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Words by Alice Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1179298988-scaled.jpg” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”Celebrity Sightings In New York City – October 06, 2019″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Picture the scene. You spent hours glamming up at a friend\u2019s house before heading out for a big night with the girls. You spend hours drinking, dancing, and getting the obligatory drunk takeaway, before waking up to realise there are videos of you plastered over social media \u2013 which you don\u2019t recall being taken, and you didn\u2019t consent to.<\/p>\n This has been the experience of many girls in the North-West of England thanks to a disturbing trend taking off on social media, with women describing feeling \u2018unsafe\u2019 on nights out. The viral trend involves people secretly filming women on nights out, before posting the clips on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram using the titles \u2018Manchester nightlife\u2019 or \u2018Liverpool nightlife.\u2019 The people filming appear to target young people wearing tight clothes or short dresses, and everyone featured in them is a woman. <\/p>\n As if it\u2019s not disturbing enough that these videos are being filmed without women\u2019s consent and racking up millions of views online, they also attract a slew of vile, misogynistic comments. On one video, a TikTok user commented \u2018std town\u2019 while a second wrote \u2018slutts.\u2019 Other users have invited sexualised comments and suggested they are sex workers. <\/p>\n Many people have taken to social media to share their opinions on the trend. One X user wrote \u2018those manchester nightlife videos are sooo nauseating. imagine getting secretly filmed just for thousands of strangers to slutshame you.\u2019 Another wrote \u2018How have I just seen a tiktok of ‘Manchester nightlife’ where it’s just exclusively young women being filmed going about their business on a night out? How is this completely normalised and not at all seen as predatory? Freak behaviour.\u2019<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n How have I just seen a tiktok of 'Manchester nightlife' where it's just exclusively young women being filmed going about their business on a night out? How is this completely normalised and not at all seen as predatory? Freak behaviour<\/p>\n — Amie Kirby (she\/her) (@_amiekirby) October 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n