'Shaved Bieber' Creator Gets Death Threats From Justin Bieber Fans

By Karen Bliss Posted May 28th 2010 12:00PM

Those Bieberettes or Beliebers, as Justin Bieber's fans apparently like to be called, are a tough bunch. While they might melt into sobbing, screaming mush at the sight and sound of the beloved hair-swished teen heartthrob, a Toronto man who developed a piece of software called 'Shaved Bieber' to censor the Canadian singer from your Internet is receiving death threats and other extreme backlash.

On one website, an irate 15-year-old girl from Switzerland named Alex even went so far as to compare him to Hitler. "I just wanted to give you the heads up that you will have MANY people that are enraged with you. I'm talking 5,000,000. Me included," Alex wrote. "I realize that you're just stating an opinion, but what you're doing is going back to World War II all over again. Hitler wanting to erase Jews from society -- you want to erase Justin Bieber..."

In an interview with Canada's QMI Agency, Greg Leuch said he invented 'Shaved Bieber,' an add-on to the Firefox browser, with the help of Free Art and Technology Lab after he read complaints of so-called "Bieber fever" online and received pleas from his buddies.

"One said, 'Dude, you have to do something so I can quit seeing Justin Bieber online,'" Leuch told the Sun, a division of QMI. "I was like, 'Damn, I can do this.'" He finished the task six hours later, according to the report.

QMI's Don Peat writes: "He's taking the threats in stride and has posted them online as they appear. Other fans have been reduced to tears by the new application. One Belieber used her Twitter account to tweet the horror of having the Internet without Justin Bieber after her parents downloaded the program."

"Mum put that shaved bieber thing on all our computers!" she tweeted. "I'm like crying, I hate u sooo much mum."

Leuch told QMI that he is working on other 'Shaved' software after receiving requests to block Lady Gaga, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.

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Saturday 29 May

By Shanice

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This application is beyond retarded. Really? Nobody is putting a gun to your head and making you look up videos,articles and other things about Justin. It's not like when your homepage pops up the first thing you see is Justin. And if that is what you see, you don't have to read or watch whatever it is about him. But people seem to do it anyway.There are other important things you people can do then hate on a 16 year old.

Friday 28 May

By Sid79

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I don't know who this kid is nor do I really care; but am I the ONLY one who's laughing at the term "Shaved "Beiber"" . I think the guy behind the program knows it sounds almost exactly like the word "Beaver", which is used in the context of a vulgar slang term for female genitals ? Also in case no one has figured out the double meaning of the term "Beiber Fever", I heard that there's a porn series called "Beaver Fever"!! LMAO!!

By Keli

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Dude, I am so getting this program. I'm sick of seeing Justin Bieber everywhere. lol And I'll definitely get the Lady Gaga one, as well. I'll even put in a request for that talentless hack, Miley Cyrus. This is super cool.

And I think that girl got what she deserved. Her mother probably saw what an unhealthy obsession it was and made the right decision. Good parenting. :)

By John

I just don't understand what the big deal about this chick is? she's really homely... kindof like one of those "inbetween" things.

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