World’s shortest “It Gets Better” Video

Not even 20 sec. — 13 sec. (his image) But if he can use his popularity even just to try to help out with gay teens (even one teen that might look up to him then it helps), then it’s OK. Just too bad he didn’t use the word gay in this message. Seems he “wants to help” but he doesn’t want to “get too close” to the gay community. But at least he didn’t try to sing his message.

it was twenty one seconds…. lol

The video is short but if you guys go to the Ellen show’s website you will find a collection of “it gets better” video’s and you will also notice that most of them are only 20 seconds except for the madonna interview

also you guys should stop talking so bad about bieber he is a really good singer and people do listen to him even older kids like me i’m 20

We have a very prominent gay social news caster and reporter in Denver that did a respectable ‘It gets better’ public service ad. He said he was horribly bullied but it did end … what I want to know is how to short circuit the bullying besides fighting? Some kids simply cannot fight. And I don’t want more laws or police … that is shooting mosquitoes with a shotgun.

Anyway, Justin did do the ad and that’s fine. It will resonate with some kids Im sure.

Just a thought…. Didn’t the Gay movement take back the word ‘Faggot’ in the 70s with Larry Kramer’s novel ‘Faggots”? I don’t know, it kind of goes with “Light My Fire”!

I don’t understand either the animosity or the praise this young man generates.
His music isn’t the type I listen to, but if others like it that’s OK.

OMG Justin is a walking Wet Dream and who hasn’t fantasized about being his Junior High “buddy?” Hopefully he enjoys a rock-star sex life, and hopefully, somebody on the inside will write an expose to drool over.

My only problem with the video is it seem like he was in the middle of a busy press tour day, and moments before breaking for lunch someone was like “Ok, Justin before lunch we need you to do a “It Gets Better Video”
and then he was fed 3 lines to include, repeated those out between his “um”s and then they all ran off for food.

He didnt even form a sentence around the “It Gets Better” slogan, just popped it in there cus he knew it was one of the lines he was suppose to include. I have NO IDEA what this kid is actually like, or what he thinks about this subject. But whoever put together this video did a horrible job at it.

Woah guys, calm your tittes. Its not that serious. Not a fan of Bieber per-say, but i appreciate what he at least tried to do, albeit, rather unsuccessfully.

I think a lot of what people say about Bieber is caused by jealousy of his success. He had the right way to go about things to get noticed and to get ahead. I can imagine that he might have been laughed at, or even bullied a little, before he was successful just because even at 14 he sounded like a 12 year old.

I’ve been part of a few attempted “Biebs” over the years since the internet became useful and it requires more than a pretty face to get ahead. It requires talent and luck. There are more than a few teens I’ve known who have better voices and yes, even better looks than Bieber but not the right music.

This message will reach far more people at 21 seconds than any number of 60 second spots by people that a teen can’t relate to. So I applaud him and his people for setting it up.

funny how theres all this arguing(which i attempted to read but got bored) over j-biebz profiteering. props to him for using the lgbt struggle for a fame boost.

“Hey guys, uh, don’t be um, bad n’ stuff. Kay thx buy my CDs”

all i have to say is im tired of being told i look like this guy..
>=/

I don’t know why everyone is hung up on there only being 20 seconds or 13 seconds where he is actually speaking…. Sometimes a shorter message gets a point across better than a longer one. Moreover; not every star dictates how much airtime he is going to get. By keeping it short he may be reaching more people.

I won’t criticize anyone who says anything against bullying – even if it does not say something specifically against bulling of gay people (as long as it does not have a message like “bulling is bad except when you bully a fag”).

I myself don’t care for his music… and would say that I think the stardom has gone to his head. I lost any respect for him that I had when he twittered that one boy’s phone number saying it was his – just to get back at him. I don’t think that he is a nice person – or maybe he doesn’t think things trough.

I agree with the above comment “what does he know about ‘it gets better’”. He probably did not get called “fag” before he made it big, and then he works overtime to appear straight posing with pretty girls.

Personally I hope he posts more anti bullying comments – backs it up…. and despite the fact I don’t like his music I hope he does make an anti-bully song.

I chaperoned a field trip for sixth grade boys and girls and during the final dinner, we were shown a slide show of photos taken during the trip that had a “pop” music soundtrack. When a Justin Bieber song came on, you should have heard the girls scream in admiration. It was so loud and extensive that I was afraid I might lose my eardrums. Of course, I had no idea what all the fuss was about (I don’t think I had ever knowingly ever heard a Justin Bieber song), but somebody there clued me in,”It’s Justin Bieber.” Well, I can say that boys may not care much for him, but the GIRLS sure do. And I know from this group of sixth graders, at least, that boys and girls a very much interested in each other at this age. Which means to me that if GIRLS get recruited into the “bullying isn’t cool” and “if you are a bystander, why don’t you help” cause, (as Justin said in this quick spot), then maybe the girls’ anti-bullying attitude will affect the boys.