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LGBT bullies push pornstar to suicide

Jesse Booth said:
Of course there were more issues at work here, but a mass attack on her online life was certainly the cinder block that broke the camel's back. Walking away from social media is far easier said than done, Superfly. Even in my short time on this forum, I've seen at least a dozen people I knew fairly well self-destruct because they just couldn't get up and walk away from their screen. Lord knows, I was nearly one of them at one point. It's significantly worse when it's something more personal, like one's Twitter or Facebook. Addiction to online interaction is a significant issue for some people, and it breaks a lot of camels' backs every year.
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If you're out there in Twitterland using your own name, which most of these minor celebs tend to do, the trolls can make your life a living hell. I have zero doubt that the cycberbullying played a part in this pornstar's demise. But, I also have no doubt that the mentality which allowed her to even be a pornstar played a much larger role.
 
calamity said:
If you're out there in Twitterland using your own name, which most of these minor celebs tend to do, the trolls can make your life a living hell. I have zero doubt that the cycberbullying played a part in this pornstar's demise. But, I also have no doubt that the mentality which allowed her to even be a pornstar played a much larger role.
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I still err on the side of blaming the harassers.
 
Jesse Booth said:
Of course there were more issues at work here, but a mass attack on her online life was certainly the cinder block that broke the camel's back. Walking away from social media is far easier said than done, Superfly. Even in my short time on this forum, I've seen at least a dozen people I knew fairly well self-destruct because they just couldn't get up and walk away from their screen. Lord knows, I was nearly one of them at one point. It's significantly worse when it's something more personal, like one's Twitter or Facebook. Addiction to online interaction is a significant issue for some people, and it breaks a lot of camels' backs every year.
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Again - underlying issues. If she were addicted to anything, then that is considered an underlying issue. Accept the fact that there is more to this than just online bullies. She clearly needed psychiatric help.
 
Jesse Booth said:
I still err on the side of blaming the harassers.
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I agree with your statement earlier about the cinderblock. For sure, this cyberattack pushed her already fragile mind over the edge.
 
Superfly said:
Again - underlying issues. If she were addicted to anything, then that is considered an underlying issue. Accept the fact that there is more to this than just online bullies. She clearly needed psychiatric help.
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Where did I deny that there were underlying issues? We're essentialy arguing over degrees of responsibility at this point.
 
calamity said:
I agree with your statement earlier about the cinderblock. For sure, this cyberattack pushed her already fragile mind over the edge.
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Man, hate mobs can destroy people's lives fast as hell. This is why I don't have a Facebook or anything similar. If people really want to threaten and stalk me, they can spend a few hours combing through this site and a few relevant information databases. **** having that **** all together in a highly public domain.
 
Crovax said:
Porn star August Ames dead at 23 - NY Daily News

This story has it all, the horrors of the porn industry, the burden of fame, and the constant cyberbully brigading of those who don’t subscribe to a majority opinion.
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It’s hard to understand why the winner of awards and a career so obviously filled with promise would let cyber bullies destroy her. I suspect she was a troubled soul, and the cyber bullying put her over the edge.
 
MaggieD said:
It’s hard to understand why the winner of awards and a career so obviously filled with promise would let cyber bullies destroy her. I suspect she was a troubled soul, and the cyber bullying put her over the edge.
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Once you go into porn, there aren't very many alternative options available, even if there were before. And if that gets torn down by a hate mob, well, you've really got nothing. Throw in the obvious fact that very few people go into porn because they had a plethora of choices available in the first place, and it's little wonder those actresses can be broken like this.
 
Superfly said:
Suicidal people usually have other underlying issues as well. Pretty sure this would have happened to her anyway, and there's a good chance it's been on her mind for a long time. I mean, people who do porn are not at the top of their game anyway.
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Yeah, I'm suspecting there's something deeper here. This may have just been the catalyst.
 
Holy crap, she was the 5th highest ranked porn star on Pornhub. They weren't kidding about her promising career.

...No, actually, I didn't just look her up to jerk it to the dead girl. If I was planning on that, I'd have been gone for at least another thirty seconds, counting cleanup.
 
MaggieD said:
It’s hard to understand why the winner of awards and a career so obviously filled with promise would let cyber bullies destroy her. I suspect she was a troubled soul, and the cyber bullying put her over the edge.
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That's what I said. This might've been the catalyst.
 
William Rea said:
I can see nothing in the article that suggests that anyone who made comments on social media was actually LGBT so why is it prominent in your OP title?
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It has nothing to do with the actual status of the individual bullies just the agenda they were using to bully her
 
MaggieD said:
And there you have it. The bundle of straws.
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Not exactly, from the article: "Ames admitted during a podcast just weeks before her death that she was sexually abused as a child and battled drug addiction"

Pretty much every single porn star was abused, has a drug addiction or both.
 
Crovax said:
It has nothing to do with the actual status of the individual bullies just the agenda they were using to bully her
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I'll take that explanation at face value and watch how this developes.
 
Dragonfly said:
You wouldn't quite your job if you sank into deep depression and started having suicidal thoughts, and the root cause of all of it was your job?

Turn off your computer. Walk away. Put down your phone. Walk away. If your very life depended on that you couldn't do it?
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Way to victim blame.
She shouldn't have been harassed at all.

She has a right to do porn with whoever she wants to without being harassed over it.
 
Superfly said:
She's an adult. If it bothered her that badly, she could walk away from the computer and get a job at McDonald's. No job is worth taking your life over.

I'm telling you, if a psychological autopsy were done, and if often is when there's a suicide, you'd find she had underlying issues.
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Yea for victim blaming.
 
ludin said:
Yea for victim blaming.
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Whats truly pathetic is that if this were a young lesbian harassed in any manner for whatever reason by a heterosexual, these people would be merciless in their expressed hatred towards the bullies.
 
Dragonfly said:
You wouldn't quite your job if you sank into deep depression and started having suicidal thoughts, and the root cause of all of it was your job?

Turn off your computer. Walk away. Put down your phone. Walk away. If your very life depended on that you couldn't do it?
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Sounds like she liked her job...she just didnt want to put herself at greater risk of becoming infected and for that she was harassed...not at work but on social media.
 
ludin said:
Way to victim blame.
She shouldn't have been harassed at all.

She has a right to do porn with whoever she wants to without being harassed over it.
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That's not what's going on here, but if that's how you see it then I guess it's up to you to un-see it.
 
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