Social Studies (2024) s01e04 Episode Script

1
[light music playing]
[muffled party chatter]
[Sydney] I don't know
what happened last night.
At the party, I did drink
and, um, I don't think it
was the best idea, honestly.
Almost all of the frats
have sexual assault charges.
You just don't drink
at the frats.
I should follow
my advice more.
♪♪♪
At the party,
both me and my roommate
were feeling way
too out of control
after one drink.
Like, we both woke up feeling
very, like, extra sick,
not just, like,
a hangover sick,
but, like, a roofie sick.
I don't know,
we're pretty sure that
something was put
in our drink last night.
[music stops]
But if you feel hungover,
you just keep drinking
and then, you'll,
you'll feel better again.
It's kind of ironic,
but it's just the lifestyle.
[people chattering on video]
It's like, U of A,
University of Alcoholics.
-[kisses]
-And we'll always find a way
to get ourselves
together and rally.
Cute.
[slow, distorted
music plays]
[circus clown music playing]
[indistinct chatter, shouting]
[cheering]
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
[music warbles, stops]
They asked me to leave
because I was "too drunk."
[speaker]
Time for you to leave.
-[Jonah] We are leaving!
-[Aimee] We are leaving!
Do you not
see us leaving?
[Jonah] Understand
that we are leaving.
[speaker] Stop filming!
Get the fuck outta here!
[Jonah] Bro, please take
a fucking chill pill.
-[speaker] Out!
-Please stop disrespecting
-my friends like that.
-[speaker] Stop arguing,
you little pissant.
-He's a fucking--
-Fatass!
-Little tubby bitch.
-[laughing]
["jealousy, jealousy"
by Olivia Rodrigo playing]
Co-co-comparison
is killing me slowly ♪
I think, I think too much ♪
'Bout kids
who don't know me ♪
I'm so sick of myself ♪
I'd rather be, rather be ♪
Anyone, anyone else ♪
Jealousy, jealousy ♪
Started followin' me ♪
-[vocalizing]
-[song concludes]
[Lauren Greenfield]
So, how did you
first learn about sex?
-[all laughing]
-[Savannah] Yeah,
my first time watching porn
was probably when
I was, like, in third grade?
I don't know.
I'm pretty sure it was
with Jordan, to be honest.
[Jordan]
I, like was, I don't know,
probably, like, four or five.
Like, it was probably,
like, on YouTube.
I just know I was, like,
really, really young.
And, like, I would go
on my dad's computer
Pornography is everywhere.
You can't escape it.
[Maren]
Guys see gorgeous girls
on TikTok and on Instagram
all the time.
They follow them,
they see, like,
these edited, perfect people
and girls aren't like that,
so their standards
have risen too high.
And I'm like,
"Where is this ego
you have coming from?"
The hairless thing
comes from porn
and comes from,
like, models.
Annoying.
[esthetician]
Two more. Ready?
[Maren]
It does just set, like,
unrealistic standards
for everything.
Guys are having, like,
troubles with, like, girls now
because the only thing
they know about sex is porn.
It makes people
feel like they need to fit in,
even in their
intimate relationships,
they have to act
a certain way.
[Sofia]
You kind of feel
pressure on yourself
to have this kind of
relationship that's, like,
I guess, like, like,
"aesthetically pleasing"
and, like, in real life,
that's just not always
how, like, things pan out,
it's just not
always as pretty.
[Stella] People tell me that
my drawings are really dark.
It's a leash and a noose.
[laughs] It's doubling, see,
and this person is blinded.
I know everything
everybody's doing right now
is affected by how
they've seen it done
on social media.
["Bdsm" by
DreamKiller playing]
I'm serious, [laughs]
I can't feel anything.
Hit me.
I'ma give you
all you need ♪
Keep your secret
safe with me ♪
I'ma give you
all you need ♪
Keep your secret
safe with me ♪
[Stella]
On TikTok, they're
romanticizing bondage
and BDSM
and 14-year-olds
are seeing it
and thinking that
that's, that's normal,
and that's what
you need to do.
[grunting]
[Ella]
But they normalized it
in a bad way,
in terms of,
like, telling girls
that you should love
to get, like, choked out
and, like, and, like,
all of this really
extreme stuff
that's a very specific
group of people.
If you tell a guy,
"Oh, I have kinks,"
they automatically assume
that you wanna be choked
-or slapped or something
and that's not what--
-[Ella] And it's like--
It's so, it's so dangerous,
and then, I also had friends
being like,
I feel uncomfortable
saying that I only
like vanilla sex
because everyone was like,
"You have to be kinky,
you have to like
all this stuff,"
and it totally--
"Otherwise, you're boring,
you're lame,
you don't wanna get choked?"
There was this
whole thing about like,
"You had to be,
like, a freak,
and you had to, like,
like all these things"
that are really dangerous
if the guys just don't
know what they're doing.
And they don't.
We're only, like, teenagers.
We have no idea how
to properly, like,
choke someone
or tie them up
or anything.
When I experimented
with my boyfriend,
it was slow.
It wasn't,
all of a sudden, like,
he was cutting me
with knives.
We've never done that,
but he didn't really know
what BDSM is
'cause he wouldn't be
on social media as much.
And so, I would
talk to him about it.
Like, "Try choking.
Try this stuff."
And I found out
I did like it,
and what I did like,
he would continue to do.
[lip-syncing to voiceover]
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God.
[Ella]
I think it's hard to tell
what's been
put into your mind
and what you're influenced by
and what you actually like,
and that's why,
when you want
to experiment,
do it safely and do it
with someone you trust.
[birds chirping]
[ringback tone]
-Hey, how are you?
-[Stella] [over phone]
I'm good, how are you?
[Jonathan] Good, thank you.
Thank you so much for doing this
and for reaching out,
I'm so glad.
One part of this project
is I'm covering
sexual harassment
on social media
and also sexual assault
and how that plays out.
You mentioned
a little bit in this form
about your own very
traumatic experiences.
Is that something you're
comfortable talking more about?
[Stella]
Yeah
I had never been in
a intimate relationship before
and so, it was really easy
to take advantage of me
because I didn't really
know right from wrong.
For people who are
starting to have sex,
it's hard to figure out
for yourself what you want,
but you know what social media
is telling you to want.
I think I didn't know
what was normal.
What I was exposed to online
was sex coupled with violence.
And if you don't like it,
that's wrong.
[light music playing]
In my prior relationship,
there was this pressure
to just do everything that,
like, might look cool and edgy
and, like,
you have to enjoy it.
There's a lot of portrayal
in porn of this,
like, BDSM fantasy
and so,
if a girl says, "Stop,"
maybe that's just,
I don't know,
part of a role-play
and now the guy's,
like, saying,
"You can't tell me
what the fuck to do."
In our relationship,
there was zero communication.
You're being cut with a knife,
no choice, no say, no consent.
The "Kim" one isn't a tattoo,
it's actually a branding.
Like a branding.
[Stella]
I mean, there was a TikTok
where somebody carved
their initials into each other
and, like
I have initials
carved into me,
and they're
crossed out now,
and it's a scar
and it's very, very faint,
and then crossed out
with more cuts,
but, like, that's a thing.
When abuse looks like
what's getting
likes on TikTok,
it's hard to see
the difference.
How did you come
to the realization,
um, that what had happened
to you was sexual assault?
[Stella]
I talked to a guy about
what it's like
when he's with a girl
and I'm like,
"Oh, really?
That's how that's
supposed to go?"
I definitely learned
that it's, like, not normal
for people to, like,
really like to hurt you
when they love you.
And I eventually
was able to get out
of that relationship.
It takes
experiencing real life
for you to realize how real life
is supposed to be, I guess.
-[Amari] You want some more?
-[baby crying]
Alright, bubbas.
[crying continues]
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
That type of,
that type of party.
-Michael Jordan?
-Oh.
Oh, my goodness.
You need some help.
You don't know who
Michael Jordan is?
-[baby crying]
-Okay, okay.
[upbeat party music playing]
[Keshawn] [on mic]
Let's get started!
Tell me what you want.
Are you single tonight?
Ladies, sing this song!
["Shawty" DJ mix playing]
-[stops music]
-[crowd sings]
Ladies!
Tonight is our
three-year anniversary
of our DJ group
that we started.
[upbeat song playing]
[indistinct chatter]
I'm just using DJ
as leverage.
My passion's really music.
I wanna be a big artist.
Feel like I got everything:
the looks, the style, the voice.
Feel I got everything to be
that, that number one spot.
[upbeat hip-hop song playing]
Yeah, see, I've been lookin'
for somebody like you ♪
Cute face
with a body like you ♪
I've been searchin'
all over for you ♪
Yeah, you ♪
See, I've been lookin'
for somebody like you ♪
Cute face
with a body like you ♪
All I want is you,
all I want is you ♪
'Cause it's you ♪
Is it you, is it you? ♪
Is it you, baby? ♪
Come on, now ♪
Is it you,
is it you, is it you? ♪
Baby ♪
[indistinct chatter]
[phone notifications]
[upbeat song playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[crowd screaming, chattering]
♪♪♪
[indistinct chatter]
What happened?
[revving engine]
[car honking]
-[cousin] Aight,
we in that motherfucker.
-[tires screeching]
[dog barking]
[ambient street noise]
That her?
Where she at?
-[dog barking]
-[Julie clicks tongue]
-[phone notifications]
-Fuck Bodhi.
Dude, where's
this little girl at?
[chuckling]
[distant siren wailing]
[indistinct chatter]
-[Lourdes]
She's not here yet?
-[Julie] No.
-Ain't nobody wanna
fuckin' call her.
-[Lilah] Hi!
-[Julie] Hi, mama, come here.
-[dog barking]
She's not answering.
[Julie] She's three hours late.
And she does this
all the time.
Like, it used to be like that
with, with Julian too
'til we had to beg her
to hang out,
you know what I'm saying?
And then,
we made plans,
and then she changes them
to go hang out with them.
And it's, like, whatever.
And she did that
on my quinceañera too.
[Lilah]
I'm mad at Ellie so bad.
I'm mad at her, so mean.
Why she can do this to us?
Like, ugh.
-I hate you Ellie. Yeah.
-Deadass.
-Sorry, guys.
-[Lilah] No! I hate you.
Sorry, there was just
so much frickin' traffic.
The thing is, I've been
telling you, Ellie
-I know, but--
-to be respectful for--
with people's time.
I understand, Mom,
but, like, I, I was eating,
and then, like,
we came over here,
and it was--
Well, we got, like, gas first,
and then, we, like, came
over here, and it was just--
I'm sorry, like,
it was my fault.
Like, I honestly
took time too.
Like, I-I took my time.
-Like, I'm sorry, like--
-[Lourdes] Always,
-this is not the first time.
-[Ellie] I know, but--
And I've been telling you,
manage your time.
No, que pues.
-Do it now.
-Yeah--
[Lourdes]
And, honestly--
No, do it now
'cause it smells so bad.
[Lilah] Ugh!
[Ellie] [whiny] Oh, I hate that
there's no freakin' gloves.
Disgusting!
[phone notifications]
Ugh, there's so much going on
and I cannot think straight
right now.
[Julie]
Can I read it?
[phone notifications]
[softly] And I'm
just like, "Bro."
[scoffs]
[Julie] And I get that it's
a little overwhelming,
but, like, people
are looking out for you
-Yeah.
-and the fact that,
that you don't take it.
I don't want to be here.
I'm doing everything
to fucking leave, bro.
Even if that means fucking
moving to the east co--
or whatever the fuck, bitch.
Even if I gotta
move to the fuckin'
middle of nowhere.
I just can't.
I really love Bodhi.
And it's like,
bro, this motherfucker
is the only motherfucker
who's actually
ever treated me
the way I deserve
to be treated.
Every time you get,
like, a new guy,
specifically,
'cause you've done this
a lot in the past,
I have to beg you
to make plans with me.
And I know, like,
you know, you're in your
little honeymoon phase,
but it's, like,
how many honeymoon phases
is it gonna take
for you to realize, like,
you're, like, kinda, like,
being inconsiderate
to people's time?
I always take
your opinion to heart
-Yeah.
-but, like, you're
my best friend,
and, like, there's
sometimes, like, a line.
And, like, sometimes,
like, you cross it--
No, but it's, like,
I-I get like that
because I tell you
and then you don't
do anything about it.
You can say sorry
all you want,
but, like,
you're kinda acting,
like, stupid about it, like
Like
Like, I'm just like,
"Fuck, dude."
I'm sorry, I'm, like, not
even trying to do all this.
-Like--
-Don't say sorry. Okay.
-[laughs] Come here.
-It's okay, you can laugh.
-[laughing]
-It's fine, it's literally fine.
Like, it's okay,
you can laugh, it's fine.
-It's just, like [indistinct]
-You're crying, it's so funny.
[Ellie] [crying]
I hate this so much.
Like
[tattoo artist]
It'll be about an hour 45.
-[Ivy] Oh, not bad.
-[tattoo artist] Yeah.
-[tattoo gun buzzing]
-[indistinct chatter]
[Ivy]
My dad is my best friend.
I feel like I can
tell him anything,
and he's just gonna be,
like, understanding.
[Vito] Ooh.
[birds chirping]
[phone notification]
[Aishani] Not me carrying
five bags, on heels.
-[Nina] Am I a woman yet?
-[both chuckle]
-Oh, shit.
-Oh, my God, this is cute!
[Nina] I'm so ready to be
a fucking zombie in here.
[Aishani] Do you wanna keep
the supplements in the bathroom?
I'm, like, very motherly.
"Is this okay?
Is this okay?"
You know?
-[both laughing]
-[Nina] Okay, shoe's fitting.
Like, I kind of regret
the amount of people
that I've told that
I was getting surgery.
You know, like, like,
after the first, like,
maybe, three times
I was really tired
of the amount of, like,
"What are you getting done?
No, like, like, what exactly
-are you getting done?"
-Mm.
[Nina] This facial
feminization surgery
that I'm about to go into,
I'm getting several
different procedures
done to change
soft tissues, bone,
and other features
of my face to feminize them.
And despite the fact
that I'm doing it to
give myself greater feelings
of, like, pleasure and freedom
and happiness and joy
in my own body,
as much excitement
as that brings,
it also brings sadness
and mourning
that I'm going to be
saying goodbye to
a face that I was born with.
[phone notifications]
I told my mom, "I don't
want you to be surprised
that I have a new
face entirely."
This was before she started
screaming at me.
This was, [mimicking Sherry]
"But you're so handsome.
"What are you doing to my son?
"Someone's convincing you
that you're transgender
"and you need to get
your face done.
Your face is beautiful.
Why would you change it?"
I've tried so hard
to get her to hear me,
to get her to understand me.
And I've realized that she's
not capable of doing that.
Like, I've been
gifted other mothers.
Like, I have to make a post.
I'm putting you
on my story.
-Right now.
-[Nina] Yeah.
-[Aishani laughs]
-Beautiful.
[indistinct chatter]
[laughter]
-How you doin'?
-May I check inside the skates?
Oh, they doin' that now?
Lookin' inside the skates?
Yeah.
[upbeat music playing
in skating rink]
[indistinct chatter]
[light music playing]
♪♪♪
[Tamara]
Kalin, Mommy.
[Amari] [over phone]
Hi, dada!
[chuckling]
Hi.
[Tamara]
Talk to your mama.
[Amari] Hi.
Just
She ain't post no videos.
She posted one,
but it ain't doin'
no numbers.
So, I'm like, she kinda
lettin' it go to waste.
[laughter]
[Amari]
[on phone] Hey!
[Ellie] Speedy weed!
I'm fuckin' dead.
[Ellie] Ooh, this looks good.
[Ellie] Yeah. Yeah.
Hoorsenbuhs is just
Bodhi's family's company.
They started this brand
and they make great quality
clothing and jewelry.
It's art.
[ringback tone]
[typing]
Bodhi went through my phone
and just kind of discovered,
like, you know, Julian and I
still kind of together
when Bodhi and I were in, like,
starting our relationship.
There was a picture of Julian
and I in, like, in bed.
It wasn't anything, like, crazy,
but we were, like, in our--
you know, he was,
like, in his boxers.
Bodhi, he was, like,
in between wanting
to stay with me
and then, like,
breaking up with me.
But he, like, loved me,
but he, like, didn't
trust me, you know?
So I was like,
"I love you so much,
I'll literally get
your name tatted on me,"
to, like, prove it to him.
[indistinct chatter]
He wrote it out
in his writing and then,
put, like, "333" at the top.
333 is our number.
Bodhi got his family company,
Hoorsenbuhs's logo,
above his knee.
It is very meaningful to him.
I love Bodhi.
I hope I marry him one day.
I'm just kidding.
[awkward laugh]
[birds chirping]
Wow, this is pretty spacious.
-Ahh!
-[kisses]
-Everybody says hi. Ivy and
-I was like, "Who?"
-We have a whole family
that moved in.
-[laughter]
Ahh!
[laughs]
Ahh!
[Yana] It's a Nina themed day.
[Nina] One of the most
beautiful gifts
of transition for me has been
receiving love and
an outpouring of support
from old friends.
But also with my dad, like,
being willing to accompany me
through this process.
Like, "Dad of the Year"
award, please.
It's really moving to me
that he came all the way
fucking out here.
I didn't think
I could tell any family,
-like, biological
family members.
-Yeah.
Like, I don't know how
to explain to you people
why I'm getting my fucking
skull permanently altered
and you're just like,
"No questions asked,
how do we help?"
-Yeah.
-Like, that, to me, is, like,
never in my wildest
dreams, you know?
-Yeah. It's beautiful, dude.
-Um, so, yeah, thank you.
I'm, like like,
coming into womanhood
-without my, like,
biological mother.
-Sure.
I did have a moment
of thinking about, like,
-bra shopping with Mom
for the first time.
-Yeah!
[Yana] Yeah? Okay.
[Yana] I'm so ready for you.
[Nina] My surgeon told me,
like, a lot of girls
come in with, like, pictures
of Instagram models
wanting to, like,
have this exact face
and look exactly like her.
There are a lot of girls who
genuinely feel gender euphoria
from presenting
as hyperfeminine.
I know I love wearing
a hoochie shirt,
I love wearing
something low-cutting,
I love wearing a push-up bra.
[Yana]
It makes your boob--
[sighs]
But also, I know, like, it's
a trap that we can get into
as trans women
and as women generally,
presenting in ways
that are hyperfeminine.
Like, I'm so excited to get
through the different
laser hair removal procedures
that I've been saving up for.
But, like, where do you
think those standards
of beauty come from?
Like, patriarchy, right?
How people should look,
and what women
should sound like
and look like,
and who a woman is.
And I'm like,
"What the fuck?"
How do I make terms
with the fact that, like,
a lot of the ways that
I wanna present myself
and the things
that I aspire to be
and look like
are to, like, "grab attention"
or to "appeal to a male gaze"?
[light music playing]
I have to remember
this is not about
looking more beautiful,
this is about feeling
more at peace with myself.
-So proud of you, dude.
-[Nina] Thank you.
I love you.
How many of you were asked
to send a nude of yourself,
or received one,
and then, can you say
how old you were?
-Thirteen.
-Honestly, like, probably,
like, third grade.
-Sixth grade. This was 12.
-[Lauren] When you were asked
or you asked?
No, no, I didn't ask.
It goes, it goes,
like, both ways.
Sometimes it's just like,
"Oh, you're so hot.
Like, do you send?"
And then you're like
yes or no.
And then if--
Sometimes if you say no,
they're like,
"Please, I'm so horny."
And you're like,
"I don't fucking care.
Like, ew."
Like, when I was little
in, like, 7th grade,
naked pictures of me
got leaked to everyone,
so everyone thought
I was a slut already.
And, even now, in 12th grade,
some people still
have that image of me.
I think online sexual harassment
is something people
don't really talk about,
or it's just kinda
harder to understand.
Like, how can you
sexually harass someone
through a phone?
I remember there was
a student at Pali, um,
I'm not sure if you know
who I'm talking about,
but I think--
or his name was going around
as someone who, um,
had not only sexually harassed,
but also sexually
assaulted girls.
[Stella] [over phone]
Yes, I know what
you're talking about.
There was this one boy
who had a pretty
similar plot
for all of these
different girls.
I never even
met him in person,
he just added me on Snap.
Asked if he could
take my virginity.
I left him on read,
and then he was like,
"Hi?? Hi?"
And he had, like, hit up
my friend at the same time
and she was
telling me about it.
And I was like,
"Oh, same, same, same."
Actually, it goes, like,
way back to, like, 7th grade.
The same guy started texting me
and he asked me out.
I was like, "No,"
and then he continued
to, like, kinda
harass me about it
through 9th grade,
10th grade,
he was sending me
a bunch of pictures,
like, pressuring me
to send nudes.
Then, one night,
he just sent me, like,
an unsolicited,
like, dick pic.
An-- I-It wasn't one time.
It's happened
several times with him
and he, like,
texted me on Snap.
He was like,
"I took a Viagra for you."
And I didn't even know
what that was, like,
what that meant.
[Sofia]
He hit me up, and he hit
a lot of friends I knew up.
And I was just like,
"This guy, like, needs
to get what's coming to him."
And the guys
were just kinda like,
"Let's, like, beat his ass."
[student 1]
Fucking bitch!
[indistinct shouting]
[tense music playing]
[fighting]
[student 2]
'Sup, bro?
-[student 3] Woo!
-[student 4] What's up?!
What do you wanna
say to the camera?
[giggles]
The video
was pretty divisive.
I think some people
thought it was great.
Like,
"How sweet are these boys
fighting the other boy."
And then,
other people were like
"These guys are just making
a show of protecting women
"and using violence,
"and nobody's actually
doing anything,
and these aren't
good guys either."
[over phone]
I did see all these people
posting stuff
but there was nobody
that had actually taken
direct action?
I was the first person
to actually file
a police report
and start talking about it,
and I used social media
as a way to do that.
I decided to give
a little bit of education
about what's not okay.
And then I posted
an LAPD phone number
to call to make a report,
so they can tell
their own story on it.
It was shared around a lot.
I got a lot of positive
feedback like,
"Thank you
for sharing this,"
"Thank you
for doing something."
[Jonathan]
I think what you did
was incredible and I wonder
if after posting
that information,
did you hear from
some of his victims?
[Stella]
I mean jeez,
more than just him.
It was, like, a whole
cascade of stories
that came out.
Like, a little
mini Los Angeles,
high schooler
Me Too Movement.
Somebody made
an Instagram account
called,
"We Will Not Be Silenced"
and all of these girls DM'd,
either anonymously or not,
their stories with,
not only this kid,
but different guys.
It became a big thing.
There was no adults involved
except for that officer
that I spoke to.
It was pretty much
all this
high schooler-led movement
through social media.
It's an important thing
to talk about,
but I don't think
it changed the way men act.
I don't think it changed
the way the women felt.
For me,
I was definitely misled
by some boys choosing
to post about consent
because it was the trend
that was really huge.
The person who ended up
being my, like, abuser
was somebody who had posted
during that time about consent.
-[ambient street noise]
-[birds chirping]
[Santi] Some kids just
need some spankings.
[Sofia] I got hit as a kid,
it didn't feel good.
[Santi]
Well, you're not
a piece of shit.
-Yes, I am.
-No, you're not.
-You got manners--
-Everybody can be
a piece of shit sometimes.
[Santi] That's true,
but there's some people
that are, like, just
born pieces of shit.
-I don't think so.
-Like a rot--
Like a rotten orange.
I don't--
But oranges aren't--
They don't grow rotten,
they become rotten.
But I don't think anyone's
inherently bad ya know?
When I first, like,
downloaded Instagram,
it made me grow up faster
than I was already growing up.
When I was, like, 14,
my friends were like,
"You guys, let's find
sugar daddies!"
And I was like,
"Yeah, oh, my God,
let's do it."
And I was, like, calling
people, like, "Daddy"
that I had no clue
who they were,
at, like, 15.
[Sofia]
Oh, no, I would go on Omegle
and I remember
someone told me,
they were like,
"You should try
to sell feet pics."
And I was like,
"I should try
to sell feet pics."
-[laughter]
-And I thought it
was a great idea
and then, it got
progressively worse
because I feel like
I got more comfortable
with, like,
exploiting myself.
[Ivy]
There's, like, so many
old men on social media
that are, like,
lookin' for feet pics.
My friends made
a lotta money.
Honestly, if they can
make money off selling
their feet pics,
good for them.
[chuckles]
We just kinda
laugh about it.
We're like, "Oh, yeah,
I made, like, $75
selling feet pics
to some old guy."
We don't judge
each other for it,
but we also don't, like,
feel super empowered.
Growing up means fucking up,
and that's how we learn,
but to have our fuckups
in a form that is so public
and so susceptible
to judgment,
and so permanent
'cause it doesn't go away,
it is so scary that we are being
allowed to actually do this.
And the people who are
running these sites,
they know what
they're doing.
-Yeah.
-And they're doing it on purpose
because they want
us to be on it
and 'cause they make
money off of us.
[Keshawn]
That is true.
If Jeff Bezos offered you
a-a million to suck him up,
-what you doin'?
-[friends] What?
Nothin'!
Fuck wrong with you?
That's gay.
-Shit, I don't know.
-Alright then, shut the hell up.
It gotta be in the moment.
I'll be like, "Okay,
I'll think about it."
So, you gon' really do it?
Right now?
Most prolly.
You can't lie.
Oh yeah, a million, bro?
[Kenneth] That's gay.
You gay from the jump
for even thinkin' that.
Alright, 10 million.
-I don't give a fuck
kinda million it is.
-Nah, you lyin' now.
Josh, would you do it?
[Kenneth] Alright then,
call AJ and ask him.
AJ gonna be like,
"Hell yeah."
-[FaceTime ringing]
-Do it, call him.
-Yo!
-Yo!
What's up?
Ten million right now,
Jeff Bezos walk in here, right?
[laughter]
[sings]
I just hope you wish me well
'cause this gon' get hard ♪
People think I'm a player,
but I'm really runnin' out
of my budget.
Like, I can't have
nothin' extra no more.
But everybody tellin' me
to put this music out.
I just hope big payout
really happens.
[sings]
I know we gon' get paid ♪
[on playback]
I know we gon' get paid ♪
[Julie] Oh, my God.
This is so cute.
Yeah, I know, right?
-[Julie chuckles]
-Got it from G Stage.
-[phone notifications]
-Or Fashion G or whatever.
-Really?
-Yeah.
Yeah, I thought they closed
all their bitch-asses.
-Bye-bye.
-I love you.
-I love you, see you tomorrow.
-See you tomorrow. Bye.
Goodnight, Mom. Love you.
Okay. Goodnight. Love you.
Hey, sis.
I'ma go to sleep,
I'm so tired.
-[Nadine] Alright.
-[Ellie] Goodnight. Love you.
[Nadine]
Goodnight, love you too.
[phone notifications]
[window grate creaks]
[Ellie] No?
[mumbles indistinctly]
No, Nadine,
I'm not knocking.
What the fuck?
I'm not even being--
What are you--
Bro, what are you
talking about?
Like, I'm literally
not being a bitch,
I'm just saying
no one's knocking.
Okay, well,
if I open the window,
what's wrong with that?
[ringback tone]
[tense music playing]
♪♪♪
[chuckles]
♪♪♪
[phone notifications]
♪♪♪
[music fades out]
Bro, the crazy thing about this
is we have so many stories
that I feel like
we only, like, just--
like, it's-- this is just,
like, the tip of the iceberg
of, like, what we
go through and what,
not only us but people,
go through in their
fucking daily life.
That's how common it is.
People don't take
this seriously.
It's not even just, like, Pali,
it's, like, kind of everywhere.
Like, it also just happens,
like, s-- in the most, like--
I was walking
to my friend's dorm,
I had just filmed
all day and directed,
and I was so happy,
it was, like, such a good day.
And we were going
to go edit the footage
and this other guy, like,
holds the door, lets me in,
and I'm like,
"Oh, like, that's really nice."
And then he comes over
and he's like, "Hey,"
and he, like, literally, like,
ch-- like, kinda holds me,
like, and is, like--
I couldn't, like, do anything
and he's like,
"You're really cute,"
like, "Do you wanna
come to my dorm?"
-Literally a two-minute
walk in broad daylight.
-That's disgusting.
I'm wearing, like, a hoodie
and, like, sweatpants,
and then he, like,
starts, like, touching
my ass and shit, an--
The thing is, like, that,
like, it was just one second
and, and it's, like,
that's how I'm gonna have
to remember that day?
Like
It was, like, one o'clock
in the morning,
and, all of a sudden,
my phone started blowing up.
These guys, like,
all started calling me.
These were my friends
and I had known them
and I trusted them,
so I was like, "Okay, yeah,
you guys can come pick me up."
So, they got here,
they came to pick me up.
The guy, [bleep],
wasn't in the car.
Um, so we went
to his house, you know?
And I-- The only reason
I actually went was
because [bleep]
actually told me, like,
that there'd be weed there
and I was, like,
didn't have any.
And I got there and he's like,
"Nah, there's no weed."
But he, like, handed me
a bottle of vodka.
I'm not good with drinking.
And I told him no at first,
but then he was like,
"Just come on.
It's fine. It's fine."
So, like, I, like,
realized that
I ended up drinking almost,
like, the whole bottle
or what was left
in the bottle.
[distant sirens wailing]
Um, like, my memory
gets really bad,
but I remember him, like,
coming up to me, you know
and being like, um, like,
"Come on," like,
"Suck my dick."
And I was like, "No,"
like, "You're a fool."
And I pushed him.
And I guess, like,
that just didn't send
the message across
because, like, basically,
like, the next thing
I really remember
of, like, opening my eyes,
not really-- I think--
I don't remember exactly,
but it was kinda just, like--
I kinda realized
what was happening
and it was
too late to stop it.
A-And, like, my underwear
were actually, like, ripped off
and, like, torn,
and
[emotional] I was, like,
just under him, you know?
[sniffling]
[crying]
Sorry.
At that point, I was frozen,
you know? [sniffles]
And I--
People ask me all the time,
like, why didn't I stop it?
And I don't know why
I didn't stop it.
Like, I wanted to,
I just couldn't, like,
I couldn't talk,
I couldn't say anything,
you know?
And then I remember I, like--
after it was over, and I tried--
my underwear were ripped,
so I couldn't even
put them back on,
and
um and then he just,
like, wanted me to go
and he just told one of
his friends to drive me home.
[Sofia sniffling]
And then I went home.
Yeah, that's it.
Thank you guys for listenin'.
[chuckles]
[Lauren]
You okay?
Yeah, I'm okay.
[Sydney] I have a story
about him too, so
-Yeah, um--
-[Sofia] I've never heard
anybody, like, that had,
-like, a story about him.
-[Sydney] Really? Nope.
Yeah, I do.
Everyone made me
fucking feel crazy.
Everyone was
like, like, like,
"You must've not
remembered it right."
I know, 'cause he's so popular
and everybody loves him.
[Sofia] Everyone.
And I was just like, "What?"
Like, "What are you telling me
I don't remember
what happened to me?"
Like, like, "What?"
You're not crazy.
[chuckles]
The next day, he texted,
"Are you on birth control?"
[Anthony]
Damn.
This was in, like,
July over quarantine,
and then, school started.
The guy who raped me ended up
seeing me during school.
He started talking to me
in front of my friends,
so I pulled him aside
'cause I was embarrassed,
-where he raised his voice at me
and so I started fucking crying.
-[Anthony] Yeah.
[Sofia]
No one asked me
if I was okay.
No one was like,
"Do you need help?"
Nobody.
He literally came up to me
and my little sister
during fucking school.
-Oh, my God.
-At fucking school.
[Anthony]
That fool went to your sister?
[Sofia]
My 14-year-old sister.
That's when I tried to get
the restraining order
'cause that scared me.
The court, they were,
basically, like, um,
we don't have,
like, enough evidence
that he's, like, an immediate
threat to your life.
So, I was like,
"Okay, he is threatening my life
"because I go home every night
and I sit in a dark room
"and I think about, like,
'What the fuck am I doing?'
Like, 'What is life?'"
So, like, yeah,
he was an immediate
danger to my life.
He definitely was.
Multiple people told me, like,
"Talk to Anthony about it."
[light, tense music playing]
[Anthony]
One thing about me is
I don't fuck with that
toxic masculinity shit,
like, I'ma be real.
I just think that
abusing women like that,
that's some straight
wild shit right there.
-It's actually crazy 'cause
he was actually a friend.
-[Sofia] What?! Oh, my God.
[Stella]
Really?
[Anthony]
I had, I had a lot of friends
that were actually into
sexual assault.
They were doin'
all that shit
and I had to separate
myself from that.
I can't tolerate that.
My grandma was raped,
my girlfriend is a rape victim.
I know how that feels.
But she said,
"You can never
feel that pain,"
and I said,
"I can't feel the pain,
but I'm seein' it right now."
So, I took action.
That's what a man's
supposed to do.
You supposed
to take action
for a woman.
I started this whole thing
about fuckin' up these rapists
because it just frustrated me.
All those guys
we went to school with,
I call them
the "white entitled kids."
They-they think they can
get away with everything.
You mentioned
sexual assault
and rape
and how it feels like
situations like that
aren't taken seriously.
I've noticed
the same thing as well.
It was really bad up there.
These kids didn't know
how to ask for consent.
The school didn't handle it.
I had to handle it.
[in video]
Alright, what's up, guys?
The Black Superman's back.
We're makin' a video
on this fucking scumbag.
I downloaded Premiere Pro,
Sony Vegas and all that stuff.
Screenshots of everything.
I made videos about rapists.
Then I put it on YouTube,
exposing they
whole information,
talkin' 'bout where
they live and everything.
[in video] It's your man,
the Black Batman is back.
Shout-out to everybody
that watched the last video,
we got to 1,900, let's try
to get that to 2,000
and try to get these
other rapists exposed.
[Sydney]
I support Anthony.
He is kind of like
a Robin Hood.
The cops
will never do anything,
so, like, he's taking matters
into his own hands.
I didn't know you.
-[Anthony] Yeah.
-I didn't know what
to do, at all.
I would, like, be like,
"Why are these people
telling him?
Why aren't they
telling the police?"
[Anthony]
Like, the other girl
I was talking about,
she literally said that
when she tried to, like,
get the whole, like,
police involved,
they just literally shut
the whole thing down with him
-and that's crazy.
-So, an-another person
filed a report
-against him?
-Yeah.
-That's crazy.
-Yeah.
[Sofia] I sent Anthony
a Snapchat being like,
"Yeah, [bleep] did this to me."
Like, honestly, even, like,
s-saying it felt good.
[Anthony]
At that time, I had, like,
a pretty good big following,
so that was, like,
a good 15,000 people.
Six hundred screenshots.
Yeah. Yeah.
There were so many people
that shared it.
Like I said,
I can't touch him,
I'll figure a way how
to fuck their mind up.
That's all you gotta do.
But he definitely needs
to be brought to justice.
I posted his home address
and I gave his damn mom's
phone number and shit.
'Cause I'ma,
I'm not gonna lie,
you're a fuckin'
parent and shit.
On all these parents
try to sue me and shit,
you need to take
a goddamn look at yourself.
Like, what the fuck
did you raise?
Around that time,
my Snapchat got disabled
and they took
my whole account down.
And I tried to unlock it
and it doesn't unlock,
so I literally
lost everything.
I try to be a outlet
for a lot of these women.
I feel like
that's God's work.
He wants us to, he wants us
to expose these people.
But my Snapchat
has so much proof.
All these girls have
all their testimonies.
I just wanna get that back.
I mean, when you tell
an administrator
your story about being raped
and they don't believe you,
and that kid can still go
to the same school as you,
and there are multiple stories
of that and it keeps happening,
it-it's so hard to continue
hearing these stories
and feel like
nothing's being done.
Are you still able to log in?
What does it say?
I gotta get
that Snapchat back.
It's like a holy grail
of things in there.
Like, anybody you want
taken down is, like,
on that shit, man,
-so it's, like, crucial
we get all this shit.
-Yeah.
♪♪♪
In the process
of learning about Anthony
and his vigilantism,
there were a lot of things
on his Snapchat account
that were incredibly important
to his life, to his story,
but also to other
people's stories.
These girls are victimized
by these horrific perpetrators
and nothing happens.
I wanna try to see
if we can recover your mem--
like, your saved
Snap memories.
Click here to access
the data, yeah.
Go to "reported content."
And so,
I sort of appreciate
what Anthony has done
for these girls,
and how social media becomes
the only answer for these
people to be exposed.
Um, go to the HTML file.
-So, just try downloading
any one of them.
-Oh, ho-ho-ho.
Damn, this is, like,
everything. Hell yeah.
[Jonathan]
Oh, wait, that's that--
That's her.
[Anthony]
That is her.
This is the--
Ooh, shit, this is the whole
motherfuckin' text, yeah.
"after I get
a restraining order"
"not yet maybe eventually"
[Jonathan]
We were able to get back
those chat messages
between Anthony and Sofia.
This provided us evidence
to people who doubted
her story.
So, that's the first time
she reached out to you, right?
[Anthony]
That is the first time
she reached out.
[Jonathan]
Still, nothing's happened.
Jesus. It's literally--
That's almost a year ago today.
[Anthony]
That's why you gotta take it
into your own hands.
-At least we found all
Sofia's stuff, though.
-Like, it's just crazy.
Also shows how much
data they keep about you,
like, how much they save.
[scoffs] What can I say, man?
You can't can't fuck
with the Big Tech, man.
The Big Tech,
they got everything on you.
[Jonathan]
Retrieving Anthony's
data showed that,
"Holy shit, this did happen.
Finally, please,
for God's sake,
believe her."
[phone notifications]
[Anthony] [in video]
I put that on my studio
that I will stop all rapists
from living in society
and I'm gonna do that shit.
[tense music playing]
♪♪♪