Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.
The way things happen on social media is so abusive and everyone needs to take personal responsibility for what they write and not allowing this misinterpretation and shaming culture on social media to persist.
I'd become a bit of a joke. People would make memes, chopping my head off in a group photo and putting a monster or ET on there. I'd be in live Q&As and these things would pop up and I'd have to just sit there.
I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.
If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes.
Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.
I started to record songs and put them on YouTube and people laughed behind my back.
As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.
There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.
A lot of people say there's no such thing as cancel culture and then you name an example and they're, like, 'That person deserved it,' so then there is cancel culture, but it works in its accountability.
I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.
If I ever succumbed to the demon on my shoulder going, "You should get something special because you're famous," that is the moment that my behavior will be caught on social media for all time. I'm even afraid to use it to get a reservation. This is the person who will tweet, "Can you believe what this a-hole did?"
