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INFAMOUS: #ChallengeAccepted

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True Crime

4.7352.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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When two women are violently murdered five years apart and half a world away, advocates look for a way to call attention to the serious and growing issue of femicide in Turkey. The campaign takes off -- but while it gains momentum, it loses its original meaning. This is the real story behind the viral #ChallengeAccepted campaign that flooded your Insta feed in the summer of 2020.

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0:00.0

Hi, crime junkies.

0:01.8

I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

0:03.7

And I'm Britt.

0:04.5

And the story I have for you today

0:05.9

actually came to my attention

0:07.8

not through fans suggestions or for me

0:10.4

just getting like obsessed like I do sometimes,

0:13.1

but actually from a hashtag.

0:15.8

Britt, do you remember last summer

0:17.3

there was this challenge going around

0:18.9

where women were posting black and white photos

0:20.9

of themselves with the hashtag challenge accepted?

0:24.4

Yeah, actually I have a very vivid memory

0:26.6

of like sitting in your office being like,

0:28.8

what?

0:29.6

Yeah, is this?

0:30.4

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:31.3

So it was supposed to be this whole

0:33.1

women's empowerment thing where you showed your support

0:35.7

for the women around you by posting a black and white selfie

0:38.4

and then you would tag someone to nominate them and so on.

0:41.4

Right, like a chain letter but make it in stuff.

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