da allzuviele Sorgen machen musst, ehrlich gesagt. Sie kriegt das schon hin und ich glaube auch auf gar keinen Fall, dass sie so doof wird.

[duckygirlrocks.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry she went through that. Especially as it seems to me that, instead of being sorry she was a fan of the group, it would be better to be sorry that she got so riled up as to expose herself to such ridicule. I've liked some pretty silly bands in my time, but they suited me at the time, so what's to be sorry about?

Anyway, *HUGS* Mothy. Hope you're doing great!

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

*HUGS!* Oh, everything's fine! How are you, and how's your garden? Must be great now that it's spring! :)

I've been wondering about that - I'd have been mad at people telling me off for being a fan of my favourite band, and I would have tried to ignore them, and certainly not put a video online saying the opposite of what I think and actually THANK the assholes who'd made fun of me like that. It's really scary.

[dstroyrofworlds.livejournal.com]

STEWARD! Get me another planet, please.



Ich bin ein wenig...erschrocken. Einerseits würde ich sagen: Armes Mädel. Andererseits sieht sie so aus, als gehöre sie zur "Jessica-und-Dennis-Gesellschaft", wie meine Schwester das nennen würde (die Politiker sagen Unterschicht, Unterprivilegierte oder Proletariat) und damit fällt sie aus meinem Symphatie-Rahmen raus.

Und dann kommt mir da noch der Gedanke, dass das ganze, von Anfang bis Ende, sich warscheinlich schon bald als so irrelevant wie ein Kropf herausstellen wird.

Ich hoffe nur sie hat keine zusätzlichen Schäden bekommen, zu denen, die sie angetrieben haben, überhaupt solche Videos zu machen.
Sie sollte vorsichtiger sein, vorallem sich selbst gegenüber und besser auf sich selbst aufpassen.


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