The life of a YouTube star can be very difficult. Targeted by many insults on social networks, YouTuber Emma CakeUp wished to make Internet users aware of cyber-harassment by posting messages received.
If the young woman is followed by more than a million subscribers on social networks, making her one of the most famous influencers in France, Emma CakeUp reveals with these screenshots the dark side of her popularity.
“Shut up your g ****”, “Just your race”, “You’re fat chick”, “dirty bitch”, etc. are all insults that are addressed to him on a daily basis by strangers. In a series of screenshots, she reminds her subscribers that “Harassment kills”, before posting emergency numbers to call when needed.
© Instagram Emma CakeUp
© Instagram Emma CakeUp
© Instagram Emma CakeUp
© Instagram Emma CakeUp
© Instagram Emma CakeUp
This post from Emma CakeUp comes as the harassment continues to take its toll, like a teenage girl named Dinah who took her own life last October.
Or more recently the death of YouTuber Mava Chou, 32, who Jeremstar said on Instagram was the target of hate messages on social media. Evidence of the trail of suicide of this mother of four children.
“A few days ago, Maëva was still writing to me. I know she suffered a lot from the constant hate messages on social media. […] Since 2015, Maëva had been the victim of harassment in packs on social networks and at the heart of endless controversies.
Recently we had made contact and she confided in me. She could no longer bear the permanent hatred she received and lamented that the judicial institutions were so slow. I remember an audio tape that she recently sent me in which she said: ‘one day there will be a tragedy, it is not for lack of having alerted’ “, we can read in particular.