British Thugs Take Over YouTube
Maybe gangsta rap videos and violent movies (man, I saw that slasher flick Hostel a few weeks ago and it literally made me sick to my stomach) do have an effect on kids?
It’s not something I would have seriously entertained until recently, but this story of British thugs using YouTube as a way to flaunt their gun-laden muscle, taunt their adversaries, show off their drugs, and even boast about an 11-year-old kid that they allegedly murdered makes you wonder.
I suppose I’m just trying to find a connection here, a way to understand what would compel people to commit violence and murder and then to want to proudly head off to the Internets to brag about it. Is it a natural extension of bullies shouting at each other in the schoolyard, or is something else going on here that I’m not smart enough to comprehend?
That’s the downside too of having a massively popular communications platform around like YouTube. You get people coming along that you wish you never knew about, showing off about stuff that they shouldn’t be doing.
I hope they’re stupid enough to get busted for their illegal activities.
Or maybe somehow it’s all a LonelyGirl15 kind of prank?
One of their videos is here if you want to check it out.
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