This social experiment demonstrates that when adults publicly target a child, bystanders often freeze or look away due to the Bystander Effect, but moral courage to intervene can come from anyone, regardless of age or authority, and such interventions can help stop bullying and teach important lessons about empathy, respect, and the consequences of harmful behavior.
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They Targeted a Kid… You Won't Believe Who Stepped In
Added:Ew.
>> Ew. You broke.
>> I told you don't come here. This is our area >> and always will be our area.
>> It's not for short, ugly people like you.
>> Hey, freak. Give me that. What did I tell you? Stay away. We don't let weird people come over here.
>> I don't want it. You're ugly. I told you to stay away.
Hey, freak. Give me that.
>> Hey, what are you doing?
>> I'm taking his backpack.
>> That's not nice [music] of you.
>> And why? Why are you doing that to him?
>> Because he's weird.
>> He's not weird. You're weird.
>> What are you doing over here? [music] Get over here, you guys.
That's so messed up. That's like so mean. Why you Why are you treating him like that? He didn't do anything to [music] you. Look how big you guys are.
He's He's You're like twice his size.
>> Oh, we know.
>> That's why we do it.
>> Get out of here. [sighs] >> You guys are Don't pick on someone your own size.
>> What did I tell you? Stay away. We don't let weird people come over here.
>> I don't want it. You're ugly. I told you to stay away.
I told you stay away. Stay on the other side. Your hair looks so bad. I'm sorry.
It looks really chill. Chillillill other side of >> Why y'all messing with them? Why y'all messing with them?
>> Because I can.
>> Listen, y'all think y'all [music] cool.
It's not cool to bully people. You know what I'm saying? You got to put good energy into the world. Like, y'all putting bad energy out. You know what karma is?
>> What goes around comes around.
Stop putting bad energy into the world.
It's not cool. Listen, all the people that I knew growing up that was bullying folks.
>> You didn't know anybody. You didn't have any friends.
>> Listen, everybody that I knew growing up that bully people are either dead or in jail. Stop while you can. What's your name, man?
>> Yeah.
>> Listen, be be good, man. Stay away from >> Oh my gosh. Let's go.
>> Yeah. Lift up.
Ew.
>> Ew. You throat.
>> I told you don't come here. This is our area >> and always will be our area.
>> It's not for short ugly people like you.
>> Are you guys Did you call him short and ugly?
>> Are you for real right now?
>> Do you know this kid?
>> No, not really.
>> No. Okay, then. Firstly, you shouldn't be calling anyone short and ugly, right?
Right. You know that's not nice because you wouldn't like if someone called you short and ugly, right? And you don't guys, you know better than that. You don't bully people who are younger than you. You take care of them. Okay.
All right. Yeah. All right. Do better. I don't want to see this again.
Give me this. What is this, nerd?
>> Oh my god.
>> Oh my god. What?
>> E. Where did you get this? Dollar Tree.
>> You shuff this. [laughter] >> Ew.
>> No.
>> Oh, no. You can't get us.
>> Oh, yeah. No.
>> Yeah.
>> Hey. Hey, that that's enough.
>> So, what school do you go to?
>> I'm not telling you. school do you go to?
>> Don't worry about it.
>> Really? So, has anyone ever called you names? [screaming] >> How does it feel if someone called you names?
[screaming] >> Has anyone called you like Big Bird?
Anything like that? Have you ever been picked on? Do you know how it feels?
>> What has he ever done to you?
>> Be ugly.
>> Has anyone picked on you before?
>> No, cuz I'm not ugly.
>> Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror?
>> Yeah, I look in my mirror all the time.
And what do people say?
>> People call me pretty cuz I'm pretty.
>> All right. So, I'm going to let you know something. When you pick on someone, >> low self-esteem. Has anyone told you that?
>> No. Cuz it's not true.
>> Well, it is true. The cool kid is the kid that gets along with everyone. Has anyone ever told you that?
>> No.
>> Okay. So, >> I don't like to feed my brain with lies.
>> What's that?
>> I don't like to listen to lies.
>> What does that even mean?
>> I don't listen to people like you. Oh, you were probably bullied, too.
>> Actually, not.
>> But I do train boxing. And you don't know what this kid's going to do in a few years from now. You don't know how tall he's going to get. You could have something happen to you. He might become saving you a few years from now.
>> Do you even think like that? So, actually, the cool kid is the one that gets along with everyone. Have you ever heard of that?
>> No. Well, then you probably have low self-esteem because a person that makes fun of other people really are hurting inside.
>> Where do you live?
>> I'm not telling you.
>> In a house.
>> What?
>> In a house.
>> My house is probably nicer than your house.
>> So, do your parents know you act like this?
>> My parents don't care.
>> Your parents must not really care.
You're saying, "You know what? Get the hell out of here and don't come back."
>> You all right?
>> Come on.
What are you doing here?
>> Please.
[snorts] >> Ew.
>> Aren't you that same guy that we told to stay on the other side?
>> Yeah, we told you to leave. Why are you still here?
>> Take this back.
>> I don't want this. Oh, catch. Oh. Oh, you want to get it, huh? You want to get it? Too bad you can't.
>> What are y'all doing? Why are y'all bullying him?
because he's [music] ugly. [laughter] >> Wait, so you just bully people because they're ugly?
>> I mean, people get bullied because they're pretty.
>> Did you ever feel that way? Did you ever know that?
>> No.
>> Yeah. You ever had to fight every day because you're pretty?
No. Ever had people just not want to be around you because you're pretty?
>> No.
>> Intimidated by you because you're pretty?
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. Well, that's how he feels.
>> So, when you get older [music] and you have to deal with people in the real world and they start to treat you like that because you're pretty >> and then you're going to think about him.
>> Please, please >> why did you intervene?
>> I felt so bad for him. He's he's such a sweet little kid and those girls are just way bigger than him and it was it felt like the right thing to do.
>> Why did you intervene?
>> Well, you know, I feel like we need more love in the world, you know. Shout out to Bob Marley. I just feel like, you know, whenever there's an opportunity to step in and see like negative things going on, you know, adults should uh say something. You know, kids are very impressionable and you have an opportunity to steer them in the right direction. So that's just what I wanted to do.
>> Why did you intervene?
>> Cuz it was the right thing to do. And honestly, when there are no adults around, um sometimes you got to be the older adult and just, you know, tell them that it's not right. And if no one ever tells them to take care of people younger than them and to, you know, make the world a better place with small actions like being nice, they're never going to learn it, you know, and that's definitely something that we need and it's definitely something that, you know, they needed. Especially when there's a kid this small, you know, you got to got to say something.
>> Why did you intervene?
>> I couldn't stand seeing the kid being bullied like that.
So, I wanted to step in and make a statement to make the the world a better place.
>> Why did you intervene?
>> Because I just feel like bullying people isn't right. And I feel like everyone should be treated equally and cuz you never know like what people are going through like outside of like, you know, just what you see in them every day cuz people just, you know, go through different things. And I feel like you should treat everyone with respect because I don't know, like we're all in this together.
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