Is it about time we recognize how YouTube and TikTok trends are riddled with misogynist and sexist content that is influencing audiences.
Shahveer Jafry, aka Shahveer Jay, has come under fire on social media after sharing a clip of a prank where he is trying to smother his wife, then cussing himself when he fails to do so.
Founder of Soul Sisters and entrepreneur Kanwal Ahmed slammed the ‘prank’ as disgusting and degrading, criticising Jafry for refusing to take in to account how the country he’s making this kind of dangerous content for, has high rates of domestic violence, with women being beaten, denied their rights and even starved by their husbands and in-laws.
Twitter users slammed Jay for such harmful content that is being passed around as a ‘prank’ but is the living reality for countless women suffering in abusive marriages in Pakistan.
‘Don’t downplay violence’, this twitter user wrote.
Although the video has been deleted from Jafry’s Instagram account, it is still horrifying how the rise of YouTube trends and viral videos are consistently riddled with misogyny and sexism.
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