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Well look at that, it is time for some Dark Poutine. I am Mike Brown and across this table for me is my good friend Matthew, say hello Matthew.

I'm obsessed with DJ Shadow. You are obsessed with DJ Shadow and I kind of like DJ Shadow.

I've been listening to him non-stop. He's remixing a lot of that 90s hip hop style and that one song by is it?

With the La Sohn. Rock it, like rocket fuel. There you go. Look it up, it's a fantastic song. It'll get you up and dancing I promise.

Rock it fuel by DJ Shadow. DJ Shadow with Delos Soul. The views, information and opinions expressed during the Dark Poutine podcast are solely those of the producer and do not necessarily represent those of curious cast. It's a affiliate global news nor its parent company chorus entertainment.

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Starting when Amanda Michelle Todd was just 11 years old, a person began a campaign of sexual extortion, relentless harassment and cyber bullying against her. Over the next three years, Amanda endured constant pressure from the man who used 22 online aliases on four different social media platforms to coerce and lure her into performing pornographic cam shows for him.

Amanda made efforts to blackmail Amanda into further compromising situations by threatening to distribute child pornographic materials to members of her family and her community.

When Amanda did not comply with the man's demands, he made good on his threats and sent images and videos of Amanda to her friends, peers, family and school staff.

On September 7, 2012, Amanda posted a now famous video on YouTube in which she used a series of flashcards to tell her experience of being blackmailed into exposing her breast via webcam, which later led to her being bullied and physically assaulted.

The video gained global attention when it went viral after Amanda completed suicide at her family home in Port Cooquat, Lumbertich, Columbia, a month before her 16th birthday on October 10, 2012.

As of this writing, the video is still up on YouTube and is just about to crack 15 million views. Amanda's mother, Carol Todd, was driven by grief at her daughter's loss to become an activist.

She established the Amanda Todd Trust at the Royal Bank of Canada which receives donations to support anti-bullying awareness education and programs for young people with mental health problems.

In 2014, a Dutch Turkish man, Aiden Coban, in his 30s when the abuse of Amanda Todd began, was identified as the person who had been harassing her and at least 39 other young girls and young gay males in the Netherlands, UK and Canada.

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