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Walker Scobell, prima of the Percy Jackson TV series, volition skip his precocious schoolhouse prom owed to decease threats aimed astatine "every teenage miss who could remotely beryllium associated with me."
The 17-year-old actor, who plays the pb relation successful the Disney+ Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV show, made the announcement via his Instagram, successful a connection that called for the extremity of harassment towards girls astatine his school.
"Just to fto everyone know, I volition not beryllium attending prom," Scobell wrote. "Please halt sending decease threats to EVERY teenage miss who could remotely beryllium associated with maine based connected their proximity to wherever I live. It's not just to them oregon to their families. Maybe besides conscionable halt sending decease threats successful general. That's conscionable not cool. Kinda weird I person to accidental this."
Screenshots of galore purported messages shared connected societal media amusement posts from fans who said they planned to crook up astatine Walker's precocious schoolhouse prom with weapons, with threats that "the aforesaid happening that hap with Charlie Kirk" would hap to his date.
Discussing Scobell's determination not to be via a lengthy thread connected reddit, galore Percy Jackson fans said they were shocked by the "parasocial toxicity" of immoderate followers who followed the idiosyncratic lives of the show's young formed — peculiarly Scobell and 16-year-old Leah Jeffries, who plays Jackson's on-screen emotion involvement Annabeth Chase.
"The thought that radical deliberation Percy and Annabeth person to extremity up unneurotic and truthful Walker and Leah bash arsenic good is sickening," wrote firestorm0108. "These were existent children erstwhile they started trying to vessel them together, existent people, and yet the fans that are that acold gone look incapable to recognize that."
"It was really mostly the Walker fangirls that are obsessed with him and delusional successful reasoning they person a accidental with him," countered Annie567810. "They harass virtually each miss helium interacts with Leah arsenic well. Some of them are excessively aged to beryllium acting similar that implicit a minor. Then you person Waleah fans upset he's not with Leah either and attacking him adjacent though Leah made it known it makes her uncomfortable yet they inactive bash it. Then they volition beryllium bittersweet if Walker and Leah's idiosyncratic and nonrecreational narration endure origin of it."
"I consciousness truthful atrocious for them," wrote Milo-Law. "How tin radical beryllium similar this, absorption connected your ain lives and relationships and halt putting effort into toxic parasocial shit."
"The kids who've grown up with societal media and person been introduced into fandom civilization astatine mode excessively young of an property NEED their parents to intervene," concluded brendinthegenie. "The information that the net is truthful accessible that 'fans' tin spell and harass implicit strangers without immoderate big uncovering retired is truthful concerning. Walker shouldn't person to springiness up specified a immense representation for this."
Disney wrapped up airing the 2nd play of the Percy Jackson amusement astatine the extremity of January, with a 3rd play present successful development. The bid adapts the fashionable young big phantasy publication bid that features the modern time versions of Greek gods, with the upcoming adjacent play acceptable to dramatize the 3rd book, The Titan's Curse.
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