It’s all Blood On The Dance Floor’s fault.
6 months ago
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Jensen’s recent Hello Giggles article on Jessi Slaughter made me think of this insane moment that happened during the chaos last year: Jessi Slaughter explaining who I was to her Father in a TinyChat room.
The last line of the video: “Watch what pictures you put on.”
Watching everything that went down with Jessica was as heartbreaking as it was at times, hilarious. Funny as it all may have been, at its core was a very troubled eleven year-old girl. That’s what I always kept coming back to throughout the various image macros and video remixes. Having caught the thing from the start, the very first “Stickydrama” post, it was surreal to watch it all unfold. Especially when it ended up on “Good Morning America.”
Thankfully, Stickydrama doesn’t exist anymore. Say what you will about 4chan, but its intentions are not based in pure evil in the way that Stickydrama was. Adrian Chen did a fantastic job of exposing the creepazoid behind that site, leading to his eventual retirement.
I am deeply saddened “Jessi Slaughter” lost her Father. I’m sad that her home situation was so chaotic that she was put into the foster care system. I’m sad there was no one her life to let her know that she had the power within her to just turn off the computer. I’m mostly sad about the seemingly growing generation of kids out there looking to fill the void with fame at whatever cost. But we can’t stop the Kim Kardashian’s of the world. Hell, we can hardly even keep up with them.
In the end, Gene Leonhardt was right: “Consequences will never be the same.”
For 60 Minutes, I’m Lesley Stahl.
WHY MY DAUGHTER WILL NEVER HAVE A WEBCAM: THE JESSI SLAUGHTER STORY by Jensen Karp
My friend Jensen wrote a terrific, dead on story about my old friend Jessi Slaughter for Hello Giggles. Check it out.
The Internet is guilty of manslaughter.
Manslaughter is now a meme.
We all dun goof’d.
When a child welfare worker visited the Leonhardt home with a cop, the girl became irate and “threw a temper tantrum” after they suggested the juvenile’s access to the Internet be terminated. If that occurred, the girl said, “she will lose her fame, and that she will get to the Internet one way or another.” Before threatening to “stick a butcher knife in the DCF worker’s ass,” the girl claimed that, “if she does not get on the Internet, she has nothing else to live for,” a deputy noted.
The warning was clear to us: “Consequences will never be the same.” Now read the tragic update on my old friend, Jessi Slaughter.
Apparently everyone involved with this case surrounding Slaughter is 350 years-old and has never used the Internet.
Hope you’re doing well, Jessi. And if you’re reading this, please step away from the computer and turn it off.
Could this be the start of a kinder, gentler, Jessi Slaughter? I sure hope not. BRAIN SLUSHIES FOR ALL YOU BITCHES!
The latest from the Jessi Slaughter family. America’s new favorite family!
TURN THE COMPUTER OFF!! TURN IT OFF!!! TURN THE GODDAMN COMPUTER OFF!!!!!!!
You gotta fucking see this one. Jessi Slaughter’s mother talks to CNN. There’s some truly inspiring quotes…
“We’ve had to basically go into hiding right now…”
Yes, you’re doing a great job of hiding! I haven’t heard a peep about you guys in the three various chat rooms Jessi has created online that I’ve been in the past week. One after the other is shut down, yet she keeps coming back. While hiding in plain sight is sometimes a useful tactic I seriously doubt this is one of those times. Unless you’re a family of espionage experts and I’m unaware!
Is it really Jessi in the chat rooms? Well here is SIX PART SERIES of boring YouTube videos featuring Jessi and her family in a chat room earlier TODAY. You may have taken away her webcam Mrs. Leonhardt, but she still has her microphone and keyboard. Not like those could cause any trouble, right?!
“I had seen most of my daughter’s videos…”
No you hadn’t. You’re lying. You’re lying and you’re stupid and that’s a very dangerous combination. This thing with your daughter started to go viral on July 16th. As of July 19th, you still hadn’t watched her videos. I can understand maybe not seeing them before they went up, but after the phone started to ring with death threats, I don’t know - if it were me I’d wanna take a look at what my daughter was doing online!
“My daughter is um… fully clothed… in all of these videos so I don’t know… how these people… like I said it’s called ‘cut… pat — paste… and edit videos and I think the Internet should be doing more patrolling…”
Wow. I mean there’s no words. You’ve said it all right there.
Jessi’s (and I’m using this word loosely) mother, then goes on to explain how Jessi’s infamous quote, “I’ll pop a glock in your mouth and make a brain slushie” came from a song she heard on…<gasp> THE INTERNET! Yes, song lyrics have once again harmed America’s youth! But these song lyrics are even MOAR dangerous because they’re on THE INTERNET! Oh fuckin’ noes!
CNN asks beacon of parental light, Diane Leonhardt:
“Is she online anymore at all… is she posting anymore videos?”
Diane mutters something about taking away her webcam but it’s quite obvious Jessi is still very active on the Internet, despite the fact that the Internet doesn’t seem to want her. On every single site Jessi logs into, it’s usually only a few hours before she’s either hacked or someone files an abuse report getting the account shut down.
So why? Why don’t they just turn off the computer? At least for a few weeks, right? There’s gotta be some sort of rational explanation as for why this family continues to be in the news TWO WEEKS LATER and are still allowing their daughter online?
“Because they teach computers in school.”
Oh. Okay. AND THEN MY FUCKING BRAIN EXPLODED.
“They just keep blaming my daughter. They locked her in a mental institution for three days… and just kept blaming my daughter… and um… my daughter said she did not do that.”
I don’t blame your daughter. Your daughter is a genius. She’s manipulated you brilliantly. She knows how naive her parents are and she’s taking full advantage of their stupidity. Your daughter is so goddam smart, she could be running a television network tomorrow.
I’m sure Jessi’s told you the following: “That pic was photoshopped!!!!!!” “They edited that video together!!!!!” ”i didn’t post that!!! Someone is pretending to be me!!!!!11!1!!” Sound familiar? The problem is your absolute blind faith in your child and your inability to discern between what’s REAL and what’s the clever work of 12 year-old with fucking iMovie!
SO ENOUGH ALREADY. E-FUCKING-NOUGH. I am hereby declaring a citizens adoption of your daughter. I will announce formal plans to legally adopt Jessica Leonhardt on my webcast tonight, FRIDAY, JULY 30TH at 7:00 PM (EST). I feel it’s the only option left to get this girl the parental advice she so desperately needs.
Also, I think it’s funny.
