Six teenage girls have been arrested after two separate incidents of anti-social behaviour “fuelled by online trends” in south-west London, the Met Police said.
About 100 officers were called to Clapham High Street on Tuesday where young people were reported to be attempting to access shops and a restaurant. They also lit fires and set off fireworks on Clapham Common.
Does anyone know what the online trend is or what they were actually doing? There are a couple of references to “causing disturbances” and “stealing food” but no explanation of what the overall activity entails.
Sheikh Awais, who works at chicken shop Rooster Spot, said 70 to 80 young people came in on Tuesday.
“They were shouting and sitting there, some were rude and aggressive with me,” he said but added that some did go outside nicely.
I think they do a lot of thing, and this is one in particular, but mostly can be summarised as a large group of people with common goal and being extremely rowdy and harassing people.
I always feel like this is all governments trying to see what they can do to leverage social media for. These are all test runs that get studied and logged in a manual and every couple years a new one is tried
Main trend is decades of austerity caused by neoliberalism, but I don’t think it’s a particularly online trend, nor are the redditors that push it really responsible for it actually happening.
