The gbgsorroz Instagram account. The profile information reads: "Do you have information about sluts in Gothenburg? Contact us on KIK, you're always anonymous. Never fuck with teenagers on the internet. On Tuesday, two Swedish girls β one 15 years old, the other 16 β were sentenced to a stint in a juvenile detention centre and 45 days of community service, respectively.
Their crime? They were allegedly responsible for the Instagram account gbbsorroz meaning "sluts of Gothenburg" , which sparked the " Instagram riots " of last year after photos of over teenagers were posted on the account, along with captions that referred to them as whores and sluts. Thirty-eight teenagers pressed charges against the two girls for defamation.
Unsurprisingly β this case had about a billion cultural buzzwords going for it β the way Swedish teenagers use social media has since been thrust into the spotlight, causing anyone over the age of 20 to worry incessantly about what their younger siblings are getting up to.
It's also turned Instagram into a target of hatred and fear for Swedish parents β the Rihanna of the mobile apps, a malevolent figure turning their children into depraved addicts who only care about sharing selfies and STDs. Via the chat application KIK, which allows you to chat with people anonymously, teens would slut-shame their peers by sending embarrassing photos of them to the gbgsorroz account.
However, the problem with the selfies weren't the images themselves though many of them were pretty explicit. What upset most of the people portrayed in the images was that they hadn't consented to having their photos posted there in the first place as well as all the cruel, explicit rumours and lies posted alongside the images.
