Remember this kid?
No? Well don’t worry because I’ve no doubt that everyone of you will have seen him before. This is the Star Wars Kid. The video of him 7 years ago leaked onto the internet and caused him internet infamy as the Star Wars Kid.
Want to know what’s happened to him now?
Motherboard.tv recently ran a documentary detailing internet culture and did a take on the people behind the videos. The researchers for the show then came across Star Wars kid and discovered where he’s ended up today:
“Not as many people know the rest of the story: Ghyslain Raza – or to the internet,Star Wars Kid – didn’t feel famous, or funny. He felt harassed, the victim of the most visible bullying in history. Ghyslain dropped out of his Quebec high school, was diagnosed with depression, and checked into a psychiatric ward for children.
Ghyslain and his parents would later sue the families of the three classmates who leaked the video in 2003, for around $250,000. According to the lawsuit, which resulted in a settlement, “Ghyslain had to endure, and still endures today, harassment and derision from his high-school mates and the public at large.”
But after eight years of laughs at his expense – and a few campaigns in his defense – Ghyslain is back. Now in his early 20s, he’s reemerged as the president of the Patrimoine Trois-Rivières, a conservation society that aims to preserve the cultural heritage of his hometown of Trois-Rivières.
Revenge of the Sith this isn’t, but he’s putting his litigious experience to some use, getting his law degree at McGill University in Montreal.”
From the experience Ghyslain gained from the courtroom, he took it upon himself to embark on a career in Law. Good on you Star Wars Kid. And May the Force be with you.
Source: Geekosystem
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