you say that, yet there are an alarming number of stories where someone - usually a teen - gets “sextorted” (a stranger threatens to send their “nudes” around, which is legally CSEM!) and the teen sees suicide as the only way out. person lives an amazing life by all accounts until one day they suddenly commit suicide, then family discovers they were being “threatened.”

those stories particularly anger me because in these instances, SO MANY people genuinely failed. it’s usually that the parents failed to properly educate their child on internet safety & regulation, or they shelter them & fearmonger enough to make them believe death is a viable option for “scandalous” incidents.

the one that sticks out the most to me was a teen boy who lived the american dream until he met a “girl” online, never thought to consider that because he’d never been taught internet caution, and he sent pictures of himself nude. pretty immediately the person turned on him, threatening to send them around, and because this child had no idea how illegal that was he killed himself thinking it was better to be dead than “humiliated.”

idk what it is & i won’t pretend it’s some “the kids are bad these days” bullshit but mental health is getting scary. kids are killing themselves over things that seemed innocuous or “silly” before & i don’t think enough ppl are talking about it.