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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Justin Bieber fans have proven Themselves


Justin Bieber fans have proven Themselves a force to be reckoned with, but some might have gone too far by participating in a maliciously false Outrage trending topic that sparked Monday night.
The hashtag # Cut4Bieber Began trending, suggesting that dedicated Beliebers engage in self-harm through cutting Themselves in order to get Justin's attention in response to his recent alleged bad boy behavior.

"Lets start a campaign bieber cut yourself for," wrote an anonymous user initially before the thread was deleted, 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 onslaught of Potentially real self-harm photos was cause for alarm for Thousands of tweeters, Including fellow singer Miley Cyrus.

"Do not blame this on Justin, it's his life no one else's!" she initially wrote. "So stop with this # Cut4Bieber self harming is serious." She then deleted that, and replaced it with a Poignant retweet.



The hoax campaign was created by an anonymous user on 4Chan.org, a message board website where anyone can post comments and share images.
The same website was responsible for an October hoax campaign that urged a # Bald4Bieber trend, suggesting fans shave their heads for Bieber, who was said to be diagnosed with cancer.
This time around the trending topic garnered more than 26.000 hits in 12 hours, According to the trending Topsy tracker site.



Though there were a lot of Gruesome photos, some tweeters Decided to the make use of the play on words by posting photos of Themselves paper cutting, cake and other things.
Bieber has not RESPONDED to the hoax hashtag, though several fans have tweeted directly to him about their Outrage.

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