Summary
Eleven Illinois teens face felony charges after allegedly luring two men via dating apps and assaulting them last July.
Inspired by a viral social media trend, the teens attacked a 41-year-old and a 23-year-old in separate incidents, damaging vehicles and using slurs in one case, resulting in hate crime charges for one teen.
All suspects turned themselves in and were detained at a juvenile center.
Police urge parents to discuss the dangers of social media trends with their children to prevent such incidents.
They refrain from mentioning what trend, what dating app, and what slurs these teens were using. But based off context my best guess is that these guys were convincing some gay men they were down to hook up only to just assault them instead. Why you would want to do this, I have no idea. I know kids do shitty things but I think these guys were just shitty people.
And what kind of fucking internet trend involves luring people just to assault them? If that’s the kinda content you consume as an individual you’re a fucking idiot.
Yeah, social media trends aren’t the problem here. Being a piece of shit is the problem.
The trend is of homophobes luring homosexual men to be attacked using the app Gr*****r. It’s been gaining steam since Trump won the first time and has escalated again after the latest win. In many places it will not be prosecuted unless it gains media attention. And most gay men in those kinda of areas don’t want to be out, so don’t even report it. So it’s becoming more common.
And the solution is to make such hate crimes dangerous. Gay bashing used to be more common, but armed f*gs bash back, and that reduced it
Further reading on the historical context of “f*gs bash back” for anyone curious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_Nation
I haven’t heard that slogan since the 90s. Really shows how far we’ve come, and now we’re sliding right back.
Why you would want to do this, I have no idea.
For real? My guess would be bigotry and homophobia?
Yeah, for sure that’s the reason. But at the end of the day I still don’t get it.
ah back in my day we didn’t need an app or to even be out to get the shit kicked out of us for being gay*
funnily enough my bullies knew better I was gay* than I did
*bi
GAY men
Fucking news sites trying to erase us This is why heterosexuals need to be [REDACTED]
Outrage over the headline lacking the word gay and none for gay men trying to have sex with 16-17 year olds?
Why do you assume these teens wouldn’t lie about their ages in their evil act?
I didn’t. I just happen to be aware of the tik tok trend that they refused to name in the article, because that could have been damaging to the victims.
Fair enough, this is the first I’m hearing of the trend myself but I also dont use tiktok
