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[♪ light music playing]

[muffled party chatter]

[Sydney] I don't know what happened last night.

At the party, I did drink...

and, um, I don't think it was the best idea, honestly.

Almost all of the frats have sexual assault charges.

You just don't drink at the frats.

I should follow my advice more.

♪♪♪

At the party, both me and my roommate

were feeling way too out of control

after one drink.

Like, we both woke up feeling very, like, extra sick,

not just, like, a hangover sick,

but, like, a roofie sick.

I don't know, we're pretty sure that

something was put in our drink last night.

[♪ music stops]

But if you feel hungover, you just keep drinking

and then, you'll, you'll feel better again.

It's kind of ironic, but it's just the lifestyle.

[people chattering on video]

It's like, U of A, University of Alcoholics.

-[kisses] -And we'll always find a way

to get ourselves together and rally.

Cute.

[♪ slow, distorted music plays]

[♪ circus clown music playing]

[indistinct chatter, shouting]

[cheering]

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[♪ music warbles, stops]

They asked me to leave because I was "too drunk."

[speaker] Time for you to leave.

-[Jonah] We are leaving! -[Aimee] We are leaving!

Do you not see us leaving?

[Jonah] Understand that we are leaving.

[speaker] Stop filming! Get the fuck outta here!

[Jonah] Bro, please take a fucking chill pill.

-[speaker] Out! -Please stop disrespecting

-my friends like that. -[speaker] Stop arguing, you little pissant.

-He's a fucking-- -Fatass!

-Little tubby bitch. -[laughing]

[♪ "jealousy, jealousy" by Olivia Rodrigo playing]

♪ Co-co-comparison is killing me slowly ♪

♪ I think, I think too much ♪

♪ 'Bout kids who don't know me ♪

♪ I'm so sick of myself ♪

♪ I'd rather be, rather be ♪

♪ Anyone, anyone else ♪

♪ Jealousy, jealousy ♪

♪ Started followin' me ♪

-[♪ vocalizing] -[♪ song concludes]

[Lauren Greenfield] So, how did you first learn about sex?

-[all laughing] -[Savannah] Yeah, my first time watching porn

was probably when I was, like, in third grade?

I don't know. I'm pretty sure it was with Jordan, to be honest.

[Jordan] I, like was, I don't know, probably, like, four or five.

Like, it was probably, like, on YouTube.

I just know I was, like, really, really young.

And, like, I would go on my dad's computer...

Pornography is everywhere. You can't escape it.

[Maren] Guys see gorgeous girls on TikTok and on Instagram

all the time.

They follow them, they see, like,

these edited, perfect people

and girls aren't like that,

so their standards have risen too high.

And I'm like, "Where is this ego you have coming from?"

The hairless thing comes from porn

and comes from, like, models.

Annoying.

[esthetician] Two more. Ready?

[Maren] It does just set, like,

unrealistic standards for everything.

Guys are having, like, troubles with, like, girls now

because the only thing they know about sex is porn.

It makes people... feel like they need to fit in,

even in their intimate relationships,

they have to act a certain way.

[Sofia] You kind of feel pressure on yourself

to have this kind of relationship that's, like,

I guess, like, like, "aesthetically pleasing"

and, like, in real life, that's just not always how, like, things pan out,

it's just not always as pretty.

[Stella] People tell me that my drawings are really dark.

It's a leash and a noose.

[laughs] It's doubling, see, and this person is blinded.

I know everything everybody's doing right now

is affected by how they've seen it done on social media.

[♪ "Bdsm" by DreamKiller playing]

I'm serious, [laughs] I can't feel anything. Hit me.

♪ I'ma give you all you need ♪

♪ Keep your secret safe with me ♪

♪ I'ma give you all you need ♪

♪ Keep your secret safe with me ♪

[Stella] On TikTok, they're romanticizing bondage

and BDSM

and 14-year-olds are seeing it

and thinking that that's, that's normal,

and that's what you need to do.

[grunting]

[Ella] But they normalized it in a bad way,

in terms of, like, telling girls

that you should love to get, like, choked out

and, like, and, like, all of this really extreme stuff

that's a very specific group of people.

If you tell a guy, "Oh, I have kinks,"

they automatically assume that you wanna be choked

-or slapped or something and that's not what-- -[Ella] And it's like--

It's so, it's so dangerous, and then, I also had friends

being like, I feel uncomfortable

saying that I only like vanilla sex

because everyone was like, "You have to be kinky,

you have to like all this stuff,"

and it totally-- "Otherwise, you're boring, you're lame,

you don't wanna get choked?"

There was this whole thing about like,

"You had to be, like, a freak,

and you had to, like, like all these things"

that are really dangerous

if the guys just don't know what they're doing.

And they don't. We're only, like, teenagers.

We have no idea how to properly, like,

choke someone or tie them up or anything.

When I experimented with my boyfriend, it was slow.

It wasn't, all of a sudden, like,

he was cutting me with knives.

We've never done that, but he didn't really know

what BDSM is 'cause he wouldn't be

on social media as much.

And so, I would talk to him about it.

Like, "Try choking. Try this stuff."

And I found out I did like it,

and what I did like, he would continue to do.

[lip-syncing to voiceover] Oh, my God!

Oh, my God.

[Ella] I think it's hard to tell

what's been put into your mind

and what you're influenced by and what you actually like,

and that's why, when you want to experiment,

do it safely and do it with someone you trust.

[birds chirping]

[ringback tone]

-Hey, how are you? -[Stella] [over phone] I'm good, how are you?

[Jonathan] Good, thank you. Thank you so much for doing this

and for reaching out, I'm so glad.

One part of this project is I'm covering

sexual harassment on social media

and also sexual assault and how that plays out.

You mentioned a little bit in this form

about your own very traumatic experiences.

Is that something you're comfortable talking more about?

[Stella] Yeah...

I had never been in a intimate relationship before

and so, it was really easy to take advantage of me

because I didn't really know right from wrong.

For people who are starting to have sex,

it's hard to figure out for yourself what you want,

but you know what social media is telling you to want.

I think I didn't know what was normal.

What I was exposed to online was sex coupled with violence.

And if you don't like it, that's wrong.

[♪ light music playing]

In my prior relationship, there was this pressure

to just do everything that, like, might look cool and edgy

and, like, you have to enjoy it.

There's a lot of portrayal...

in porn of this, like, BDSM fantasy

and so, if a girl says, "Stop,"

maybe that's just,

I don't know, part of a role-play

and now the guy's, like, saying,

"You can't tell me what the fuck to do."

In our relationship, there was zero communication.

You're being cut with a knife, no choice, no say, no consent.

The "Kim" one isn't a tattoo, it's actually a branding.

Like a... branding.

[Stella] I mean, there was a TikTok where somebody carved

their initials into each other

and, like...

I have initials carved into me,

and they're crossed out now,

and it's a scar and it's very, very faint,

and then crossed out with more cuts,

but, like, that's a thing.

When abuse looks like...

what's getting likes on TikTok,

it's hard to see the difference.

How did you come to the realization,

um, that what had happened to you was sexual assault?

[Stella] I talked to a guy about

what it's like when he's with a girl

and I'm like, "Oh, really?

That's how that's supposed to go?"

I definitely learned that it's, like, not normal

for people to, like, really like to hurt you when they love you.

And I eventually was able to get out of that relationship.

It takes experiencing real life

for you to realize how real life is supposed to be, I guess.

-[Amari] You want some more? -[baby crying]

Alright, bubbas.

[crying continues]

Okay, okay.

Yeah.

That type of, that type of party.

-Michael Jordan? -Oh.

Oh, my goodness. You need some help.

You don't know who Michael Jordan is?

-[baby crying] -Okay, okay.

[♪ upbeat party music playing]

[Keshawn] [on mic] Let's get started!

Tell me what you want. Are you single tonight?

Ladies, sing this song!

[♪ "Shawty" DJ mix playing]

-[♪ stops music] -[crowd sings]

Ladies!

Tonight is our three-year anniversary

of our DJ group that we started.

[♪ upbeat song playing]

[indistinct chatter]

I'm just using DJ as leverage.

My passion's really music. I wanna be a big artist.

Feel like I got everything: the looks, the style, the voice.

Feel I got everything to be that, that number one spot.

[♪ upbeat hip-hop song playing]

♪ Yeah, see, I've been lookin' for somebody like you ♪

♪ Cute face with a body like you ♪

♪ I've been searchin' all over for you ♪

♪ Yeah, you ♪

♪ See, I've been lookin' for somebody like you ♪

♪ Cute face with a body like you ♪

♪ All I want is you, all I want is you ♪

♪ 'Cause it's you ♪

♪ Is it you, is it you? ♪

♪ Is it you, baby? ♪

♪ Come on, now ♪

♪ Is it you, is it you, is it you? ♪

♪ Baby ♪

[indistinct chatter]

[phone notifications]

[♪ upbeat song playing]

[indistinct chatter]

[crowd screaming, chattering]

♪♪♪

[indistinct chatter]

What happened?

[revving engine]

[car honking]

-[cousin] Aight, we in that motherfucker. -[tires screeching]

[dog barking]

[ambient street noise]

That her?

Where she at?

-[dog barking] -[Julie clicks tongue]

-[phone notifications] -Fuck Bodhi.

Dude, where's this little girl at?

[chuckling]

[distant siren wailing]

[indistinct chatter]

-[Lourdes] She's not here yet? -[Julie] No.

-Ain't nobody wanna fuckin' call her. -[Lilah] Hi!

-[Julie] Hi, mama, come here. -[dog barking]

She's not answering.

[Julie] She's three hours late.

And she does this all the time.

Like, it used to be like that with, with Julian too

'til we had to beg her to hang out, you know what I'm saying?

And then, we made plans,

and then she changes them to go hang out with them.

And it's, like, whatever.

And she did that on my quinceañera too.

[Lilah] I'm mad at Ellie so bad. I'm mad at her, so mean.

Why she can do this to us? Like, ugh.

-I hate you Ellie. Yeah. -Deadass.

-Sorry, guys. -[Lilah] No! I hate you.

Sorry, there was just so much frickin' traffic.

The thing is, I've been telling you, Ellie...

-I know, but-- -...to be respectful for-- with people's time.

I understand, Mom, but, like, I, I was eating,

and then, like, we came over here, and it was--

Well, we got, like, gas first,

and then, we, like, came over here, and it was just--

I'm sorry, like, it was my fault.

Like, I honestly took time too.

Like, I-I took my time.

-Like, I'm sorry, like-- -[Lourdes] Always,

-this is not the first time. -[Ellie] I know, but--

And I've been telling you, manage your time.

No, que pues.

-Do it now. -Yeah--

[Lourdes] And, honestly-- No, do it now...

'cause it smells so bad.

[Lilah] Ugh!

[Ellie] [whiny] Oh, I hate that there's no freakin' gloves.

Disgusting!

[phone notifications]

Ugh, there's so much going on

and I cannot think straight right now.

[Julie] Can I read it?

[phone notifications]

[softly] And I'm just like, "Bro."

[scoffs]

[Julie] And I get that it's a little overwhelming,

but, like, people are looking out for you...

-Yeah. -...and the fact that, that you don't take it.

I don't want to be here.

I'm doing everything to fucking leave, bro.

Even if that means fucking moving to the east co--

or whatever the fuck, bitch.

Even if I gotta move to the fuckin'

middle of nowhere.

I just can't. I really love Bodhi.

And it's like, bro, this motherfucker

is the only motherfucker

who's actually ever treated me

the way I deserve to be treated.

Every time you get, like, a new guy,

specifically, 'cause you've done this a lot in the past,

I have to beg you to make plans with me.

And I know, like, you know, you're in your little honeymoon phase,

but it's, like, how many honeymoon phases is it gonna take

for you to realize, like, you're, like, kinda, like,

being inconsiderate to people's time?

I always take your opinion to heart...

-Yeah. -...but, like, you're my best friend,

and, like, there's sometimes, like, a line.

And, like, sometimes, like, you cross it--

No, but it's, like, I-I get like that

because I tell you and then you don't do anything about it.

You can say sorry all you want,

but, like, you're kinda acting,

like, stupid about it, like...

Like...

Like, I'm just like, "Fuck, dude."

I'm sorry, I'm, like, not even trying to do all this.

-Like-- -Don't say sorry. Okay.

-[laughs] Come here. -It's okay, you can laugh.

-[laughing] -It's fine, it's literally fine.

Like, it's okay, you can laugh, it's fine.

-It's just, like... [indistinct] -You're crying, it's so funny.

[Ellie] [crying] I hate this so much. Like...

[tattoo artist] It'll be about an hour 45.

-[Ivy] Oh, not bad. -[tattoo artist] Yeah.

-[tattoo gun buzzing] -[indistinct chatter]

[Ivy] My dad is my best friend.

I feel like I can tell him anything,

and he's just gonna be, like, understanding.

[Vito] Ooh.

[birds chirping]

[phone notification]

[Aishani] Not me carrying five bags, on heels.

-[Nina] Am I a woman yet? -[both chuckle]

-Oh, shit. -Oh, my God, this is cute!

[Nina] I'm so ready to be a fucking zombie in here.

[Aishani] Do you wanna keep the supplements in the bathroom?

I'm, like, very motherly.

"Is this okay? Is this okay?" You know?

-[both laughing] -[Nina] Okay, shoe's fitting.

Like, I kind of regret the amount of people

that I've told that I was getting surgery.

You know, like, like, after the first, like, maybe, three times

I was really tired of the amount of, like,

"What are you getting done? No, like, like, what exactly

-are you getting done?" -Mm.

[Nina] This facial feminization surgery

that I'm about to go into,

I'm getting several different procedures

done to change soft tissues, bone,

and other features of my face to feminize them.

And despite the fact that I'm doing it to

give myself greater feelings of, like, pleasure and freedom

and happiness and joy in my own body,

as much excitement as that brings,

it also brings sadness and mourning

that I'm going to be saying goodbye to

a face that I was born with.

[phone notifications]

I told my mom, "I don't want you to be surprised

that I have a new face entirely."

This was before she started screaming at me.

This was, [mimicking Sherry] "But you're so handsome.

"What are you doing to my son?

"Someone's convincing you that you're transgender

"and you need to get your face done.

Your face is beautiful. Why would you change it?"

I've tried so hard to get her to hear me,

to get her to understand me.

And I've realized that she's not capable of doing that.

Like, I've been gifted other mothers.

Like, I have to make a post.

I'm putting you on my story.

-Right now. -[Nina] Yeah.

-[Aishani laughs] -Beautiful.

[indistinct chatter]

[laughter]

-How you doin'? -May I check inside the skates?

Oh, they doin' that now?

Lookin' inside the skates?

Yeah.

[♪ upbeat music playing in skating rink]

[indistinct chatter]

[♪ light music playing]

♪♪♪

[Tamara] Kalin, Mommy.

[Amari] [over phone] Hi, dada!

[chuckling]

Hi.

[Tamara] Talk to your mama.

[Amari] Hi.

Just...

She ain't post no videos.

She posted one, but it ain't doin' no numbers.

So, I'm like, she kinda lettin' it go to waste.

[laughter]

[Amari] [on phone] Hey!

[Ellie] Speedy weed! I'm fuckin' dead.

[Ellie] Ooh, this looks good.

[Ellie] Yeah. Yeah.

Hoorsenbuhs is just Bodhi's family's company.

They started this brand

and they make great quality clothing and jewelry.

It's art.

[ringback tone]

[typing]

Bodhi went through my phone and just kind of discovered,

like, you know, Julian and I still kind of together

when Bodhi and I were in, like, starting our relationship.

There was a picture of Julian and I in, like, in bed.

It wasn't anything, like, crazy, but we were, like, in our--

you know, he was, like, in his boxers.

Bodhi, he was, like, in between wanting to stay with me

and then, like, breaking up with me.

But he, like, loved me,

but he, like, didn't trust me, you know?

So... I was like, "I love you so much,

I'll literally get your name tatted on me,"

to, like, prove it to him.

[indistinct chatter]

He wrote it out in his writing and then,

put, like, "333" at the top.

333 is our number.

Bodhi got his family company,

Hoorsenbuhs's logo, above his knee.

It is very meaningful to him.

I love Bodhi. I hope I marry him one day.

I'm just kidding. [awkward laugh]

[birds chirping]

Wow, this is pretty spacious.

-Ahh! -[kisses]

-Everybody says hi. Ivy and... -I was like, "Who?"

-We have a whole family that moved in. -[laughter]

Ahh!

[laughs]

Ahh!

[Yana] It's a Nina themed day.

[Nina] One of the most beautiful gifts

of transition for me has been

receiving love and an outpouring of support

from old friends.

But also with my dad, like,

being willing to accompany me through this process.

Like, "Dad of the Year" award, please.

It's really moving to me that he came all the way fucking out here.

I didn't think I could tell any family,

-like, biological family members. -Yeah.

Like, I don't know how to explain to you people

why I'm getting my fucking skull permanently altered

and you're just like, "No questions asked, how do we help?"

-Yeah. -Like, that, to me, is, like,

never in my wildest dreams, you know?

-Yeah. It's beautiful, dude. -Um, so, yeah, thank you.

I'm, like... like, coming into womanhood

-without my, like, biological mother. -Sure.

I did have a moment of thinking about, like,

-bra shopping with Mom for the first time. -Yeah!

[Yana] Yeah? Okay.

[Yana] I'm so ready for you.

[Nina] My surgeon told me, like, a lot of girls

come in with, like, pictures of Instagram models

wanting to, like, have this exact face

and look exactly like her.

There are a lot of girls who genuinely feel gender euphoria

from presenting as hyperfeminine.

I know I love wearing a hoochie shirt,

I love wearing something low-cutting,

I love wearing a push-up bra.

[Yana] It makes your boob--

[sighs]

But also, I know, like, it's a trap that we can get into

as trans women and as women generally,

presenting in ways that are hyperfeminine.

Like, I'm so excited to get through the different

laser hair removal procedures that I've been saving up for.

But, like, where do you think those standards of beauty come from?

Like, patriarchy, right?

How people should look, and what women should sound like

and look like, and who a woman is.

And I'm like, "What the fuck?"

How do I make terms with the fact that, like,

a lot of the ways that I wanna present myself

and the things that I aspire to be and look like

are to, like, "grab attention" or to "appeal to a male gaze"?

[♪ light music playing]

I have to remember this is not about looking more beautiful,

this is about feeling more at peace with myself.

-So proud of you, dude. -[Nina] Thank you.

I love you.

How many of you were asked to send a nude of yourself,

or received one,

and then, can you say how old you were?

-Thirteen. -Honestly, like, probably, like, third grade.

-Sixth grade. This was 12. -[Lauren] When you were asked or you asked?

No, no, I didn't ask. It goes, it goes, like, both ways.

Sometimes it's just like, "Oh, you're so hot. Like, do you send?"

And then you're like...

yes or no.

And then if-- Sometimes if you say no, they're like,

"Please, I'm so horny."

And you're like, "I don't fucking care. Like, ew."

Like, when I was little in, like, 7th grade,

naked pictures of me got leaked to everyone,

so everyone thought I was a slut already.

And, even now, in 12th grade,

some people still have that image of me.

I think online sexual harassment

is something people don't really talk about,

or it's just kinda harder to understand.

Like, how can you sexually harass someone through a phone?

I remember there was a student at Pali, um,

I'm not sure if you know who I'm talking about, but I think--

or his name was going around as someone who, um,

had not only sexually harassed,

but also sexually assaulted girls.

[Stella] [over phone] Yes, I know what you're talking about.

There was this one boy

who had a pretty similar plot

for all of these different girls.

I never even met him in person,

he just added me on Snap.

Asked if he could take my virginity.

I left him on read, and then he was like, "Hi?? Hi?"

And he had, like, hit up my friend at the same time

and she was telling me about it.

And I was like, "Oh, same, same, same."

Actually, it goes, like, way back to, like, 7th grade.

The same guy started texting me and he asked me out.

I was like, "No," and then he continued

to, like, kinda harass me about it

through 9th grade, 10th grade,

he was sending me a bunch of pictures,

like, pressuring me to send nudes.

Then, one night, he just sent me, like,

an unsolicited, like, dick pic.

An-- I-It wasn't one time.

It's happened several times with him

and he, like, texted me on Snap.

He was like, "I took a Viagra for you."

And I didn't even know what that was, like, what that meant.

[Sofia] He hit me up, and he hit a lot of friends I knew up.

And I was just like, "This guy, like, needs to get what's coming to him."

And the guys were just kinda like, "Let's, like, beat his ass."

[student 1] Fucking bitch!

[indistinct shouting]

[♪ tense music playing]

[fighting]

[student 2] 'Sup, bro?

-[student 3] Woo! -[student 4] What's up?!

What do you wanna say to the camera?

[giggles]

The video was pretty divisive.

I think some people... thought it was great.

Like, "How sweet are these boys fighting the other boy."

And then, other people were like...

"These guys are just making a show of protecting women

"and using violence,

"and nobody's actually doing anything,

and these aren't good guys either."

[over phone] I did see all these people posting stuff...

but there was nobody that had actually taken...

direct action?

I was the first person to actually file a police report

and start talking about it,

and I used social media as a way to do that.

I decided to give a little bit of education

about what's not okay.

And then I posted an LAPD phone number

to call to make a report,

so they can tell their own story on it.

It was shared around a lot.

I got a lot of positive feedback like,

"Thank you for sharing this,"

"Thank you for doing something."

[Jonathan] I think what you did was incredible and I wonder

if after posting that information,

did you hear from some of his victims?

[Stella] I mean... jeez, more than just him.

It was, like, a whole...

cascade of stories that came out.

Like, a little mini Los Angeles,

high schooler Me Too Movement.

Somebody made an Instagram account

called, "We Will Not Be Silenced"

and all of these girls DM'd, either anonymously or not,

their stories with, not only this kid,

but different guys.

It became a big thing.

There was no adults involved

except for that officer that I spoke to.

It was pretty much all this

high schooler-led movement through social media.

It's an important thing to talk about,

but I don't think it changed the way men act.

I don't think it changed the way the women felt.

For me, I was definitely misled

by some boys choosing to post about consent

because it was the trend that was really huge.

The person who ended up being my, like, abuser

was somebody who had posted during that time about consent.

-[ambient street noise] -[birds chirping]

[Santi] Some kids just need some spankings.

[Sofia] I got hit as a kid, it didn't feel good.

[Santi] Well, you're not a piece of shit.

-Yes, I am. -No, you're not.

-You got manners-- -Everybody can be a piece of shit sometimes.

[Santi] That's true, but there's some people

that are, like, just born pieces of shit.

-I don't think so. -Like a rot-- Like a rotten orange.

I don't-- But oranges aren't--

They don't grow rotten, they become rotten.

But I don't think anyone's inherently bad... ya know?

When I first, like, downloaded Instagram,

it made me grow up faster than I was already growing up.

When I was, like, 14,

my friends were like, "You guys, let's find sugar daddies!"

And I was like, "Yeah, oh, my God, let's do it."

And I was, like, calling people, like, "Daddy"

that I had no clue who they were, at, like, 15.

[Sofia] Oh, no, I would go on Omegle

and I remember someone told me, they were like,

"You should try to sell feet pics."

And I was like, "I should try to sell feet pics."

-[laughter] -And I thought it was a great idea

and then, it got progressively worse

because I feel like I got more comfortable

with, like, exploiting myself.

[Ivy] There's, like, so many old men on social media

that are, like, lookin' for feet pics.

My friends made a lotta money.

Honestly, if they can make money off selling their feet pics,

good for them. [chuckles]

We just kinda laugh about it.

We're like, "Oh, yeah, I made, like, $75

selling feet pics to some old guy."

We don't judge each other for it,

but we also don't, like, feel super empowered.

Growing up means fucking up, and that's how we learn,

but to have our fuckups in a form that is so public

and so susceptible to judgment,

and so permanent 'cause it doesn't go away,

it is so scary that we are being allowed to actually do this.

And the people who are running these sites,

they know what they're doing.

-Yeah. -And they're doing it on purpose

because they want us to be on it

and 'cause they make money off of us.

[Keshawn] That is true.

If Jeff Bezos offered you a-a million to suck him up,

-what you doin'? -[friends] What?

Nothin'! Fuck wrong with you? That's gay.

-Shit, I don't know. -Alright then, shut the hell up.

It gotta be in the moment.

I'll be like, "Okay, I'll think about it."

So, you gon' really do it?

Right now? Most prolly.

You can't lie. Oh yeah, a million, bro?

[Kenneth] That's gay. You gay from the jump for even thinkin' that.

Alright, 10 million.

-I don't give a fuck kinda million it is. -Nah, you lyin' now.

Josh, would you do it?

[Kenneth] Alright then, call AJ and ask him.

AJ gonna be like, "Hell yeah."

-[FaceTime ringing] -Do it, call him.

-Yo! -Yo!

What's up?

Ten million right now,

Jeff Bezos walk in here, right?

[laughter]

[sings] ♪ I just hope you wish me well 'cause this gon' get hard ♪

People think I'm a player, but I'm really runnin' out of my budget.

Like, I can't have nothin' extra no more.

But everybody tellin' me to put this music out.

I just hope big payout really happens.

[sings] ♪ I know we gon' get paid ♪

[on playback] ♪ I know we gon' get paid ♪

[Julie] Oh, my God. This is so cute.

Yeah, I know, right?

-[Julie chuckles] -Got it from G Stage.

-[phone notifications] -Or Fashion G or whatever.

-Really? -Yeah.

Yeah, I thought they closed all their bitch-asses.

-Bye-bye. -I love you.

-I love you, see you tomorrow. -See you tomorrow. Bye.

Goodnight, Mom. Love you. Okay. Goodnight. Love you.

Hey, sis. I'ma go to sleep, I'm so tired.

-[Nadine] Alright. -[Ellie] Goodnight. Love you.

[Nadine] Goodnight, love you too.

[phone notifications]

[window grate creaks]

[Ellie] No?

[mumbles indistinctly]

No, Nadine, I'm not knocking.

What the fuck? I'm not even being--

What are you-- Bro, what are you talking about?

Like, I'm literally not being a bitch,

I'm just saying no one's knocking.

Okay, well, if I open the window, what's wrong with that?

[ringback tone]

[♪ tense music playing]

♪♪♪

[chuckles]

♪♪♪

[phone notifications]

♪♪♪

[♪ music fades out]

Bro, the crazy thing about this is we have so many stories

that I feel like we only, like, just--

like, it's-- this is just, like, the tip of the iceberg

of, like, what we go through and what,

not only us but people, go through in their fucking daily life.

That's how common it is.

People don't take this seriously.

It's not even just, like, Pali, it's, like, kind of everywhere.

Like, it also just happens, like, s-- in the most, like--

I was walking to my friend's dorm,

I had just filmed all day and directed,

and I was so happy, it was, like, such a good day.

And we were going to go edit the footage

and this other guy, like, holds the door, lets me in,

and I'm like, "Oh, like, that's really nice."

And then he comes over and he's like, "Hey,"

and he, like, literally, like, ch-- like, kinda holds me,

like, and is, like-- I couldn't, like, do anything

and he's like, "You're really cute,"

like, "Do you wanna come to my dorm?"

-Literally a two-minute walk in broad daylight. -That's disgusting.

I'm wearing, like, a hoodie and, like, sweatpants,

and then he, like, starts, like, touching my ass and shit, an--

The thing is, like, that, like, it was just one second

and, and it's, like, that's how I'm gonna have to remember that day?

Like...

It was, like, one o'clock in the morning,

and, all of a sudden, my phone started blowing up.

These guys, like, all started calling me.

These were my friends and I had known them and I trusted them,

so I was like, "Okay, yeah, you guys can come pick me up."

So, they got here, they came to pick me up.

The guy, [bleep], wasn't in the car.

Um, so we went to his house, you know?

And I-- The only reason I actually went was because [bleep]

actually told me, like, that there'd be weed there

and I was, like, didn't have any.

And I got there and he's like, "Nah, there's no weed."

But he, like, handed me a bottle of vodka.

I'm not good with drinking. And I told him no at first,

but then he was like, "Just come on. It's fine. It's fine."

So, like, I, like, realized that

I ended up drinking almost, like, the whole bottle

or what was left in the bottle.

[distant sirens wailing]

Um, like, my memory gets really bad,

but I remember him, like, coming up to me, you know...

and being like, um, like,

"Come on," like, "Suck my dick."

And I was like, "No," like, "You're a fool." And I pushed him.

And I guess, like,

that just didn't send the message across

because, like, basically, like, the next thing I really remember...

of, like, opening my eyes,

not really-- I think-- I don't remember exactly,

but it was kinda just, like--

I kinda realized what was happening

and it was too late to stop it.

A-And, like, my underwear were actually, like, ripped off and, like, torn,

and...

[emotional] I was, like, just under him, you know?

[sniffling]

[crying] Sorry.

At that point, I was frozen, you know? [sniffles]

And I-- People ask me all the time, like, why didn't I stop it?

And I don't know why I didn't stop it.

Like, I wanted to, I just couldn't, like,

I couldn't talk, I couldn't say anything, you know?

And then I remember I, like-- after it was over, and I tried--

my underwear were ripped,

so I couldn't even put them back on, and...

um... and then he just, like, wanted me to go

and he just told one of his friends to drive me home.

[Sofia sniffling]

And then I went home.

Yeah, that's it.

Thank you guys for listenin'. [chuckles]

[Lauren] You okay?

Yeah, I'm okay.

[Sydney] I have a story about him too, so...

-Yeah, um-- -[Sofia] I've never heard anybody, like, that had,

-like, a story about him. -[Sydney] Really? Nope. Yeah, I do.

Everyone made me fucking feel crazy.

Everyone was like, like, like,

"You must've not remembered it right."

I know, 'cause he's so popular and everybody loves him.

[Sofia] Everyone. And I was just like, "What?"

Like, "What are you telling me

I don't remember what happened to me?"

Like, like, "What?"

You're not crazy. [chuckles]

The next day, he texted, "Are you on birth control?"

[Anthony] Damn.

This was in, like, July over quarantine,

and then, school started.

The guy who raped me ended up seeing me during school.

He started talking to me in front of my friends,

so I pulled him aside 'cause I was embarrassed,

-where he raised his voice at me and so I started fucking crying. -[Anthony] Yeah.

[Sofia] No one asked me if I was okay.

No one was like, "Do you need help?" Nobody.

He literally came up to me

and my little sister during fucking school.

-Oh, my God. -At fucking school.

[Anthony] That fool went to your sister?

[Sofia] My 14-year-old sister.

That's when I tried to get the restraining order

'cause that scared me.

The court, they were, basically, like, um,

we don't have, like, enough evidence

that he's, like, an immediate threat to your life.

So, I was like, "Okay, he is threatening my life

"because I go home every night and I sit in a dark room

"and I think about, like, 'What the fuck am I doing?'

Like, 'What is life?'"

So, like, yeah, he was an immediate danger to my life.

He definitely was.

Multiple people told me, like, "Talk to Anthony about it."

[♪ light, tense music playing]

[Anthony] One thing about me is

I don't fuck with that toxic masculinity shit, like, I'ma be real.

I just think that abusing women like that,

that's some straight wild shit right there.

-It's actually crazy 'cause he was actually a friend. -[Sofia] What?! Oh, my God.

[Stella] Really?

[Anthony] I had, I had a lot of friends

that were actually into sexual assault.

They were doin' all that shit

and I had to separate myself from that.

I can't tolerate that.

My grandma was raped, my girlfriend is a rape victim.

I know how that feels.

But she said, "You can never feel that pain,"

and I said, "I can't feel the pain,

but I'm seein' it right now."

So, I took action. That's what a man's supposed to do.

You supposed to take action for a woman.

I started this whole thing about fuckin' up these rapists

because it just frustrated me.

All those guys we went to school with,

I call them the "white entitled kids."

They-they think they can get away with everything.

You mentioned sexual assault and rape

and how it feels like

situations like that aren't taken seriously.

I've noticed the same thing as well.

It was really bad up there. These kids didn't know how to ask for consent.

The school didn't handle it. I had to handle it.

[in video] Alright, what's up, guys? The Black Superman's back.

We're makin' a video on this fucking scumbag.

I downloaded Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas and all that stuff.

Screenshots of everything. I made videos about rapists.

Then I put it on YouTube,

exposing they whole information,

talkin' 'bout where they live and everything.

[in video] It's your man, the Black Batman is back.

Shout-out to everybody that watched the last video,

we got to 1,900, let's try to get that to 2,000

and try to get these other rapists exposed.

[Sydney] I support Anthony.

He is kind of like a Robin Hood.

The cops will never do anything,

so, like, he's taking matters into his own hands.

I didn't know you.

-[Anthony] Yeah. -I didn't know what to do, at all.

I would, like, be like, "Why are these people telling him?

Why aren't they telling the police?"

[Anthony] Like, the other girl I was talking about,

she literally said that when she tried to, like,

get the whole, like, police involved,

they just literally shut the whole thing down with him

-and that's crazy. -So, an-another person filed a report

-against him? -Yeah.

-That's crazy. -Yeah.

[Sofia] I sent Anthony a Snapchat being like,

"Yeah, [bleep] did this to me."

Like, honestly, even, like, s-saying it felt good.

[Anthony] At that time, I had, like, a pretty good big following,

so that was, like, a good 15,000 people.

Six hundred screenshots. Yeah. Yeah.

There were so many people that shared it.

Like I said, I can't touch him,

I'll figure a way how to fuck their mind up.

That's all you gotta do.

But he definitely needs to be brought to justice.

I posted his home address

and I gave his damn mom's phone number and shit.

'Cause I'ma, I'm not gonna lie,

you're a fuckin' parent and shit.

On all these parents try to sue me and shit,

you need to take a goddamn look at yourself.

Like, what the fuck did you raise?

Around that time, my Snapchat got disabled

and they took my whole account down.

And I tried to unlock it and it doesn't unlock,

so I literally lost everything.

I try to be a outlet for a lot of these women.

I feel like that's God's work.

He wants us to, he wants us to expose these people.

But my Snapchat has so much proof.

All these girls have all their testimonies.

I just wanna get that back.

I mean, when you tell an administrator

your story about being raped and they don't believe you,

and that kid can still go to the same school as you,

and there are multiple stories of that and it keeps happening,

it-it's so hard to continue hearing these stories

and feel like nothing's being done.

Are you still able to log in?

What does it say?

I gotta get that Snapchat back.

It's like a holy grail of things in there.

Like, anybody you want taken down is, like, on that shit, man,

-so it's, like, crucial we get all this shit. -Yeah.

♪♪♪

In the process of learning about Anthony and his vigilantism,

there were a lot of things on his Snapchat account

that were incredibly important to his life, to his story,

but also to other people's stories.

These girls are victimized by these horrific perpetrators

and nothing happens.

I wanna try to see if we can recover your mem--

like, your saved Snap memories.

Click here to access the data, yeah.

Go to "reported content."

And so, I sort of appreciate

what Anthony has done for these girls,

and how social media becomes

the only answer for these people to be exposed.

Um, go to the HTML file.

-So, just try downloading any one of them. -Oh, ho-ho-ho.

Damn, this is, like, everything. Hell yeah.

[Jonathan] Oh, wait, that's that-- That's her.

[Anthony] That is her. This is the--

Ooh, shit, this is the whole motherfuckin' text, yeah.

"after I get a restraining order"

"not yet maybe eventually"

[Jonathan] We were able to get back those chat messages

between Anthony and Sofia.

This provided us evidence to people who doubted her story.

So, that's the first time she reached out to you, right?

[Anthony] That is the first time she reached out.

[Jonathan] Still, nothing's happened. Jesus. It's literally--

That's almost a year ago today.

[Anthony] That's why you gotta take it into your own hands.

-At least we found all Sofia's stuff, though. -Like, it's just crazy.

Also shows how much data they keep about you, like, how much they save.

[scoffs] What can I say, man?

You can't... can't fuck with the Big Tech, man.

The Big Tech, they got everything on you.

[Jonathan] Retrieving Anthony's data showed that,

"Holy shit, this did happen.

Finally, please, for God's sake, believe her."

[phone notifications]

[Anthony] [in video] I put that on my studio that I will stop all rapists

from living in society and I'm gonna do that shit.

[♪ tense music playing]

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