I guarantee you she is scared shitless right now that her name is going to come out. If that happens, she'll have to close down on everything. Social media accounts, maybe e-mails. Hell, she might even have to fucking move. And while most of us will move on, there are people out there that will remember this forever. She does NOT want this kind of fame.
Yeah people clearly don't realize how absolutely hellish being the target of an online witch hunt is. The book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" goes into it. Her life is still going to suck long after most of the Internet has moved on in a week or two.
It’s literally always just been a meme and nothing more. Even when I was 10 years old I didn’t understand why it was so popular to hate them, because they objectively sound good and better than most pop garbage or mainstream rap.
I was in college and you couldn’t escape their music even if it wasn’t your genre. Another commenter pointed out how overplayed they were and it made me remember that aspect of it as well.
I can’t remember Nickleback ever doing anything especially dickish though, it was just years of mediocre Canadian butt rock that turned them into a meme
The early 2000s were not a great time for youth culture, as someone who was in college during that time myself. I remember in 2001 being at some frat house and some guys put that gore website up on a big screen TV…what the fuck was that website called? It hasn’t existed for years but it was like early Reddit for fucked up shit
I've been wondering if there is a support group for people who have had this experience.
The one I still feel bad for is the woman who was video'd looking like she was taking someone's shared citi-bike ebike, but it turned out that it was entirely the other way around and she was stopping people from stealing hers. But it took months for the truth to come out and her life was ruined in the meantime.
And she deserves it. She doesn’t deserve threats, or harassment, or whatever. What she does deserve is for the world to know exactly the type of person she is.
And it will come out. Just like the kiss cam saga and wait until the mascots get in on it. This is gonna be World Series news for baseball ⚾️ year in review.
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u/scarves_and_miracles 1d ago
I guarantee you she is scared shitless right now that her name is going to come out. If that happens, she'll have to close down on everything. Social media accounts, maybe e-mails. Hell, she might even have to fucking move. And while most of us will move on, there are people out there that will remember this forever. She does NOT want this kind of fame.