When he shared a picture of Devins’ bloodied body on Discord, he added, “Remember to subscribe to PewDiePie,” a meme-slogan referring to a mega-popular Swedish YouTuber that the alleged Christchurch mosque shooter shouted out in the midst of that livestreamed mass killing. Tonally, this was in keeping with Clark’s trollish attitude throughout his string of horrific updates. One YouTuber started livestreaming praise of Clark with the thumbnail title “ INSTAGRAM HERO KILLS THOT CELEBRATION STREAM ” and the hashtag #FREEBRANDON, noting that he would move to the streaming platform DLive as soon as he got the boot from “the kikes at google.” Several purported screenshots of texts between her and Clark surfaced. People claimed, among other things, that she was a drug addict who sold nudes to support her habit. Smears about Devins were predictably vicious. In fact, both had relatively small followings, which made them highly exploitable in the aftermath. Likewise, even before subsequent articles in Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed News began to disentangle the facts of this story, the lurid tabloids and reckless aggregators had elevated what now appear to be misconceptions: that Devins was “decapitated,” for instance, or that she and Clark were major Instagram personalities. People are fucked trying to gain clout of this shit. These are the comments on yesjuliet's latest Instagram photo. Already, it was too late for her death to be anything other than graphically sensationalized. A Twitter search for “Bianca Devins” now autocompletes with “photo” and “video.” On 4chan, users had linked to a photo of Devins’ body or simply posted it right in the thread. A supposed link to video of the murder was said to be a malware ploy. These images then became grist for a chillingly blasé discussion, on 4chan and elsewhere, as to what had actually happened: Who were these people, and how did they know each other? Had they staged a photo of a young woman with her throat cut open as a prank? Was she even Bianca Devins? Was Clark her ex, a current boyfriend or an aggressive stalker? And to which internet cliques did either party belong?Īs different factions battled for control of the narrative, self-promoters flocked to both Clark’s and Devins’ Instagram accounts to advertise, in a bid for new followers, that they were hosting the illicit material on their own pages. Not only had the immediacy of the disturbingly explicit content on Instagram leapfrogged the slow, restrictive chain of information by which we used to learn of such atrocities, but the platform had failed to delete Clark’s posts or shut down his account before the content hosted there spread to dozens of other channels.
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Investigation ongoing #WUTR #WFXV /pVZhTdodEPīut that span of hours - the time I spent asleep, plus half a morning of seeking out any confirmed reports of the crime, which was basically just a short notice, with no names, that a homicide in Utica had delayed the start of a local wheelchair race on Sunday - stretched into an eternity online. Police say the two met on social media, and had a relationship. Her alleged killer is 21-year-old Brandon Andrew Clark of Bridgeport.
When I did so on Sunday night, I saw Twitter chatter about a murder that had unfolded that morning on Instagram and Discord, with possible connections to 4chan and an incel subgroup known as “darkcels.” Some 10 hours later, police confirmed that 17-year-old Bianca Devins of Utica, New York, was the victim of a homicide 21-year-old Brandon Andrew Clark, her alleged killer, was hospitalized in critical condition due to severe injuries.Ĭonfirmed-Utica police indentify East Utica homicide victim is 17-year-old Bianca Devins of Utica. Like far too many people, I can’t help checking my phone one last time before bed, usually while brushing my teeth.
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