OMG...alls I know is that I am soooo glad that the internet was not around when I was a kid, cuz I am quite certain that I would have done something that would have brought me international humiliation.
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After watching the pre-melt down video...it looks like this girl is directing her comments at young "hater" females and not 4chan. Then, I guess...these young angry females brought the whole thing to the attention of 4chan, and the shitstorm commenced.
But I don't know for sure, cuz I don't know too much about how 4chan works.
I hardly ever go onto 4chan, but when I did, I noticed that the female "/b/tards" seem pretty cool actually, and laid back. I would sometimes interact with the 4chan chicks, mostly over the topic of menstruation...and they appreciated what I had to say, and I appreciated what they had to say, and I really liked talking to those girls. But, I came across some dudes on there that just blew my mind.
I don't understand the way people think, sometimes. Why do we try to destroy one another...over the dumbest things? This is why I think that death is good. No matter how much of a bad ass you think you are, nature is the ultimate bad ass, and nature doesn't give a fuck ...whether you die instantly, or whether it's a torturous process....you gonna die!
Donno the actual story, but your first paragraph is probably close enough to the truth. The rest, as they say, is history.
The moral of the story is you have to be proactive with kidsters on the webs, even if /b/ never tripped over her, she'd still be putting idiotic vids on YouTube, which will probably graduate to more graphic and idiotic shit in short order.
The way to solve this is pretty much what they do in schools, educate the kids on the basics of public domain - what gets put out there is forever, and can haunt them forever. I've explained this to my little ones, and you have to repeatedly reinforce it, so it sinks in and they "get it." Mostly, I just show them the occasional nitwit and say "never do that, because everyone will ridicule you for years and years. Trust no one, because your friends this year may be your enemies next year if you have a spat, it will become ammunition to embarrass you." etc etc. Which is true. And they understand. I can trust them on the web, I think.
And I also bullshit them, and tell them I can enter their machine at any time and dredge up a complete history of every keystroke. Which is possible, of course, but I don't actively practice that. I probably should wow them soon, and take remote control of their machine one day, make the mouse move around like a remote tech, freak them out. Thats the kinda shit that sticks in their head and makes you legendary for a couple years, and uncomfortable going into the murky corners where they don't belong.
Theres really no rhyme or reason for what /b/ does. Its a hivemind that can be incredibly cruel. The only thing they love is cats.