Tag: Bullying

What is call-out culture? According to Forbes, it is “a term which defines the social phenomenon of publicly denouncing perceived racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of bigotry.” That’s it in a nutshell, but if you’re still finding that definition a little too vague,

In 2010, your favorite social media app, Instagram, was born. Nine years ago, the community was still so small that its founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, could still manually delete mean and abusive comments. Over the years, there's no denying that

If you ever feel like you're having a rough day, remember that someone else might be having it worse. We all have our own ups and downs in life. In fact, even Gucci's creative director Alessandro Michele was not invincible to such struggles. In a

Just a week ago my social media feeds were a happy place. The whole country was bound together in a blanket of lava rhinestones and national pride. Five days is a lifetime and a half online. At this moment, my social media

In an interview with Preview, Heart Evangelista recalls being bullied back in grade school through high school, which was actually the reason why she "quit regular school and did home-studying for a while." The actress adds how much she finds the movie Mean

With hundreds of thousands of social media followers, local blogger Camille Co no doubt has a strong presence online. Still, she tries her best to maintain good rapport with her followers, which sometimes also means having to politely deal with internet bullies and

Celebrities receive negative comments every day, but many of them often reach a boiling point. Surely you've heard of some stars who post long and wordy clapbacks to their haters to call them out, and it's basically become the norm for responding

If you look up the word "different" in the thesaurus, you'll pull up its synonyms that include other, unlike, distant, and dissimilar. All these point to isolation and unbelongingness, brewing a feeling of shame for who you really are when you don't conform to

If you haven’t yet binge-watched 13 Reasons Why during the long break, then I suggest you do so, stat. Netflix’s most popular show to date (yup, you read that right!) tells the story of a teenage girl named Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford),

Kendall Jenner is reportedly still being bullied by other models.The "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star has been a key focus of New York Fashion Week but is still facing criticism from her peers as it's emerged fellow model Lexi Boling and