Angie Varona - The Most Googled Teen in the World
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Angie Varona is the most Googled teen in the world. Pervs everywhere want to see her pictures, and thousands of people have been uploading pics of barely legal pre-teen girls in provocative poses and naming them Angie Varona.
The real Angie Varona is mortified.
Deeply embarrassed by an event that took place in 2007 when she was only 14 years old, Angie Varona became an overnight internet sensation and has struggled to lead a normal life ever since.
All she did was take a few photos of herself wearing underwear or bikinis, using her cell phone, and uploaded them to her private Photobucket site.
She had the intention of sharing the photos with her then boyfriend, which was not the most sensible thing in the world to do anyway, but she was only 14, and girls are doing that sort of thing regularly nowadays without consequence.
Not so for poor Angie Varona.
Someone hacked her Photobucket account and spread her photos around the web.
It reached Reddit dot com, specifically, it reached a subreddit section called 'Jailbait'. As someone who has visited Reddit and moved on quickly because the site is full of immature teens who seem to have found themselves a great home to bully and intimidate other users, and who seem to think they can say what they like and get away with it, I can't say I am surprised.
When so many perverts congregate in the one place, it is not surprising they can take the life of poor Angie Varona and turn it upside down.
Reddit ruined Angie Varona's life.
Her photos reached porn sites, barely legal sites (she was only 14, remember) and of course, everyone in her school saw the pics.
She was pointed at, humiliated, embarrassed, called names including "slut" and "porn star".
She had to tell her parents, Juan and Maria, what had happened. Can you imagine how hard that must have been for her?
She, and her family, and finally their lawyer, chased down the sites that carried her pics, but as soon as they got some taken down, more sprang up.
It very quickly spiralled out of control, and the FBI were called in after someone tracked down her home address (she lives in Florida) and threatened her life.
No-one could stop the photos appearing, and the comments being made, because the photos were not pornographic and the authorities were powerless to act.
Such was the demand for yet more photos, people started Photoshopping the photos that were in circulation, including one where her bikini was Photoshopped off.
Other girls started appearing in provocative poses under her name, and still the demand increased.
if you do an image search for Angie Varona, there are a massive 70,400 results - up 10,000 on yesterday, and no doubt higher again tomorrow.
Angie Varona barely uses the internet these days.
She has no Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot, Myspace, Photobucket or Youtube accounts. She doesn't have a dot com address.
Other people do, in her name. Other people who just jumped on the bandwagon with little regard to the damage they have done, and are doing to, the real Angie Varona.
If YOU are one of the these people, or one of the Redditers that spread this evil in the first place, then you should hang your head in shame.
The ONLY person who should have benefited from this spectacle, should have been Angie Varona herself. Instead, she has had to be home schooled for her own protection, and has had to put up with death threats and even a threat from someone who apparently wanted "to rape her".
Let this be a warning to all youngsters out there.
Do not take or upload photographs that you would not want your parents to see. Do not give out personal details online. Stop thinking that Facebook is your private online space, because it isn't, it's public.
Be safe. Don't become another Angie Varona. the world is full of perverts, and they all seem to live online.
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Scary story. You never know these days what can happen with your personal pictures and information. It is sad that people are allowed to set up Facebook sties in her name and basically abuse her by continuing to post these pictures.
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'good idea at the time'. If anything good is to come out of the sorry mess, it maybe that this will persuade other teenagers that posting pictures of themselves half-dressed or nude on any internet site is not a bright thing to do
Am still new to all this .,. can some one tell me much about this page pls....
Thanks for the comment Girls, I totally agree with everything you say. Angie Varona herself has admitted trying to stop other kids doing the same thing, but they are doing it, and getting away with it because the world's attention is on Angie, not the others. Check what your own kids are doing online, tell them about Angie Varona and warn them what can happen.
Zak, did you join just to comment? lol What do you need to know?
well, want to know anything about this site ... as i said earlier on am new to this .. but want to know more .. if you have anything on your mind you can tell me and am ready to here you out thnx
http://hubpages.com/learningcenter/contents Possibly this should be your first port of call :)
Well I honestly never heard about her, until I read this hub. However, now that I know about her story, I have to say that I do feel sorry for her. Granted, what she did was naive and misguided, but that still doesn't excuse the fact that her photos are spread around the net shamelessly like this; nor does it excuse the jerks that try to harass her and her family.
I remember when I wrote my "dangers of facebook" hub a while back, one person commented saying how easy it was for misinformation to be spread about one's character, as he was labeled a pedophile for coincidentally having the same name as someone else that truly was one. Needless to say, it took him a while to recover from this.
However, this goes back to what I said in my "dangers of facebook" hub which is you have to be careful what you put online, as one little harmless mistake...can lead to ruining someone's life if they're not careful.
Anyway, thanks for writing this, as I hope this hub brings more awareness about the dangers of posting revealing pictures online to young teens out there.
http://stevennix2001.hubpages.com/hub/The-Dangers-
Thanks for not linking, but I am happy to. We must get the message out there to kids that the internet is not the safe place they think it is.
Oh thanks Izzy. You didn't have to do that. I appreciate it. I think your hub is a must read as well, and i hope you don't mind that i posted a link to this hub on mine. I figured since you were nice enough to post a link of my hub on here, then the least that I could do was return the favor. :)
I hope you have your second hub on the Dangers of Facebook linked to your first one. Parents should read it, even if the kids don't. This hub needs some more links, I may add it tomorrow. Thanks for linking mine :)
Just read your hub and immediately put a link on my twitter account. No teenager deserves to go through what she is going through. I have never heard of her before but now I will share the story with some teenagers I work with at my job and truly hope they will see the dangers of Internet and social websites.
Thanks, The Reminder. It is really important to get this message out there to protect the young, and equally important that people realise Angie Varona is not who they seem to think she is.
wow. really sad story. good hub tho
Great article, Izzy. You had me fascinated. She should change her name and go live in another country.
She shouldn't have to go those extremes though, especially as she didn't do anything wrong - at least not really - underwear or bikini shots are tame. She has plans to study to be a vet or a lawyer, she should just hold her head high and make a success of her life, that would show them!
Izzy, no she shouldn't have to, but until she does, her life won't be worth living.
What a shame! Some people really should hang their heads in shame for doing this to her.
Why she uploaded these pictures and then share with her boyfriend. i Think she should take care of this
Her Photobucket account was hacked. She had no control over that.
This hub was great. I think you put it in perspective without getting on a soapbox.
Your advice at the end was to the point, stated succinctly and uniquely.
Thankyou :) I hope that somehow this hub will prevent this happening to anyone else.
omg izzy, you won't believe what i found. I was looking for youtube news video to put with my blog that I'm working on for online safety. But guess what I found? one of the idiots responsible for one of the sites, featuring the stolen photos of this poor girl, made a response youtube video, to the abc news video that's on youtube, saying that he feels that him and his friends didn't do anything wrong. To make matters worse, they accuse her of hacking their website to have their site of stolen photos of her taken down. Can you believe that? Here's the video if you want to read it. I just reported this to youtube, so it might not be on there for long. All I can say is that guy is either the most egostistical man in the world to think this won't have ramifications, or he's the dumbest. I don't know about you, but i think it's the latter. Here's the link if you want to see what he says:
I think the guy is just dumb! He sounds like a retard. I would report it to but I don't see where to and I am not a member of youtube, so I thumbed it down. Steven, could you me a favor and find the ABC video (or a good copy of it) to link here? My internet is too slow - took me 20 minutes to download the 50 second video to watch. BTW, I linked your Facebook pages to mine (I have one FB hub), rather than here. When I wrote this hub I could not find a decent video, but there seems to be more now.
Sorry, but this is cracking me up - calling someone a "pervert" for wanting to oogle that picture and using it as the top picture....um.....
I'd never heard of this at all. I'd think "I must not be a pervert!".....but I'm going to click "beautiful" for some rather nefarious reasons
~smirk~
Wesman it wasn't just the oggling, it was the comments that accompanied them. Sorry have no time for them. The girl was 14 years FFS! The top picture is covered up and has been for several hours. It is an innocent picture. if she was a on a beach, you'd say nothing. Beautiful maybe, but hey not the stuff this girl has had thrown at her, both online and off.
FFS?
I'd never heard of it - yes, people are especially rude online - or at least, the rude ones make it plain who they are online.
Not always and I wish that were true. The FFS wasn't directed at you btw, but at the fact that this girl was too young to be at the receiving end of all of this.
I'm not sure what FFS means!!! You don't have to tell me though, LOL! I think I might infer the sentiment by now!
:-D
Starts with for and ends with sake, if that's any help :)
As a Father of a 14 year old girl thanks for the heads up so I can warn her about the dangers of this sort of thing.
Shuck you are part of my target audience. 14 year olds do this sort of daft thing, not thinking of the consequences. I am sure if the internet was around 40 years ago, I'd have made a right fool of myself! But Angie was sensible in that she uploaded her photos to a private site, but everything seems to be getting hacked these days, so make sure your daughter knows of the dangers.
hey izzy, i found the abc video you wanted me to show you. im sorry it took so long, but i barely got your response to my last comment just now. here's the link for the abc video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PxjNpmMLwk
As for linking your facebook one to mine, I'll be sure to do that then. I didn't realize you had one, as I did link this hub to my facebook hub, but i didn't know about your other ones until now. anyway, i hope it helps.
Thanks loads for the video!! This hub is perfect added to your dangers of Facebook one, although to be honest Facebook wasn't involve on this occasion, but it is linked to the dangers of the internet.
This is a sad story, I wish my niece would read your article. I have been telling my niece that just because her facebook is set on private, does not mean you are 100% private. She wont listen. I had not heard about this story, and it is awful to read about it. Thank you for telling this young ladies story, and I hope I can get my niece who is 16 to read your hub.
Or just get her to Google Angie Varona. Watch the video above too if you get a minutes - an incredible 1 in 6 teenage girl is uploading indecent images of herself ! or was it one in five?
no se esto sirva pero de mi parte pido perdon al usar esta foto solo como presentacion a internet no como provocacion sino ver una persona bonita de ante mano quisiera que me disculpara esta señorita o muchacha
Es mejor que cubren imagen de la chica que repetir el error del resto de la web. Ella es muy joven.
that is horse shit man i mean she deserves better then that im not a pervert im an adult 22 years old and girls like my age or so i like looking pictures of and im no sicko like assholes out there and rapists and all that if i meet her face to face i would say "maam you are a beautiful women with a wonderful life and good parents if i was with you i would treat you like a lady cuz thats how i was raised"
Conrad, that is a really nice thing you said and I'm sure if Angie ever reads this, she will feel heartened!
First I ever heard of this girl. The pics I see up top are completely normal. Definitely not anything to be embarrassed about. It's just a girl in a bathing suit. She looks older then 14, but I cant ever tell peoples ages. I've met 30 year olds I thought were 20. I'm just guessing the other girls who called her a slut were just jealous of her good looks at an age that's usually pretty awkward for most teens.
Almost certainly! She is a very pretty young girl and the shots she posted were decent, as you say. Unfortunately for her they went viral and as you know there are all sorts of nasty people in this world. Hopefully she can put it all behind her and move on.
It is very sad to see the story of Angie Verona. But our girls are over smart and they ignore what happened to others. They think facebook is their father's private property and they can do anything with it.
In all fairness, it wasn't Facebook that ruined Angie Varona's reputation, but a hacker who got into her Photobucket account. Nothing is 100% safe online, so the lesson is, if you don't want the world to see, don't post anything potentially embarrassing online, at all. Will they listen? That is another story!
Just Ask Susan Level 8 Commenter 6 months ago
What a sad story. I feel for this girl. Hopefully your hub will get the message out there for young women to be careful as to what they post anywhere on the net.