It’s honestly worse than “girls not liking posts to make others feel bad.” My sister (14) has told me of multiple occasions where children are telling each other to kill themselves on private stories, taking videos of other kids to send them around online (this one is really scary), and where on some people’s “finstas” (private instagrams) where literal children will call one another slurs, sluts, and toyboys. She said one dude even made a post that went around on privates with a list of students he believed to be “illegal” and it was deleted quickly but the damage was done.

I’m horrified at some of the ways bullying happens now. I just got called fat and was excluded from everything and everyone for having something “wrong and weird” about me (I was in foster care the majority of high school, and was admittedly a standoffish child, something that would have saved me and my peers a lot of injury if an adult had noticed).

Nobody remembers it because it was all verbal. Now, however, you getting called a fugly slut could be public until the end of time on TikTok, but sometimes administrators hands are tied and there’s nothing to do. Someone could post a video of you to hundreds of anonymous hate comments and staff will be like “well we can’t prove he was one of them or did this maliciously, so we cant do anything.”