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mcfw31 12 hr ago +944

> “Just to let everyone know, I will not be attending prom,” he wrote. “Please stop sending death threats to EVERY teenage girl who could remotely be associated with me based on their proximity to where I live. It’s not fair to them or to their families. Maybe also just stop sending death threats in general. That’s just not cool. Kinda weird I have to say this.”

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Specialist-Art5406 11 hr ago +329

i saw someone sharing that someone got his name tattooed… everyone is so f****** weird 🙂

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SapphireFlashFire 10 hr ago +126

I hadn't even heard of this kid til today. Seems like every celebrity has The Beatles levels of fan obsession.

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QueezyF 9 hr ago +44

I would die for Clint Howard.

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Weird-Girl-675 8 hr ago +10

I’m picturing him as the kid in Night Shift going to prom in a hearse when you say that.

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Tiny_Economist_9244 8 hr ago -8

Ok? But then you wouldn’t get to experience him anymore. What’s the end goal? This comment is insane or a bad troll.

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QueezyF 8 hr ago +10

Sacrificing my life for Clint Howard would be an honor.

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techieman33 10 hr ago +19

Most celebrities have some amount of crazies that are obsessed with them. But it’s not really the same as The Beatles or Taylor Swift that have millions of them.

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Weird-Girl-675 8 hr ago +14

I’ve been in several fandoms and have seen the worst in people. The best was after a private meeting with an actress, watching one of her loony fans trying to get into the town car with the actress and her husband. Like what in your brain tells you that’s ok?!

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Tiny_Economist_9244 8 hr ago +3

You’re “old” now. Welcome to the club.

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hmspain 8 hr ago +5

Watch The Adam Project. The kid is brilliant in it!

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broohaha 8 hr ago +2

Have a middle schooler who’s been a huge fan for the past 3 years.

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SneakyFire23 10 hr ago +42

Wait until you see how adult women were acting over teenage Justin Bieber, it was as bad as the Olson twin countdown to 18

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zenlume 4 hr ago +1

Don’t even have to go that far back, the kids in Stranger Things have talked about how older women were sexualizing them after the first season came out.

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Mooredock 8 hr ago +12

I eternally sympathize with child stars truly. I don't know what the answer is because it's clearly not stoppable outside of keeping children completely out of film/television/Music, but someone that young being subjected to public scrutinity at such a massive scale is horrific, let alone the way "fandoms" treat them, the way the media treats them, and the way many of them are treated behind the scenes. It was bad back in the day with tabloids, but I genuinely think it's been worse since around the Bieber-days because rather than just selective outlets, it's entire mobs of the public just openly dogpiling children and also sexualizing them to a degree that even the worst tabloid couldn't get away with. I remember the Wolfhard kid from Stranger Things being openly harassed by adults asking about his sexual preferences and begging to jump his bones when he was 14 years old, people making borderline-cp of him when he was in 9th grade, and a large portion of the shows actual fans have obsessively ruined every dynamic he's had and are constantly campaigning trying to "force him out of the closet" while bouncing back and forth between objectifying him but also calling him ugly, dragging him for his appearance, his voice, his clothes, his twitch, his *hands or nose*, his voice, and routinely deciding to arbitrarily turn on him and *harass him over mental issues he's been open about having*. And I took note of all that because when it started happening back in 2016 there were *articles written* about how the stranger things kids were getting the gross public obsession that Bieber was finally starting to shed a little, and they treated it like a fun game trying to guess which one was going to be a train wreck first. I've already seen the beginnings of that with the new Harry Potter cast and its not even out yet.

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hmspain 8 hr ago +3

The answer is for the police *to do their job*, and track down the threats and prosecute!

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SoTiredYouDig 7 hr ago +8

The answer is for the tech oligarchs to spend a minuscule amount of their money, and implement actual guardrails that work on their platforms. Instead of censoring politics they disagree with, that amount of effort should be applied to protecting anyone among us, who is at risk. Whether it be a celebrity or not, and “of age”, or not.

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Mooredock 8 hr ago +6

You would think, but it's clearly beyond the scope of their fkn abilities moat of the time. And in all honestly even if they were good at their jobs and charged the largest threats, you can't police 100s of 1000s of people on the internet all taking part in the same mob, and it just happens on such a large scale it becomes a cultural norm. When Bieber was a teenager and hit-men were caught trying to strangle him at the behest of a convict who openly claimed he wanted to *cage him and r@pe him* the police stopped and charged *those two*, but they couldn't stop dozens of articles being written underhandedly expressing dissapointment that they didn't succeed, or the 1000s of people online who immediatly turned it into a joke and started pretending to raise funds to "get them out and finish the job". You can technically charge a severe enough stalker or someone who physically attacks them, but you can't stop the masses from eviscerating a publically known child, calling Brittany fat, calling Amanada ugly, hoping an under-age Bieber ODs, being racist to Arabella Stanton or telling Wolfhard to starve himself and die. That's a public hysteria that nothing seems able to stop.

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4DPeterPan 7 hr ago +16

“Kinda weird I have to say this” For real.

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PetyrDayne 11 hr ago +52

These big studios need an army of lawyers working with law enforcement to find these f****** pathetic people whose mothers should have swallowed and have them face imprisonment and fines because it's the only way they'll learn.

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Hmmmm-curious 10 hr ago +20

Humanity is such a disappointing species

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Any_Asparagus8267 9 hr ago +18

Adults doing this to teenagers because they have a crush on a teenager is f****** INSANE.

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Hmmmm-curious 9 hr ago +11

Totally agreed. And it’s just a disgusting obsession with celebrity. That is a mental illness.

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buckao 9 hr ago +7

Adults having a crush on a teenager is called MAGA

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yesyouareverysmart 5 hr ago +1

New to Listnook?

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Aeon1508 10 hr ago +9

And it's probably like one person that's doing it

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rxinquestion 10 hr ago +1

That response sounded like something Percy would say as a character lol

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ColoOddball 10 hr ago +1

Quality Percy answer to be honest.

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28DLdiditbetter 11 hr ago +342

If this is happening to Percy Jackson, imagine what the new Harry Potter is going to go through

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Dsarg_92 11 hr ago +120

That’s what I worry about those kids on the new Harry Potter. I just hope they have a strong support system around them to keep stuff like this from happening to them.

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DMaury1969 11 hr ago +97

More worried for the new Snape.

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Miserable-Command682 10 hr ago +14

Blame WB for that.

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dalici0us 10 hr ago +60

I think I'll blame the racists.

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Miserable-Command682 10 hr ago +48

You can blame them, but the minute Harrys dad starts bullying the black teacher, hanging him under a tree, WB became responsible for the backlash/ hate. There will always be racists, this was entirely avoidable, though. A stupid casting set up for failure/hate.

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littlemonsterlove 9 hr ago +10

James used Snape’s own spell against him to levitate him upside down in the air. A tree was never involved. But yes, it’s going to come off wrong regardless.

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Miserable-Command682 9 hr ago +2

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz5Dp3CQzOQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz5Dp3CQzOQ) 0:30 timestamp. Tree was there in the films.

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jawshankredemption94 8 hr ago +1

But Snape was white in the film. The tree was not part of the plot or important to the scene. You don’t think they might change it a bit this time around? 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Beepb00pb00pbeep 7 hr ago +1

The general sentiment that the only reason a black kid could possibly be bullied being because of the color of his skin feels like another racist complaint in my opinion. People just think it sounds more intelligent and thought out, so it excuses the racism or something (it doesn’t) Also they make up details to support their racist argument (like “hanging from a tree” lol…wtf? That didn’t happen)

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StrokyBoi 5 hr ago +7

Obviously many of the people using that arguments are unlikely to have read the books, but some of James Potter's dialogue from them would really back up that perspective. One of the lines of him justifying/explaining why he bullies Snape is "Well... It’s more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean…" They'll have to remove this kind of dialogue, otherwise it'll be hard to not see the bullying as racially motivated.

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Miserable-Command682 7 hr ago +1

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz5Dp3CQzOQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz5Dp3CQzOQ) I mean go to 0:30 and you can see how a black kid being magically lifted, hung upside down under a tree in the act of bullying would look questionable. So much projection going on in your statement.

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Most_Tangelo 6 hr ago +1

I do think one thing worth considering with the lynching comparrison is that historically to be more of a US thing. That isn't me saying things like the 1919 race riots didn't happen but that what one could equate as racist imagery probably changes in the context of the setting of the production itself. The more universal point of contention would be the well off white students bullying the struggling black child. More importantly, even if JK Rowling wasn't an absolute pos, Harry Potter hasn't held up. The writings just not good, so I don't know who wants to watch it to find out how they handle this.

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Miserable-Command682 6 hr ago

"Harry Potter hasn't held up" Twilight was popular and it had c*** writing lol. Sometimes people have a niche that they like. HP is much more popular and it still has a massive following. Kids love it and a crazy number of adults are as well. Movies are beloved almost universally, so you may be speaking from a pure book perspective?

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Most_Tangelo 4 hr ago +1

Oh I'm definitely speaking purely on the writing from the books and not the actual level of popularity for sure.

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Killzark 10 hr ago -3

Again I see the exact same comment that is so incredibly wrong and shows how little people know about the book. James never hung Snape from a tree. In the movie, in a brief flashback, he was shown levitating Snape near a tree to bully him. Making the character a different race doesn’t alter that scene or any other scene in the slightest. The only reason anyone has brought any of these comments up is because of historical racism in America. Oh yes, all of these British wizards are going to be so concerned with the thought of a black teacher at their school potentially being racially profiled in the way of the old American South. It’s pure projection.

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KaiBishop 8 hr ago +5

"British white folk never engage in racism or white supremacy" is a f****** brain-dead take, as is "racism exists only in the American South." A group of all white kids bullying the one black dude reads a certain way regardless of whether Americans are involved. Hate to break it to you but British white folk are indeed often racist as hell and engage in white supremacist belief systems. What we're not gonna do is pretend Brits are f****** colorblind lmao.

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VisualizeJelly 6 hr ago -4

Dude no one said that lol. What was said is that a specific type of racist attack occurred in the American south that was unique to that place, so having that displayed thousands kilometers away doesn't make sense. Its like saying the kkk roamed the streets of London. Its just stupid and shows how American centric the other guy is while discussing a British show..

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KaiBishop 6 hr ago +3

Lmao again you think black people were never bullied or hate crimes in the UK and that that's a thing that happens specifically in the US south is just hilarious. We're not talking about a lynching we're talking about the optics of a group of white guys bullying the sole black dude. The imagery in the movie if kept the same direction for the show would absolutely evoke racist imagery and yes, the imagery of lynching specifically in the US audiences minds, but hey I mean maybe they don't intend anyone from the US to watch the show because that makes sense. Like no actually I'm pretty sure the group of all white guys bullying a black dude is gonna look racist regardless of whether it specifically evokes the imagery of lynching.

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lilittyb 5 hr ago +3

people also seem to be forgetting it’s the 1970s when this was set, racial equality has come a long way since then (definitely still not perfect) there were still race riots in the UK that would happen up until the 90s (like those in Brixton for example). i literally don’t understand how people think that the marauder’s aren’t going to come across as racist. the 1970s was still reeling from the massive wind rush.

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Miserable-Command682 10 hr ago +2

"Again I see the exact same comment that is so incredibly wrong and shows how little people know about the book." Well it's a good thing that i'm referring to the previous live action set of Harry Potter films that depicted Harry's dad hanging Snape upside down below a tree. The optics of doing this to possible one of the few black characters, is insanely bad.

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Killzark 9 hr ago +1

Yeah, that’s my exact point. The new tv show isn’t a remake of the movies, it’s an adaptation of the books. Just speaking movies, in your world you saw a boy being dangled under a tree by magic in fictional Britain and then learned the same character is going to be portrayed by a black actor and your first thought was to associate real world lynchings of black people in what I assume is the American South. How in the hell is what you’re projecting not more racist than the mere concept of a black actor portraying a fictional character that is disliked/hated because of the content of his character and not the color of his skin?

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Miserable-Command682 8 hr ago +4

The concept of blacks being lynched/hung is well known history, so obviously people are going to equate the two. I didn't create the bad optics, I can definitely acknowledge that it objectively looks bad to hang a black character under a tree. ". How in the hell is what you’re projecting not more racist than the mere concept of a black actor portraying a fictional character" I'm not projecting it, it's what it would objectively look like if it followed a somewhat similar path to the films.

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Scottyjscizzle 8 hr ago -2

Or we start treating racists like the human trash they are instead of stepping on eggshells around them.

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Miserable-Command682 8 hr ago +7

Nobody claimed you had to step on eggshells? However, WB set the actor up for failure and backlash, this is an objective fact. Racists are always gonna be there, intentionally casting a black man for a character role who had previously been depicted in live action being hung under a tree in an act of bullying is gonna come of really, really bad from all angles. But yeah feel free to hate racists, nobody said not to. But it's on WB as well as the racists for the backlash.

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NahdiraZidea 9 hr ago -5

Maybe the show will fix it and not make James a bully, seems like a win-win.

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DisposableSaviour 8 hr ago +4

That’s kind of a big plot point to remove

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NahdiraZidea 7 hr ago -2

Change, Harry and Malfoy have a rivalry but Harry isnt a bully. Do that for James and Severus, problem solved.

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Alright_Sunlight 10 hr ago +1

Is WB going to be sending death threats or?

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shreks_burner 10 hr ago +2

It’s the opposite They’re all in love with this dude

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Comprehensive_Ad7152 8 hr ago +1

Or the Zelda movie kids

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LostInTheSciFan 9 hr ago -5

Especially since the TERF Queen has made it pretty clear that she's only doing the new series to get a new set of child actors who won't speak out against her bigotry. And everyone just went "yeah sure okay let's get her some kids to use" and went along with it.

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Jagrofes 10 hr ago -7

I don’t know, Harry Potter has fallen off a lot in popularity for many reasons, and it isn’t very popular among anyone outside millennials.

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ClaytonWest74 12 hr ago +162

kinda fucked up that a kid has to do this

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theotherdude 11 hr ago +38

I say just go, and tell every teenage girls to document and report each and every threats that they receive. Sometimes the only way to teach these little assholes is to expose them to the consequences of their action. And let this kids have fun at their prom making memories.

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Main_Zucchini837 3 hr ago +1

Consequences never arrive unfortunately. And it's asking too much of teenagers to stand up to faceless death threats when even adults would find such things extremely disturbing. I hate that it looks like they've won, but unfortunately it is what it is.

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Stinkycheese8001 12 hr ago +200

The internet is a mistake.

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vonnegutsbutthole 11 hr ago +23

Nah, it’s he internet was a good idea. Social media is the cancer

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Bardic_inspiration67 4 hr ago +1

There were insane sites were people did shit like this pre social media

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Crille2898 5 hr ago +3

Why do we keep blaming social media, it's the people that are fcked up. The same people wishing death threatd on social media would bd saying the same thing if not for social media. The only difference is thwy would not send a letter about it because it cost them some money, or maybe some would. But we should not blame social media because people are screwed.

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TrappedInLimbo 7 hr ago -2

Said while actively using a social media

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LoveAndViscera 11 hr ago +37

You could do this with a phone book in the 70’s. Hell, it might have been easier.

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St0n3yM33rkat 11 hr ago +23

"The Tale Of The Phone Police" is an episode of Are You Afraid Of The Dark that I'm starting to feel like needs to be required viewing for all human beings

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Stinkycheese8001 11 hr ago +19

What? No. People from around the globe have access to him and his local peers that they never would have in the phone book era.

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tdmoney 10 hr ago

Call information, 411. That’s literally what it was for.

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MalIntenet 11 hr ago +13

No…no you couldn’t. We all have less privacy in the internet age

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KeyFeeFee 11 hr ago +9

But the only ones who would do that are true crazies who thought it through. Nowadays any rando has half a thought and can threaten from their undies without even buying a stamp. The convenience of the internet for harassment is a scourge.

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futuresdawn 11 hr ago +6

If you're sending death threats over the internet, you're just as crazy as someone who sends death threats through the mail, phone or attempts to shoot Reagan to get the attention of Jodie foster

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KeyFeeFee 10 hr ago +2

Also potentially far less dedicated. It used to be the true crazies that would go to the lengths to contact someone and they would never know it was received and thus could be taken so least somewhat credibly. Now it’s just a girl with a crush and too much time on their hands. That is maybe far less likely to be a credible threat. It’s definitely all crazy but I disagree with the idea that it’s all the same.

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WeOutHereInSmallbany 11 hr ago +3

Used to have to shoot Reagan or something to get attention from a celebrity

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regeya 11 hr ago +1

I'm thinking of the killer stalker who found his victim with a license plate #

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Alright_Sunlight 10 hr ago +2

Used to be hate mail.

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nggaplzzzz 7 hr ago +1

No just the people who sent the death threats.

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mymemesnow 3 hr ago +1

The Internet is great. Humans are the issue

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JauntyLurker 11 hr ago +39

This is so fucked up. Prom should a night to remember for any young person and he has to slip it because creeps on the Internet are sending death threats to anyone in his zip code. Absolutely insane.

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Dsarg_92 11 hr ago +10

How crazy do you have to be to harass a teenager? He didn’t ask for any of this.

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IamTheSmartestestman 5 hr ago +3

Teenage girls can be very crazy

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No-Exit2193 3 hr ago +1

Trust me it ain't teenage girls doing this bullshit.

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IamTheSmartestestman 3 hr ago +1

Adult women? It ain't guys tho.

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Riichi-stick 2 hr ago +1

You don’t understand girls LOL

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TylerHyena 11 hr ago +16

God I wish people could get a clue and not do this.

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Alientongue 11 hr ago +24

I dont understand and the article doesnt explain why are people sending death threats?

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Any-Sir8872 9 hr ago +20

as someone who was a teenage girl during the peak of internet fandoms, i think you guys are severely underestimating how often stuff like this happens to young male “heartthrobs” these days 😭

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beepbeepbubblegum 9 hr ago +1

fair enough

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Alientongue 11 hr ago +6

Oh i was assuming there was some kind of controversy surrounding a recent episode or something as its not unheard of for fans to do this like joffery character from game of thrones or the actress who played him mom or the actress who played skyler in breaking bad.

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futuneral 9 hr ago +3

Takes a dude to prom.

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phantombrick22 10 hr ago -3

Yeah I mean if anything, I feel like Annebeth’s actress would be more likely to receive death threats, not him

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Ok_Perspective_5148 9 hr ago +7

Well him Annabeths actress receiving death threats doesn’t really affect his chances of receiving death threats too. Either way sounds like he’s saying other people are sending people he knows death threats not specifically him. He could be hamming it up for publicity but I feel like the way Stan culture is nowadays I wouldn’t put it past them.

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bex_orange_county 9 hr ago +2

While I do agree she probably does receive threats (and horrific ones at that…), I don’t put it past the loud few in toxic fan base tearing apart a person that might be remotely close to their male idol. The Naked Brothers band, the series Supernatural… so much more. Even k-pop idols have to keep their relationships out of the public eye for the same reason, it’s so fucked and for no good reasons other than just ugly jealousy.

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beepbeepbubblegum 9 hr ago -5

Thankfully somebody who sees it the same. Sure he’d be a celebrity at his school and girls would be lining up but come on ..

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Pratai- 6 hr ago +8

So….. most kids are f****** psychopathic now?

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Shiv_Wee_Ro 4 hr ago +1

It’s nothing new. I remember Billie Piper (a female pop star in the UK in the late nineties) dated a guy called Ritchie Neville who was in a popular boyband called ‘Five’. His teenage fans sent her death threats via letter back then! Teenage girls have just always been a bit nuts when it comes to their celebrity crushes lol.

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Pratai- 4 hr ago +1

I know her from Dr. Who. Didn’t know that about her though.

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JustABrokePoser 11 hr ago +5

Fans? Those aren't fans.

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Significant-Jello411 11 hr ago +5

Fuckin unacceptable

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BroadwayBakery 10 hr ago +5

And you already know about 60% of the people who declare their love for the kid are full grown adults

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garcro 6 hr ago +5

Don’t call them fans.

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itc0nsumesmYMind 5 hr ago -2

The last one made the most money of the entire series. Clearly people are still enjoying them.

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Mycroft_xxx 11 hr ago +6

Omg that’s terrible. What’s wrong with people

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TonyDoover420 10 hr ago +3

I thought Percy Jacksons’ Star Walker was a new space movie for a second

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raddoubleoh 10 hr ago +3

Bro. This is PSYCHOTIC. What the f***.

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slanderpanther 8 hr ago +3

Those aren’t fans.

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slinkyb123 8 hr ago +2

Poor kid. Welcome to the world of obsessed fandoms. Sick people out here man.

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alvaropuerto93 6 hr ago +2

This might be an unpopular opinion but I think socials and internet in general must be more regulated and not only under 16s teenagers are to be subjected to controls. It is not the first time that you will find much older people behind these kind of threats and bullying.

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Famous_Strike_7289 10 hr ago +1

That's scary for everyone involved. Hopefully he has good security around him. You never know with people nowadays

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InAJar112 9 hr ago +1

I like acting but community theatre is fine for me. I’d never want to make art that has the byproduct of fame. It’s a hellscape.

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Dry_Accident_2196 8 hr ago +1

Now that’s an extremely dedicate fan base. /s I sincerely hope he’s lying about skipping prom. He’ll regret missing it. Also, it’s good that 99.9% of online death threats are fake. But you just never know when a real crazy comes along. Horrible situation for this young man and the girls being terrorized.

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Queue37 8 hr ago +1

Nah. Skipped prom 30 years ago. Never regretted it.

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DoubleFlores24 5 hr ago +1

I skipped my prom to go watch infinity war… and I didn’t have a date.

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misiissleepy 8 hr ago +1

A part of me really hopes he’s lying about skipping, like he’s only saying it to get people to stop sending messages, because he (and the rest of his cast mates) deserve normal life experiences. The people saying that stuff aren’t fans, idk why they feel so entitled to their favs undivided attention. Seriously where do they get the delusion and audacity to act like that.

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itc0nsumesmYMind 5 hr ago

The last one made the most money of the entire series. Clearly people are still enjoying them.

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Particular-Way-3805 7 hr ago +1

People are weird

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Drestanor 2 hr ago +1

fans really out here protecting their fave like its a demigod quest

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Patworx 9 hr ago

My teas gone cold I’m wondering why I . . . got out of bed at all.

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braille_lover_5555 7 hr ago

He could of have brought his mom

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workingbach13 11 hr ago +11

It’s not. Fans were threatening to attend his prom and shot his prom date. Posting about have guns.

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OtherUserCharges 12 hr ago -96

This sounds like BS. Zero chance no girl wants to go to the prom with some famous kid.

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WalrusExtraordinaire 12 hr ago +35

Based on his post it seems like it’s out concern for his safety and the safety of said date, not because he couldn’t find a date

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No_Use_9652 12 hr ago +47

What headline did you read? Clearly not the same as the rest of us lol

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joshdej 10 hr ago +2

https://www.learn2read.co/

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AnitaSandwich69XXX 9 hr ago

Your teacher never used phonics and it shows.

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‘Percy Jackson’ Star Walker Scobell Skipping Prom Because Fans Sent ‘Death Threats’ to ‘Every Teenage Girl Who Could Remotely Be Associated With Me’

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