Total Divas Cameraman comes onto Darren Young. DY outs him..

[ben:friendship frog]

Be a star Darren...

This is the real stuff you won't see on @totaldivas #youcantbreakthishappyhome

[gr1990]

By the sounds of this conversation, this guy is already openly gay anyway. Darren just 'outed' him sending revealing pictures to a famous man who is in a relationship, which is a stupid and foolhardy thing to do, and you've only got yourself to blame if it ends up like this.

[ben:friendship frog]

Aug 25, 2015 4:58:55 GMT -5 gr1990 said:

By the sounds of this conversation, this guy is already openly gay anyway. Darren just 'outed' him sending revealing pictures to a famous man who is in a relationship, which is a stupid and foolhardy thing to do, and you've only got yourself to blame if it ends up like this.

It's a stupid thing to do, but the guy apologised twice. Don't need to start screen capping and humiliating him over Twitter. Who's he think he is, Matt Hardy?

[gr1990]

Aug 25, 2015 5:00:20 GMT -5 ben:friendship frog said:

Aug 25, 2015 4:58:55 GMT -5 gr1990 said:

By the sounds of this conversation, this guy is already openly gay anyway. Darren just 'outed' him sending revealing pictures to a famous man who is in a relationship, which is a stupid and foolhardy thing to do, and you've only got yourself to blame if it ends up like this.

It's a stupid thing to do, but the guy apologised twice. Don't need to start screen capping and humiliating him over Twitter. Who's he think he is, Matt Hardy?

Everyone apologises when they do something inappropriate and it blows up in their face, but if they did it in the first place, they must have thought it was cool. I wouldn't conduct myself that way personally, but it doesn't mean D.Young was wrong as such to name and shame this guy for being a douche. If nothing else, it means anyone else will think twice before trying anything like that with him.

Unrelated, it's really ironic that the only openly gay cameraman in WWE works on the show where his job largely consists of zooming in on tits.

[Deleted]

Darren comes off as unlikable sometimes.

[Slammy Award-Winning Cannibal]

I can't imagine Darren has any friends backstage except *maybe* Titus. His obsession with public shaming his company and colleagues is embarrassing. This is the kind of person you avoid. Nice work, Darren!

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

"That's not the kind of pic you send to people...what an amateur!"
-Seth Rollins

[superchamp]

Final verdict - both idiots

[isink]

This is an HR issue for both.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

To be fair, if you had to film Nattie Neidhart for hours you would lose your mind and start to do weird stuff yourself.

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

At least it was just a shirtless pic

[Allie Kitsune]

This has been kind of an ongoing debate, though, especially when it comes to LGBT people working in media-based business.

Some (including some high-profile LGBT media personalities) believe they have a "responsibility" to out everyone else in media and entertainment in order to have more public faces out there for solidarity (even if they wish to be left alone). Others say their privacy (what privacy they have) should be respected.

This came to a head a few years back over all the Anderson Cooper stuff.

[Pooh Carlson]

That third screenshot confuses me. Isn't Darren initiating the conversion there? And almost flirting with the dude? He's got no reason to be upset.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Aug 25, 2015 7:05:53 GMT -5 Allie Kitsune said:

Some (including some high-profile LGBT media personalities) believe they have a "responsibility" to out everyone else in media and entertainment in order to have more public faces out there for solidarity (even if they wish to be left alone).

Those people are idiots, which I'm hoping you agree with...

I have a huge amount of respect for Michael Stipe, who is credited as 'coming out' in 2001 when it was just the first time he ever discussed something along those lines publicly, and refused to actually call himself 'gay.' I saw an interview where he said he basically refused to identify as such because he refused to be the public face for something, or considered a 'spokesperson' for a group of people when he had no desire to do so. He just didn't want that kind of attention, and felt his sexuality was nobody's business, and frankly, good on him for that, because nobody should be made to do so.

[Some Guy]

Aug 25, 2015 7:16:13 GMT -5 Pooh Carlson said:

That third screenshot confuses me. Isn't Darren initiating the conversion there? And almost flirting with the dude? He's got no reason to be upset.

It's a pic of Darren's boyfriend and he is taking a shot at him for the earlier moment of coming onto him. Short story: DY is a prick.

[ayumidah]

When I first read the headline, I was expecting to have sympathy for Darren, instead I left feeling bad for the cameraman. I just don't get the motivation.

[Deleted]

Wouldn't this be a great work if the guy wanted a new boyfriend and Darren agreed to do this just so a bunch of people would see the guy shirtless on his twitter and hit on him?

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Aug 25, 2015 11:43:14 GMT -5 ayumidah said:

When I first read the headline, I was expecting to have sympathy for Darren, instead I left feeling bad for the cameraman. I just don't get the motivation.

Ironically enough, this was a dick move.

*showered with tomatoes*

[Rave]

Wow. An L for both of 'em, the cameraguy for being an idiot and DY for being a major douchebag.

[BigWill]

Maybe the guy was fine with Darren showing the conversation. Idk, it just seems stupid to be calling people douchebags when you don't have the full story.