Episode 199: Amanda Todd
from Survived Hosted by Sophie and Lexi
Hello This is survived with Sophie and Lexi We started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys more Through many different topics Amanda Michelle Todd (November 27, 1996 – October 10, 2012) was a 15-year-old Canadian student from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, who died by suicide after enduring prolonged cyberbullying and blackmail. A month before her death she uploaded a nine-minute YouTube video titled “My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm,” in which she held up a series of hand-written flashcards to recount how an anonymous stranger had coerced her into exposing her breasts on a BlogTV webcam, then threatened to distribute the images to her classmates. In the video she also described ongoing harassment, physical assaults and self-harm. After her suicide the clip went viral—amassing over 15.5 million views on the original upload and tens of millions more on mirrored copies by July 2025— as global media outlets and reaction videos drew attention to her case. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the British Columbia Coroners Service opened formal inquiries into her death.
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