We’ve all been online for a very long time, and unlike, perhaps, today’s teenagers - who are very adept at learning from our mistakes and so populate their Instagram accounts with like, five photos, or Snapchat blink-and-you’ll-miss-it images to one another, and think Twitter’s for losers - we’ve got a lot of backdated content out there.
What happens if we’ve been not so woke as we now claim to be? What if we’ve made a boo-boo somewhere and it could be plucked out of then and used by now to make us look like horrible people, and hypocrites at that?
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The Mirror has contacted Deyes' representatives for comment on this, but if you think none of his young impressionable fans are watching him victim-blaming a ten-year-old for being raped, just scroll down to the comments of ‘Who’s watching in 2017!’ because people still are, and he’s still making money off of these remarks, and as far as we know, nowhere has he said anything to suggest he doesn’t still stick right by them.
The lesson we’ve all had to learn: the internet changes, and so do we. We learn and we change and we hopefully strive to become better people. If part of that involves editing our past rudeness, meanness or cruelty, then fine, but if we can’t even come out and admit that we’ve made mistakes, or prove that we’ve changed since we made them, what’s the point in changing anyway? BRB, doing a whole hour of hefty searches of my Twitter handle + offensive terms and deleting whatever comes up.
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