This anti-bullying PSA titled To This Day is narrated by Canadian poet Shane Koyczan and animated by dozens of animators each contributing 20-second segments:
"To this day, he is a stick of TNT lit from both ends; could describe to you in detail the way the sky bends, in the moments before it’s about to fall; and despite an army of friends, who all call him an inspiration, he remains a conversation piece between people who can’t understand; sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity" ~Shane Koyczan
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It's a great poem, and the combination with the animation makes for powerful stuff. My own childhood and adolescence was marked by occasional bullies. The sad truth is, I had more ability to deal with it than kids today mostly do. Oh, sure, there's "bullying awareness" or whatever. But what happens when a kid gets sick of it and finds the sand to fight back against a bully? Expelled and charged with felony assault, sure as hell. If the ridiculous "zero tolerance" policies so popular now had been in place when I was a kid, I'd never have made it past fifth grade. Shit, we used to fight all the time. Now it seems that any kid who steps even a little out of line winds up drugged in to submission with manufactured diagnoses and ever more powerful pills. Ah fuck. This turning in to a rant, so I'll just say thanks for the moving video and encourage all bullied kids to fight back, but never let your school or the cops find out.
It's a great poem, and the combination with the animation makes for powerful stuff. My own childhood
