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Damn. What the hell is wrong with people? "Go kill yourself." Are you kidding me??? I thought he had to be one of the funnest/funniest people in the world after the video. I'd honestly thought he'd take advantage of the celebrity status and use it to his advantage. . . . . but idiotic bullies/kids/highschoolers will be idiotic bullies/kids/highschoolers.

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This is what I thought as well. I would have thought he could have leveraged it and brought some good out of it, but that sort of thing probably didn't occur to him or his parents at the time. It would have been very difficult to look for the roses amongst the thorns back then.

EDIT: reading the article intro, and the fact that he is now a law school graduate, I can't help thinking if perhaps this is step 1 in starting to leverage his worldwide fame. A law firm specialising in prosecuting bullying behavior in workplaces, or something similar? I hope it is the case and he manages to leverage the laughter into real success.

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