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LGBT bullies push pornstar to suicide

Crovax

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Porn star August Ames, a rising star in the adult film industry, reportedly died Tuesday in California. She was 23.

Her popularity had risen steadily since she nabbed a nomination for Best New Starlet at the 2015 AVN Awards; she scored a nomination for Female Performer of the Year in 2016, 2017 and the upcoming 2018 Awards, set for January.

Ames's Twitter feed was littered in recent days with cyberbullies accusing her of being homophobic after she publicly chose not to work with an unidentified actor who had previously shot gay porn.

Ames was remembered on social media by her fellow porn stars, including Charlie Sheen's ex-girlfriend Brett Rossi.

"A beautiful life is GONE because people like to use their 'fan base' to bully others because THEIR opinion doesn't agree with YOURS," she wrote on Twitter. "RIP to a sweet, kind, soul...I'm so sad & so angry. A life wasted simply because HER opinion didn't mesh with YOURS."
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Porn star August Ames dead at 23 - NY Daily News

This story has it all, the horrors of the porn industry, the burden of fame, and the constant cyberbully brigading of those who don’t subscribe to a majority opinion.
 
So, had she turned off her social media, would she most likely still be alive?????
 
Dragonfly said:
So, had she turned off her social media, would she most likely still be alive?????
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I would say that is a tough thing to do if you work in an industry that thrives on it
 
Dragonfly said:
So, had she turned off her social media, would she most likely still be alive?????
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If she was gay, and the bullies were straight, would you say the same exact thing?
 
Crovax said:
I would say that is a tough thing to do if you work in an industry that thrives on it
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You wouldn't quite your job if you sank into deep depression and started having suicidal thoughts, and the root cause of all of it was your job?

Turn off your computer. Walk away. Put down your phone. Walk away. If your very life depended on that you couldn't do it?
 
holbritter said:
If she was gay, and the bullies were straight, would you say the same exact thing?
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Yes.

Not saying any form of bullying is right, but anyone, gay, straight, or bi, can turn off social media to save their own life.

This is not the same thing as a kid in school being bullied on social media by her own classmates and peers.
Complete strangers she'd never met (I assume) drove her to suicide?

In a sense it would be like me bullying you here. You don't know me. I don't know you.
You can easily avoid everything to do with me by not logging on here.
 
Suicidal people usually have other underlying issues as well. Pretty sure this would have happened to her anyway, and there's a good chance it's been on her mind for a long time. I mean, people who do porn are not at the top of their game anyway.
 
Superfly said:
Suicidal people usually have other underlying issues as well. Pretty sure this would have happened to her anyway, and there's a good chance it's been on her mind for a long time. I mean, people who do porn are not at the top of their game anyway.
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My thoughts exactly.
 
Dragonfly said:
You wouldn't quite your job if you sank into deep depression and started having suicidal thoughts, and the root cause of all of it was your job?

Turn off your computer. Walk away. Put down your phone. Walk away. If your very life depended on that you couldn't do it?
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One's life also depends on their job, Dragonfly.
 
Jesse Booth said:
One's life also depends on their job, Dragonfly.
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An attractive 23 year old women can surely find a job OUTSIDE of the porn industry.

Also, apparently within the industry itself, she was doing fairly well.

It was some fans, but obviously not most fans who caused the issue.

She could have easily turned off her social media. Taylor Swift at one point turned off her twitter didn't she? Other "stars" have as well.
 
The article failed to mention it, but mandatory AIDS screenings are not enforced in the gay porn business like they are in more mainstream porn operations. That's likely a large part of why she didn't want to have sex with someone who'd worked in that scene.
 
There are a few "actresses" who do not do guy scenes at all. Those are the smart ones.
 
Dragonfly said:
An attractive 23 year old women can surely find a job OUTSIDE of the porn industry.

Also, apparently within the industry itself, she was doing fairly well.

It was some fans, but obviously not most fans who caused the issue.

She could have easily turned off her social media. Taylor Swift at one point turned off her twitter didn't she? Other "stars" have as well.
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Taylor Swift is one of the most famous people in the world, and is famous in an industry where performers might drop one or two albums a year if they're particularly productive. Porn stars have to put a lot of work into maintaining the public eye to avoid slipping into obscurity. It doesn't take very long to fall off in that business.

Even if she weren't in porn, being on social media is simply addictive. People that are perfectly healthy in all other regards can be hooked on the interaction that comes with social media. You've been here for a decade, you've seen people on here self-destruct countless times because they just couldn't leave for any significant amount of time. With something like Twitter or Facebook, where you're plugged into social circles with people you know in real life and where large parts of your social circle communicate with each other, it's exponentially worse - even if you are being harassed by hundreds of people, logging off for weeks on end is close to going into exile from your friends & family for a few weeks. I'm going to assume you haven't grown up with the internet like most Millennials and Gen Z kids, but for us, turning off our social media really does cut us off from a massive segment of our lives.
 
Crovax said:
Porn star August Ames dead at 23 - NY Daily News

This story has it all, the horrors of the porn industry, the burden of fame, and the constant cyberbully brigading of those who don’t subscribe to a majority opinion.
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I can see nothing in the article that suggests that anyone who made comments on social media was actually LGBT so why is it prominent in your OP title?
 
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William Rea said:
I can see nothing in the article that suggests that anyone who made comments on social media was actually LGBT so why is it prominent in your OP title?
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If I had to guess, it's because the backlash was in response to her not having sex with someone because of their background in gay porn. I find it hard to imagine that everyone who was upset about this was a heterosexual who just decided one day to go white-knighting for the LGBT community.
 
Jesse Booth said:
One's life also depends on their job, Dragonfly.
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Meh, being a porn star is not a beginning. It's an end. She could have made money working retail, or fast food, or anything.

Porn stars (the women, at least) generally have a low opinion of themselves anyway, and that is a precursor to suicide.
 
Superfly said:
Meh, being a porn star is not a beginning. It's an end. She could have made money working retail, or fast food, or anything.

Porn stars (the women, at least) generally have a low opinion of themselves anyway, and that is a precursor to suicide.
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I suspect that the agenda here is not any kind of concern for the wellbeing of any porn stars of any kind. The title of the thread screams, 'let's beat up on the LGBT community'.
 
Superfly said:
Meh, being a porn star is not a beginning. It's an end. She could have made money working retail, or fast food, or anything.

Porn stars (the women, at least) generally have a low opinion of themselves anyway, and that is a precursor to suicide.
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That's fair, but the thousands of furious people harassing her for days might just have played a hand in it.
 
Jesse Booth said:
That's fair, but the thousands of furious people harassing her for days might just have played a hand in it.
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She's an adult. If it bothered her that badly, she could walk away from the computer and get a job at McDonald's. No job is worth taking your life over.

I'm telling you, if a psychological autopsy were done, and if often is when there's a suicide, you'd find she had underlying issues.
 
Superfly said:
She's an adult. If it bothered her that badly, she could walk away from the computer and get a job at McDonald's. No job is worth taking your life over.

I'm telling you, if a psychological autopsy were done, and if often is when there's a suicide, you'd find she had underlying issues.
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Of course there were more issues at work here, but a mass attack on her online life was certainly the cinder block that broke the camel's back. Walking away from social media is far easier said than done, Superfly. Even in my short time on this forum, I've seen at least a dozen people I knew fairly well self-destruct because they just couldn't get up and walk away from their screen. Lord knows, I was nearly one of them at one point. It's significantly worse when it's something more personal, like one's Twitter or Facebook. Addiction to online interaction is a significant issue for some people, and it breaks a lot of camels' backs every year.
 
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