First post btw.
Just recently going through investigative style Youtube videos comment sections I noticed someone asking for a deeper dive in to "beantwt", "shtwt" and "styrotwt" tags that have LITERAL children posting and discussing cutting methods, suicide tutorials (including how to overdose and shit along those lines) and comparatively most tame of all, eating disorder and starving guides.
Upon searching this hashtag up you are greeted with not only children discussing cutting etc. but also videos + pics.
One thing that is noticeable across many of these self harming videos is the fact that they say this is fake and just "makeup" however upon inspecting many of these so-called "makeup artists" profiles it is noticeable that many of them have scars from previous "makeups".
This is fucked.
There was this account of a CLEARLY underaged minor (they even stated they were 13 in their bio), who posted pics of their hanging attempt which was interrupted by their mom walking in on them. Unfortunately the account either changed its name or was deleted because I can't find it anymore.
Albeit it is honestly hard to tell weather it was just a fucked up """""aesthetic""""" of theirs (think Hello Kitty blades and blood edits) or they are genuine children in need of help.
Honestly the worst part about this whole shit is knowing that these children won't give a fuck about anyone trying to say that its not an aesthetic or a challenge of sorts but a genuine mental issue.
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Social media (twitter especially) are probably the worst thing to come out of the modern age. The fact that any teenager or even a fucking kid can pickup an iphone and get involved in a fucked aesthetic (or whatever the fuck you can call this) which can end them up scarred (literally) for life or worse yet dead, is abysmal to me. Twitter is by-far the worst offender in this situation, because of their partially-anonymous approach, where as on Facebook or Instagram, this would have been taken down in seconds and who knows maybe even saved some kids from almost killing themselves over feeling involved.
It is undeniable that everyone wants to be a part of a group (even if that group is suicidal twitter users), but there are other groups that are literally infinitely times more safe than this.
A lot of this probably stems from trauma of sorts although I only personally saw a few accounts actually mentioning real trauma as their reasoning for being involved in this. To be completely true, I think that basically nothing besides banning and silencing these accounts can be done. And what will that do? Obviously they will move to other platforms to discuss and teach each other methods of hanging themselves without dying.
Recently some kids (oldest one 16) in my home country started a literal gang. Their goal was to beat other kids up for "street fame", as one of their leaders put it in their telegram. It was obvious that by "street fame" he meant getting popular on TikTok for a week, as after accomplishing this they stopped. It is beyond me why the fuck would anyone care enough about internet fame points to the point of beating up other kids and even going as far as stalking some kid and threatening him with a knife.
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I will never understand why social media became a staple of teenagers and now even childrens'
Just recently going through investigative style Youtube videos comment sections I noticed someone asking for a deeper dive in to "beantwt", "shtwt" and "styrotwt" tags that have LITERAL children posting and discussing cutting methods, suicide tutorials (including how to overdose and shit along those lines) and comparatively most tame of all, eating disorder and starving guides.
Upon searching this hashtag up you are greeted with not only children discussing cutting etc. but also videos + pics.
One thing that is noticeable across many of these self harming videos is the fact that they say this is fake and just "makeup" however upon inspecting many of these so-called "makeup artists" profiles it is noticeable that many of them have scars from previous "makeups".
There was this account of a CLEARLY underaged minor (they even stated they were 13 in their bio), who posted pics of their hanging attempt which was interrupted by their mom walking in on them. Unfortunately the account either changed its name or was deleted because I can't find it anymore.
Albeit it is honestly hard to tell weather it was just a fucked up """""aesthetic""""" of theirs (think Hello Kitty blades and blood edits) or they are genuine children in need of help.
Honestly the worst part about this whole shit is knowing that these children won't give a fuck about anyone trying to say that its not an aesthetic or a challenge of sorts but a genuine mental issue.
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Social media (twitter especially) are probably the worst thing to come out of the modern age. The fact that any teenager or even a fucking kid can pickup an iphone and get involved in a fucked aesthetic (or whatever the fuck you can call this) which can end them up scarred (literally) for life or worse yet dead, is abysmal to me. Twitter is by-far the worst offender in this situation, because of their partially-anonymous approach, where as on Facebook or Instagram, this would have been taken down in seconds and who knows maybe even saved some kids from almost killing themselves over feeling involved.
It is undeniable that everyone wants to be a part of a group (even if that group is suicidal twitter users), but there are other groups that are literally infinitely times more safe than this.
A lot of this probably stems from trauma of sorts although I only personally saw a few accounts actually mentioning real trauma as their reasoning for being involved in this. To be completely true, I think that basically nothing besides banning and silencing these accounts can be done. And what will that do? Obviously they will move to other platforms to discuss and teach each other methods of hanging themselves without dying.
Recently some kids (oldest one 16) in my home country started a literal gang. Their goal was to beat other kids up for "street fame", as one of their leaders put it in their telegram. It was obvious that by "street fame" he meant getting popular on TikTok for a week, as after accomplishing this they stopped. It is beyond me why the fuck would anyone care enough about internet fame points to the point of beating up other kids and even going as far as stalking some kid and threatening him with a knife.
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I will never understand why social media became a staple of teenagers and now even childrens'
- Description
- Cutting, Hanging, Overdosing. Twitter enables children to share and discuss methods of doing any of these actions.
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