• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    The first unmistakeable clue was that it was a man doing this to a woman. The BBC article that saimen@feddit.org posted in this thread removes all doubt as to the purpose (emphasis mine):

    Alice was walking into a London shopping centre when she was approached by a man wearing smart glasses. She says she had no idea she was being filmed.

    “In the moment I just thought ‘OK this guy is just trying to talk to me, to chat me up’,” she said.

    “I was hoping that he would leave me alone eventually but he did actually follow me.”

    The video was posted on social media and viewed about 40,000 times, though Alice only found out about it after a friend sent it to her.

    “My initial reaction was complete shock,” she said. “He had no phone, he did not have a camera directly in my face.”

    The videos are often posted on social media under the guise of giving dating advice to other men online.

    That last line . . . think about what’s going on in that area of the internet, use your imagination, fill in the missing blanks.

    That said, I appreciate that your character is such to have not instantly jumped to this conclusion. But in the world we now occupy, there’s generally not a whole lot of innocence in a dude filming a woman without her knowledge or consent.