Public-Shaming

3 entries

2017 Jun 2026 August Ames — Bodily Autonomy An adult film performer declined a scene with a male co-star who had done gay porn, citing safety concerns about different testing protocols. Twitter called her a bigot and told her to eat cyanide. Two days later she was dead. She was 23.
2013 Jun 2026 Justine Sacco — Eleven Hours A PR executive with 170 followers tweeted a bad AIDS joke before an 11-hour flight to Cape Town. By the time she landed, she was the number one trending topic worldwide, fired, and unhireable. She outlasted the publication that destroyed her.
2012 Jun 2026 Lindsey Stone — The Photo A woman took a joke photo next to a 'Silence and Respect' sign at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It was a running gag between friends. Within days she was fired, agoraphobic, and afraid to leave her house for a year.