An Outlet for Hatred? or Just Blind Ignorance?

Its Thursday morning. The boyfriend has left for work 2 hours ago. Because I decided to go to go back to bed, its now 12pm. Im bored. I have nothing to do. so, like many people would, I decided to explore the vast entity that is Youtube. Now, one thing that never fails to amuse me is the laughing of babys. so I first decided to go for an old favourite - 'Serious Baby Pulling A Funny Frown And Laughing'.

I love this video. Then I looked to the recomended list. The following video particularly caught my eye.

Top Ten Funny Baby Videos. That name has gotta mean its hillarious right? And it is. But the one that caught my eye the most was the child who you can see in the begining image for this video. And it just so happens that to the right of the screen, there was a link to the original version. So I clicked on it.

And it was hillarious. Just the look on his cute little face never fails to get me into fits of giggles. Which brings us to the final film in my baby video list. On the left I saw the video 'Worlds Meanest Dad'. I figured it couldnt be that bad, else it wouldnt be on youtube. So I clicked on it.

Isnt it hillarious! Bless the little babies face befor it cries. And then I saw the comments... What a load of pompus, self involved, moany, pathetic and frankly quite rude w*****s. I dont mean to swear, but they really made me angry. I have listed some of the comments below.

"ha that baby is gunna be scarred for life. Good parenting skills right there"

"omg wow so rude i think the baby needs a new mom and dad"

"U asshole!!!!!! The poor little baby almost cried D: you guys are horrible parents"

"Moro reflex, my ass. This adult individual made an overtly frightening gesture in order to derive amusement from his infant son's fear. It takes a real man to find humor in terrorizing a helpless baby. What else do you do for fun, torture animals?"

"you are one very sick and twisted freak .May god have mercy on you and may god watch over your poor now scared baby fuck face"

"Fuck you your not surpose to do that to your child you dumbass that means you don't love him asshole from hell"

"Keep it up dad, you're doing a fucking amazing job at turning your kid into a nervous wreck. This is very close to child abuse in my opinion"

"why would a sicko parent want to scare their own little baby,think you need to visit a doctor,its not a normall response to want to upset a baby,what is normal is the desire to protect our babys,not act like a stupid moron,your child will grow up with issues at the rate your going. go care for your child and dont upset it,last thought WHAT SORT OF MOTHER allows a creep to do trhat to her beautifull baby. STAND UP FOR YOUR CHILD WOMAN ..."

"Why would you do that to your child, you just discovered a baby can be scared? Are you that slow at figuring out a baby is a human just like you and they get scared as well. You knew that scaring the baby would make him cry, so why do it?. You don't deserve to be a parent if you do that to a child just to figure out they aren't robots."

And my personal favourite:

"Whatever your arguments are, I think scaring little babies just to watch their CUTE FACES is just dumb. You are supposed to have him feel secure and safe not make him piss his diaper! That's just being a parent. I have a 2-year daughter and I wouldn't even think of making her cry for any reason. I wish you are scared so much that you will shit your pants. DID YOUR DADDY SCARE YOU? AWWWW.... geez you both are the same.... Nothing worse for a kid than stupid parents."

When I first read the comments, I couldnt quite believe it!!! (Here it is important to note that this video was posted over 2 years ago, and only in the last few days has it gained quite such levels. The previous selection of comments were only made in the last week or so) . When I was searching through the comments, I realised that for confidentiality reasons I shouldnt include the Youtube usernames, but god I wanted too - just to show up these ignorant fools.

And you can tell that these people clearly have nothing to do with their life but sit and watch videos and bitch about them later. Its just another version of the Sachsgate scandal (in that the event haopened, no one really noticed, it went down like any normal prank. Then someone came along on their high horse, made a comment, and all of a sudden half the world seems to have a moral objection to it). Simmilarly here - The video was made and uploaded over two years ago. And while there were comments made when it was uploaded, its only really picked up in the last 9 months, with the most vicious attacks and the highest frequency of views and comments only happening in the last month.

And you can bet that these people dont have kids. And those that do claim to have kids have the sort of uptight upbringing that sees children grow up into rebellious little arses that will do anything to disobey the strict upbringing of their parents. "I have a 2 year daughter and I wouldnt even think of making her cry for any reason". I have news for you then - Your daughter is gonna grow up into a weak loser. I bet you wont let her watch films with guns in when she grows upo, and wont let her watch what she wants on TV, or let her play slightly violent games, or read adult books. Asshole.

Let me tell you somethin. When I was tiny, I was absolutely petrified of horses. So naturally, everytime we went to a farm, my dad and my grandad would hold me up next to it, and mum would take a photo of me next to the horse, crying my eyes out. Simmilarly, when I was a little older, I got attacked my a chicken who tryed to steal my sandwich. From that point on, I was scared of chickens (i got over it shortly after) but what did my parents do - the following christmas they bought me a chicken hand puppet! Its something parents do!

I guess what I am trying to convey is that social media is just another tool for people who want to spout hatred through blind anger and ignorance. Give these people an inch and they will take a mile. It doesnt take a lot to rile up these idiots. Because they will take anything and blow it out of proportion, even though they are misinformed and clearly dont know what they are talking about!