Heidi Crowter

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Heidi Crowter is a British girl with Down Syndrome, and is the star of the popular "Retard Girl" Advice Dog spinoff. The meme, once popular with Imgur using fags, had settled down and was posted only once in a while, when in April 2012, the girl's mother, Elizabeth Crowter, decided to go full potato and complain about it to the BBC, even going so far as to bring the lump of idiocy that is her daughter.

Heidi is troubled by the discovery that her image is being used in a spin-off of Advice Dog.

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Some enterprising troll managed to hack Heidi's Facebook account.

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	“	Until yesterday Heidi had been shielded from the truth about the trollers, but with the parents trying to get wider support to have the pages taken off Facebook, they felt they couldn't keep it a secret any longer.	„
	—BBC, on why the parents trolled their own child by showing her the images

What Mrs Crowter fails to realize, however, is that the 'Retard Girl' meme was never intended to be a direct attack on her daughter to begin with. It wasn't an act of calculated, malicious trolling designed to upset Heidi Crowter - some newfag wanting to make a new Advice Dog spinoff just happened to use the first picture of a Down syndrome child they could find on Google Images. Furthermore, by going crying to the old media about 'vile, evil trolls' and demanding that the Internet be censored, she has actually brought more attention to the meme that so upset her in the first place - nobody really cared, until this happened.

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Who Is Responsible?

The culprit behind this vile and disgusting hate campaign has since been identified as a 9gag user, Jimmy Rustles. We here at ED would urge the citizens of the Internet to be extra vigilant and do everything in their power to bring this scurrilous e-bully to justice. Jimmy Rustles must be punished.

See Also

• 9gag
• Advice Dog
• Facebook
• Retard
• Mary Alice Altorfer
• Xzibit - somebody else who doesn't appreciate being made into a meme.
• Streisand effect

External Links

• The BBC reports on the case
• A sterling bit of journalism from The Sun
• That bastion of journalistic integrity, the Daily Fail wades in
• "Retard Girl" at Memegenerator

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