Thursday, July 25, 2024

Fighting Back - Online Extortion

I am altering the following title so my monitoring software does not block me from my own blog. I still cannot read The Scotsman.  But this sounds important to publicize.

After a sextortion scam, Eugene conducts an unblushing survey of mast*rbation

When such an unwelcome email landed in the US filmmaker Eugene Kolb’s inbox, it prompted him to reach out to friends to share their experiences with the sextortion scheme. In the resulting project, Ur Heinous Habit, a series of animated characters standing in for these anonymous interviewees discuss their experiences with the scam and, by extension, their perspectives on shame and masturbation. More than just revealing and quite funny, Kolb’s resulting short does something quite powerful by taking a cynical ploy designed to make people feel alone and vulnerable, and building something warm, sympathetic and undeniably human from the ordeal.

Stand up for yourselves!

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