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Emily Anne Broul Scandal

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Emily-Anne Rigal is a Teen Activist who stands up to bullying. When she was just 16 years old, she launched a YouTube channel called WeStopHate from her bedroom in Williamsburg, Virginia. She teaches everyone what bullying is and shares her story so others don’t go through the same thing. She has a non-profit organization and wrote a book to show everyone what to do to defeat the epidemic of bullying all throughout the world

Bullying is a very bad thing. Only 1 in 10 people will tell someone if they are being bullied. If someone is bullied, an adult should be notified immediately. Sadly, 2 out of 3 teens are physically harassed each year. Moreover, every time that someone gets bullied, they have a better chance of having problems at school. …show more content…

She was bullied all of elementary school because the “Popular” kids thought she was uncool. She was bullied so badly that she was forced to switched schools to a private all girls middle school. When Emily-Anne switched schools, rumors ended up damaging her self-worth, and that turned her into a bully herself during her middle school years. Her friends gave her encouragement, and they were good role models, and she stopped being a bully. She started her no bullying company when she was 16 and became the founder and director of WeStopHate. Now, she is supported by Lady Gaga and ranked one of Newsweek’s most fearless women. She also has received the Presidential Volunteer Service Award from President Obama. She was later featured on the 2011 Nickelodeon HALO Awards. She then release her book called Flawd and is now a full-time student at Barnard College of Columbia University, while also doing WeStopHate and other non-bullying things on the …show more content…

WeStopHate organization isn’t just for bullying, it is for stopping hate for everything and everyone. Her channel is so popular, that she has had 1,000,000 views, but it has grown since then. WeStopHate is the 30th most subscribed non-profit YouTube channel on the earth. That is an amazing thing to accomplish. WeStopHate also doesn’t keep the money for themselves, it all goes to stopping hate. The way that WeStopHate raises kids self-esteem is through social media, and many other ways. WeStopHate lets over 100 kids use their channel to raise others self-esteem. WeStopHate called the people that make videos on their channel and the ones that help out Boppers. WeStopHate has also made a partnership with the Body Shop Foundation for when their product Dragon Fruit Lip Balm is sold, the profits of the Lip Balm will go to 3 different organizations to help out people, one of them being WeStopHate. Also, WeStopHate starts many anti-bullying clubs in

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