--- title: Cyberbullying: Kids Read Mean Tweets on Jimmy Kimmel Live description: Part of a new campaign to raise awareness about cyberbulling canonical: https://time.com/3745873/kids-read-mean-tweets-cyberbulling/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-16T16:17:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:42.704Z og:title: Watching These Kids Read Mean Tweets About Themselves Is Heartbreaking og:description: Part of a new campaign to raise awareness about cyberbulling og:url: https://time.com/3745873/kids-read-mean-tweets-cyberbulling/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watching These Kids Read Mean Tweets About Themselves Is Heartbreaking twitter:description: Part of a new campaign to raise awareness about cyberbulling twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watching These Kids Read Mean Tweets About Themselves Is Heartbreaking by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 16, 2015 4:17 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 16, 2015 4:17 PM UTC Watching [celebrities](http://time.com/3599604/celebrities-read-mean-tweets-kimmel/) and [politicians](http://time.com/3743758/obama-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/) recite mean tweets about themselves is highly entertaining — especially because they tend to read them with a smirk before laughing off the insults. But watching kids read mean tweets is a totally different story. The Canadian Safe School Network, a non-profit that aims to reduce youth violence and make schools safer, created the above video to shed light on the effects of cyberbullying. It’s directly inspired by Jimmy Kimmel’s popular “celebrities read mean tweets” segment and shows students reading messages that target them for their weight, general appearance, race and more. The teens begin by laughing off the insults, but as the tweets get meaner and meaner, the video takes on a much more somber tone. The last girl to appear is told to go kill herself and then walks off screen. You can read more about the Canadian Safe School Network or donate money to the cause [here](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kids-read-mean-tweets--3). _Read next:_ [_Middle School Basketball Players Walk Off Court to Defend Bullied Classmate_](http://time.com/3742927/middle-school-basketball-bullied-cheerleader/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3745873/kids-read-mean-tweets-cyberbulling/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3745873/kids-read-mean-tweets-cyberbulling/"},"headline":"Watching These Kids Read Mean Tweets About Themselves Is Heartbreaking","datePublished":"2015-03-16T16:17:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:42.704Z","description":"Part of a new campaign to raise awareness about the effects of cyberbulling","url":"https://time.com/3745873/kids-read-mean-tweets-cyberbulling/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3745873/kids-read-mean-tweets-cyberbulling/","name":"Watching These Kids Read Mean Tweets About Themselves Is Heartbreaking"}}]}] ```