Online bullying is not cool 🤬😡
Author's Note
I know that this isn’t much of a story, but to be quite honest, I don’t fucking care, I need to write this because I felt it was necessary.
I’m so upset that I’m shaking as I write this.
I’ve been bullied all my life, and I never considered taking my own life, and I never will, please keep in mind that this story is only here to spread awareness of what’s gonna happen to the population if we don’t stop the bullying especially online bullying.
Online bullying is not cool 🤬😡
Hello, everypony, this is my 12th blog post on this Equestrian site, I’m currently sitting in my room reading my old blog entries from 5 years ago.
Equestria has been seeing her longest period of harmony yet, now that Princess Twilight Sparkle is sitting on the throne shouldn’t be any more bullies, but I’m here to say that sadly this is not the truth.
I just opened one of my old posts under which there are a lot of hurtful comments about my Cerebral Palsy left by ponies who don’t understand that it’s hurtful to say those types of things to a disabled pony that they don’t even know because they’ve never seen me in person.
I am a white unicorn with amber eyes and a white mane. My filling with tears as I look at my last blog entry from six days ago, I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I need to do something about it.
Then knock on my door, I get up and limp over to the door and open it a crack, and my mother Rainbow Dash peeks her head in.
“Hey, squirt, you haven’t eaten anything today, is everything all right?” She asks me.
“Yeah, I’m fine,” I answer her putting on my best fake smile.
“You sure?” She asks me again.
“I said I’m fine, now leave me the heck alone,” I yells before slamming the door closed.
Rainbow adopted me from the Ponyville orphanage 12 years ago, I’ve been living with her ever since, but the online bullying never stopped, it even got to the point well I considered not being alive anymore, but luckily Rainbow stopped me in time.
But being a WonderBolt and a single parent isn’t easy, I only imagine the struggle that Rainbow Dash goes through every day, taking care of me and being a WonderBolt, it must be super difficult, I don’t know how she does it.
I got back over to my desk and sat down, my hoof trembling as I read the final comment on the blog that I had opened on the page.
And it reads “You don’t belong here, go back where you came from you freak, you’re faking your disability, stop lying you little motherfucker.”
I consider responding but I know if I do, it’s just gonna make me feel bad.
Our house is standing at the edge of Ponyville, when Rainbow Dash adopted me, she decided to move because it would be difficult for me to get down from the clouds without her help.
I once told my mother that I didn’t want this online life.
Rainbow said that if I chose to I could just log off and never log on again, that night I lay in bed and considered what she had told me then the next day I logged on again, just so I could see what they wrote about me, it wasn’t very pleasant.
I finally do get up and go down for dinner, Rainbow is waiting for me, wooden floorboards creek as I make my way into the dining room and sit down at the table, my eyes fixed on the floor the entire time.
“What’s going on?” Rainbow asks coming out of the kitchen with a steaming pot of soup and setting it on the table.
“I’m being bullied again,” I mumble as my eyes start welling with tears once more.
“Oh, sweetie I’m so sorry, some ponies just don’t understand,” she tells me, wrapping a wing around me and pulling me into a tight hug as I cry.
“Thanks, Rainbow,” I sniffle as I wipe away my tears.
“Tell you what, after dinner why don’t you show me the posts where ponies have hurt you, and then, instead of replying, I will reply and see what they have to say.” Rainbow offers.
“That would be nice, thank you, Mom,” I say, hugging my mother.
“You’re welcome squirt, remember, if you ever need me I’m here for you, I’m always here for you, and no matter what I love you,” Rainbow says, her tears streaming down her face.
After dinner, me and Rainbow Dash go upstairs to my room, and I show Rainbow the comments that were left under my blog, the look on Rainbow Dash’s face when she reads some of the comments that were written is one of anger, confusion, and sadness.
Then she starts typing furiously. “You animals better leave my daughter alone, so help me Celestia if you don’t, I will come and find you and teach you that bullying is not ok.”
A few seconds later, the first user comments.
“You think that we’re going to stop and what the fuck are you gonna do about it, you can’t tell us what to do.”
Then, a few seconds later, another comment pops up, and another and another, and so on until Rainbow Dash finally walks away without another word.
“To be really honest, Snow, I’m not sure what to tell you. I’ve told you many times to not engage with the bullies because it’s bad for your health, next time, something like this happens, just reported to the site administrators and walk away.” Rainbow tells me before leaving.
I consider what she says for a little while then I hit logout and close my laptop, I’ve just sit there for a while thinking about all the things that they have said, is it really worth it to keep engaging with them?
I finally get up for the very last time and walk out of my room, slamming the door as I go.
“Mom, I’m going for a walk.” I called to my mother as I head out the front door.
I made my way through Ponyville to the home of my best friend’s, when I arrived there I knock on the door, but no pony answers.
I wait a few more seconds before I leave the front door and go around back to see if they are there, but they are not so I decide to go Applejack, maybe she’s got some advice for me on how I can handle the bullies.
When I arrive at Sweet Apple Acres, I can see Apple Bloom harvesting apples and walk over to her.
“Hey, Apple Bloom, how do you deal with bullies?” I ask.
Apple Bloom stops what she is doing and walks over to me seeing the tears in my eyes she pulls me in for a tight hug.
“Well, Little Snow, in school when I got bullied I told the teacher about it and she suspended the bully for a week, can’t you tell Rainbow or someone?” The yellow country mare says.
We sit in silence for a while before I speak again. “How did you deal with it, I get bullied online, but Rainbow says that I need to learn to deal with it, I don’t know how.”
“You just need to learn, it’s easy next time you see a comment which hurts you just don’t respond, just pretend that the user who commented is not even there, pretend that it doesn’t exist, I know it’s difficult, but I also know you can do it, I believe in you,” Apple Bloom says, going back to harvesting apples as I sit there and watch.
