Being an alumnus with celebrities is always an enviable thing, and these days Tiktok fires up a new challenge: tell the story of you and your most famous alumni.
But unexpectedly, a netizen's revelation made the houses of European and American and even domestic friends collapse.
Blogger @natasjahhope posted four videos about himself being bullied by sweet tea- timothée chalamet verbally at the age of 14 in middle school...
The image of sweet tea and the events described by the blogger feel too different to be accepted, so that netizens divided into several camps and began a big fight.
On Feb. 18, a woman named Natasjah was involved in the story of a "celebrity alumnus." In the first video she recorded, she said she graduated from LaGuardia, a prestigious art high school in New York.
She graduated in 2013 and was in the same window as Ansel Elgort, the actor of "Extreme Car Thief", and Sweet Tea, the actor of "Call Me by Your Name", and even once a friend of the same age who had a good relationship.
She said to share some special memories with sweet tea to everyone. When they see this, many people still think that it is a heart-warming or romantic story, but the next sentence of the blogger is dumbfounded.
She said:
A month after entering high school, the blogger and Sweet Tea had a mutual friend for their birthday. The female friend then organized a pool birthday party in New York.
In order to avoid people not knowing what the pool party is, I would like to explain it. At this kind of party, everyone will basically wear swimwear to party in the pool, which belongs to the play of the richer young people.
Before Sweet Tea and his girlfriend were photographed by paparazzi in the pool
The blogger said that on the day of the birthday party, everyone except her was a theater professional, including the sweet tea that was present. She was the only one who studied vocal music, so she didn't have a very slender figure like a child who studied drama.
After receiving the invitation, she saw the scene at that time, and she was already nervous about her body that was not slim enough compared to the classmates next to her. Because everyone is wearing a bikini, Presumably the figure is also good.
Nervous and afraid of being ridiculed, the blogger asked the girl who organized the birthday party for a pair of shorts to wear, trying to cover some of her body.
At this time, a 14-year-old sweet tea came to her and shouted at her in a very harsh, even very mean tone: "Yo! This one has grown cellulite! ”
(The tone is really uncomfortable)
Cellulite or cellulite usually grows on women, especially in places where fat tends to accumulate in the thighs, buttocks, and waist. Rapid development and obesity during puberty, even genetics, will allow many women to grow cellulite.
In fact, this is a very common skin condition, but because fat women are more likely to grow cellulite, they are used by many people to mock "fat people".
In the blogger's story, Sweet Tea is equivalent to coming over and saying she is fat in front of all her classmates. It also caused the blogger, who was already ashamed of his body, to be hit hard. She said that she could not forget this matter for many years, so she planned to say it this time and let herself let go of the burden in her heart.
This short revelation caused a war among netizens. A lot of people say she's a liar just to get people's attention.
"I'm sorry, but are you desperately asking for attention?"
"Why did someone else say a word more than ten years ago and you still cling to it..."
Such a thought was scolded by another group of netizens, and some fans of Sweet Tea said that if he had ever said these words, it would be really disappointing to him and hoped that the bloggers could go out.
"You should have said to him: Yo, someone has muscles, but it's not you."
"You need to accept that this man is not always a good man, and I believe in your sister."
"You can't say he didn't do it just because you like sweet tea, the blogger obviously didn't lie, and I used to be very obsessed with him..."
Some bloggers and sweet tea alumni of the same level also appeared in the comments section to support the bloggers:
"I just wanted to say that I went to school with Tash and Sweet Tea and they were all my friends. But bloggers aren't lying! I remember she did tell me it happened. ”
The blogger replied: "I'm going to cry, I never thought someone else would remember it, because it didn't hurt them, it only hurt me." ”
- "It was because I hurt you that I remembered this." I love sweet tea, it seems so abnormal, and I'm sorry people don't believe your experience. ”
—The blogger replied: "I can't support any of his work because I remember the voice he said when he said it, and I can't avoid hurtful words." ”
"Sister, I'm sorry this has affected you so much, he doesn't deserve it." I can only give you the encouragement of love and prove it for you here. ”
But the doubts continue, after all, a ten-second video, just by claiming that he and Sweet Tea are classmates, is indeed impossible to verify. Some people still find bloggers untrustworthy:
"Why can't we look at the evidence in your hands?" You're commenting on our sweet tea! ”
Questioned, the blogger posted another video on the same day. The purpose of saying it is not to let sweet tea roll out of the entertainment circle or anything, but to tell the truth. She was very angry at netizens who said that she was a liar.
"You say that my experience when I was 14 years old is false, I went to the same school as him and we used to be friends. I could give you the name of the girl who threw the birthday party, but I wouldn't do it! ”
By this time the blogger's emotions were already very excited, and she continued:
"Because [to prove to you] that this is true or false is ridiculous, it's personal, and I don't have to prove that my own experience is true."
"I don't have to taunt me for him coming up to the birthday party: Yo! Somebody got cellulite."
"Because my voice is always echoing in my head!" Why should I lie about such a thing? ”
By the end of the video, the blogger's voice had begun to tremble and he felt like he was about to cry. She said it was already difficult to tell the experience of being injured, and now netizens say that she is a liar.
"I'm not, I'm really angry and shivering right now."
After the second video, more netizens sided with the bloggers. Others continue to ask for details:
"Have you ever been friends?"
Yeah, but I've ignored him since this incident and never cared about other people's comments anymore.
The blogger also clarified the places that were not clearly stated:
" If this is a 'private matter', then why do you post it online for the world to see?" You definitely want people to know. ”
—— The blogger replied: It is a private party, the party is private, not this matter is private.
But this is not a real hammer, so many people ask - since you are in the same grade, then you show us the graduation yearbook! (The graduation yearbook has photos and names of graduates of the same level)
So the blogger really took a third video, this time with graduation photos and an almanac.
Her graduation photo cover shows her full name, school, and graduation date in June 2013.
Bloggers went on a rampage and began to ask for hammers and hammers, and various graduation manuals were shown to everyone.
Then she flipped out her graduation yearbook, which should have pictures of students in all majors in that class. The title page of the book has a gift for the blogger's name, which proves that it is her own book.
Then the blogger effortlessly flipped to the photo of the sweet tea, which read "drama" under the name, and flipped it back to see the blogger's photo at that time, with vocal music written underneath. Consistent with the narrative of her previous video.
Finally, the repertoire of her graduation drama, the class photo, and her graduation commemorative ring were also displayed. Hammered her and Sweet Tea are students of the same level as the same school.
As for the conflict between Sweet Tea and her, there is no way to prove this, only to see the difference.
In fact, after this video was posted, the debate among netizens has not stopped. Some people say she's too bad at giving evidence, and the blogger is really angry and has dirty words.
But soon someone pulled the focus back:
"Is it necessarily good that she has a bad attitude?" You should have supported and believed in the victim, but now you would rather believe in a white man you have never seen in reality. ”
"The people in the comments are all saying that she has a bad attitude, why don't you say that Sweet Tea was rude to her back then?"
Some commentators argue that it is more likely that it is precisely because the story took place at the age of 14. Because this age is the age at which many children learn to be mean and learn to bully people.
But netizens have a completely different attitude towards this incident that happened in their youth. Some people think that 14 years old is still young, people always have to grow, should not be so on the line, bloggers should let it go.
"What are you doing with such a big reaction?" He was really only 14 years old at the time, and hadn't you ever said something mean before! ”
"He was a freshman and I'm sure he's mature now. Not questioning your experience, sorry sister. ”
But there are also those who respond:
"He was 14 years old, wasn't she 14 years old?"
Indeed, no matter how the other party grows up, the experience of being bullied in childhood and laughing can really be remembered for a lifetime. If it is true, he has become a star enjoying the personality aura brought to him by the spotlight and film and television works, and I believe he has never apologized to her for this sentence.
Netizen despair: It is true that every man will disappoint me...
Since this matter is not a legal issue at all, but a moral issue, the ordinary people have no basic benefit to themselves after exposure, and may even cause celebrities to beat a rake "lawyer letter warning". So whether it is true or not, everyone is cautious about eating melons and deciding for themselves.
(One blogger alumnus in the comments said he knew a lot about Tash, but said online that he would definitely be approached by the opposing lawyer.) ）
The current situation of this matter is that the blogger sent the fourth video, because some netizens ran to the sweet tea's ins below the blogger's name and asked the sweet tea to confirm the matter. Bloggers pleaded against this, saying they didn't want to get involved in bigger things.
In fact, although the revelation is highly concerned on Tiktok, there is no media on the whole external network to investigate and report. Perhaps verbal bullying in the United States is still a matter of less attention than racist remarks.
There are many celebrities who have been exposed before, and even blew themselves up, who have bullied others, but their careers are basically unscathed.
In June last year, the uproar was caused by Lee Michele, the heroine of the choir "Glee". Although there have been rumors about Lea playing big names on the set and bullying other actors, it has never been taken seriously.
This time it was because of BLM, and several ethnic minority actors in the same crew came forward to hammer her bullying and racial discrimination.
She threatened to in the wigs of the same group of actors and make trouble for the actor's performance. Let the other party issue a complaint that "you have traumatized my career".
Another actor, Dabier Snell, said Lea forbade him to sit at the same table as himself. There are also group performances that reveal that Lea likes to call group performances "cockroaches". Once an actor sat in her dressing room, pulled up by her hair, and yelled, "Do you dare to take my place?" ”
Although these things did not happen in school, the members of the "Glee" crew are teenagers, and it is difficult not to leave a psychological shadow when treated like this.
Lea was later taken off by friends including Sister A, and the endorsed product announced the termination of cooperation. However, this is mainly because of racial discrimination, bumping into the BLM tide has attracted attention.
If a vegetarian like that tiktok blogger is bullied, it's basically hard to make a splash.
For example, Vanessa Hudgens, the heroine of "Song and Dance Youth", is known as a bully in her own small circle in high school, and it is even more crazy to play "Song and Dance Youth" as a teenager.
At the age of 16, after she interacted with the male protagonist Zac Efron because of the drama, she was attacked and insulted again and threatened every girl who was close to Zac, even a female fan.
Later, she was confused because of other scandals, and the bullying is rarely mentioned now.
There is also an interesting phenomenon that most of the celebrities who admit that they have experienced bullying have downplayed their behavior and talked at length about why they have become bullies.
Indeed, daring to admit one's mistakes and become a better person is a very courageous act. However, in their interviews, almost all of them have only affirmation of their own growth, and lack of apologies to the victims.
For example, Ricky Martin, the Latin king, once went deep into the closet for a long time, and only after many years of fame did he admit that he was gay.
In an interview, he bluntly said that he had become homophobic because of the deep cabinet. And he became a bully in school, specifically bullying children who came out to show that he and they were not a group to escape their inner fears.
Verbal abuse, beatings, ridicule, it may have happened. He has now accepted himself, become a better person, and has always aspired to participate in the same-sex affirmative action movement.
Ironically, many people worship him as the male god of the Brexit gay circle, but forget to ask the children who have been bullied by him, is it okay now?
There are also many celebrities who always emphasize that they have become bullies because they have been bullied by others. Including Paris Hilton, who was once exposed to bullying other girls in small groups at school. But reports of bullying are all about what painful experiences she has suffered.
For example, the famous screenwriter and actress Tina Fey. Her famous work "Mean Girl" tells the story of small groups of high school girls bullying and resisting bullying.
She bluntly said that her own high school career was that of a herself — the leader of a small circle, a gang, an isolated classmate, a verbal bully, and even a variety of vicious jokes.
Tina has written long articles to review her own experiences, but mainly about how she got out of the cycle after being bullied by others before.
She sincerely hopes that because of this movie, people will pay attention to bullying, which is very touching. But as far as the facts are concerned, do the past stories of bullying others that have been obscured and hidden deserve a more solemn apology?
After all, as said in the Japanese drama "GOLD", there are many people who have tragic experiences, but the vast majority of people will not choose to become bullies and become criminals to hurt others.
The last time a celebrity was exposed on a large scale for participating in school bullying was in South Korea in these weeks. Relatively speaking, Asia's emphasis on school bullying is indeed higher. But to be honest, it's hard for a celebrity to fight a gold-medal lawyer and the support of an entire economic company.
Many people feel that the mistakes made by teenagers do not define a lifetime, as long as they do not break the law, they can be forgiven. But then again, even for a child, the bottom line of his behavior should not be the law, but morality and empathy.
Perhaps, in the end, some stars will ruin their acting careers because of the viciousness of their childhood. Perhaps such an outcome may seem excessive to some.
But if they can sincerely apologize to the children who were bullied, will they still be exposed by these angry victims? I believe that all the children who have been bullied do not want to see the former bully without remorse and dressed in a glamorous way to become an idol of others.
Whether or not to be forgiven is not up to the spectators on the sidelines, and the right to pardon should be left to the victim himself. Because at the end of the day, no one can define what kind of torture they suffer at such a sensitive age...