Boy Bullied For Having An Insta Account Reviewing Books Gains Over 300K Followers

Callum Manning is a 13-year-old boy from South Shields, United Kingdom, who not only likes books – he loves them. In fact, he loves them so much, he even started his own Instagram account where he reviews them. Sadly, after his classmates found out about it, they started teasing the boy and even created a group chat where they made fun of him. The boy’s sister, Ellis Landreth, couldn’t believe how awful his classmates were being and posted a screenshot of Callum’s Instagram account to Twitter. Her post ended up going viral and people from all over the world started showing support for the boy, increasing the number of followers on his Instagram account from forty to over 350 thousand in just a few days!

Callum Manning is a 13-year-old boy from South Shields, United Kingdom, who was recently bullied for his love of books

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Carla Landreth, Callum’s mother, read some of the messages the boy’s classmates had sent and felt devastated. It turns out someone added Callum to the group chat and blocked him from responding while proceeding to call him a “sad weirdo”.

After his sister shared Callum’s Instagram account where he reviews books, the boy quickly gained thousands of followers

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In an interview with BBC, Carla said the support made Callum feel “so good” and that it sends a really strong anti-bullying message.

“It’s just bonkers but in a really good way that we’ve been able to turn a negative into a positive,” said Callum’s mother.

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