Help Me Understand: Viral Fight Videos

Okay let me get on my Bougie (Bourgeois) & Stuck Up Microphone and say this, “I hate fight videos and just like the folks who are fighting, I think the folks that are filming should have charges pressed against them also because they are instigators”. Yes, I said it. I haven’t ran to watch a fight since middle school maybe early high school. Doing that stuff (yeah I almost cussed) is dangerous. Between the guns the fighters may have and the running away the spectators may do, I choose another route towards safety called “not being there”. I don’t see my own fight as entertainment let alone someone else’s.

Well with the invention of camcorders, camera phones, and internet media, the rise of “fight videos” is beyond belief.  I don’t see what is so entertaining. The most recent one that is talked about is “Sharkeisha”. This is the viral video that has taken Twitter by storm. It shows a girl, named Sharkeisha, beating up a girl named Shay for sleeping with her boyfriend. On the video, you can hear Sharkeisha's shocked friend yelling at her, "Don't kick her, Sharkeisha!" Yet the “shocked” “friend” is taping this and has post this somewhere for the public to see. At first when “Black Twitter”(Here is the definition) signifying, about this, I thought they had made some “ghetto” spoof of the Sci-Fi movie “Sharknado” (I’m a sucker for a good spoof) so I went to YouTube and saw this and I wanted to weep. These are young women (including the videographer) who could be in college, work, or doing something productive other than fighting.

Yes the fighting is wrong, but I understand that part. I don’t understand filming it as entertainment. This type of entertainment is all over the internet, (Facebook, YouTube & World Star Hip Hop are the places where I see many of them), talked about in our social settings like it is water cooler conversations and passed around like a funny email. So, somebody explain it to me.

As I’m writing this I thought of one reason. Maybe this is the “Safe Way” to watch (run to) a fight like we did in school. I just wish they would go away and never return. Stop promoting & glorifying violence and call it what it is vulgar and gross. Stop giving these videos “Most Watched” nominations and the thousands of “Likes” that they’re getting and ignore them and allow fade away and not be cute anymore.

Oh Ms. Sharkeisha was arrested. I bet she’ll blame the victim only and not her “friends” video for her arrest. That’s too much like right.

As Always, Talking to You in Adult Terms