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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/No-Astronaut-4403 on 2023-07-30 07:33:07.
This is crime that effects women in most cases, the old “don’t take pictures or let someone film you” just isn’t the reality of image abuse.
I was spiked and raped while unconscious to begin with. It was secretly filmed over ten years ago, (in my late teens, a much older man, typically) and a very small clip of the long, prolonged assault where it looks consensual was created, first used to try to blackmail me, and then distributed around my work places when that didn’t work. I altered my life, became self employed and eventually moved to a new a city, (Image based abuse wasn’t illegal over 10 years ago) I didn’t move to avoid this, things seemed fine after I changed job styles tbh. I moved for a good value house but the image abuse caught up with me 3 years ago with the offender stalking my bare minimum online presence with incredible obsession. And it then proliferated where I live and unbelievably on a national level to an extent (the odd person in most places I’ve been in the UK seems to recognise me and be disrespectful for no reason)
Since then people (random strangers to me) have collected any pictures of me possible, created false text message conversations using my stolen pictures as “proof it’s me being slutty” creep shotted me in loads of settings, even barely leaving the house you can’t escape it. A house behind me set up cameras to point into my house. And as illegal and creepy as a lot of this is, there’s nothing you can do about any of it without access to the source information. Which if it’s on Facebook. They seem to have set up the private group system to enable this sort of thing. You can’t image search for anything in Facebook groups. The only way to get access is for someone to tell you where it is or send you a link. And people don’t seem keen on doing that. (I can’t understand why, having actually had women’s back here in the past) Even people you’ve known for years may well pretend no knowledge. If the narratives spread by an abuser and then those that jump of the bandwagon are believable and reputation destroying enough, it seems like no one wants any thing to do with telling you, but feel like good people for still being “nice” to you.
It seems unbelievable, but it’s all true. This is the reality image based abuse. There’s no police help without links and there’s no woman’s services that can help when things are shared on online groups vs a website. Times have moved on since Hunter Moore. There may be new laws but there’s facilitation of image abuse content on the big social media platforms, which only the victim can report. A catch 22 with how society seems to react to victims as if they’re a whore and fully enjoy the narratives online about them enough to not wsnt to enable the girl to have it taken down.