Teenage girls ‘ganging up’ on young boys in disturbing cyber-bullying trend called ‘roasting’
Tormentors are bombarding victims with abuse until they 'completely crack' under the strain, experts claim
Teenage girls are "ganging up" on young boys as part of a nasty online trend called "roasting", anti-bullying campaigners have warned.
The disturbing craze involves throwing abuse at victims' until they "completely crack", giving tormentors a chance to laugh at their pain.
Charlotte Robertson from the online safety group Digital Awareness UK told The Telegraph that schools across Britain were in the grip of a roasting epidemic.
“Girls will roast boys," Robertson added. "They will create an online chat room about another boy.”
“It’s very severe and people will ride on the back of what’s trending in world news.
“They will use killings or any bad news by way of inspiration to create a nasty meme about someone.”
Recent studies show girls are twice as likely than boys to be to the victims of cyber-bullying - but they are twice as likely to be the bullies themselves.