The Juliet Who Walked into, That, River

The memories, of how you’d, saved a student from committing suicide, of how she’d, thanked you, by sending you that, package to let you know, that she is now, okay…translated…

On the eve of Confucius’s birthday, I’d recalled something that’s, happened from the past.

I’m a psychiatrist in practice, and worked with the Department of Education, the school instructors, made the lectures of suicide preventing to the instructors in the elementary and middle school levels.  One evening a little more than a decade ago, I’d gone to a middle school by the river in the south of the city to visit.  Recalled that that evening, the seminar held in the evenings was very, welcoming, in the time, I’d had the seventy to eighty instructors in the audience to split themselves into groups of three, sharing within the groups, their encounters of their students’ having mutilated themselves, or suicide attempts, or having lost a student to suicide.

During the break, an experienced female instructor came and told me a story.  This almost retired Chinese instructor told me, that she had taught a girl.  To help her students feel motivated in learning, she’d assigned the play of “Romeo & Juliet” in her Chinese language courses, for the students to fight for the roles that they wanted to play.  As it came time to select the Juliet, normally, it would be the prettiest girl in the class who raised up her hand, but it wasn’t.

Although, she was, hesitant, she’d still, let the girl play the role, as that female student had, wished to play the role of, Juliet.

As the play successfully got finished, this event, got lost, in the busyness of the semester, didn’t leave a single, ripple, it seemed.  What caused the waves, was that winter, on a day too cold.  One day after class, this girl whom nobody noticed, walked out of the school.  Nobody paid any attention, that she’d, walked over the embankment, and, into, the, river.

And maybe, it was, how cold it was on the day.  Or maybe, it’s the person who’d wanted to commit suicide being, hesitant (The to be or not to be), this adolescent finally, made her way, back up the shores, entered back into the school, and, the school officials found her completely wet (maybe, frozen too!).  The thrilled instructors ushered her to the principal’s office, not known what they should, say to her.

illustration from UDN.com

This Chinese instructor recalled, as she was called to the principal’s office, she’d, learned that this young girl had, attempted suicide.  “I wasn’t her homeroom instructor, had no idea of her background, and her situation.  But this kid told the principal, that she wanted, to, see me.”  And yet, being young, the instructor felt anxious then, not known how to counsel a student who’d, just, almost entered into the gates of, hell.

The moment the instructor was forced to walk into the principal’s office, she’d had a thought, pretended that she’d not know what had just happened, as she saw the child, with the fallen leaves stuck on her waist and areas below, she’d, rushed up to her, exclaimed, “My Juliet!  What happened to you?”, and hugged the girl, really tight.

Time flew quickly, as the graduating class graduated, life fast-forwarded close to a full decade’s time.  She’d also, forgotten about this, particular, student, until one day, in school, she’d received a package from that young woman.

Inside it, what would, she find?

She was surprised, and, uneasy, slowly, opening up the package.  There were, the copies of pages of paper.  It was from the girl’s middle school, technical high school, community college, the certifications she’d earned, the awards certificates, and the diplomas.

That evening, in the middle school south of down, that instructor slowly told of the story of then, and hoped, that in the future, in my suicide prevention seminars, she could, share the story she’d, told me.  The instructor looked very, peaceful, but I was, really moved inside.

Actually, in the hundreds of seminars for the past decade or so, I’d not mentioned this story often.  Or maybe, I have, yet to get over the shock it’d, left me, as I’d told this story to the audience, everything stopped whispering, and there was NO sound, and I saw some instructors, secretly, wiping away their, tears.

Confucius birthday comes every year, but I keep on thinking, what, better gift there was, than this, package, on this, day, to celebrate, the teachers?

And so, this is, the huge difference that, a school teacher’s care toward a student can have on the student’s life, this instructor’s hug of the student, helped her turn her own life around, and it’d helped her gain the strengths to keep on going in her life, and the student gave the best present back to the instructor who’d helped her, by sending the package of all of her, important milestone markers, to let the instructor know, that she’s, okay now.

In Need of More Resources from the Local Communities to Pull the At-Risk Children Back

The problem of these, at-risk teens, and there’s not enough resource provided in their local areas, which makes it harder, to save them, to keep them on that right paths of their lives, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The juvenile criminals are mostly in drugs, and fraud, this is closely related to the society’s current situations, the teens all have a cell phone, and are using the social networking apps, and can easily gather up with their peers, and have a bigger chance of getting into the new age drugs more.  And, there’s a high percentage of teens who’d gotten on the wrong side of the laws who’d been found to have the problems with their psychological wellbeing, and none of these can be resolved by the justice systems.

Guan (a false name), due to his elders’ spoiling him, started behaving badly, his father could no longer teach him wrong from right since a very long time ago, as he’d left home, he’d gotten involved with the gangs through the interactive social networking apps, and had a “godfather”. For Guan, “my godfather was kinder to me, gotten me work at the casinos, where I could make $3,000N.T. a night!”

Because he worked in the casinos, Guan was arrested, and, as the court lets him go, he’d returned to the side of his “godfather” and met and gotten involved with more gangsters.  Later, as his godfather was on the run from the law, he’d died, the court judge found him a place to stay, and he’d slowly, returned his life back on track, and, became a sports figure because of his interests.

“Chih” had been raised by his maternal grandmother, because the tribal regions he was raised in had the drug abuse problems, the first time he was caught for using drugs, he was not yet ten, and now, at age sixteen, he’d become, a frequent customer of the courthouses, other than the drug charges, he also got caught for fraud, as well as, assault.

The justice put “Chih” on probation, placed him in a home, the court offered counseling to him, they’d even sent him to rehab to help him kick his habit of abusing drugs, and had the psychiatrists discuss his case together, “Chih” loved the freedom of the mountains, ran away from the Daylight Books where he was working, set up by the pastor and his wife who’d treated him like he were their young, headed back to the tribe and helped his maternal grandmother watch and took care of the means of the grocery shops.

The judge stated, that “Chih” was not the only adolescent who’d gotten caught doing something wrong, to pull all of them back successfully, the drugs needed to be rooted up from the tribal, the community levels; and, there’s also the need for psychotherapy as well, counseling, the detox, the rehabilitations.  The court can, transfer the youths to the rehabs, but, it’s still in questions, that after these kids get out of treatment, are there going to be enough resources to keep them staying on the right tracks.

And so, this is a serious, problem, that we’re having here, these kids are from the lesser areas, of tribes, of distant regions, which means, that there would be not enough resources locally, and most of these kids joined up with gangs, because they can’t fit in, they don’t feel they belong anywhere, and the gangs are the only place they feel that there are, someone who cared for them.

The Fourteen-Year-Old “Snow”, Humiliated Repeated by Her Classmates After She Got Released Out of Juvenile Detention, and Ended Up Dropping Out of School

Yeah, whatever happened to the juvie records being, sealed by the courts???  Oh wait, that did not happen, not here, which makes it even harder, for these young teenagers to turn over a new leaf in their own lives, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

“You are a SCREW UP all the same”, the Disciplinary Official from My School Called Me to Talk…in the End, He’d Made up the Lies of Me Having a Mental Disorder, and, Kicked Me out of School

The fourteen-year-old “Snow” dropped out at age fourteen, and started wandering the streets, and, unknowingly, she’d taken a ketamine cigarette from her friend, and was sentenced to juvenile detention for six months, and, after her release, she’d returned back to school, and the school official insulted her, and expelled her, she’d felt loss for two whole years.  The following is her own words on the experience”

That autumn, after my release from juvenile detention, I’d never broken the laws again, entered into a private technical high school to study.  The head disciplinary official asked me why I was two months late in, I’d told him the truth, told them that I’d once, broken the law.

in need of a second chance, but the world doesn’t give them that! Photo from online

And, my honesty got me discriminated by the school!  Every day the officials in school forced me to give the urine samples, and because I was cleaned, they couldn’t test anything out from it.  But, every urine test for me was humiliation, and, the disciplinary official would always look at me questioningly, like I’d “cheated” in giving my urine samples, that’s why my tests showed negative for illegal substances.

The school official even used the dyes into the toilet waters, to prevent me from scooping up the water in the toilet to turn in as my sample.  Can’t believe they’d thought up of that, but I really, didn’t use any substances!

“You’d been taken into custody, you’re a bad seed, who will believe you!”, the disciplinary official always picked on me, and had, insulted me like so often.  In the end, the school lied that I had a mental condition, and forced me out.

I’d worked so hard, to get back into the technical high schools, and this was what I got in return.  Paid my tuitions, told the truth, but nobody was tolerant, nobody accepted me with my bad past.  I was defeated, and started getting drunk at the karaoke with my friends everyday now.

Later, as my mother encouraged me, I’d signed up for another technical high school.  And this time, I’d learned better, never told the school the truths of my past, instead I’d kept my priors hidden, and so, they’d not given me a hard time, and I was able to get back into school again, and my life is, back on, track.

If I can return back to six years ago, I wouldn’t have broken the law, nor dropped out of school, instead, I’d followed my original smoother path, and study hard, and maybe, I would have had the chance of getting into a better high school, and university, and maybe, I wouldn’t have bump into, so many hardships of my life, maybe, maybe, there would be no need for detours in my adolescence, maybe………

What these kids need, are a brand new fresh start, a second chance at their lives, and yet, because of their priors on record, despite how they were still minors, and those juvie records should’ve been sealed by the courts, their pasts became out in the open, and the school officials discriminated them, labeled them as bad seeds, and they don’t get a chance to start their lives anew, and, this young lady was one of the luckier ones, because at LEAST she’d found herself back on the right tracks of life, and learned the lessons her pasts had taught her, and, there are many more teens like her, not as lucky as she.

The Families Malfunctioning, the Higher Socioeconomic Families’ Children Also Fell

This is what made these teens into, “criminals” so young, the dys-functional families are to blame first, and foremost!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

Based off of estimates, there’s an increase by sixteen-percent in adolescent criminals in eight years here in Taiwan with the rate of total criminal up by forty-seven percent, quite rare in the countries that are economically running well, especially comparing to U.S. and England estimates, in the recent decades, there’d been an decline by fifty-percent of cases of teens from ages ten to seventeen being arrested.  So, why is there the hikes of the cases involving adolescents here?  Experts had summed up three major reasons: the higher socioeconomic status, the families with migrated parents losing functions, the children with ADHD and mental decapacitations getting border lined, as well as the negative effects from the social media.

The foundation caring for the reformed adolescents found, that in the past five years, the youths who’d broken the laws aren’t necessarily from the lesser homes, but with parents who’d not spent enough time with the children.  For instance, a child of a professor from university, although he is intelligent, and came from well-to-do backgrounds, but the family education had, failed him, he’d run away from home, and became, a mastermind of high-tech crimes.

And so, the key to these children turning bad, is the malfunctioning of their families, and the cases showed, that the families can be well to do, but if the parents don’t take care of their young, spend enough time with them, instilling in their children the right morale, then, chances are, the kids from these well-to-do homes, when they start their criminal careers, they’re going to, be the, heads of the crimes.

The Teens Ran Away from Home, Stashed the Cash Underneath Their Beds, Ten Adolescents Found to Have Worked as the Pickup for the Mobs

The targeted population being teens, because of their underdeveloped prefrontal cortexes, lacking in foresight, and they’re, disposable too!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Taipei City Police’s Juvenile Division awhile ago received calls from the parents, that their underage teens ran away from home a lot of late, became truant, and as the parents examined the kids’ rooms, they’d found tens of thousands of dollars under their children’s beds, and the parents called the youth squad; the police dug deeper in, found that there were ten adolescents who’d been absorbed by the Bamboo Union’s Jen-Ming Division, became the pick up drivers, picking up the cash from the cases of scams, the primary suspect, Jeng and twelve other of his accomplices were taken into custody.

The police pointed out, that Jeng (age 24) proclaimed himself as the man in charge o the subunit of Sanchong chapter of the gang, found two followers, used the youths’ needs of economic, with no social experience, lacking in foresight, used money to entice these teens, getting the underage adolescents to work as the delivery person to pick up the cash drops for the scams.  The group used the means of faking themselves as law enforcement officials, and scammed the members of the public for over millions of dollars N.T.

Jeng not only just used these teens as tools to pick up the cash, once he’d found that the adolescents were suspected of taking the money for themselves, or that the money came up short, he’d ordered the gangsters to take the teens, and beaten them up, kept them in custody, threatened them, to force them to pay up the amount that went missing.

The Juvenile Squad of the city of Taipei chased the leads, arrested Jeng, and his two subordinates, and there were more than a dozen of teens who were caught as well, after the interrogations, the police charged the three suspects, Jeng and two others, the ten teens on organized crimes, threats, and assault, etc., the teens were sent to juvenile court, with the three primary suspects sent to the D.A.’s office.

The captain of the youth squad, Kuo pointed out, that summer is about to begin, the police will start up its “Youth Specialty Division” from July first, to enforce the laws to protect the adolescents in the society, that if the teens have plans to work, they should pay attention to “whether or not the company hiring are legal”, “if there’s an unusually high payout”, and were the workers demanded to “Turn in their identification” and if there’s a “Fee” to get the job, to avoid being used as the scapegoats of these scam rings.

And, these teens are the targets of these crime rings, because they do NOT have any sense of the outcomes of their own behaviors, due to their undeveloped prefrontal cortexes, and besides, they are easy to get, offering them money, and they’d become baited on that hook, and when these unsuspecting teens get caught, the heads behind these operations are already, far, far, far away, leaving these teens to take the fall, for their role in this bigger organized crime.

The Adolescent Stated He Was Going to Bomb an Airport, Arrested within Twenty-Four Hours

They should know by now, that making these sorts of a JOKE, can get them into, huge trouble, but they still, don’t learn, WHY is that, huh???  Off of the Newspapers, translated…

An adolescent, Wei while ago, left the messages on Starlux and Evaair Websites, that he was going to bomb the airport in Taoyuan, the airport police specialty task force tracked down the IP address of where Wei was posting from, and in twenty-four hours, the adolescent was arrested, he’d admitted that he dropped out of school, and because he was locked in at home, the outbreaks worsening, plus the messages of the Ukrainian-Russian conflicts that’s caused him to feel negative about the world, that was why he’d posted his upset online.

This message threatening to bomb up the international airport in Taoyuan came on the Starlux Airlines, the Eva Air websites, even the high-speed rail systems also received similar threats too, the suspect’s zooming in on the air and land transports, caused the attention of the police department, and the airline police and the railroad police set up a specialty task force, through the tracking of the IP address, they’d zoomed in on the adolescent, Wei, Wei was taken into the police station yesterday.

Based off of understanding, Wei dropped out of school, and because of how quickly the pandemic spread, he couldn’t go out on his planned trips, and saw the Russian-Ukrainian conflicts on T.V., how the missiles, the bombs getting dropped in the airports, and he’d started having the negative emotions, and selected two airline companies at random, to leave the threatening messages, to show his displease, his upset of the current situation.

The case is prosecuted with the civil aerial law, and the criminal laws of threats, the youth was sent to the juvenile court in Taoyuan.

And so, this is still how the teenage brain worked, they’re NOT yet fully developed in the prefrontal cortex (area in control of impulsive behaviors, emotions, higher thinking abilities, etc., etc., etc.) and this adolescent felt upset, by how he was forced to be in locked down mode, as the outbreaks are started back up again, and he’d, gotten upset, and threatened to bomb the airlines, and he got caught.

He’d Called on His Gang to Get Even for His Good Friend, Abducted the Teen by Force Then Beaten Him Up

How easily, they still, lose it, blame it on their, underdeveloped, prefrontal, cortexes, breaking up in the teenage years that resulted in a beat down of the victim here!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The nineteen-year-old male, Wang, in order to get the breakup pay-offs for a younger good friend, late on the seventeenth, he’d forcibly took the adolescent, Chou to the Chingtiengang, found the twenty-six-year-old, Tsai,  with ties to a gang, to bring other gang members to beat him; the police arrived, put an end to the physical beating, charged the suspects with obstruction of personal freedom, the district attorneys had Wang and Tsai taken into police custody, with the rest of the other nine minors, handed back to their parents to discipline.

The police investigated, the adolescent female was originally dating the fourteen-year-old adolescent, Chou, after they broke up, Wang thought that his good friend had been taken advantage of, believed that Chou should pay for it, forced Chou to sign a check of $200,000N.T.s, and the adolescent male’s parents knew about this also.

Late at night on the seventeenth at around ten, Wang blocked Chou in Nehu, claimed, “your girlfriend’s in the car, she wants to talk to you”, after he’d coaxed the teen into the car, he’d driven to Chingtiengang, where the twenty-six-year-old, Tsai was waiting with the bats with others, as Chou got out of the car, he was, ganged up on.

As the suspect took the youth, the police was reported, and reviewed over the surveillance, zoomed in on the license plates; at this time, the Shihlin Police Station also got the calls that there was a beating in Chingtiengang, as the officers rushed over, they saw Chou with multiple contusions on his arms, and legs, they’d taken him to the hospital immediately.

At the time, there were, Wang, and Tsai, and two other adults, with nine other minors present, the police hollered for them to get down, counted them, took them all in, and found the weapons of pepper spray, clubs, knives that were used as weapons to attack.

Wang denied the allegations of abducting the adolescent and calling on the group to beat him, claimed that he’d bumped into Chou by chance, “I’d asked him along to go see the night lights up the mountains”; but Chou claimed that he was taken by force, and that a few weeks ago, he’d already been forced to sign a check of $200,000N.T.

After the interrogations, the police charged Wang, and Tsai and others on obstruction of freedom, disorderly conduct, threatening to get the money, and physical assault, and other charges, sent to the D.A.’s Office, the D.A. had Wang and Tsai taken into custody, two others made bail, the nine underage adolescents, returned to their parents to discipline.  As for the check that the victim was forced to sign, the police said it was null and void, because the victim was still a minor.

And so, another breakup turned into, revenge, because this man felt bad for what his good friend sister was going through, being broken up, and these individuals are still, so very young, and they’d, resorted to violence to solve their problems, and this is an awful thing that’s, currently, trending, as there’d been, many precedence of how violence is used in break up.

The Sixteen-Year-Old’s Birthday Celebration Turned Fatal, the Drunk Birthday Boy Leapt into the Danshui River, Three Days Later, His Body Was Found

This TEENAGER made the WRONG decisions of getting PLASTERED on his birthday, which was what caused his death, besides, the legal drinking age here is EIGHTEEN, and this adolescent was only sixteen!  Accidental death here, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

A first-year technical high school student from Danshui, the sixteen-year-old Cheng, on the evening of the twenty-fifth, met out with his classmates by the Danshui River to celebrate his birthday, after he was drunk, he took his clothes off, and leapt into the icy cold Danshui River, drowned, and sank into the river; the divers from the fire department went in search of the teen, couldn’t find him after they were called to the scene, and, it took three days later, as the body of the adolescent male, Cheng to finally surface back up, he was already dead, and his birthday became his date of death too.  The families suspected that it was his classmates who’d, used peer pressure to make him jump, while the students denied, the district attorneys are looking into the matter further.

Based off of what’s know, the youth, Cheng can swim, and he’d turned sixteen on the twenty-fifth, that very evening, he’d gone out with a dozen or more of his male and female classmates, first, to the Holiday Karaoke to sing, then, gone to a local restaurant in Danshui to continue celebrating his birthday with the group, at dinner, someone had ordered up the cocktails, and beers.  After the meals, the group went strolling by the Danshui River, at around 9:40 at night, Cheng was worked up, stripped to his boxers, and leapt into the river.  It was cold on the night, and rainy too, with the temperature of the water in the river being, on the low, and, not long after he leapt in, the group of friends saw him struggling to keep his head above water, and by the time the fellow classmates found, that something had gone wrong, the young man had floated far off, and then, sank into the water.

here’s one…photo from online

The Huwei Fire Department Substation were was notified, about two hundred meters away from the river, and immediately sent out the boats, the divers, but didn’t recover him on the might, and the following day they’d, continued the search; two days ago at 9:40 in the morning, Cheng’s body finally surfaced back up, and floated into the wharf where the Huwei Fire Station was located, the police called the families in, and the families positively identified the youth.

The families started questioning, the group whom the adolescent was partying out with, that someone had, pressured him to leap into the river, but the students denied it, claimed that it was Cheng who took his clothes off all of a sudden, then, jumped into the river on his own.  The district attorney’s office autopsied the body, and reviewed the facts, and will see if they need to call in the fellow classmates in, and released the body back to the families, so they can bury him.  As for the restaurant’s providing alcohol to minors, the police sent the reviews to the city governments to investigate.

and another…

let’s all do these, shots! Photo from online

And so, this still showed?  Oh yeah, alcohol IMPAIRS judgment, and, these were teenagers, with their prefrontal cortexes (hello, hello, hello, the area in charge of judgment, etc., etc., etc.) under developed, and, they were drinking, and, the sixteen year-old took his clothes off, and leap into the river on a whim, and drowned to death, and now, the families looking for someone to blame, and they can’t blame this kid, because he’d DEAD, drowned?  Hello, hello, hello?  And, we still should NOT blame the dead, no matter how STUPID they were, when they were, alive!  Or at least, that’s, one of the unwritten rules of Chinese culture here.

This was a tragedy, that could’ve been, easily avoided, but it still, wasn’t.

The Taichung First High School Instructor Became Willing to Apologize to Students for Losing Control, & Going Off in Class

And, here’s, that “bottom half” of what had happened in class from the footage of the instructor going OFF on her students yesterday, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Students Refused to Give Their Oral Reports & Started Reading Off from Their Textbooks

During the music classes in Taichung First High School the instructor and the students went at each other’s, throats, and the argument was video recorded by a student who was there, and the video went viral, and everybody from all around started debating who’s right and who’s wrong.  The school hosted a press conference yesterday, the head of student affair, Peng pointed out, that Mrs. Lu stated, that the icons in the presentation had angered her, in actuality, it was the students, who refused to do their reports, and just started, reciting off the textbooks that’s, why she’d, lost control, she became willing to apologize to the students, with the arrangements made by the school, and the students were also willing to communicate with their teacher.

音樂課報告南北管 中一中師怒稱牽亡魂 要求刪掉 – YouTube

the video of the instructor going off on the students, and the instructor and students getting loud with one another in class, as emotions run high in the moment

Peng told, at the preliminary discussions, the instructor had assigned the rules, that chapter nine was traditional Chinese musical instruments, for the reports, and the students were supposed to present their reports for the thirty to forty minutes of the class period, that before the class, the students were to upload their papers to the computer in the music classes; but as the instructor previewed the materials, she’d found that there were the discussion of the musical instruments out of the chapters she’d assigned to the class, and because the group reports were assigned a set page number and the number of songs to each report had been specified, that’s why she’d deleted the contents of the students’ works, not fitted to the requirements of what she’d assigned them.

There were the students’ reports that got over twenty minutes of reports deleted, and only had seventeen minutes remaining, and so, the students can only, read off the texts; the instructor lost it, became out of control, and the students video-taped her losing control, and the video went viral, of those three minutes the instructor went off on the students, and after the conflicts, she had, allowed the students to do their reports from start to finish.

The instructor, Lu stated, that she felt sorry that she’d, lost control, and was willing to go along with the school’s means to assign her to apologize to the students personally.  Peng said, that the reports students spent a lot of time, a lot of mind to complete, just got deleted by the instructor, they were angered too, that was the primary cause of the conflicts.

Peng said, the Mrs. Lu didn’t look down on the traditional music of the dead, instead, she’d, pushed forth the education of the traditional Chinese instrumental music, that it’s completely false, that the outside realm kept stating how Mrs. Lu had belittled the traditional requiem projects.  Ms. Lu even mentioned of the plans to set up the traditional Chinese musical instrument performances of her students; and she said by being referred to as the comedian, she won’t mind it, because she’s very strong.

The school also told, that if the instructor will be taken out of this particular class, and assigned to another, they will discuss the matter further; and, the school didn’t demand that the students take the video off, that the students are very autonomous, and the schools had told them of the possible consequences if they don’t take the video off, and allowed them to decide on their own.

The legal realms stated, that because the instructor already stated it, that she refused to get taped, and the students had continued taping her, that it may be a case of infringement of rights on the civil front.

And so, this is the whole story, and these students DESERVED to have their instructor going OFF, but, from the reports and the video of the classroom shot by the students, you still only have one side of the story, which makes you easy to rush to conclusion, that this particular instructor just went, N-U-T-S, but, she has a reason to go off on the class here.

The Younger Generations of Tik-Tokers, Walking on the Borderlines of Morality

These younger generations will do just about any and everything, for hits on their channels here, even losing their virginity too, I bet!!!  And it’s still all due to the developments of these internet platforms, that made it too easy, to gain the “fames” that these younger generations of children are longing to get, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

Bytedance, the internet company in China in 2016 announced it’s APP Tik-Tok being provided, since the selfie shorts are, trending all across the world, and now, the international version of Tik-Tok, and the Chines versions had been downloaded over three billion times, surpassing FB, IG, and other social media leaders.

and this, is how it all got, started…

photo from online

The adolescents are already used to sharing their selfie videos, streaming them online, anytime, anyplace, sharing it with the online communities.  The Child Welfare League’s “Survey of Children & Adolescents Usage of Internet Software” back in 2019 found, that thirty-five-percent of children and adolescents have the habits of making short films of themselves, and streaming online, sixty-percent are using Tik-Tok, of the surveyed, forty-five percent said that they wanted to be young internet sensations.

In the past, Tiktok had made a ton of middle and high school age students famous.  There were the students who’d started speaking for the products, hiring the agents, with many of the high school age students’ followers breaking over hundreds of thousands, most of the followers are in the peer groups of teenagers.

To get the trending videos made, some of the teens are walking the borderlines of morality.  In October, there are the TikTok footages of many adolescents interacting with a homeless man, Huang.  The homeless man, Huang seemed to be psychologically ill, had once gone and hugged unknown school students who’d passed him by, and now, where the homeless man squatted, there is, a crowd holding their cell phones, making fun, and, some had used improper language to anger the homeless man, and there were those students in their school uniforms, hugging him, kissing him, all of the sake, of getting thousands, or hundreds of thousands of hearts, and the “most number of Kudos” on TikTok.

advancing to this…

photo from online…and, this too…

photo from online

So, this, is how bad it is getting, to boost our ratings, our “popularities”, we’re, willing to, put our lives out there, in HARM’s way, and, you don’t know, if that homeless guy you’re, hugging, for “ratings” might get turned on, and, start molesting you, and yeah, I’d been there, and had that done to me, and that just showed how the younger generations will do everything, just to get a HIT on their YouTube channels or whatever.