The day I got cyber-bullied

June 09, 2014.

This incident has really got me thinking... of all the people who are cyber-bullied... reason or NOT.. (and most of the time for fun). They must really hurt, as they are being hated on for absolutely no exact reason. Which is why, I want to ask my readers to always remember to SPREAD LOVE... and NOT HATE... And also to anyone out there who is being cyber-bullied, don't let someone else's comment determine how much you're worth ok?

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I took part in a competition where I had to post a picture with One Direction related items... and I was super excited... if you guys have been following me on twitter/blogger, you all should know how crazy I was/am/will be over the boys especially Zayn for me. You can click here as well to see my blog posts on them... One direction posts. Hence... I posted this picture on my instagram:

 I admit, it's not the BEST picture.. and maybe not as creative as other entries or WHATEVER... But I wanted to take a chance and just join in the fun. So, the next step of the contest was to tweet your entry to them, and I did.

The contest ran for 5 Days... and so after tweeting it on the first day.. I let it be and I did not spam my entries in because I HATE SPAMMING. I feel that if your entry is quality enough, you don't hafta spam your way through. UNLESS... the organizers say "The one who spams the most number of times win". But I normally don't join those kind as I don't like it... having to fill your timeline with redundant tweets. Joined those kind twice and totally give up, LOL. Teenagers these days spam way better than me!!

So... on the last day, they tweeted that it was the final day for us to submit any final entries in... and I decided to tweet them again and reminded them to check out my entry. But i was kinda not hopeful, as honestly when I clicked on the hashtag... there were like probably... 30 tweets popping up every second that I refresh the page, and they were spamming like "x 2230" LOL. Two thousand plus tweets!!! Can you imagine???

Fast forward... they were supposed to announce the winner at 7pm. And I waited and waited.. even though I didn't think I may win, but I still held on to the hope that I would! It was like... 7:10pm already and I still didn't receive a call... guess it was over.... but then...THEY FREAKING CALLED ME. I WON TWO TICKETS TO THE ONE DIRECTION CONCERT. LIKE WHAT?

The feeling can't even be described, i was like freaking calm when i answered the call as I was just simply stunned. I don't even know what to answer them...Like to be honest... there were much better entries out there... like with lots of 1D related items... and also those who spammed a zillion times, and I wasn't expecting to win. But I did......... and here came a wave of angry tweets.

These tweets that I'm posting up are only of users that mentioned me, there were like hundreds of other tweets where they mentioned me as "ching chang chong" or whatever, like more basically a CARROT. LOL. Here I am gonna use some tweets to blog about how ridiculous I found these people to be hating on me FOR NOTHING.

 I don't deserve to win.... A real fan does.

 

Yeah a REAL FAN probably does. LOL. I don't know about them.. but they expected me to CRY??? Like because I won tickets to their concert... Winning it was a bonus, a lovely unexpected bonus. Because even if I didn't win it, I would still have scrimped and save to buy a ticket to watch them. And look at the amount of celebrities I have met... from local artistes to international ones, I see them, but I don't go CRAZY.  I mean I will be normal when I see them...I will just keep smiling (cos I'm damn happy) but I won't cry or scream. They are human like us, if someone cries or screams when they see me I'd be totally like "WTH."

 TRUE FANS? Ok first and foremost... I did not chose myself to win it. I was just lucky.

 And they started calling me a carrot. For those of you who does not know what a carrot mean....

 And then for absolutely no reason... they started hating on the people who organized the competition which I totally felt bad about.. as though if I was a better "fan". The crazy hates would have cut them the slack.

 And by the way... I wasn't following "One Direction" on twitter hence the fuss was bigger!!! I was only following the 5 boys... which they deemed that a real fan would follow one direction's HQ account. Like okay... but chloechong isn't my only account. I have accounts that following only verified accounts just so I could get updates from them people.

 More angry mobs...

And then you can see people got really vulgar and all. Some even wanted to murder me...

The funniest thing for me was probably how they said I was related to the people who organized the competition. LOL. Why do people always have such ridiculous theories just because they lost? As the chinese saying goes... "吃不到葡萄说葡萄酸" (When someone can't eat the grapes, they will say that it's sour)

I would say that it's lucky I'm used to such things... I've been on the online platform since 2006. And I was exposed to all sorts of hate, comments...etc etc. And I learned to always see things with a light heart and if possible just laugh it off. I didn't even bothered replying any of them. And this time I really think it was childish of them... I mean what if all these hate was directed to someone else younger... or that it was someone who was already depressed and happy she/he won?

Basically, people NEVER think of the consequences before doing or saying something.

“Don’t Make Decisions When You’re Angry. Don’t Make Promises When You’re Happy.”

Anyone out there who is being bullied, not only in the cyber world, be BRAVE enough to speak up about it. YOU ARE NOT ALONE in this fight, always go to your parents/older siblings or even your teachers for help.

p/s: I did not name the who organized it as you guys would know from my instagram / twitter but i needed to say they really helped out too, in asking them to SPREAD positivity.. and etc. And so I really love how protective they are of their listeners, thank you x.

and... i blurred off the users, as the purpose of this post is not to defame them or embarrass them... but to share this story and remind everyone that not all victims of cyber bullying are as strong as me.

Remember....

Stop cyberbullying