Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Naked Truth.
This week we are
talking about some crap that is going down on the internet that makes me
really mad and since this is a place to share our feelings on the internet in a
very raw and organic way that’s what we’re going to do today.
But before I
jump into that I want to thank our Naked Army Vloggers from last week.
Ryan Prescott & Kristen Jayms Chris Kavaja Colin Lawrence Jenny and
Nicholas.
If you want to check out their Naked Truth Vlogs you can do that
by checking out the links in the description below.
Alright so this week I am
talking about kind of the history of what’s been going on with Leslie Jones.
Leslie Jones if you do not know who she is is the fabulous Saturday Night
Live actress who was also just in a Ghostbusters movie and she got into a
big Twitter battle with some people who were critics we will say otherwise
also known as trolls but people that were just being really nasty to her
online and I think as someone who is relatively new to social media she
kind of fed the trolls a little bit.
Responded to them with more angry
language back and it fueled the fire.
Anyway it led to what happened this
week or indirectly directly or indirectly take your own take your own opinion
there led to her website being hacked which was then her website was then
putting out nude photos of her that were stolen from iCloud as well as
photos of her passport and driver’s liscense and personal documentation.
So she was doxed and had nude photos leaked at the same time.
There
were also some racist comments on there from what I heard.
I did not see
it.
When something like this happens I try not to spread any of that
information or look at it myself because I feel like that’s the only thing that
we can do as people you know to say as people in the community to say I
don’t agree with this is to stop it in its tracks and not let it spread further.
But people are you know up in arms.
There are people who are people are
blaming it on everything from brightbar to this is the right coming in and this
is the hatred of the right and conservativeism and this is the evil of the
internet and just in general it’s very sad I think when you see something
that’s so wonderful like the internet and when you see the dark side of that.
You know I’m always reminded of with great power comes great
responsibility.
And the internet is amazing and it connects different people
and communities like this community that would have never had that
chance before.
And it does give every individual person their own voice and
there is so much beauty in that.
But unfortunately there is a good side and
an evil side to everything and you know then we get into the conversation
of does everyone deserve their own voice?
And I believe that they do but I
believe there should also be consequences for these types of actions.
So
according according to Definition because I like to give definitions
cyberbullying is defined as bullying that takes place using electronic
technology.
That includes devices equipment such as cell phones
computers tablets as well as communication tools like social media text
messages chat etc.
And I do feel like this is certainly her journey and this
issue in general is a big deal I would say almost for everyone of our
generation.
I feel like you would be in the minority if you’ve never
experienced any kind of hateful messages directed towards you online.
And
maybe that’s different for me as someone who has put themselves more
out there as a public figure that you know I have gotten lots of hateful
messages and it’s really horrible.
And as someone who has dealt with
bullying in school then deal with bullying thanks to my career as well was a
bit of a shock at first.
I wrote an article for New Media Rockstars a while
ago about you know the things that I do to deal with that.
And I feel like that
journey is different for everyone and so it’s really hard for me to watch
Leslie Jones go through this now.
And you know you see people deleting
their social media accounts and there are certainly ways to get around or
deal with this and like I said everyone’s journey is different.
So whether it’s
you know muting or blocking or reporting or argueing back and standing up
for yourself or whatever it is that works for you best to deal with it then I say
you know do what works best for you because there are times when we
have a thick skin and it’s super easy and there are times when we let it get
to us and I feel like that goes for everyone atleast everyone I know that you
know is in the YouTube world has days where it certainly gets to them and
we rely on eachother.
And I feel like that’s why so many people who make
YouTube videos that are in that online creator community kind of flock
together because they can really relate to eachother’s struggles in that
department specifically.
Yeah it just it sucks and I just I wanted to take this
moment to say that I know some people will argue that every opinion even
the unpopular opinion deserves to be heard and freedom of speech and
like I said I believe that the opinions deserve to be heard and I believe that
people are entitled to their opinion but I also think there should be
consequences when something illegal is happening.
And stealing nude
photos or any type of private property is not okay.
Doxing could be legal or
illegal depending which state you’re in and depending which law it falls
under but it can fall under stalking cyberstalking harrassment threats
there’s all different things it could fall under.
And in this case where it was
actual photos of her passport and driver’s liscense those were not things
that were legally obtained.
The arguement comes you know if it’s legally
obtained publically available information than abrogating that information
should not be illegal even if there was malicious intent but I don’t believe
you could argue that in this case.
And you know a lot of states right now I
think there’s no federal law on bullying but all 50 states do have some type
of law on bullying and almost all of them mention internet harassment.
I
think only about half of them mention cyberbullying specifically but there
are things that can be done.
Not always criminal things and that’s not to
say your local police enforcement will do anything if you screen cap this
stuff and bring it to them.
But it’s part of the journey and it’s better to have
record for it.
So what I would suggest for people if you are dealing with this
kind of stuff online take screen caps of everything if it works for you to reset
your privacy settings or mute or block or ban or what ever you need to do
to protect yourself.
These people have a right to say what they want to say
but they don’t have a right to direct access to you and that’s the part that
you could control.
Again screen shot and report to the authorities in general
try to keep your personal information that’s out there to the public keep it to
a minimum if that’s something you’re very concerned about.
Like you’ll see
a lot of times I won’t say anything specifically like my parent’s full names or
you know other things I try to keep private out of respect for the other
people in my life who may not want things private and you do have to be
safe because we talked about before in stalker situations and just always
remember that happy and secure people never bully other people.
So try
as best you can to sympathize with the people who are doing this harm.
Whops sorry about that!
My camera just shut off so I needed to restart it.
But what I was saying is if you can try to remember that people who do
bully are going through a difficult time themselves and they probably need
help and support as well so I think responding to their anger and malintent
with your own anger and malintent while it’s a completely natural reaction is
probably just going to make the situation worse and at least for me it helps
to have that change in perspective.
So my question to you guys is how do
you either overcome cyberbullying in your own life?
Or maybe if you’re
someone who endorses it and you really think that these opinions need to
be out there and heard and not silenced tell me why.
As always differing
opinions are welcome here just please try to say it in a way that is open to
educating eachother and is open to open dialogue don’t just give me a
comment to be like and here’s where I’m right drop the mic because those
kinds of comments don’t really help anybody feel better except for you and
your ego.
So we’re all here for eachother so make sure that you’re doing
that.
And I do want to say that this will be the last Naked Truth in this
setting . I am moving this weekend so as soon as I finish filming this
actually I have to box everything up and all my equipment is being put
away so there will be no stream tomorrow or Sunday and it remains to be
seen if there will be a Naked Truth next week if I have my equipment set up
in my new place in time there will be.
If not we may have to take a week off
so pay attention to my Twitter @thatgrltrish no I in the girl to see if we’ll
have another Naked Truth next week.
But there will be a tech video going
up this weekend so you can look forward to that to hold you over in the
mean time.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
And also congrats to
SourceFed Nerd for reaching 1 million subscribers and if they didn’t yet by
the time this goes out they will very soon and that’s very exciting for me as
someone who was there since the begining to watch this happen.
Super
proud and happy for all of my friends who are there.
So yeah so have a
great week everybody and spread the good in the world because yes we
may notice poopey things but there are also a lot of beautiful people in this
world and they have good intentions so make those the louder ones this
week.
Alright bye guys!