Justine Sacco
Becoming a Celebrity, a Cruel and Unusual Punishment Often times in today's society we hear the word celebrity and immediately associate it with a positive connotation. However there are some exceptions. Justine Sacco was no where near a celebrity before she made the decision to write this tweet that would drastically affect her life. Image from BuzzFeed Now yes, while it was a bad tweet the meaning behind it, according to Sacco, became completely distorted and inaccurate with every new impression it made. She claims to have been, "making fun of the bubble" that American's tend to live in when it comes to third world countries but when the retweets and favorites began to skyrocket, Twitter ate her alive. She was an unwilling celebrity and for a long time unaware of her new found infamy. People became seemingly obsessed with Sacco, or more so obsessed with ruining her. They were working incredibly hard to try and get her fired. They were relentless and judgm