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Justin Bieber fans outraged at gruesome #CutForBieber prank



Justin Bieber fans are known for their extreme dedication to the pop icon, but a disturbing Twitter trend that emerged on Monday made it seem that they had take their obsession to a frightening level.

The term #CutForBieber started trending, initially as a joke started by the prankster website 4Chan. The trend comes days after photos surfaced of the “Baby” singer allegedly smoking marijuana.

"Let’s start a cut yourself for Bieber campaign," an anonymous user wrote on a 4Chan message board, according to Billboard. "Tweet a bunch of pics of people cutting themselves and claim we did it because Bieber was smoking weed. See if we can get some little girls to cut themselves."

The sudden surge of self-harm photos, which Gossip Cop reports were both real and fake, sparked outrage from posters.

"Cut for Bieber? [Seriously]?" one user tweeted. "Suicide jokes are not funny on any level."
“#CutForBieber is not something cool,” another wrote. “Some people actually are going through self-harm and can’t stop. Have some respect for those people.”

“Although #CutForBieber was created by the humble denizens of 4chan, I wouldn't be surprised if some teenage girls out there actually did it,” one user wrote.

Some, however, took the prank more lightly, posting photos of people cutting paper, food and even their nails with the trend.

The 4Chan website quickly took down posts urging users to post the gruesome photos, according to Billboard. 4Chan is the same site that allegedly started the #BaldForBieber trend in October, which claimed Bieber had cancer and fans should shave their heads to support the singer.


Bieber has not directly responded to the #CutForBieber posts or the photos of him allegedly smoking.

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praiseheathus 8th-Jan-2013 06:16 pm (UTC)
What is the deal with 4chan? Why does it do this sort of shit? I've asked this of people for years and the best they can come up with is 'for the lawlz'.

Scum of the earth.
robertsbox_xo 8th-Jan-2013 06:18 pm (UTC)
isn't "i did it for the lulz" like their slogan or something or was that just the movie based on them
winniechili 8th-Jan-2013 06:20 pm (UTC)
Because it's a website populated by lonely and outcast men.
eyduh 8th-Jan-2013 06:22 pm (UTC)
basically what the person above me said.

it's mostly populated by men, lonely and miserable men, who spend days playing games and have 0 friends, completely alienated from their families.
illiade 8th-Jan-2013 06:23 pm (UTC)
It's a bunch of different people with different interests and no accountability. e.g. there's a board for people who like music, one for tv, one for art and a random board (/b/) which is all the other shit that doesn't fit anywhere else. People who like to be tryhard and edgy on the internet go to /b/ and do shit like this because they think it makes them look cool.
devetu 8th-Jan-2013 06:29 pm (UTC)
ugly fat white dudes with poor social skills who only have overbearing mothers, fleshlights, video games, and each other
rinanina101 8th-Jan-2013 06:36 pm (UTC)
they're a bunch of fat white guys that live in their mother's basement. and yeah, they basically do everything "for the lawlz"
mellarks 8th-Jan-2013 06:48 pm (UTC)
It depends on the board you go to, tbh. /b/ is the worst (but they produced most of the memes on the internet, so) of the lot, though.
69love_songs 8th-Jan-2013 06:54 pm (UTC)
I've never been to 4chan tbh, and hope never to go there.....what is /b/ ?
mellarks 8th-Jan-2013 06:56 pm (UTC)
It's one of the boards on there. 4chan is the site and it has a bunch of boards - think of it as a forum like setup with subforms)

/b/ is the dark place everyone is talking about when they talk about it being the dark place of the internet. A lot of fuckery, trolling, and eyeroll worthy/gross things go on there. It's a mess and 'anything goes' except for child porn.
invisible_cunt 8th-Jan-2013 07:08 pm (UTC)
all i can think of is that they're overweight basement dwellers with sweaty pubes who have never amounted to anything
so they live their pathetic, bitter, virgin lives finding humour in the sickest of things to boost the drop of self-esteem they have left
skeletwin 8th-Jan-2013 09:27 pm (UTC)
they have some boards that were better moderated like a paranormal and a fashion board but /b/ is a mess and the rest of 4chan abhors them
xpirate_queenx 8th-Jan-2013 10:08 pm (UTC)
/b/ went down the tubes about 2008.
xpirate_queenx 8th-Jan-2013 10:07 pm (UTC)
4chan can't really be accurately described one way or another. Some of it is good, some of it is hilarious, some of it is horrifying. It's not called the asshole of the internet for nothing.
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