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Originally Posted by Ben
(Post 6082049)
What happened? I know you and Chrizzle didn't get along as you mentioned it in the arch nemesis thread.
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He just posted heaps of ****e about Paris Hilton everywhere on the forum and was really obnoxious about it, I maybe made one or two comments (if that) about how I thought it was a bit OTT and then he started saying I was homophobic and kept adding me into MSN conversations with all his friends and making horrible comments, it was bordering on online bullying so I blocked them, stopped using TiBB for a long while and then when I came back I didn't have any friends and had to start all over again. I used to be good friends with Princess before all that but she was in that gang and I just felt like a bit of an outsider and no one should be made to feel that way on a forum... bearing in mind as well that I think that was the first time TiBB had ever really seen anything like that, prior to the 2006 lot joining I was one of a very small minority of members who were (young) teenagers, the forum was a much more mature place, there weren't so many posts per day and having 1,000 posts meant you were a huge contributor to the forum etc...
So just the context of it all really, it was the first time any kind of drama like that had ever appeared on the forum. The forum changed in tone along with Big Brother - when Big Brother was a social experiment, the regular users were interested in discussing it. When it became a reality TV media circus that sought ratings based on faked drama, it attracted users who liked to cause drama...
At the end of the day I'm sure he's probably a mature and likeable adult now but I was 14/15 getting picked on by someone of about a similar age who had a gang of friends either joining in or passively not doing anything about it and it wasn't very nice to be on the end of. :(
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