A few weeks ago I posted a video of little girls saying "pig eyes" to strangers on the internet over their video-blogs. Recently, one of their ilk was bullied by a large group of internet "pranksters" (mainly 4Chan's /b/ message board) and apparently her life was "ruined." Basically what happened is the girl in question—fake-internet-name Jessi Slaughter—was a "total bitch" in a video she posted to Youtube. People from 4Chan saw that video and decided to retaliate by posting her real name, address, and telephone number all over the internet—which led to a series of prank phone calls, unwarranted pizza deliveries, and other mature gags of that nature. She responded with a (NSFW) video that is all-at-once funny, sad, confusing, and scary.



The whole story is pretty absurd and sad and weird and raises a lot of questions about the appropriateness of young-girl-video-blogs in general and the potentially harmful way the collective "trolls" of the internet respond. Gawker's Adrian Chen explores these questions in his exposé on the Jessi Slaughter saga.