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thank you!!! let’s do this 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨

She stalked a teenage boy and cyber-bullied him/her own daughter for a year? Sexualising him constantly and telling her kid to kill themselves?

They have no idea who they are texting, the person on the other side could be anyone and anything, but they are there. And for some reason, they trust them, and they text them whenever they can.

Maybe the Whumper knows about this and lets it happen, or maybe they don’t and then find out and are supper pissed. And who even is the other person? Someone from a different planet? A random guy working retail? A soldier that is very mistrustful at first but realises the person texting them must be in a shitty situation so they try everything in their power to find them.

I watched this documentary today, and I think the authors have a good point.

It was startling to me that any parent would allow their children to be interviewed about a situation like this. Adults were accusing specific kids (who are still minors) in a small town by name on camera, and those accusations made it into the documentary. They interview the kids themselves, who talk about interpersonal issues they've had with each other over the past. Bullying is terrible, but kids should not have their mistakes broadcast to millions of people on a Netflix doc.

These kids are being asked to talk about very personal and emotional experiences after having very little time to process it. This happened around 2021-2022. It felt very exploitative for the documentary to be using police body cam footage of a child being told by the police that her mother had been stalking and cyber-bullying her and other young teens she knew—including sending sexually explicit text messages and suicide-baiting—for months. They show footage of the child's father confronting the mother about having lost her job, lying about working, and telling her to leave the house to stay somewhere else, in front of the child.