Warning issued to SC parents of violent online gore trend targeting teens

COLUMBIA, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – Attorney General Alan Wilson is warning parents of the increasing presence of an online gore trend, like the 764 movement, that is targeting teens.

According to Wilson, those doing these trends, often teens themselves, seek to generate online gore material through coercion and victimization of other teens, including but not limited to: cutting, blood signs, child sexual abuse material, sextortion, bestiality, the torture or killing of animals, and documented suicide. These subjects also encourage their victims to become the subject and victimize others via online video games and chat rooms.

The attorney general said leaders of these online trends also often encourage and execute attacks on others via swatting a bomb threats…

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