Jonah Mowry's YouTube video on bullying goes viral. SACRAMENTO - A bullied 14-year-old has stood up for himself in an online video - and has become a national icon.
Jonah Mowry's heart wrenching video was made at 4 a.m. It starts out simply as a teenage boy telling us his name, but it quickly turns into an emotional confession. With tears in his eyes, Mowry tells peopel watching that he's been bullied since the first grade because he is gay. The video was made in August before Jonah started school and in the video he says he's not ready to go back because he's scared the bullying will continue. The video might have remained buried on YouTube, but last week, Perez Hilton blogged about it and then it went viral. The video has now been viewed more than 7.4 million times. Jonah got tweets of support from celebrities like Nick Jonas, Rosie O'Donnell, Jane Lynch and anti-bullying crusader Lady Gaga.
On Friday, Jonah appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America". "You need to tell your parents, even if it will make it worse maybe. News10/KXTV. Kyberšikana a jak se s ní poprat - Alik.cz. Rady, jak se s kyberšikanou vypořádat, pokud zasáhne vás nebo někoho ve vašem okolí a nebo jak se nestat jejím, byť nechtěným šiřitelem, nabízí projekt Minimalizace šikany.
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Někdy se to tak říká, ale v případě kyberšikany to neplatí. Pokud se stanete obětí kyberšikany, schovejte kopie všech útočníkových e-mailů, textových zpráv a internetových aktivit. Já to tak vůbec nemyslel... Kolik přátel máš... Untitled. A chubby Australian boy has rocketed to YouTube stardom after a classmate recorded a cell phone video of him body-slamming a smaller boy who'd been taunting him in the schoolyard. The clip shows the apparent bully, seventh-grader Ritchard Gale, teasing and punching his victim, Casey Heynes, as a gang of other kids laugh at the abuse. Heynes, who is in the 10th grade, takes the bullying for a while, but then snaps and picks Gale up and throws him down on the concrete floor.
Gale eventually gets up and limps away. Both boys were suspended from their school, Chifley College in New South Wales, outside Sydney . Gale's mother has demanded an apology for the body-slamming of her son, and the bad publicity her family has received because of the YouTube video. "People pick on him every single day. More than 100,000 people have joined a Facebook group defending Heynes, with some dubbing him "Casey the Punisher" and Gale, "Ritchard the Rat. "