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Audrie and Daisy (my opinions and way of thinking about it)

In this blog post, I brought you a documentary film mostly about 2 girls, Audrie and Daisy who had been sexually assaulted while being filmed and then cyberbullied. Audrie committed suicide in 2012 after all the things and the case happened to her. Daisy also tried to end her life by suicide multiple times right after the sexual crime and cyberbullying, but she was saved by her family every time (unfortunately in 2020, her attempt was fatal).  

In the whole documentary we can meet both girls’ family and friends, talking about the things happened, which gives us a more emotional and devastating way of understanding what a sexual assault and cyberbullying can do to one person. 

I do not want to give you spoilers or tell you the whole story; therefore, I would like to end my description here and truly advise you to watch it. 

 

According to the World Health Organization, around 1 in 6 adolescents experience cyberbullying day by day and surprisingly and devastatingly, the percentages of gender are closely equal (15% of boys and 16% of girls). On the other hand, talking about being cyberbully, 1 in 8 adolescents report that they bully or have bullied others on the Internet. (who.int) 

Taking the movie and this data into consideration, cyberbullying is something that is widely spread and dangerous. Connecting my opinion to Nil's but also forming something different: nowadays that we live in a life in which social media and being connected via an untouchable and unseeable way named Internet has a huge impact on people’s mindset and the way they behave, we should never gloss over cyberbullying. I truly believe that teaching children how to use social media in an unharmful way and showing them, the consequences of their online bullying should be eye-opening to a lot... huge changes start with many small changes. Spreading awareness is something that has a deep, long-term effect on the mindset of many, making the world a better and kinder place day by day. 

 

The film is available on Netflix, but here is the trailer of it on YouTube:  

https://youtu.be/H1DUFZ4Fnd8?si=rhkn5LRD3PPn_f44 

 

 

 

 

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