Gen Z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting back<\/p>\n
Late one night in April 2020, towards the start of the Covid lockdowns, Shanley Cl\u00e9mot McLaren was scrolling on her phone when she noticed a Snapchat post by her 16-year-old sister. \u201cShe\u2019s basically filming herself from her bed, and she\u2019s like: \u2018Guys you shouldn\u2019t be doing this. These fisha accounts are really not OK. Girls, please protect yourselves.\u2019 And I\u2019m like: \u2018What is fisha?\u2019 I was 21, but I felt old,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
She went into her sister\u2019s bedroom, where her sibling showed her a Snapchat account named \u201cfisha\u201d plus the code of their Paris suburb. Fisha is French slang for publicly shaming someone \u2013 from the verb \u201cafficher<\/em>\u201d, meaning to display or make public. The account contained intimate images of girls from her sister\u2019s school and dozens of others, \u201calong with the personal data of the victims \u2013 their names, phone numbers, addresses, everything to find them, everything to put them in danger\u201d.<\/p>\n