Tuesday, January 8, 2013 2:49am ET by Newsdesk
Justin Bieber self-harm prank causes internet outrageA joke designed to make Justin Bieber fans cut themselves has received huge criticism online. Some members of internet community 4chan started a thread to encourage naive Bieber fans to self-harm and upload photos of themselves online in response to his recent alleged marijuana use. They uploaded photos of people self-harming onto Twitter and the hashtag 'cutforbieber' soon became a trending topic. A message on 4chan said: "Lets start a cut yourself for bieber campaign. Tweet a bunch of pics of people cutting themselves and claim we did it because bieber was smoking weed." However, the prank caused a huge outcry online and the page was eventually removed. Miley Cyrus similarly decried the stunt, retweeting a message that said: "#cutforbieber? Cutting is NOT something to joke about. There are people who are actually suffering from self-harm, this is so disrespectful."
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