- Dec 9, 2011
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I'm going to preface this by saying, first and foremost, I don't cheer anymore. I don't really care about cheer anymore. The only thing I care about is that my friends who still cheer are in a positive environment and are successful. I don't watch this show because it's pretty obvious that so much of it is egged on by the producers. I mean, really, who's sitting around on the countertop or the sofa with those cameras in their face saying "Guys did you hear about...?" That's unnatural and provoked and it's just plain stupid in my opinion. That being said, someone told me to watch this new episode on the app (the Dylan episode) because they knew it would be of interest to me.
Dylan is a great kid, incredibly talented and humble. He is unique and kind and, in the opinion of myself and many others, he did NOT deserve what was said about him. But who would? He is a TEENAGER. I think you are all forgetting that. No teenager deserves to have that sort of stuff said about them on the internet. That is pitting the crazed Smoed fans against him and that is crap. The cyber bullies down at AwesomenessTV need to get it together. They exploited his life and twisted things to make him look bad, and it is not at all fair to him. Now he has all these random children running around HATING him because fof a FREAKING webshow that is run by adults. You probably wouldn't like walking into a gym and hearing people say these kinds of things about someone you know and love (or about your child or yourself)... And that's in a small parent room. This is on YouTube, blasted for the world to see. One can only imagine how much this hurt Dylan (probably a lot more than he hurt the team, according to the sob stories shown on the show).
I think a major reason this hurt Dylan is because so much of the real events of Dylan leaving were swept under the rug. The show only cares about making Smoed look better. Notice any other athlete that has left: it's always been because they're selfish, not because of anything Smoed did. When Jenee left last year, she was put on blast on Twitter. The show set out to make her family look terrible. The athletes on the show cried... These same athletes were tweeting horribly mean things directed toward Jenee the very next day. They didn't reach out to her when she left. They just acted upset on the show then moved on with life, cyberbullying her. This has happened with just about every single person who has left.. They're then made out to be the villains. And I think that greatly shows that they made the right decision in leaving. I wouldn't want to be on a team of people who are willing to treat me like that either.
Now, here are some facts about Dylan leaving:
- The stunt group wasn't working. Eddie refused to make a change and Dylan's shoulder was injured as a result.
- Eddie was gone all summer.
- He was told to lie about his girlfriend.
- He didn't answer because when they got ahold of his dad, they threatened to have Dylan deported.
Those are just a few of the reasons why Dylan made the decision to leave. One final point is that Eddie said they don't take kids from other programs during the season because that's unethical. I think it's important that I point out that Robert was acquired in November & Gabby in January.... Dylan left in October.
I know this is long but I think this is an important lesson to not listen to everything you hear on that show. These athletes are TEENAGERS. They do not deserve to be treated this way for making a personal decision to leave a program. It's CHEERLEADING. Nothing about cheerleading is so important that it should lead to this athletes being bullied by thousands of people (on Twitter, Instagram, etc.).
Dylan is a great kid, incredibly talented and humble. He is unique and kind and, in the opinion of myself and many others, he did NOT deserve what was said about him. But who would? He is a TEENAGER. I think you are all forgetting that. No teenager deserves to have that sort of stuff said about them on the internet. That is pitting the crazed Smoed fans against him and that is crap. The cyber bullies down at AwesomenessTV need to get it together. They exploited his life and twisted things to make him look bad, and it is not at all fair to him. Now he has all these random children running around HATING him because fof a FREAKING webshow that is run by adults. You probably wouldn't like walking into a gym and hearing people say these kinds of things about someone you know and love (or about your child or yourself)... And that's in a small parent room. This is on YouTube, blasted for the world to see. One can only imagine how much this hurt Dylan (probably a lot more than he hurt the team, according to the sob stories shown on the show).
I think a major reason this hurt Dylan is because so much of the real events of Dylan leaving were swept under the rug. The show only cares about making Smoed look better. Notice any other athlete that has left: it's always been because they're selfish, not because of anything Smoed did. When Jenee left last year, she was put on blast on Twitter. The show set out to make her family look terrible. The athletes on the show cried... These same athletes were tweeting horribly mean things directed toward Jenee the very next day. They didn't reach out to her when she left. They just acted upset on the show then moved on with life, cyberbullying her. This has happened with just about every single person who has left.. They're then made out to be the villains. And I think that greatly shows that they made the right decision in leaving. I wouldn't want to be on a team of people who are willing to treat me like that either.
Now, here are some facts about Dylan leaving:
- The stunt group wasn't working. Eddie refused to make a change and Dylan's shoulder was injured as a result.
- Eddie was gone all summer.
- He was told to lie about his girlfriend.
- He didn't answer because when they got ahold of his dad, they threatened to have Dylan deported.
Those are just a few of the reasons why Dylan made the decision to leave. One final point is that Eddie said they don't take kids from other programs during the season because that's unethical. I think it's important that I point out that Robert was acquired in November & Gabby in January.... Dylan left in October.
I know this is long but I think this is an important lesson to not listen to everything you hear on that show. These athletes are TEENAGERS. They do not deserve to be treated this way for making a personal decision to leave a program. It's CHEERLEADING. Nothing about cheerleading is so important that it should lead to this athletes being bullied by thousands of people (on Twitter, Instagram, etc.).