Josh Fonner has been interviewed several times about coping with becoming a “fat goth” meme. Slacktory’s Nick Douglas asked him to write an open letter to Heidi Crowter, the girl whose face is on the “I can count to potato” meme. He also wrote to her mother:
“You talked about how distraught the knowledge of this meme made your daughter, and if I’m being 100% honest here, the person to blame for that is you.”
It’s sad but true. When Liz Crowter found out that people on Facebook had been laughing at the expense of her Down’s Syndrome-afflicted daughter Heidi, she was outraged.
“It’s almost like Faceless rather than Facebook, we have been repeatedly trying to take these distressing sites down and I have not once had a direct response.”
According to an article in The Sun, no one from Facebook ever made contact with Liz to resolve the issue. Why not?
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