Game Over Dealing With Bullies Videos

“Bullying” (E-Learning for Kids) (link) Content: 1. What is bullying 2. How bullying makes you feel 3. Tips for dealing with bullies 4. Understanding bullies 5. Are you a bully? Target Population: Children ages 8-12.

But after marketing agency FCB Chicago launched 'Bully Hunters' last week with a splashy livestream, the campaign was mocked by gamers, criticized by harassment experts and disowned by the companies it had enlisted as supporters. Within days, the agency shut it down.What went wrong?According to the agency, the demise of Bully Hunters was a case of good-intentioned naivete colliding with the idiosyncratic, often-aggressive world of online gaming. Others, though, say it was the result of cynical opportunism that exacerbated the problem the marketers were trying to solve.Fighting harassment 'is a real, honest-to-God issue which unfortunately now has been tainted by this insincere, totally superficial effort,' said Rebecca Rothschild, a Chicago gamer and writer who has endured online bullying. 'It bothered me on a lot of levels.' Liz Taylor, chief creative officer of FCB Chicago, said Bully Hunters was a pro bono project for the agency, akin to campaigns it has done on handgun violence, colon cancer and Chicago's bid for the second Amazon headquarters.Researchers have established that in-game harassment is a pervasive problem, and Taylor said she has personal experience with it: Her teenage daughter endured online harassment so upsetting that she no longer enjoys gaming.' There were a lot of people in the agency who had a passion around trying to make the gaming environment a safer, more inclusive place for everyone,' she said.But one thing they didn't have was experience. Keisha Howard, founder of a female-centric consultancy and event organizer called Sugar Gamers, said that was evident when she talked with FCB Chicago about the concept.She said she was bothered by the idea that girls and women need saviors to protect them from gaming bullies.

She also was concerned about the title FCB Chicago focused on—Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, or CS:GO, a popular first-person shooter game that is notoriously complex.' They went for the biggest bear and didn't do their research on the game,' Howard said.

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'It was easily torn apart by hard-core gamers who absolutely understand that title.' FCB said the campaign wasn't a marketing opportunity for brands, but several companies and organizations still lent their support, including SteelSeries, a Chicago-based maker of gaming accessories, and the Chicago chapter of the National Organization for Women.On April 12, the agency launched Bully Hunters with a livestream from Chicago's Ignite Gaming Lounge. It began with a montage of vicious insults recorded during games, followed by a woman's voice intoning over a countdown: 'This ends in three, two.' The set featured 'casual gamers' playing CS:GO on computers, while across the room, the 'Bully Hunters' waited to enter the fray. An online tool was supposed to summon them into the game, where they would track down and eliminate bullies, leaving a calling card in the chat: 'Harassment is not a game.' The livestream included two purported episodes of harassment: In each, a voice that sounded like it belonged to the same man made vulgar, sexist and threatening remarks to female players, only to be dispatched by a Bully Hunter.The action seemed artificial to veteran CS:GO players, who accurately called it out as fake. One of the livestream's hosts, Nati Casanova, a popular gamer who goes by the handle ZombiUnicorn, later said she flubbed a scripted line meant to emphasize that the encounters were staged.'

We would 100 percent agree that that key message didn't come across,' Taylor said. 'Our intent was never to mislead anyone. It was to point out this is what could happen in the real world.'

But the damage was done. Online sleuths, looking up gamer profiles, revealed that a victim and a Bully Hunter appeared to be the same person. Others picked apart the statistics on harassment presented during the livestream.PewDiePie, a YouTuber who is the biggest celebrity in gaming, was particularly unsparing. In a video viewed more than 3.5 million times, he blasted the organizers and the participating companies, saying they were exploiting a serious problem to sell gear.' You did more harm than good here, clearly,' he said. 'This is so idiotic that no one is going to take harassment seriously.

That's how stupid it is. So don't pretend that you took a step forward; this is taking a step back.' The companies quickly put up statements distancing themselves from Bully Hunters. SteelSeries said its only role was to donate equipment and 'support the call for positive change' and that it hadn't been involved in executing the campaign.The only group that stood by the effort was Chicago NOW. Paloma Delgadillo, the chapter's president, said she wasn't surprised by the blowback but rejected the idea that it harmed the anti-harassment movement.' As an activist, you never have perfect tools in your toolbox,' she said. 'I'm of the opinion that if there's a problem, we always need to be looking for a solution.

If it doesn't work, it's OK. Hopefully this brings attention to it.' Jesse Fox, an Ohio State University professor who has studied sexist behavior in video games, said Bully Hunters relied on a faulty premise—that harassers can be brought to heel through chastening defeat.' We know from aggression studies in video games that when they get more frustrated they get angrier, and they're more likely to ,' she said. 'When someone comes in and wipes the floor with you, you're not going to be amenable to hearing the message.' She said more productive approaches would involve developing online tools to ban the most toxic offenders, and encouraging players to tamp down harassment the moment it takes place, thus denying trolls the validation they crave.After the barrage of criticism, FCB Chicago took down Bully Hunters' website and social media accounts. All that remains are YouTube copies of the livestream and hundreds of blistering critiques.Taylor said while the agency is still processing the hard lessons of the campaign, it is still committed to promoting an anti- movement among gamers.'

I hope people understand we did this to try to make the world a better and more inclusive place,' she said. 'That is what is so gut-wrenching and heartbreaking about where it is right now.'

I think what he did was right, the only thing you can do is stand up for yourself or it won't stop. Kids don't know anything, they think it's cool to bully and get the attention, then once they get their ass kicked like this brat just did the attention starts to turn negative on them and they stop.

Once a bully starts to hear things like 'remember when you got your butt kicked by so and so?' Then it's over, the reason behind the action is gone and you get left alone.I think you hit the nail on the head there. I was the victim of racial bullying while living in the Mid-West. I am Asian and at that time there was not a lot of us in the area in Oklahoma. I understand the 'snapping' part as I was taught at an early age to walk away until you can't walk anymore.

My parents and my school told me that if I was backed into a corner with no way out that I could use self-defense to get myself out of the situation. I did just that 4 times and 4 times it resulted in injured kids including myself. I was not proud but I had no choice. I was never suspended for my actions. I think this was due to me going to the school early on and told them I didn't feel like I had a choice and that I would snap if it would continue.Bullies do not know when to stop as they think that not fighting back or trying to walk away is cowardly. The kids egging the bully on is just as guilty and should be punished just the same. Casey wasn't thinking when he snapped.

I know what was going on in his head. He walked away knowing the damage that he had inflicted and I bet you he is conflicted at this moment too. He could have broken the kids leg or or worse and I know he knows that.

But in those moments where your anger/fear takes over your mind you don't think about the hurt but just a way to end it.I put two kids in the hospital due to the 'snapping' and for that I am not proud. Fortunately they came out okay with a broken sternum and a broken arm.

But it could have been much worse and I am glad that it was a temporary moment of anger and I came back to my senses. Like Casey I walked away afterwards with witnesses that saved me from the police, school adminitrators and lawsuits.The tragedy out of this is that Casey who thought he was in the right to do what he had to do is being punished and he will learn early on that justice and fairness is not 'fair'. If the other kid only gets a 'slap on the hand' then what does it teach Casey? What did it teach the other kid or the people supporting the bully?I wish more kids would learn to help those in need and not be so selfish as to stand there and watch the beating of another person. I have never been able to watch a fight where a person was down and the other or others would start kicking. I have placed myself in those fights to break them up at the risk of being caught in the fight itself. Adults do it too which is really sad.

I wonder where some of the kids learn that from?The schools better get with the program and I feel they should bear the responsibility of any kid being injured or hurt. This will teach them to wake up and take notice. They cannot stop all of it but they can do a BETTER JOB than they are doing now.This hits HOME with me and I cannot believe the lack of attention the schools really pay to this growing problem.Let's suspend a little girl with a 3' chain due to Zero Tolerance but allow for bullying because we don't know what to do. I thought about that too.Anyway, the kid gets punished with a suspension for what he did but he gained something more important in life - self-esteem and respect.Totally agree, a suspension is nothing compared to finally snapping and fighting back. Good on him is all I can say. I have been bullied for many years when I was at school and one day I snapped and gave the aggressor a good hiding.

Funny enough he didn't come back after that. I think that pipsqueak will shy away from him after that. As both someone who was bullied (a LOT, mentally, violently and psychologically) and someone who in turn was a bully for a very short while (until I realised what I'd become).Schools don't give a rat's ass about bullying. They can put as many 'strategies' in place as they wish, but in reality they just want to not deal with 'bullying' and rather care about 'OK let's fix this one instance of a fight'.The kids reaction was 100% wrong, but I understand it.

He is NOT to be applauded for it. I don't see it as standing up for himself, but rather that he 'snapped'. He won't have won any battles with this. It won't ease the problem, if anything it will make his life harder. that, if more bullied kids stood up for themselves bullying wold drop. We need to stop raising little pansies for kids and face the reality that school is not a safe or friendly place. I've told my kids many times that if they get suspended for fighting back, I will cause THE biggest stink that school has ever seen, and yes I do tell my kids to fight back, they will not be bullied and guess what, they aren't.

that, if more bullied kids stood up for themselves bullying wold drop. We need to stop raising little pansies for kids and face the reality that school is not a safe or friendly place. I've told my kids many times that if they get suspended for fighting back, I will cause THE biggest stink that school has ever seen, and yes I do tell my kids to fight back, they will not be bullied and guess what, they aren't.My mother has always said to myself and my siblings that should we get into a fight, so long as we don't throw the first punch, she will back us up no matter what.

My mother has always said to myself and my siblings that should we get into a fight, so long as we don't throw the first punch, she will back us up no matter what.Same here, but it was by my father. There are no rules in a fight, and there is no such thing as a fair fight - You do what you must to win. If there is a group, go for the biggest strongest guy first, as you will lose anyway if you can't take him down.

But beware of the guy with nothing to lose, he will most likely be your toughest fighter. The fact that the bullied kid was suspended just goes to show you the stupidity of the people that run our school systems.Maybe, but they're probably just echoing our legal treatment of this scenario. I know everybody would like to call it self-defense (myself included), but the reality is that most courts look at this situation and only grant self-defense when there is absolutely no other option. In this case, that other option is for the fat kid to simply walk away (regardless of whether you like that option or not, the fact remains that it is an option).

Because of that, the fat kid could be convicted of aggravated battery and in some states wouldn't even be able to tell the jury it was self-defense. I don't agree with it, but I'm telling you that's how the courts treat this situation. Forget the law in these situations, i'd have done the same and kept hitting him while he was down, then i'd of waited till the camera guy was on his own and done him as well. Then take the punishment from the school/police whatever, would it have been worth it? A suspension (few days holiday) for the bully is a massive result, it wont teach him anything.I don't like fighting but i dont believe in walking away either, if someone hits you, you hit them back, harder. Depending on the situation of course, but random bullying and unprovoked attacks, if you can get stuck in there then do it, if not, go back later when they're alone or whatever.

Maybe, but they're probably just echoing our legal treatment of this scenario. I know everybody would like to call it self-defense (myself included), but the reality is that most courts look at this situation and only grant self-defense when there is absolutely no other option. In this case, that other option is for the fat kid to simply walk away (regardless of whether you like that option or not, the fact remains that it is an option). Because of that, the fat kid could be convicted of aggravated battery and in some states wouldn't even be able to tell the jury it was self-defense. I don't agree with it, but I'm telling you that's how the courts treat this situation.Actually, self defense is easily the best and easiest method to use. Self Defense is not last option, but is defined by - Protecting ones self upon the feeling of being endangered.

That feeling of being endangered can be anything from someone talking to you too closely or looking at you wrong, as long as there is a reason though to think you are endangered. That's how it is in Texas at least, of course, we also have a law of trespassing. In which if your hand is on my car, you are on my property, and I can remove you how I see fit LOL. ( but yes, have to do the proper warnings and what not before I just shoot you off of it:p ).