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EARLY ACCESS: Alexa, Stop Bullying Me!

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/84Bkyz68aRk

It must be Friday, because you're looking at your early access link to the weekend video! Similar to my "Freedom Phone" video, this week's topic was also brought to my attention by a Patreon subscriber who let me know about this campaign by a mother to get the Amazon Echo's "Alexa" wake-word changed to something else because people are now BULLYING her daughter, who just so happens to be named Alexa. As a Canadian with the last name "Buckley", I know a little about growing up with a name associated with a product (Buckley's Cough Syrup!) and so as you can imagine, I probably heavily sympathize with this mother and her child right? Hahahaha no...

Amazon's Echo devices: a fun way to make your home seem more "futuristic" by being able to start your music and find out the weather via voice commands? OR... a gateway to BULLYING!? One mother seems to think it's the second one, as a campaign called "Alexa is a Human" seeks to bring awareness to all the living, breathing Alexas of the world who are being harassed and, yes, BULLIED, simply because Amazon chose to use their name as a voice command. Buckley wonders what happened to bullying.

EARLY ACCESS: Alexa, Stop Bullying Me!

Comments

I share a (dead)name with a fictitious serial killer. That stuff just builds character.

Lauren Harley

I have heard every lame Christmas joke you can think of, and my friend's named Justin. We were 13 when Baby was released. After the fifth time you just roll your eyes. We were horrifically bullied, but pretty sure neither of us would class dumb "huh huh deck the halls" jokes as part of it.

MayzyDayz

I was a kid with the name Velma at the height of all the brand new Scooby Doo animated movies that wore glasses. It just builds character😂

Sounds like Special Snowflake Syndrome's at it again. Shitty things are going to happen to you, you learn to deal with it. Some people can't handle it. Those people are weak. Removing all the shitty things isn't going to make these kids better. It just makes them soft. Like I've been saying for years, "If you're offended by somebody's words, you're an asshole. Grow some thicker skin, and get over it."

Shumiry

Well, I’m a couple of years younger than Buckley and I know of, sadly, multiple students around my age… let’s see, 1 kid expelled from at least 3 different schools for bullying, 3 kids moved out of their respective schools at the time for being bullied and 1 case of suicide - and that’s just within the scope of a couple of smallish towns where total school population would have been around 3000 kids. (But that’s the UK in the run up to 2000, before any of the social media thing happened when it would have all been just messengers or chat rooms.)

Pete Spicer

dont wanna go the "kids these days.." route but I wonder what would happen if one of the bullies from the 90s (preserved in ice for ~25 years) started bullying today's kids, I think they would implode. The backpack on fire was a classic, as was showing someone's head in the extremely dirty school toilet. Shit was brutal back then but I never heard a story that someone was bullied to the point of suicide or changing schools. Even cyberbulling in the early 2000s was pretty rough on classroom forums etc. Still, you pretty much can't blame kids for this as it's most likely their parents fault for not raising little shits properly. So mine and Buckley's generation are to blame for this :P

Michał Michalski

starting to understand elon musk i want to go to mars

punktum

I was named after the Winnie The Pooh character Christopher Robin, but the name was reversed, so Robin Christopher. I live in Winnipeg, birthplace of Winnie, grew up in the 80's and 90's. I was a bouncer for over 10 years, I liked my nickname of Pooh Bear. Just gotta roll with it, and own it

This is advanced level Karen-ing

Bryson Witsell

Buckley seriously found a way to put Goatse in a video 🤣🤣🤣 I’m figuratively dead from laughter

Ash Archer

Eventually you just gotta own it, it's all you can do, and you just go "this doesn't hurt me, it's at most a mild nuisance in my day"

Adam Buckley

My name is literally Faith Church. After a while you sort of just get desensitized to the jokes. Now as an adult I just stare at people like they’re stupid.


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