There’s something about private material finding its way into the hands of the public. In this case, by material I mean pictures, videos and media of that sort. Material of explicit or sexual nature, in fact, can devastate the original parties portrayed by them if leaked to every Tom, Dick and Harry to see, and even worse, share. Case in point; nude pictures and sex videos of certain students used to float around back at the university I used to go to, (T.U.T’s a university now right?). Everything from pictures to videos was leaked, so you can imagine how miserable the ‘victims’ got. The girls, that is. You know how us guys love to boast about our conquests by recording (and in some cases, sharing) sexual encounters; R. Kelly style. I’d never do such a thing by the way. Leak something, I mean, lol. Hold on, girls spread sex tapes too. The Joost van der Westhuizen scandal erupted because of a groupie who hid a camera while the ‘legendary’ rugby player gave her the business. To this day, I still can’t figure out who deserves more of the blame: The girl, for taping the session without the approval of Joost; or Joost himself for cheating on his wife of ‘I don’t know how many’ years. See? Guys shouldn’t take ALL of the blame every time. Maybe most of the times, but that’s not the point.
The other week, nude pictures of Cassie, and then later on Rihanna, spread to the eyes of the (perverted) public. Not that everyone that checked for them was a pervert, by the way. The difference is that when its material from a person who’s a celebrity or something, everyone wants to see them. Even girls, in this case. What irritated me once more was how people started putting the blame squarely on Rihanna and Cassie, and not on the people that obtained and leaked them. I for one am aware that some/most girls (at least once in their life) will take nude pictures of themselves, for obvious reasons of course. Let me explain. A female will at one point take a couple of nude pictures of herself, just to see how she looks naked in the form of a picture. I don’t know, maybe the mirror view wasn’t good/big enough? I’m guessing she’ll probably promise herself that she’d delete them after seeing them, but then things change when she falls in love with one of the pictures, and so she decides to keep it, or if she’s really fly, keep THEM. This is just my assumption by the way, so any ladies reading this should feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, (which I doubt I am). But where was I? Ah yes, who to blame. If the girl in question is dumb enough to save the picture(s) in an easily accessible place (like her desktop, or her phone), I fully condone her getting blamed. But in the case of RiRi and Cassie, apparently some teenage computer geek hacked into their computers and obtained them. Now bare in mind that this kid is probably a modern-day genius to have pulled that off. Technology has advanced so much that you don’t even have to be sharing anything on the internet to get your pc hacked on; as long as you’re connected. Plus we don’t know where in their computers they saved the pictures (probably in ‘My Pictures’, lmao). Depending on who you are, no one would’ve expected the pictures to have leaked in that fashion, least of all the singers themselves. So why are people blaming Ri and Cass? Are you gonna blame them for taking the pictures in the first place? These people are celebrities for Pete’s sake, they are more conscious of how they look than everyone else. Some girl on Facebook was like “I can’t believe Rihanna would do such a thing…yada yada yada…She disrespected herself and her image…blah blah blah”. Come on now. This same chick is part of a gazillion other people out there who felt the same way about the situation. I understand that she might’ve been ill-informed about the issue, but let’s use our brains for a second here. It’s not like I’m defending them because I’m a fan of their music or anything (I’m not by the way), I just get irritated by wrongful injustice.
For example, I’m guessing Y-FM touched on the issue. I didn’t hear them talk about it, but I can bet you one of the DJs blamed Rihanna/Cassie. I’m confident in this assumption because most of the DJs on Y love to make objective statements. Like they always have to take sides, and in most cases, one DJ takes one side and the other takes the other side when commenting on a ‘scandal’ (for example). This is in no way an attack on Y-FM, mind you. Its just that I’ve noticed this pattern for a while now. It’s as if its in their ‘DJ criteria’ for two (or even more) DJs in one show to have opposing comments on an issue, even though one of them is the only one ‘right’. But then again, who am I to know what’s ‘right’. The music they play is perfect, its just the DJs’ commentary on certain issues I have a problem with. I thought DJs were supposed to make the ‘best-informed’ comments, and speak from an unbiased, best-informed point of view; because at the end of the day, they hold a lot of influence on what the listeners get to know (and believe). But then again, its all about controversy at the end of the day. The media can be powerfully destructive, and also constructive.
So if Terry Pheto nude pictures pop up on Daily Sun one day, make sure you know who to blame. Oh yeah, did you guys notice I didn’t swear at all on this week’s post? That’s some impressive shit.
P.S.: I love Y-FM. I love Cassie & Rihanna too, obviously. Get it?
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