Comments | tahirire: Passing the word along

tahirire

Passing the word along

Jan 27, 2010 06:25

For those of you that have no idea what prompted this, there are a lot - a LOT - of impersonators on twitter pretending to be the guys. Some of them have proven to be dangerous, and the guys have now made an official statement specifically to address the issue.

So here it is, straight from Jensen and Jared - if you need to know anything else, ask ( Read more... )

jensen, jared, vidrec, what am i the master of again?

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magser January 27 2010, 12:03:06 UTC

I think this was unfortunately very neccessary.
Some fans, especially young girls were putting themselves in serious danger by communicating with these fakes. One girl was a step away from letting one of them have her email...can you imagine what would happen?
Therefore I don't get why some factions of this fandom are so pissed about this video?
The guys are very wonderful to try and stop this themselves...

luu_alita January 27 2010, 15:57:47 UTC

who on earth could be pissed about this video? 0.0?

blacklid January 27 2010, 18:23:49 UTC

Unfortunately, lots of people are ... who just don't understand and are calling it creepy. Personally, if they want to focus on the bad lighting and the seriousness of their expressions, and NOT on the message, which obviously means a lot to them ... /rant *gets out the knives more*

luu_alita January 28 2010, 05:22:31 UTC

Hunh. People are weird. The only thing I would critisize is that they didn't say "and we have no intention of *ever* having a social networking page" cause people are gonna open them later on and say it's them and they changed their minds.

blacklid January 28 2010, 06:20:31 UTC

I'm 290% sure that WILL happen, which means it's going to be an ongoing effort. The word should be spread that ANY account should be verified, via Twitter or another verified celebrity, preferably both IMHO, and people should wait for that to happen before they take it seriously.

Some of the stuff these kids are telling these phony accounts is downright scary: their ages, where they live, all kinds of things. I just give godspeed to Clif and the Js that they can get somewhere with this problem and get Twitter to take action soon. And I wish that all parents were as present, if not safety-diligent, as the one who caught on to what was happening with the fake!Jensen meeting.

tahirire January 27 2010, 22:39:43 UTC

I love you for your pure soul. Trust me - you don't want to know. *shudders*

luu_alita January 28 2010, 05:23:04 UTC

*sigh* people can be such morons.

tahirire January 27 2010, 22:39:00 UTC

This fandom is, and always has been, largely insane. I'm glad I have my flist. *hugs tight*

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