It’s been quite the week for 17-year-old YouTube megastar JoJo Siwa.
After first hinting and then explicitly coming out as gay in several social media posts -- a courageous act carrying enormous cultural import given her young following as a Nickelodeon icon -- Siwa was reportedly swatted at her Los Angeles home over the weekend.
Swatting refers to a prank call to emergency services about a falsely dire situation, resulting in the arrival of a large number of officers to a particular address. It’s a potentially fatal prank that has been pulled by digital creators in the past, with Call Of Duty gamer Tyler Barriss currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for a swatting prank that resulted in a man’s death at the hands of police.
In a saved live stream clip on her videographer’s Instagram account, per BuzzFeed, Siwa explained that roughly 50 police officers arrived at her house on Sunday,...
After first hinting and then explicitly coming out as gay in several social media posts -- a courageous act carrying enormous cultural import given her young following as a Nickelodeon icon -- Siwa was reportedly swatted at her Los Angeles home over the weekend.
Swatting refers to a prank call to emergency services about a falsely dire situation, resulting in the arrival of a large number of officers to a particular address. It’s a potentially fatal prank that has been pulled by digital creators in the past, with Call Of Duty gamer Tyler Barriss currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for a swatting prank that resulted in a man’s death at the hands of police.
In a saved live stream clip on her videographer’s Instagram account, per BuzzFeed, Siwa explained that roughly 50 police officers arrived at her house on Sunday,...
- 1/25/2021
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
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