Charlie McDonnell's Experience With Trolls

Hello, everyone!

I had a very disturbing, horrible, and ultimately stupid experience today.

I was on charlieissocoollike's YouTube channel, and discovered that some hateful people were accusing this sweet, wonderful person of being a pedophile.

Let's all stop and think for a second: Charlie McDonnell. As in, Charlie. He wrote a letter to apply for Knighthood. He painted himself purple. He sings songs about Doctor Who. He bought Matt Smith a toy badger for Christmas. He cares more about his fans than any celebrity I know of. He enjoys puns.

Obviously, this is the work of horrible trolls.

This deduction having taken up no more than a nanosecond of my time, I began to ponder things. And you all know what happens when I start to ponder things.

1. Bullying, where I live, is an offense that at best gets you fined $800, and at worst gets you in juvy. I wonder what the laws are in the UK?
2. This, however, was cyberbullying. Hmmm... why are there no laws to regulate that?
3. Why didn't Alex get on his channel and do some serious Charlie-defense?
4. What will Charlie think about all this nonsense?

Answer to Question #1: Absolutely no idea. Too lazy to look it up right now.
Answer to Question #2: Because politicians have no souls.
Answer to Question #3: Either Alex was busy secretly dating Carrie Fletcher, busy being a rock star, or busy being at VidCon. Or possibly he didn't see it. Or possibly his computer is dead.

Those are the only things I can think of that would be reasonable excuses.

Answer to Question #4: He will respond, as ever, with intelligence and the calm assurance that he has millions of supportive fans who care about him and aren't so gullible that they'll believe anything a troll says.

In closing, if this doesn't prove that the government needs to get a handle on cyberbullying, I don't know what will.

Pride and Prejudice and YouTube

So.

I started this blog entry with "Pride and Prjudice" and you know what that means.

It means... AWESOMENESS WILL HAPPEN. Duh.

So, I read ol' P&P straight through last year, and I did a cute little chapter by chapter analysis of it. Because I'm that kind of person.

And then I sort of stopped analyzing it because I got so busy reading it and enjoying it. (Which I fully thought I wouldn't. I was a hipster when I was a freshman. Ugh, that's embarassing.)

And now on YouTube, they're doing Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and it's a big deal, and I'm just like, "AHHH! Get me some tea! I miss Jane Austen!"

And then I started thinking. Which is always dangerous. And I thought of my blog. And how I can do whatever I want over here and no one has any control over it.

*insert evil laughter*

So yes, I will be rereading Pride and Prejudice for your reading pleasure.

Consider yourself warned.