encouraged to post pictures
online of semi-naked sleeping
girls as part of a new social
networking trend.
Hordes of men have uploaded an
intimate picture of an
unsuspecting woman as they lie
in bed after spending the night
together.
This sick stunt — which was
dubbed #bedofshame on Twitter
— was the idea of Geordie Shore
reality TV star Gaz Beadle.
He kicked off the trend by asking
his 500,000 Twitter followers:
"How many people r doing the
walk of shame hahahaha #
wakeupwitharandom #
awkwardtaxihome."
Within minutes, he was
inundated with positive
responses from his army of
adoring followers, many of
whom described Gaz as a "hero".
The grinning men, some even
posing with their thumbs up,
took the snaps on their phones,
with their sleeping female bed
partners in the background.
They then uploaded the snaps on
to the social networking site.
By the end of the weekend
before last, Twitter feeds across
the country were being filled
with these disturbing pictures of
vulnerable women.
Many of the snaps were
captioned with derogatory
comments, such as: "Woke up
next to some sl*g" and "#
boshhh".
Shockingly, many of the girls —
whose identities we have hidden
— were naked or semi-clothed.
The unsuspecting ladies were
humiliated further as immoral
Gaz — who has slept with a
number of girls on camera
during the two series of the MTV
show — and his thousands of
followers retweeted the
photographs across the site.
The hashtags #bedofshame and
#awkwardsundays went viral,
with Gaz urging the men to do it
again next week.
He tweeted: "Loved #
BedOfShame #awkwardsundays.
Defo doing it again next week
yer?"
Many of the people involved
vowed to get #bedofshame
trending next week, too.
Some tweeters have been
appalled by the phenomenon,
with one user, @AmyH0310,
saying: "So #bedofshame is a
pretty revolting way to use
Twitter."
Many of the pictures are still up online
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