Fifteen-year-old Sydney Dalton, whose temporary disdain of Justin Bieber enraged legions of other teen girls, is apparently dealing with the situation with maturity and aplomb. Maybe there’s hope for America’s youth after all.
Dalton gave an interview to the site 4TNZ about the frenzy around her and her friends’ YouTube video saying they were “over” Justin Bieber and ripping his posters. (Her name topped Twitter’s trending topics, as haters introduced the alternate hashtag #SlutneyDalton and threatened to kill her for her heresy.) Less than a week later, Dalton seems unshaken but isn’t minimizing the seriousness of the issue.
4TNZ: What would you say to others who have been the victims of cyberbullying?
SD: Don’t let it slide. Take action. If we just keep saying to ourselves “Oh, it’s not that big of a deal, they aren’t going to do anything.” cyber bullying will never stop. Some people are stronger then others. Some people take some of the things that are said to them seriously and kill themselves over it, and that is not okay. So my advice to victims would be to speak out about it, tell a parent/guardian or an adult and put a stop to it.
She also said, “I’d like to thank my haters for getting my name out into the public.” That’s because she wants to be an actress and is looking for an agent.
Late last week, someone actually took the trouble to create an unauthorized website at SydneyDalton.com, proclaiming,