“Hi, I’m underage and had many videos and photos posted of me on here,” she wrote to Pornhub in December, 2018. Rachel stopped sleeping, and spent her days and nights searching for the videos and filling out dozens of removal-request forms. Rachel filed a complaint with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command, a division of the U.K.’s National Crime Agency, but the organization was of little help, she said. Someone sent a video to her father, and a stalker showed up at her house, texting her photos from outside while she was babysitting her younger brother. A snippet from one of the videos was posted to Snapchat and Instagram.
Many of the videos of Rachel included her real name, and comments contained links to her social-media accounts and to those of her family members. At one point, Pornhub hosted some fourteen million videos, including studio-produced adult films and user-generated content, and it is one of the most visited Web sites in the world. The pictures and videos soon spread to Pornhub, one of the largest pornography sites on the Internet. “I actually ended up getting on a train, but my friends stopped me,” she said. Rachel told me that she thought about going to another city and killing herself. She asked the boy to report the account to Tumblr. He included a link to a Tumblr page that contained dozens of folders of pictures and videos of several girls, all in similar poses, many of them crying. Then one day she was in a taxi when a boy who lived near her sent a message asking if she was all right. The next day, Rachel (a pseudonym) checked her social-media accounts every hour, waiting for the pictures and videos to surface.
Rachel pretended that everything was fine. Later, her mother came in to say good night. She cut off the correspondence and sat on her bed “in a state of shock,” she said. The videos became progressively more explicit, Rachel told me, until the man asked her to do something so revolting that she refused. He then had her take more photos, this time naked, and take videos of herself stripping and masturbating. He first instructed her to brighten the lighting in her room, and to take photos of herself in her underwear. Panicked, she complied with his requests. Immediately, she recalled an episode from a few years earlier, when classmates passed around a photo of her in her underwear, which precipitated months of bullying and a bout of depression. Then he sent a link to her mother’s Facebook account and the names of other family members and school friends, threatening to forward the picture to them if she didn’t follow his instructions. The man who sent the text forwarded a nude photograph of her, the source of which she couldn’t figure out. “I was a complete mess, I didn’t trust anyone, I was in complete self-destruct mode.” “I had a really unstable home life, and I didn’t have good support around me,” Rachel told me recently, while sitting on her bed in a fluffy white bathrobe. She had just returned home from a party and was in her bedroom. Rachel lived with her mother, stepfather, and siblings in a midsize town in the United Kingdom. One night in 2017, a fifteen-year-old girl named Rachel received a WhatsApp message from a number she didn’t recognize. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
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