After the recent pictures surfaced on the internet of the heart throb pop star Justin Bieber smoking the illegal substance Marijuana, Belieber extremists have taken devotion to a new level.  Bieber fans are already known for their extreme dedication, but with the inspiration of an earlier stunt where a guy tweeted Beiber had cancer and true Beliebers should cut off their hair, a new and even more disgusting trend of “Cutting for Beiber” has risen.

Operation Cut for Bieber launched urging teenagers to cut themselves and post the results online, with the end result hopefully being Bieber seizing his drug use. With a nationwide trending hash-tag #cut4beiber on Twitter, the operation surprisingly caught on and proved successful.  Within minutes, dozens upon dozens of pictures surfaced of young teensters with slashed wrist.

“You stop using drugs and we’ll stop cutting. You make this world meaningless and we’ve lost hope,” tweeted one devastated and confused teenager, @brittanyscrapma.

The most sickening part is that the operation was launched  as cruel stunt by a few unnamed individuals to see if people would actually follow through with it. To their satisfaction, hundreds of teenagers did.   Is this what humanity has come to? Where people find the choices of one individual devasting enough to not want to live anymore, or to prove a point with their own self harm? A MHS student who suffered with self-harm themselves in the past and wishes to remain anonymous stated, “This is (bull), it’s not something to cut yourself over. Self-harm is something serious and shouldn’t be taken lightly. Suffering from it personally over a much more severe issue, this trend is literally an insult to me.”

The young star has yet to comment on the ignorant trend that dominated worldwide to get his attention. Luckily, the trend is also dying down and being taken more seriously.