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Justin Bieber's strip tease caused mass booing from an angry mob at Fashion Rocks, a "celebration" of fashion and music filmed in Brooklyn. His response was a retweet of a Vine of a crotch shot. His crotch shot. He tweeted his crotch.
Along with the Vine, he tweeted, "Grandma always said kill 'em with kindness...and then strip on live national tv. Lol." Sorry Grandma.