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The Documentary Podcast

Female influencers

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

After the fatal shooting in Pakistan of a teenage social media influencer, Sana Yousaf, we bring together female influencers around the world to share their experiences. Sana’s death has ignited a fierce debate about women on social media and the safety of influencers. We hear from three women in Pakistan. Between them, they have hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube but face abuse every day. Zenith Irfan is the first woman to ride a motorbike solo across Pakistan, Mahnoor Rahim is a fashion influencer, and Sabah Malik is a comedian and cultural commentator in the country. We speak to female influencers in the US, Mexico City and Peru who share advice on how they stay safe. This episode of The Documentary, comes to you from BBC OS Conversations, bringing together people from around the world to discuss how major news stories are affecting their lives

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Mark Lohen.

0:07.6

Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

0:11.0

This time in BBC OS conversations, we bring together female influences.

0:17.2

Sana Yusuf was a rising social media star.

0:21.1

Still only a teenager, her last video showed her surrounded by balloons

0:24.9

and cutting a cake for her 17th birthday.

0:28.5

But two weeks ago, she was shot dead at her home in Islamabad.

0:33.4

Police made a swift arrest, but her death has ignited a fierce debate about women on social media and the safety of influencers in Pakistan and beyond.

0:43.2

In our conversations this week, three female influencers in Pakistan discuss their experiences and how they deal with the daily abuse.

0:51.4

We also bring together women in Peru, Mexico and the United States to hear their

0:56.2

perspective. You have to let people hate you. You know, you're putting yourself in a position to make

1:01.7

change. You have to deal with negativity. Between them, our first guests have hundreds of thousands of social media followers.

1:14.1

My colleague Luke Jones brought together Mahnur Rahim.

1:17.1

She's a fashion influencer in Lahore.

1:19.6

Zabakh Malik, a comedian and cultural commentator in Pakistan.

1:23.7

And Zenith Irfan, known as Motorcycle Girl on social media.

1:29.9

She travels the country on her motorbike.

1:32.7

When I started a decade ago, I was very young.

1:36.8

I started learning how to ride a motorcycle when I was 17, 18 years old.

1:39.1

There weren't many women out there on the road.

1:44.7

I did not have role models growing up where I can say that, you know, she shares the same skin color,

1:45.8

the same language.

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