Bystanders speak up against bullies in social expirement

Bullying has always been an issue and in today’s ultra-connected world it’s even easier to be mean to someone under the veil of the Internet.

With one in three kids bullied at school, the people at UPtv decided to see how strangers would react to the plight of a young girl getting bullied by two older ones.

The mean girls really lay into the younger one, and the bystanders involved are having none of it.

“You want someone doing that to you? You think it’s funny?” said one woman sitting across the three.

“Do you guys have anything nice to say or you guys just talking s***,” chimed in a concerned young man.

The older girls call the young one a “freak” for reading, which gets a security guard’s attention, telling the two to quit messing with her, and encouraging the victim to keep reading.

It’s always nice to see people sticking up for those who can’t defend themselves. For more information of how to prevent bullying, UPtv has some tips.