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YouTube stars are trading in children's sexual misery by goading teens into shaming schoolmates and then putting videos online - to boost their own fame
If you saw these young men wandering around a shopping centre with a microphone talking to teenagers, you might think it’s just a bit of harmless fun.
But what they are doing is not an innocent prank. They are preying on children as part of a disturbing online trend known as ‘baiting out’.
The cult YouTube ‘stars’ encourage youngsters to talk about those they claim to have had sexual encounters with and make derogatory and crude comments about them. They then post videos of these ‘interviews’ online where they are viewed thousands of times.
In often excruciating footage, children who look as young as 12 make candid admissions on camera to the men when they approach them at random with a microphone in hand. Those quizzed give graphic descriptions ranging from the breasts of a girl in their class to sexual favours classmates have carried out.
In some cases, the young people the teenagers are ‘shaming’ are named in full, along with the school they attend.
Once online, the clips garner thousands of ‘likes’ and views within days.
Those leading the trend, under names such as ‘Baithead’ and ‘Van Banter’, have become internet celebrities. They even boast of having agents and managers to boost their profiles.
Victims of the bait out trend have told of their humilation after sexual slurs about them were broadcast on the web.
Cassidy Valentine, a model and YouTube video blogger, was named in a bait out clip and accused of being sexually promiscuous.
Miss Valentine, who was in her teens at the time, told the BBC: ‘I just felt so victimised by it and it was really embarrassing and humiliating to go through. No-one should have to feel like that, really.’
Full article and source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5701035/YouTube-stars-profiting-goading-teens-sex-shaming-schoolmates.html
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Sounds like more negative publicity for YouTube. The so-called "YouTube stars" making the videos should know better but I can't believe that the kids interviewed would even answer those questions. I mean they can see the microphone and camera so they know they're being filmed. I just don't get it.
Thoughts?
If you saw these young men wandering around a shopping centre with a microphone talking to teenagers, you might think it’s just a bit of harmless fun.
But what they are doing is not an innocent prank. They are preying on children as part of a disturbing online trend known as ‘baiting out’.
The cult YouTube ‘stars’ encourage youngsters to talk about those they claim to have had sexual encounters with and make derogatory and crude comments about them. They then post videos of these ‘interviews’ online where they are viewed thousands of times.
In often excruciating footage, children who look as young as 12 make candid admissions on camera to the men when they approach them at random with a microphone in hand. Those quizzed give graphic descriptions ranging from the breasts of a girl in their class to sexual favours classmates have carried out.
In some cases, the young people the teenagers are ‘shaming’ are named in full, along with the school they attend.
Once online, the clips garner thousands of ‘likes’ and views within days.
Those leading the trend, under names such as ‘Baithead’ and ‘Van Banter’, have become internet celebrities. They even boast of having agents and managers to boost their profiles.
Victims of the bait out trend have told of their humilation after sexual slurs about them were broadcast on the web.
Cassidy Valentine, a model and YouTube video blogger, was named in a bait out clip and accused of being sexually promiscuous.
Miss Valentine, who was in her teens at the time, told the BBC: ‘I just felt so victimised by it and it was really embarrassing and humiliating to go through. No-one should have to feel like that, really.’
Full article and source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5701035/YouTube-stars-profiting-goading-teens-sex-shaming-schoolmates.html
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Sounds like more negative publicity for YouTube. The so-called "YouTube stars" making the videos should know better but I can't believe that the kids interviewed would even answer those questions. I mean they can see the microphone and camera so they know they're being filmed. I just don't get it.
Thoughts?
