Drake Bell is encouraging the Biebs and other pop stars to better themselves.
"There's just a lot of really young, entitled people," the former star of Nickelodeon's "Drake & Josh" told BuzzFeed in a recent interview.
"I don't think a lot of these young people have to work very hard. They're found on YouTube and, boom, thrown into the studio so they think they can get anything they want."
"I can't stand that, with a lot of the pop stars, there's this idea of, 'Are you in our clique? Are you a Direction-er or are you a Belieber?,'" Bell, who promoted the petition around the time of Bieber's Miami DUI arrest to have him deported, said.
"I don't understand it," the 27-year-old actor continued.
"And what's worse is artists like Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber don't come out and say, 'I love having you as my fans, but you shouldn't be acting this way.' They just eat it all up and I think it's repulsive."
"Justin Bieber just tweets, 'Yeah, Beliebers, go hard' when they're attacking somebody. Ariana Grande's fans told Perez Hilton that he and his son needed to die and get cancer, and she just fed it. It's disgusting."
"If I catch one of my fans saying something improper, a gay slur or any derogatory term, I instantly tweet directly at them and say, 'This isn't how we do it,'" Bell said.
The star explained to BuzzFeed how he handled the pressures of young fame.
"A lot of artists try to run away from that fanbase so quickly, but I would rather have my audience grow with me than to suddenly turn my back on them because I'm an adult now, because I take my clothes off, smoke weed and f--king drive fast cars," he said.
"We didn't sign up to be role models, but we are," he said.
Bell continued to stress stars like the 20-year-old Bieber and Gaga have so much impact on their fans and they should make better use of it.
"Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician. They could get on a pedestal and say, 'This is how you should treat people,' but instead (Bieber's) going around telling kids that as long as you have enough money and swag, you can do whatever you want," he said, bashing the "baby" singer.
"Instead of working to change the world, (he's saying,) 'Work to get as much money and power as possible because then you can do whatever you want and no one can say anything to you.' I just think that's a gross, awful, terrible message."
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