When Rad Konieczny first saw a screenshot of the video, he felt physically sick.
A friend of a friend was the first to spot it. They told the 24-year-old set/costume designer that there was a tweet out there with him in it, but it wasn't until later that evening — when people started messaging him en masse — that Konieczny actually saw it.
"I knew it was meant in a bad way, I just knew," he told Mashable. "When you’re bullied for years you sense these things."
The now-deleted video was taken at a bar in London. It showed Konieczny facing away from the camera, talking to a group of friends. He was wearing a pair of cut-off denim shorts, and the person taking the video was laughing at his outfit. Read more...
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