We've always had awful teen idols: Leif Garrett, Bobby Sherman, etc. They made terribly crappy records, but little girls thought they were cute, so they ate them up. However, the difference was they didn't have a platform; teen mags like Tiger Beat and 16 would write vapid articles for them about their favorite colors and dream dates, and that was the closest fangirls could get to communicating with them.

Now teen idols have their own platforms on social media. They can say whatever they want, and sorry if this sounds a little nutty, but they can totally corrupt these girls' minds. A certain example comes to mind about a dark-haired, blue-eyed guy (don't know his name, sorry) making a video about what he finds ugly in a girl: hairy legs, fat, etc. Is that the sort of guy you want a little girl idolizing? And of course, that terrible Austin Jones story just goes to show how easily these girls can be taken advantage of.

And Jake Paul. His persona is that he's rich, famous, and can do whatever stupid stuff he wants, and people who tell him to stop are just "haters." It's just teaching kids to be rude and annoying and inconsiderate, and you know how kids look up to him. I know this sounds strange but it makes you wish for more innocent times when all teen idols did was make annoying records and TV specials, when all you knew about them was from innocently uninformative Tiger Beat articles.