Star Wars Kid (2002)
Ghyslain Raza, 15 at the time, didn’t intend for this video of him practicing the lightsaber moves of Darth maul to be seen by anyone. But when high school classmates got ahold of it, they posted it online and it went viral. While many people praised the “Star Wars Kid”, many others mocked him, and he eventually dropped out of school to seek psychiatric help. The video became an early warning of a new form of harassment made possible in part by viral videos: cyberbullying.