A Viral Video Takes a Dark Turn

I have been told by reporters from the north of Ireland that the when the news is not on there and the cameras are ready to go the public is all out in the streets ready to go into action as soon as the cameras are that's Morrow's that they all retire inside to watch the news and then come outside to participate in covering the news and in acting it out themselves now I think the difference between hired actors and the public itself is tending to emerge the media themselves can now create events that are so much bigger than people so much bigger than the audience that it really is a new mythic for I went to the train station and the trains canceled so everyone who had gotten on then had to pile off so it's like 200 people and there was the only a few buses to take us so we all piled onto this fast I was faster a bit everyone was frustrated because we're kind of just getting led away everyone trying to get a seat and get on the bus and no one knows why there was a younger kids like 16 17 sitting around this area and then right behind them was like an older gentleman drunk he had a really red face I don't know if he had too much Sun or alcohol both he was he was angry at first he was yelling at himself he was you know in fact this one stupid Metro this and that we have to catch a bus the kids started to talk to him because you know they could see him I knew that the red-faced man was the angry man on the bus and the 16 17 year olds wanted to feel that and wanted a bit of commotion on the bus behind me there were a group of probably about 10 15 people there speaking in our language we were actually just happy after this nice day enjoying the sound girls were having a lot of wine they were they were a little bit intoxicated you can imagine like ten girls at the back real loud all singing the same French music very pale white woman who was sitting with another couple and some kids she started chanting like Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy that kind of fueled more fire and kind of got their anger going back and forwards there's only one French girl that was actually saying anything back she was like leaning forward telling them to shut up just wanted them turn the fan like alright I'm French I'm gonna I'm sober I'm gonna look after them I'm gonna tell him to calm down I will say about this I won't stay calm it's alright he looked like he needed some help at that point I said as well to the red-faced man because he he was the guy who was kind of leading the thing that's enough come on night I had my phone in my hand at the time and I was out options I was just sitting here eating this this racist mess that this guy was throwing back at us I just turned to turn it to camera and started recording the guy the bus stopped because people wanted to get off and it was the girl who yelled Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy start and her boyfriend the door was open and we've got this guy losing your [ __ ] on the side of the bus and then you hear like [Music] the replacement bus came and the French group just decided to walk no one wanted to get back on the bus with the red-faced man and his little minions but I did and it was quiet bus ride home I remember getting off at our final destination and walking toward the train and I'm walking behind the red-faced man he was by himself get a little strut he has like a little waddle about his walk he's confident kind of alpha man war I'd been under the thumb of this guy for the last 45 minutes and then just a war watch him watch him just walk in front of me I let it go and that felt horrible I feel horrible to let it go yeah there's something humiliating about it I guess I was we watching his foot [ __ ] look just looking at the hypocrisy of it all and I'm thinking about these guys going off and telling their friends and becoming heroes of this story at that point I was like well if that's the narrative you've got my footage shows something else I want to show you my footage and I want to show anyone that you've told this story to my footage so you look like an absolute dick and it was that point it was me wanting to show their friends and them what they'd done that I realized I could do that I was working in viral marketing at a time earlier that year I had a viral video my house my cow had a big night last night and thought it'd be a good idea to put an axe in my car I'd learnt a lot about how to make a video viral it was the process of writing down the story writing down the injustice and and turning up the volume on on all the other emotional pressure points the footage was so cutting and it had racism and and misogynistic behavior you can plug this one right in and the zeitgeist and make it go big so that's what I decided to do I want people to share this video for two reasons firstly because although we like to think we live in a culturally inclusive society sadly this kind of stuff isn't that uncommon I know I've got my share for being brown and all of my ethnic friends have a story or two it's a thing in this country let's not pretend it's not and secondly so this video gets back to these three in particular I want you guys to see this in the sober light of day so you can see how truly pathetic you are [ __ ] you you're an embarrassment I showed my housemate Marc who's really good at social media stuff and I told him about the plant my kind of rain and really excited and kind of half angry and he said um I need you to help me with something and he was talking really quick I didn't understand where he's talking about and then he just kind of threw this video on a laptop in front of me and yeah it all became pretty clear after that first place I shared it was my facebook and then we went off and started sharing in other places and kind of getting the works eating this thing to start with it was just sort of a few tweets from different accounts that I have been emailing a few journalists bit like hey there's like a little video that someone else made it I was emailing from fake accounts it just got picked up straight away in so many different areas and I couldn't even keep track of it and at this point I was like holy [ __ ] we don't actually have to do much work here this thing's working for itself and we'd go back and start sharing it around and everywhere we shared it it would explode a sunny spot of life agnostic it's not a finger right face I thought it was for medicine look at myself with the attended us reply - it's in a place in a car desires to let us entertain a knife maybe was too sympathetic for to see an ostomy paid was as far as in savasana half a little bastard father das bespoke a neck warmer knock over the coffin 2008 stock return a spec book something's going on and there was a video uploaded to youtube quite recently like in the last couple of hours it's going quite nuts at the moment it's a brave guy who took this video is on the line right now Mike how you doing man now the video is like one of his video and to be shared then he certainly achieved his goal today because this book has just gone viral [Music] whatever comes of his stupid video I'm just glad that it gave us the word bustards we were pretty confident this was gonna fall in the laps of the people that we wanted it to fall into and that was a good feeling you know like we'd be gone and then try to achieve something and we achieved it seeing your name this much makes me want to become the Grand Wizard of the KKK I put this this racist theme in the video and be like news networks were asking me about it and and radio networks we're going so what do you think about race relations I think I think there was a definite racist sentiment there and I think it's something we should talk about and trying to be the light on because it's a shameful way of thinking shameful way of behaving I think that might help them change the way they feel thinking at this point is is maybe I can do some good like maybe I can do some good maybe we can talk about it talk about the issues of the country has and maybe this is is a jumping-off point II can't imagine Sisyphus otra vez endemic et moi d'être Josephus to do happen to downplay vernacular and may Liam do Bieber's deeper but hopeful clearer budget jealousy fair came in and found an email from from Fanny the woman who was at the center of all this now at the time of course didn't know whether she was and the woman who had been attacked we presumed as much because she said so but we are doing a few checks online and checking her social media presences everything stacked up or the news court papers the ABC TV networks the wire services all had his version of the story based on what she had said to us because she didn't speak to anyone else after this one email which was not my preferred method for for interviews but I think it actually had more power because was the only time she spoke more seriously on a Frenchman when racially abused on a Melbourne bus says she feared for her safety and was worried she being 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this a PR disaster for our country adults la pluie per mil de vie inertia Antionette coos la endomondo sambusa most Holly you disappeared journalist from off air returns to sue capital Manama domination on fire stay calm Batman forfeit me Pandu party under Amazon for Papa we can probably take you but we did upon total fun a really prestigious comedy room in knowing is me Cohen since I come down and show you video all the sudden I'm on stage with celebrities a news network from Korea since people around the talk to me someone from Scandinavia called people in France he got on the Guardian and I got lost I didn't know I didn't know what I was doing anymore and I'd be life I said I didn't enjoy it it's a bunch of attention all these people are making me the hero of the story and I'm just going around and saying whatever these guys want to hear from me in non-recursive are two former Sebastian's you're hungry too usually yeah I love cartoons Thank You DuPont why I know it's corporate know full of it hey friends Rob here doing or a sponsor review these Australian racists on this bus they're abusing this girl's absolutely crazy but the point I'm trying to make is racism I'll never go away it's been around since the beginning of time it'll be around since the end of time whenever that'll be and then you got a bunch of the guys on the bus egging him on giving him beer and cigarettes and a fish night because he threatened the filet her or whatever it's like what the [ __ ] are you mad at cuz she's thinking in French or you mad because you dick is small [ __ ] my question to you is is our the actions in this video in fact [Music] that racism period is a love of God the reality is racism is even somebody plugin can just look at him anybody just suck some ass this is big because your whole like that Jackie boy you bro subscribe to my ministry channel my youtube golf ready to subscribe button yes I just wanted about that [Music] it's like a weather system it's there's so many people talking about it and there's so many agendas being pushed on it that all of a sudden it's out of your hands I tried to manage it but I couldn't and it started getting nasty it took a dark turn Matt good eye yeah I saw the video last night on a link from a website called Redis even it was absolutely disgraceful the comments that were made afterwards with people saying if I ever find these guys I'm gonna bash him and yeah it's the whole thing just seems to be spiraling down within our control that's quite disgusting [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] things really turned upside down because then then wall over TV and and and I felt like people were judging us when you walk down the street I he's a couple and the kid you know and and not only on the news but like I'm the if you went to YouTube whatever I had you know where it happened you know and it pretty much had our area really bad bad anxiety of walking around the street and that um people picked me out you know grew up in New Zealand news or whatever and pick me are these that bloke teaching the lesson embarrassing ashamed guilty and I love everything you know I've got me I've got me what a half year old daughter with me in the pram framing abusive had a lady at the back of the bus didn't it didn't look good I'd only been out for three weeks I should we still caught in that mind frame of jail mode you gotta threaten them before they get you first you know you got to make sure they're not going to come after you you're you're you're angry and scarier in a way then you know here come come stand over me you know I always on in control but I was trying to control from what what me ex-partner had said to try to control their other lady not not reacting to what she had said just bein a bit protective of me ex-partner and and and her mid like me daughter um yeah I reacted the wrong way yeah people are saying take their kids away from him and cut their throats and all these macho dudes are having Steven Seagal fantasies about being on the bus and and beating everyone up so the they would have to be in hiding now like he is actually dangerous for them to be out on the streets so I'm having all these thoughts and thinking I did that that's my fault and everyone everyone was talking to me like I was leading this this army of shamers and I wasn't I just didn't didn't want to be I want to be part of it anymore I was kind of embarrassed the Premier of Victoria is really waiting quite heavily on this subject today and let's identify these cowardly thugs who done this and let's have them identified and we'll find a book to throw at him can we make it a heavy book g-g-g-gia constitute duties to our current faculty a Freeman Montes usually party plantation order per party planter sheep sheep are a poor party planter you probably didn't boo some kids do believe everyone gets me Roger a man is in jail and another is awaiting sentence after racially abusing a French woman on a bus in Melbourne southeast the incident had 4.7 million hits on YouTube and became an infamous racial attack 36 year old Graham lost his construction job after the video went viral Graham said he had spent periods living on the streets since being evicted he told the magistrate anything you can do is nothing compared to what I've been through the past 12 months when I was in jail I was hoping it wasn't gonna get put on put on TV while I was in there and then people would show you it even the night before I had court I'm watching the five o'clock news hoping internal gonna get put on and I'm down in in Michelle and like the security come up and they let me know look you know you got a lot of tea time TV crew up at the top of the carpark waiting for ya I've just found jail with them a lot of different nationalities that I didn't tell what I was in for you know and I'm I'm walking past all the cameras and they're gonna be watching it tonight wasn't a long walk was a long walk yeah paranoid of getting getting got by a couple of people for something I you know I got involved in because in their in their eyes on the racist always put down as a racist they believe on the racist you know and I couldn't even spoke up I couldn't have talked myself out of that if they had come up and approached me for really while Graham was jailed his co-accused Hayden Stewart has been remanded in custody to await sentencing ms Goldsboro noted that mr. Stewart's criminal history had begun when he was 17 and said she was alarmed that he'd never been offered a therapeutic order though he had previously suffered depression [Music] for some reason Australia like every four months we don't fail every four months there'll be some guy who said some awful racist [ __ ] on public transport some other person will record it on the iPhone uploaded to YouTube and that [ __ ] just blows up by relief right every four months but I'll fill in a recent series of xenophobic tirades riding on a tram when she unleashed some person then a young woman started filming with her phone and challenged the other also widely condemned the entire 17 year olds charged over a racist rant internal Brisbane train has apologized as guilty to causing a defendant charged with a string of offences all right who wants the bill YouTube decision today let's go Viacom you check your car bitching I need the heads Garnett Jake and danger YouTube subscriptions let's go what I'll see hey if you hate was the Mazon I'm not getting clever Asiata scripture Oh during this day people come up to me and congratulate me they say I love that video you made it was really cool and I don't know how to I don't know how to explain to them that it was a shitty thing that I did cuz I didn't I didn't do anything good it's it's hard to see why because it's mixed up with being anti-racist and and being against racism of fighting racism is a good thing of course it's a good thing but if you look at the outcomes and what was actually happening there I was exacting revenge do you make someone better by attacking them and making them feel horrible I don't I don't think that's true I don't think and I can hide behind that it's it's okay for me to hide behind that and hide behind being anti-racist and things like that but if I'm honest and I really peel back the layers it I didn't achieve anything good [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 28min 43sec (1723 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 07 2020