Tokio Hotel and the perils of growing up online.
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mothwingI 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.
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.
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Date: Saturday, March 24th, 2007 05:47 am (UTC)Anyway, *HUGS* Mothy. Hope you're doing great!
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Date: Saturday, March 24th, 2007 01:51 pm (UTC)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.