Bieber fans self-harm to protest pot smoking
Justin Bieber fans are apparently cutting themselves and posting photos online to pressure the pop star to quit smoking pot.
Complex reports that message board 4chan started spreading the hashtags #cutforbieber and #cuttingforbieber as a joke. However, the 19-year-old pop star's young fans have taken the meme seriously and the hashtag began trending on Twitter.
The disturbing prank is a response to photos posted online by gossip site TMZ that show Bieber holding what looks like a joint at a Newport Beach hotel room party.
On Tuesday (January 8), a rep for British charity YoungMinds called the joke "irresponsible, reprehensible and extremely dangerous."
"Self harming is not a fashion, fad or statement," Lucie Russell told The Independent. "It's a signal that young people are experiencing extreme distress and need help. Cutting is a self-destructive act that is a way of coping with overwhelming emotions."
She added: “To suggest young people cut themselves as some kind of protest is a very perverted and dangerous idea, and these people need to take responsibility and stop this activity immediately.”
After the photos appeared online, Bieber tweeted a pair of repentant remarks but did not directly acknowledge the brewing scandal.
"Everyday growing and learning. trying to be better. u get knocked down, u get up," he wrote. "I see all of u. i hear all of u. i never want to let any of you down. i love u. and..thank u."
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Posted by: dkdsalkj | Jan 8, 2013 4:45:22 PM
Oh my God people get control of your children and stop letting them be brainwashed by these idiotic con-artists. They are nothing but spoiled rotten human beings that think they are Gods gift to the world. There are lots of people that can sing we are just not all that arrogant to think we are meant to parade ourselves around the world like we are something special. GET A GRIP!!!
Posted by: John | Jan 8, 2013 4:59:26 PM
Hahahahahaha!!! That's the greatest thing I've ever read. If that's not the best example of todays parent not having a clue about what thiere kid is doing, I don't know what is. As for the losers actually cutting themselves, they need to get a hold of reality, try a little hard work in their life and actually listen the next time someone, God forbid, tells them "no".
Posted by: Joe | Jan 8, 2013 5:37:36 PM
What a bunch of totally brain dead people we have walking this earth. It is getting worse by the minute. For some weed at that you kids dont know nothing about the real world and btw KIDS you have your own life to deal with, try paying attention to that for once so i dont have to take care of you from 18 up cause you cant hold a job and life is to hard will be your excuses but remember punks, we all went threw it and you are not special, everyone you see has had it rough at some point so my advise = get a life! and dont worry about what justin beiber is doing, losers!
Posted by: Jocelyn | Jan 8, 2013 5:55:22 PM
And this is what propaganda about a harmless plant does. Good job to the parents for filling their kids heads full of bullshit. If todays youth had ANY clue, they'd freak out whenever they saw him with a smoke or drink in his hand. FYI to all the idiot teenie boppers out there: smoking marijuana has been around for 1000's of years...just like tattooing. Queen Victoria smoked pot for her PMS cramps, George Washington required the public by law to own and grow pot. Your grandparents were hippies from the 60's and 70's, your parents are from the 80's and 90's (and I guarantee you, they HAVE ALL smoked it.) If it wasn't for pot, 90% of the music you listen to and the artwork that you see, WOULD NOT EXIST!!! The most educated, level headed, easy going, non-judgemental, rational and logical people in this world are avid pot smokers. Heck, there's religions based around the plant. The kids are doing MUCH more harm to themselves than ANY joint would ever do. There is no point being made here other than that they're unable to think rationally or logically for themselves. They'd be better off beating themselves in the head with beer bottles for an anti-alcohol campaign. Wrap your heads around that one you ignorant, little fuckers...learn what to stand up for...quit doing what you think other people want and learn the difference between right and wrong. It's blatantly obvious, you have no sense of principal or ethic and because of that nobody is backing up your cause. You think you're doing the right thing but you're just acting like an un-educated group of people. You might as well be trying to protest that women shouldn't have the right to vote or wear pants. You might think you're right but to the wiser you're just making yourselves look that much more foolish.
Posted by: CH | Jan 8, 2013 6:26:51 PM
sounds pretty stupid considering harming yourself is a LOT worse than smoking a joint. so does that mean... if Beiber was self-harming would everyone smoke a joint to stop him!?! LMAO! Get a brain in your head people, think about it!?! like he even cares what his fans are doing anyway.
Posted by: Hmmm | Jan 8, 2013 6:44:39 PM
OMG... the Beliebers are cutting themselves. Ain't that a shame. Wonder if any of this will hit You-Tube ? That's all we need, a few thou of 'em to commit suicide and Biebs is going to write a song about it. Pleazzze make sure you don't hurt your Barbie and Elmo dolls while you hari-kari yourselves.
Posted by: class01 | Jan 8, 2013 7:10:25 PM
that is horrible! Stop! ( cutting urselves & smokin weed/pot!!)
Posted by: Bwahahahaha! | Jan 8, 2013 8:18:48 PM
I have only one thing to say: Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Thank you, 4chan!
Posted by: The Ripper | Jan 8, 2013 8:21:29 PM
What a bunch of losers. Seriously if any of them hurt themselves over something this stupid, then we obviously know how well parents and the education system are working - and a few less morons to boot...
Posted by: Phonerion Ballznevsky | Jan 8, 2013 8:40:17 PM
Weed certainly isn't horrible, but cutting yourself is.
Get a grip on reality, future-adults.
Please.
Posted by: linda | Jan 8, 2013 8:48:07 PM
cutting one self is very destructive // don't blame beiber. if he smokes he smokes. it is his life and business. it may not be moral or legal but.. and stop blaming parents people.. kids now do what they want..
Posted by: anonymous | Jan 8, 2013 9:14:06 PM
um 18 year old pop star... people really shouldn't cut themselves
i love Justin Bieber to death but i would never cut myself... weed isn't the worst thing in the world... its his life make him do whatever he wants...look around you lots of people have done weed or will at least once in their life...and don't blame Justin Bieber for their actions he didn't tell them to cut themselves....people are retarded
Posted by: Hmmm | Jan 8, 2013 9:26:38 PM
Time to trim the Bieb herd !!! You can just imagine the kind of offspring they'd bring into the world in 5-6 years. "Cut" 'em loose NOW !!
Posted by: FeloniousPunk | Jan 8, 2013 9:58:14 PM
I'm now dumber for having read this article. If you parasitic little sideshows want to make a point, and give me something to read about... The next time you want to cut yourself over something or anything that bieber does, remember to aim for an artery! That will thin out the herd in no time.
Posted by: Puhleeze | Jan 8, 2013 10:23:01 PM
'"Self harming is not a fashion, fad or statement," Lucie Russell told The Independent.'
You couldn't be MORE wrong, Lucie Russell. It's ALL about the fashion, fad or statement. It's attention seeking...plain and simple.