Greg Leuch, 25, the creator of “Shaved Bieber” speaks to CTV’s Canada AM from New York, Wednesday, June 2, 2010.

He claimed he didn’t design the application because he dislikes Justin Bieber, Rather, he came up with it after a co-worker asked him for help.

“It started as a simple project,” Leuch said from New York. “A friend wanted me to basically get rid of Justin Bieber from all of the stuff he’s researching online. So he asked me to create a simple plug-in [apps] to get rid of him, and I thought that would be it.”

But after Leuch posted the application to a free technology website, word started to get around, and the backlash began. He started getting hate mail from around the world, sent by angry fans of the teen idol from Stratford, Ont.

“I hate you because you invented Shaved Bieber. Justin Bieber is the best,” one wrote.

“I know many things about you and I know where you live. Just be aware I might appear behind you and shoot you with a gun.”

Another compared him to Hitler: “What you’re doing is going back to World War II all over again. Hitler wanted to erase Jews from society, you want to erase justin Drew Bieber.”

Greg Leuch reponse to the backlash:

“I was at first very astonished,” he said.

“I didn’t expect 12-year-olds to have this much hate. But as I read it I just laughed and had to show a bunch of my friends and everyone else started laughing too so I just started taking screen caps of all these Twitter messages and emails and posting them online to a blog.”

source CTV.CA

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