Calgary teens fight cyberbulling by reading 'mean tweets'

Millions of peoplehave chuckledover Jimmy Kimmel's Celebrities Read Mean Tweetsvideos, whichfeature his famous guests reading nasty tweets about themselves.

While thevideos are funny,they gloss over the dark reality thatregular people especially teens are dealing with mean tweets everyday.

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A newYouTube video inspired bythe Jimmy Kimmel Live!segmentis hoping to bring attention to cyberbullying.It's calledTeens Read Mean Tweets.

TheCalgary advertising firm WAXproduced the video and collectedabout200 homophobic, racist and sexually harassingtweets from the internet.

"Just spending an hour trolling Twitter, it really kind of hits you hard. All of this hatred being directed at people online," said Jordon Lawson, who produced the video.

Lawson recruited studentsfrom Bishop McNally High School in Calgary to read the tweets.

"The teens were really behind it and understood the message,"said Lawson.

Partnering with Bullying.org, WAX posted the video onMarch 11. So far, it'sreceived more than 34,000 online hits.