The Internet Ruined My Life

Segment 1 (#CancelColbert): A Korean-American writer and activist growing up in Chicago, Illinois named Suey Park often spoke against racism. When Stephen Colbert made a joke on his talk show The Colbert Report, some people mistook the joke as being racist. Suey was already aware that the series was a very popular late-night talk and news satire television program, she still wanted to offer an olive branch disgusted by the joke and took it literally... mostly, other Asian-American activists. She decided to take the matter in her own hands and stand with those who found the joke offensive, by posting Tweet with the hashtag #CancelColbert. Although she did not really want the series cancelled, she thought that something over the top would get a point across. However, little did she know that her post involving the hashtag would cause her life to spiral out of control, attracting a large number of haters; after being interviewed on HuffPost Live, where people thought she said white men do not have a right to hold any opinion, things got worse for her, up to the point where she was doxxed, and had to hide for her own safety after a sniper was sighted outside her house. Following the incident, Suey fled to New York, where she was still targeted by many. Now, she no longer participates in social media.

Segment 1 (Food Fight): An executive chef of a restaurant named Mark was a person who succeeded on both personal and professional levels. He had a loving girlfriend and a seven-year-old daughter. However, things turned out for the worse when he fought with an animal rights activist woman from another state on Facebook who was insulting practices of serving foie gras and veal at the restaurant he worked at, even though she had never been to that eatery. After defending one of his own in the culinary industry, the woman threatened his daughter and Mark himself. He was so upset that she made threats to his own child that he said some nasty things to the woman. But then, the woman deleted everything she said about Mark and she took a screenshot as "proof" to make everyone think that he was the only one saying bad things. Then, many overwhelmingly negative reviews suddenly started popping up and this problem nearly cost him his job and nearly threatened to ruin his own career from the claims that he was a misogynist chef who hates vegetarians. Since the incident, Mark is now more careful about what he does on social media.

Segment 1 (#PissOlympics): A lover of social media and shock value pulls a prank that became a national twisted event. Cameron Jankowski hears of Piss Olympics, a new Internet trend and was feeling "inspired" to take participation. He decided to film a video of himself urinating on an order of nachos, during his day working at Taco Bell as his job and then uploaded it on Twitter. The video received many likes, but there was one entity that did not like the video...the FBI. An anonymous user contacted Cameron to point out that what he did was a level 6 felony violation on federal law in the United States food regulation, that could give him a 20 year sentence to jail towards breaching that law. He then got arrested, interrogated and faced federal jail time due to his actions being a threat to public safety (urinating on food is a health hazard since he worked at a fast food restaurant). After taking a lie detector test, it turned out that it was only Mountain Dew. Aside from being questioned by the FBI, he also received death threats online. He also lost his job and was unable to find work for months. This incident nearly landed Cameron in prison and has marred his presence on social media.

Segment 1 (Adults Only): Following her divorce, a college professor named Annmarie Chiarini has started dating again. A problem ensues in her new relationship where her boyfriend started to become aggressive and verbally abusive, while her ex-boyfriend started posting naked photos of Annmarie on the Internet which she did not want to have released. Having her naked pictures uploaded to the public without her consent has caused her to be stalked, humiliated, and ridiculed. Although she considered committing suicide, her love for her mother and children kept her going. She then took part with other women to establish the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative which provides resources and information to the public about revenge postings. Since the incident, Annmarie has fought back against the revenge postings.

Segment 1 (Gleek Tragedy): Nicole Crowther is an actress with high potential, who also happens to be a fan of the TV show Glee. When she was cast as an extra on the show, her career ended very quickly before it actually begun; when she talked about the Season 2 finale about what characters should be named Prom King and Prom Queen. Most people took this comment out as a spoiler. Upon the various death threats that Nicole received, her father ended up hiring a bodyguard to keep her safe. Even the executive producers of Glee voiced their displeasure about this, to the point where background actors now need to sign strict confidentiality contracts while onset. Following the incident, Nicole left the acting business and moved back in with her family where she manages the social media accounts of her family's company Crowther Roofing.

Segment 1 (Video Villain): An actress with high potential named Jennifer Box moved to Los Angeles to pursue her modeling and acting career. She took part of a prank video called "Drunk Girl" on YouTube. In this video, she pretends to be drunk and hopes if "random men" (who were actors) would get her home safely. Unfortunately, cyberspace took it out of context as many thought that it was actually making fun of rape and Jennifer and all the men involved in the video got attacked on social media. Many news outlets and national discussions were then made towards the video regarding irresponsibility in the prank culture. Jennifer found out that the producers of the prank video were purposely making the men involved look bad and had the intention to want to make the video viral. Millions of people online have pointed their fingers at Jennifer, blaming her for the damages and claiming that she was responsible for making the entire video, even though she was not the producer. She only signed up to star in the video and was doing her job and got paid to be in it. On the streets however, Jennifer encountered people yelling and threatening her for how they perceived her for making a careless decision to appear in the video. Her brother moved to Los Angeles to help her, but the attacks online towards her were so bad that she began to chain smoke, which led to her being hospitalized for a collapsed lung. It was so bad that she ended up moving back to her hometown in Texas, with her modeling and acting career ruined entirely. After all the heat, she is now organizing her life back to normal shape, with the help of her loving family.