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this is "nightline." tonight, extreme mean. when school becomes scary. >> they would tell me to kill myself. >> cyber bullies, using a new crop of anonymous apps to become more vicious. plus, you saw his six pack in "magic mike." now he brings us the real male strippers. >> they're revealing more than just their muscles. >> i've never slept with a client for money. but i have slept with clients because i wanted to. >> we go behind closed doors as they expose their dirty secret. and iphone be ware, the hottest new game changer in technology is 3-d, from amazon.
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emotional page and ruin reputations. we look at the new technology that can give those bullies an edge and what can and can't be done to fight them. >> you're gross. you are so pathetic, it's so funny. what did i even do? >> reporter: vicious, cruel, and sometimes violent postings. that's what 15-year-old jamie was forced to read about herself while at school. >> i will throw a rock at your head when you're cheer leading. >> reporter: but she doesn't know how to defend herself because she has no idea who the insults are coming from. they've been posted anonymously. >> they would tell me to kill myself and cut myself and all that kind of stuff. >> reporter: jamie says because of the abuse, her abuse plummeted because she couldn't focus in school, fearing any of her classmates might be one of her tormentors.
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>> anonymous does make it worse. it could have been my best friend and i have no idea. she could have been planning to do it the next night and i would have no clue. >> reporter: petty high school gossip is nothing new. >> check it out, katie. >> reporter: and blockbuster films like "mean girls." newest in cyber bullying, thanks to a new crop of apps where anyone can post anything anonymously and mobily, creating a virtual burn book of graffiti and it's happening in schools across the country. >> the fact that op has diabetes makes me happy. how long do we think before ab kills herself?
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>> reporter: will haskill says comments like this appeared on an app last month and spread around his high school like a virus. trying to raise awareness, he wrote about the new bullying tactic. >> students who were targeted were blind sided. many teachers and administrators downloaded it. it really did take over the high school. >> i tried not to look, but i was fascinated that students were, like i said, capable of making these terrible comments. >> reporter: now that school is on lockdown. electronically. responding to complaints, the creators of the app set up geo fencing using coordinates to prevent the app from being used on school grounds, protecting 85% of all middle and high schools, an unprecedented step. >> we made our app 17 plus, but we as app developers realized how most parents don't know how
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to block apps on their children's phones. that's part of the reason we took the measure to disable it on school campuses. >> reporter: paula todd wrote the book "extreme mean." >> sure, it would be a lot easier just to ignore what's going on. but in order to ignore what's going on, on the internet, you can't do your research, you can't watch television or a film and you can't be on social media. we are allowed to be on the internet. cyber abusers are not allowed to attack us. >> reporter: how much does anonymity contribute? >> it's a great accomplice for somebody whose desire it is to hurt another person, to denigrate, to demean. >> reporter: these days it's easier than ever to hide behind technology. so much so that "jimmy kimmel live" has made a notorious spoof about it. >> we call it celebrities read
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mean tweets. >> reporter: asking celebrities to read allowed nasty things people have tweeted about them. >> christina applegate, you were better when you wore spandex than spanks, you slut. >> reporter: but it creates a dangerous impression for teens. >> the world the internet creates is alarmingly like what the brain of a psychopath looks like. >> reporter: so you're saying the internet is making people behave like psychopaths? >> we could be living in the mindset of a psychopath, and that means not caring about each other, not seeing each other, getting your laugh at the expense of somebody else, or really, really hurting somebody. that's how a psychopath feels. >> reporter: jamie's mom went to police, but there was nothing they could do, because the app is based in latvia. in an e-mail, they told us users
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can report offensive contempt and block offensive users from sending questions. they also said they "proactively scan posts and take down offensive content." back at staples high school in connecticut, will haskill says after the app was cut off, another anonymous app immediately popped up in its place. >> these anonymous authors never have to see the harm that they're causing. they never have to look into the eyes of the person they're writing about or realize that person they targeted didn't come to school the next day. the anonymity creates a distance between the target and the victim. coming up, real-life magic mike? these male strippers are revealing everything. (woman) the constipation and belly pain feel like a knot. how can i ease this pain? (man) when i can't go, it's like bricks piling up. i wish i could find some relief.
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starting at $329 a month. movie magic mike seems to have led to a male stripping mania. magic mike two is in the works and yes, even "magic mike" the musical heading to broadway. many women and men wondering what's life really like for a man who takes off his clothes for cash? abc got up close and personal with the men of labair. >> reporter: 10:00, wednesday night, dallas, texas. the women trickle in, the curtain goes up. this is la bare, where the men bare practically everything, and the ladies, they go wild. this is the real life magic
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mike. that indy hit starring matthew mcconaughey and channing tatum about the lives of strippers was the inspiration for a new documentary called simply "la bare" a look into the world of a scantily clad men who worked a la bare, a look at what happens on and off stage. >> got to be a lean, mean dancing machine. >> reporter: the man behind the documentary has plenty of experience taking off his clothes on screen. he plays a sexy werewolf in hbo's "true blood." and a stripper in "magic mike." >> the one compliment/complaint that i got when the movie came out is, we loved it, but we wished there were more of the guys, who they date, where they lived. >> reporter: joe and his younger
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brother dug deep into this world of crumpled dollar bills and the men who dance for them. like axle, whose real name is jeremiah. he says he comes from a devout christian family and was home schooled until the 7th grade. >> when i first started, i went through a kid in the candy shop face. >> reporter: randy master blaster, who has been taking off his clothes for money for more than three decades says it can be lucrative work. >> my range is gone from $89 a night to $85,000. >> reporter: and ceasar, an iraq war vet who the ladies love. you said you've slept with five women. >> i tried a one night stand and felt so bad. >> they're likable, cool, three dimensional guys that i had written off in my mind. i thought it was dirty, greasy, drugged out, probably the guys were kind of ambiguous sexually
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and that isn't the case at all. >> reporter: it's a little greasy. >> but in a good way. >> reporter: backstage -- are you decent? this is not what i expected. >> this is where the fantasy doesn't happen. >> reporter: you see how greasy and unglamorous this life can be for a guy like ceasar who found stripping after two tours of duty in afghanistan. the things i've seen. the costumes may not be very big, but the cost come straight out of the bottom line. >> i have a doctor act and a boy scout act i do. >> reporter: if they don't make any tips shaking it, they don't get paid. so if you don't get a tip, you make no money. does it become degrading? >> only if you allow it to. >> it'sman opinion there's no such thing as male
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justification. men don't care why you like them as long as you do. they worked very hard to get into that kind of a position. >> reporter: in order to make a buck, the guys say their routines have to be about much more than simply getting naked and strutting. >> we're a show and we're based on romance and fantasy. >> reporter: do you think you have to work harder to earn that tip than the woman does in the club down the block? >> without a doubt. >> reporter: the woman's side of the industry is very forward. here we have to work a lot harder. >> you have to twirl firepots or do this move or that move. >> these guys are hardworking. they take it seriously. >> reporter: for ceasar -- >> i don't do drugs or drink. >> reporter: sit a job he approaches with military discipline. and then there is the strict diet, countless reps, all to make sure that he stays on top of his game. >> it's intimidating when you
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come out to 600 women that are looking strictly at you. i've had the extremes, i've ripped my pants off and no reaction, then i rip my pants off and everybody screams. >> reporter: the ripped abs don't tell the whole story. >> my dad was more upset than my mom. >> reporter: axle has an accounting degree and before he started stripping he never listened to popular music. >> i was hesitant about everything. >> reporter: will you sleep with a client? >> i've never slept with a client more money, but i have slept with clients because i wanted to. >> reporter: can you have a real relationship doing what you do? >> that's a good question. i'll let you know when i find out. >> there's no way to date in
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this job. i'm old fashioned. so i believe if i'm going to date with one person, i'm going to give them my all. >> reporter: this is a world that comes with a serious dark side. >> there are guys that can't handle this. >> reporter: what happens? >> they can drink too much or find drugs. they lose that balance. >> reporter: and there are all those women. >> there's an art form to it i should say. if you sleep with a woman, that fantasy pops and they move to the next one. so you have to only sleep with women that you know aren't coming back. >> but if someone comes up and gives you $100, that's just logical i'm going to give her more attention. >> reporter: what does that mean, a private dance? >> exactly. >> reporter: tammy is a regular. the manager of a fast food restaurant who sometimes spends as much as $300 a night on her favorite. how much did you just throw down? >> $140. >> reporter: $140? >> yes. >> reporter: that's a lot of money.
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what do you get out of that? >> excitement. >> reporter: the owners of la bare want to expand their brand into new cities. joe has been asked to sign on as a partner. while he hasn't said yes, he admits he's not done with stripping just yet. the magic mike sequel comes out next year. >> i don't know when i'm going to be able to walk away from male strip clubs, but i'm looking forward to that date whenever it does happen. >> reporter: ceasar plans to walk away, too. he's hoping to collect enough to retire by the time he hits 40. for "nightline," i'm cecilia vega in dallas. >> la bare opens in theaters june 27. next, with apple dominating smartphone sales, others are stepping it up. we got a first look at the new fire phone. is it really all it's cracked up to be?
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tonight, another company has technology so stunning it looks too good to be true. but will amazon's fire phone make iphones a thing of the past? >> reporter: in a world crowded with cool new phones, it's the one that broke through the noise and actually got people excited today. they call it the fire phone. its break through feature, it looks 3-d. >> they have the four additional cameras in front, which means where your head and face is, which gives this 3-d effect when you look at the screen. >> there's been a number of 3-d phones from the last, but they were terrible. this is actually impressive. >> reporter: the phone will cost between $200 and $650. >> a lot of people thought am zone was going to come out with a phone that was much cheaper than anything else out there and
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compete on price. that's not what they're doing. now they're really relying on the technology itself. >> reporter: it's no coincidence that one of the features can help you buy lots of tough. they call it firefly. google has a similar feature, but this one is designed to keep you completely in amazon's world. where every item you look at might end up in your shopping cart. is this the iphone killer? >> yeah, you know, we don't think about it in that perspective. if we can make a great phone for our customers, we have 240 million of them around the world, then we'll win them one at a time. >> reporter: it's hard to say how good it all works. our access was limited and frankly a bit confused. initially amazon didn't want us
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to touch the phone. when we asked to use the firefly feature to identify my iphone, it couldn't figure it out. >> houston, we have a problem. >> reporter: while some wonder if the new phone can take on the mighty iphone, others point out it doesn't have to. amazon is in the process of becoming what you might call the everything of everything. you can buy just about anything from them. they produce their own tv shows, stream movies to their devices. they've reinvented how we read and want to use drones for delivery. >> become a prime customer and stay a prime customer. >> reporter: many believe it's not about the phone but offering you one more tool in an amazon word. i'm neal karlinsky for "nightline" in seattle. >> we'll be watching how that plays out. thanks for watching abc news.
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