BackMeUp launch with Ruby Rose - cyberbullying competition

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More than 300 kids took the chance to hear BackMeUp Campaign Ambassadors Ruby Rose and Cody Bell launch the Commission's anti-cyberbullying campaign on 19 June in Sydney.
Ruby Rose told students at Sydney Secondary College to get snazzy with their phone cameras and get involved in this online video competition to show support for someone who's been cyberbullied.
Ruby said being bullied at school for not fitting in made her life miserable.
She told a captivated audience how she would come to school where a wall dedicated to bullying her and calling her names made her severely depressed.
But, Ruby said, one day she came to school and someone had backed her up -- countering the abuse with other notes on the wall saying she was 'lovely' and rejecting some of the more hurtful names that'd been written on the wall.
She said these 'friends' backing her up was the reason she was here today.
Australia's Got Talent contestant Cody Bell, who's also overcome bullying to become an up and coming singer, performed and later answered questions about bullying from the crowd.
Check out some of the videos already online and enter the competition yourself to be in the running for an all-expenses paid trip to Sydney to spend a week at NIDA creating a professional short film. You can also win JB HiFi vouchers weekly.

[@mySISSY06]

"That little issue of being a lesbian"

[@krazyk931]

These kids don't realize how lucky they were to meet Ruby Rose, ahhh it makes me pissed I want to meet her SO BAD

[@nivashinisai497]

iamdatname sameeee

[@Northstarboysvsp]

I feel you

[@nanabanana7618]

These kids don't have a sense of humor

[@btrjamesishot]

ruby's humour is my life

[@sgasercretiiiii]

Ruby is the shiz. Come on children laugh, I thght she was funny.

[@sgasercretiiiii]

Shut up Aaronon😂

[@ted_jef]

How can someone accuse this person for being rude?? Seriously this world needs change (btw ,im jealous of this kids ,caz they got to meet ,Ruby the freaking Rose

[@tiffanymorris2260]

like the video talk about cyberbullying and back me up ruby rose 🌹 big fans meet her in love with her ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹don’t stand by and watch how everyone doing

[@p0stm0rtem_]

If this was my school I'd be in the back sobbing my heart out

[@gukksridii8287]

I love Ruby Rose

[@leanne18w]

and im in this video slightly

[@leanne18w]

i go to leichhardt :)

[@Jan-mg6lf]

She's so funny and these fckin kids don't laugh

[@lauracampos5750]

Do the kids know how to laugh? She was sooo funny

[@Panhead6897]

I literally paused the video just so I could comment that... But then I saw that someone had already beat me to it :)

[@aggro4213]

Where's the sense of humor of the kids?

[@angelinaarmstrong4545]

I don't understand how the kids are so calm! Id be running around the room screaming at the top of my lungs like IT'S RUBY FUCKING ROSE

[@zv4132]

These kids look so confused lol

[@Panhead6897]

I honestly thank God that Ruby is in the industry! I can't even describe how wonderful it feels that there's someone who is as famous as she is who has gone through exactly what I have experienced and more! It is because of this that I absolutely adore Ruby :)

[@JazzmineParis]

she’s an amazing human being

[@carolvasquez8085]

i just love #RubyRose

[@shazzatee2846]

Can ruby come to my school !!!!!

[@angelinaarmstrong4545]

ShazzaTee same

[@californiababy7929]

Can she come to roosevelt

[@StephRivera]

I loved her speech, but yeah, the kids need a dumbed-down version of it.

[@pkcax]

+Stephanie Rivera yeah it seems like people rarely know how to communicate well with children and/or pre-teens: it's either people think they're incapable of understanding shit or people think they could level up to their own personal level. children are human too, just with less knowledge than young-adults and adults; you have to understand how and when also where to explain things simply and when you can go a little more complicated (and not to mention most children see the age gap as a weird thing when adults try to make jokes with them)

[@Jan-mg6lf]

True af

[@mondaymornings3]

did these kids even understand rubys jokes omg

[@XHecateGamingX]

I’d die if she turned up!! wet my pants with excitement x

[@eleanorgrace4787]

jesus christ if ruby came to my school I would be way more hyped

[@natw1875]

If Ruby Rose came to my school I would faint

[@tiffanymorris2260]

Got bullying in high school at new York feel hurts got pick on boces bus and need backup someone ghost text me text me my iPhone say bad languages don't stand by were to meet ruby rose her big fans wants meet her someone hacked my friends Facebook account messenger not Alone

[@Jan-mg6lf]

The kids don't know who this woman is I would die if she would visit my school

[@tiffanymorris2260]

What’s is your favorite color And Music movie you like

[@myanorman1773]

okay... laugh peopleeee

[@tiffanymorris2260]

Thank you ruby Helen coby Donna

[@tiffanymorris2260]

Thank you Troy

[@rage3475]

Rockstars love your hearts!Kids are the future.

[@okm88]

@AkwardLeanne Csb I go black wattle

[@amiebennis9889]

AW