- Culture
- 21 Feb 07
The Asian Britney Spears killed herself after being bullied on the internet.
Cyber warriors’ are being blamed for the suicide of South Korean singer and actress U-Nee who hung herself last week after returning home from a church service.
Things started to go wrong for the teen star a few years ago when, at her record company’s insistence, she underwent breast augmentation and surgery to make her look more western. This lead to an orchestrated hate campaign by the self-styled warriors who regularly hacked into her website and left abusive messages.
“This is the first news that made me smile in a long time,” read one message, which was posted within minutes of her death being made public.
According to the report at english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200701/200701230018.html, “Last year, the Cyber Crime Investigation Division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police investigated a man who had posted hundreds of messages against a political party online. A police officer said the man spent all his time, except when he was asleep, at the keyboard. ‘We were surprised to find him more timid than normal despite the aggressive nature of his postings,’ he said.”
U-Nee was also reported to be upset about dwindling record sales, and management pressure to revive her career by appearing in the Korean version of Playboy.
From there it’s but a mere mouse-click to www.donniedavies.com, where the titular guitar-playing God botherer is running “a very strong program to help cure people of Homosexuality.” Reckoning that “one of the most dangerous ways homosexuality invades family life is through popular music,” his Changing Homosexuals Into Ordinary People (C.H.O.P.S) initiative comes with a list of artists to “watch out for.” This includes Elton John (“really gay”), Ted Nugent (“loincloth”), Marilyn Manson (“dark gay”), Morrissey (“?questionable?”) and Metallica who are pictured kissing. With tongues.
No less bizarre is the episode of kiddy cartoon Captain Planet in which the superhero “saves Belfast”. Fans of cod Norn Iron accents and Americans getting it completely arseways should proceed to www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJrovKgrTw.
Reports that a Russian mining accident was down to drinking on the job are rather unconvincingly denied at www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt8mEZ2E0aM
Which just leaves time for quick Valentine’s Day visits to www.vidilife.com/video_play_907771_Sexy_The_Global_Report.htm (stripping newsreader); www.funny-games.biz/slapadick.html (penile fun); and www.eatmyhamster.com/f/Japanese+Couples+BUSTED%21?rurl=%2Ftag%2Fsex (Japanese doggers get busted).