Getting caught is not ruining someone's life. He made the choice to steal the hat in a very public place.

by Rare-Breadfruit 2 days ago

How does naming and shaming ruin his life?

by AbilitySpecialist 2 days ago

If you did something wrong you would be fine with going globally viral and having millions of people calling you a disgusting human? You'd be fine with people putting your personal info out there because you did something wrong? Do you truly believe you've never done anything in your life that the internet would find vile and try to ruin your life?

by Anonymous 2 days ago

He stole the hat from a child, and had the bad luck that it was filmed.

by Alarming-Squirrel787 2 days ago

That's two different things really. When someone witnesses you stealing like that, you can't blame them for mentioning that to others. But the Internet made "others" a worldwide audience, meaning there's much less privacy than in the past.

by Alarming-Squirrel787 2 days ago

Why does this one thing trigger you more than thousands of other videos where people go viral? You or a family don't happen to own a business by chance?

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Yet he'll still carry the weight of what happened to him for the rest of his life. So you consent to having millions of people find where you live and what your name is the next time you make a mistake?

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Ahh okay so you're the type of person to disregard athletes mental health because, "they get played millions of dollars to play a kids game" like they aren't human and can't have feelings. If you are successful in life you don't deserve sympathy. Sick world we live in man

by Anonymous 2 days ago

The guy stole from a child, and then said online "tough luck, yes I stole it, so what? that kid should have been quicker". He might be a great man otherwise (I don't know), but this really sounds like a lack of empathy.

by Alarming-Squirrel787 2 days ago

He would be going viral whether he was rich or not. His money has nothing to do with whether he deserves to be shamed or not.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I don't know why you're acting like this weird phenomenon is solely done to rich people? You've never seen a middle class person go viral for making a mistake and the internet tries to ruin their life? It's not just rich people this happens to. This could happen to you

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Found the millionaire

by Careless-Worth409 2 days ago

I'd agree if he came out and said he made a mistake and apologized. Instead his statement reads like finders keepers, losers weepers. So now he deserves all the hate.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I can understand this POV

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Do I believe that social media makes it too easy to spread rumors and judge people unfairly, effectively enshrining every mistake or controversy or rumor onto somebody's digital permanent record? I do. Do I believe that the ability to anonymously Dogpile people via the Internet, and the resulting cocktail of happy chemicals our brains release when we feel like we are righteously crusading against somebody who "deserves it" is fundamentally shaping people's worldviews in a way that every interaction becomes a "me versus them" situation. I do. Do I believe that people shouldn't be clowning on the guy after he stole from a child, then doubled down saying that it was the kid's fault for letting him steal from him? Of course not. Stealing from children is pretty much the first character trait you give to someone in a children's book to show that they're the villain, and he deserves the social consequences that he gets for being a dingus. Should it go further than mockery? No. He shouldn't be doxed, and people shouldn't Target his family or his business or anything like that. But if he ends up losing his job because the board sees him as a PR liability, that's just the consequences of your actions. Tldr: the internet makes it really easy for small mistakes, scandals, or misunderstandings to blow up and disproportionately affect the people caught in it. But also, that doesn't mean that every instance is inherently unfair. People should face the consequences of their actions, and callously stealing from a child is one heck of an action

by Herzogchloe 2 days ago

I'm not a douchebag who steals from children. I'm an old lady who tried to be good even when there wasn't cameras everywhere. I'm an urban hermit these days so I'm really not worried about it. I don't go out much because too many people are going feral.

by schowaltersigri 2 days ago

Wont someone think of the millionaires!

by Anonymous 2 days ago

See this is the exact distorted reality that social media has allowed you guys to believe. It's not won't someone think about the millionaires, it's won't someone think about their fellow human being. He wasn't thinking about his fellow human being in that moment. He was wrong. Does that mean he needs to have his life ruined? No. And I genuinely believe it's extremely weird that people think doing this is normal. You guys are the same people that would've attended public executions. Humanity hasn't progressed as much as we'd like to think.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I think he'll be okay wiping his tears with the cash he uses as toilet paper.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Hey you know what he could've done? Said literally anything along the lines of "I was wrong". You know what he did say? "If you'd have been quicker you could have had the hat". So I'm not sure what you want people to do, just pretend he didn't do it and then double down or what? Public image results in public response. He publically executed himself with his actions, no one got to choose to witness it we were forced to be the man himself.

by BagNegative9630 2 days ago

Shaming someone for stealing does not "ruin his life." If someone's life is ruined because someone else called them out on something the first person did, then the first person robbed their own life. It's called accountability. Too many touch people get out of showing any because of their money.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

You are the millionaire, aren't you?

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I will be one day but not even close now

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Mistake?

by Alarming-Squirrel787 2 days ago

One of the only logical responses.

by Anonymous 2 days ago