Everyone has heard of barstool accounts but what is a barstool account? Well, a barstool account is generally an account that copies the style of a barstool sports account. Most barstool accounts are from high schools and colleges that want to show people doing funny things on the internet or apps like Instagram or TikTok per say. Most college and high school barstool accounts are to have fun and to create memories of any funny moments that happened during the school year. A controversy happened not too long ago at the Young Men’s Leadership Academy where there was a video of a student doing inappropriate things to a water bottle. The YMLA barstool account has been active on Instagram until that specific moment happened from the day the account is still inactive and is probably not going to be opened again or anytime soon. Before people gave consent to the publishers but now, they do not ask for permission or consent they just upload it without any say. This is bullying, harassment, and invasion of privacy. This is a violation of human rights, and I believe that the actions that the principal Mr. Rodney White took where to light handed and believe he should have taken this in a harsher way instead of just letting them off the hook and making the person who was in the video suspended he should of just suspended the creator of the account for a week. This incident was taken to the board of education I do not know what they have concluded or if they took this case at all.
Bullying is a huge problem in today’s economy of education. People can bully others online and in- person but they never think of the consequences that can lead to bullying someone. Some things that can happen is they can commit suicide, get depression, have an inferiority complex, won’t know their own self worth, make dumb decisions and they might come to school with a gun and want to take revenge by their own hands and start shooting up the school which can lead into a lot of problems for both the school and the parents of the students that started the problem and the one that shot up the school.
Invasion of privacy is a significant issue which can lead to fifty thousand dollars’ worth of damage that has been caused to the person. This can also lead to identity theft, criminal penalties, and monetary damages which can lead to thirty-five to forty years in prison. People do not give consent or permission to use their pictures and the person that sends the picture can also get into trouble for sending the picture without the other party knowing.
While it is true a barstool page is made to inform people of events and to have fun with some people take them too far and they send inappropriate pictures and videos of people doing the dumbest things anyone can think of in this world and some might create more. They do not think what people that were in the pictures are going to get treated like now.
In conclusion having a barstool page is a good thing but I believe in a school full of boys is a horrendous idea with how they act on impact and do not really care about other people’s feelings.
