Viral Rape is Trending, And We Should All Be Very Worried [View all]

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*Trigger Warning*

It's a story that's now all too familiar: A young girl is violently gang-raped by a group of boys she knows. People stand by. They don't stop it. One of the offenders snaps a picture of the victim and aggressively disseminates it. It goes viral. And people stand by. They don’t stop it. In fact, they spread it like wildfire. Not by accident. On purpose. The rapist wants to share the trophy of his crime. He holds it like a shining beacon of malevolence for the world to see.

"Look what I did. Look what I took."

And other people want to see it. And they want it to be seen. Not to shame the assailant but to humiliate the survivor.


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