Is the viral "lexi" video real?

No one seems to know, really. Only footage I've seen is of a boy initially hitting a much older girl, no footage after that, but he allegedly has multiple spinal injuries and a ruptured testicle. With multiple tik toks saying they ve seen the footage and it's terrible, same as you tube, but no evidence past that. Maybe it did happen, but it's definitely grown massive arms and legs, and seems to have been local to everyone, and everyone knows the boy's, cousin's, auntie's, sister and so they know it happened beside them. Also surprised, if true, there has been no media on it, no daily mail sad face, nothing. So I find it highly unlikely

It's a scary proof of how easy is to rile up a mob against a person/country/group of people using social media.

It should be used as an educational case, really.

I live in Chorley, Lancashire and this was posted on our local Facebook page last week. The post was from a woman who said her child had shown her the video of a much older girl attacking an 8 year old boy in a local park. No one actually said which park it was but the woman said she was disturbed by the boys screams. I really believed it and reading about it really upset me and dh. I really hope it's all fake and some kind of Internet hoax.

Absolutely. I hope, after it's been cleared up, this is used as an educational case for teenagers and pre-teens.

Despite the clearly English accents in the video, half of America thinks it happened there and the boy died!!

she was disturbed by the boys screams

The kid whined briefly, exactly like a little brother asking a big sister to lay off. No screaming.

Not in the video I saw

"It's not the way DSL's usually talk to each other?"

It sounds like an Egress secure login or similar. The vast majority of emails I receive from external agencies only communicate via secure email.

Im in Scotland and it apparently happened local to me. The kids were telling me the other day that the girls windows got smashed and crowds were outside her house.

West Yorkshire for me. My year 10's I teach were telling me about this in the week and were convinced it was local to us! I'm not on TikTok etc so not seen it.

Scary the pace it has gone round!

DS brought this up the other day, we are in Yorkshire, he believed it had happened in Plymouth and the child had died.

Had a quick google and couldn't find anything on reputable news sources, plenty of SM links, so assumed it was all rubbish.

There's clearly clips of a video but not having seen the whole thing it is hard to tell what exactly happened. She does kick him and call him "gay boy" at one point so she did assault him.

Wow - a lesson on why tiktok is so dangerous for kids.

Maybe it's a lesson to all kids not to beat others up, not to beat about anyone with a disability and also how everyone is watching and they will be seen and vindicated. I hope the poor boy is OK.

I probably sound horrible. But I have only a little sympathy for the girl. Its the poor boy people should be worried about

From what I've seen yes she did assault him, he didn't die and she didn't take her own life. But on almost every video I've seen of the 'fake Lexi's' her address is plastered all over them, even down to what cars and the reg plates.

So many people discussing this on social media are convinced that it happened in their local area. It has been linked to dozens of places.
The young people in the video have (Southern) English accents.

Just googled out of interest. It does look like play fighting to me initially (with the kid playing along/being very dramatic and flinging himself around) but not sure towards the end of the video. Some of the kicks look pretty real.

On Reddit (where I saw the video) people are calling for the girl to be raped/beaten to death and addresses are being posted. So that's great.

The police/media etc need to get a grip of it really and confirm what is and isn’t correct and get some statements out there. Someone could end up seriously injured/dead if there are addresses circulating.

So you haven't read the thread at all, then?

My DD told me about this a few days ago but didn't say anything about it being local. I think it's a hoax, well I hope so anyway.

That's interesting. A school I know has fallen victim to cyber crime and entire computer system is down, has been for days. I wonder if something like this is how it happened?

What's strange is everyone convinced its local to them. Has this been set up with an algorithm that is using IP location of the viewer to then generate a location local to them. It just seems a bit much to be chinese whispers that from Kent to Scotland to Ireland that kids are convinced it's local to them. AI capabilities terrify me.

No I completely agree.

I don’t believe in mob mentality and attacking a teenage girl but sharing videos on SM can absolutely be a blessing and hold people accountable when they would have otherwise had people turn a blind eye to it.

If people thought they were being recorded and it would go viral then they would act very differently.

The internet has many cons but I think about how many videos that have been shared (police officers attacking people, the voice recording of footballer trying to rape his DP, animal violence etc) and these people have all had to answer for it because it was videoed and shared and rightly so.
If not, they would have just carried on and their multiple victims would continue to suffer.

Perhaps this video will make children/teens think twice before attacking a vulnerable child.

@Celticliving yes I have. Looks like no one actually knows anything. Apart from that article posted up top.

I just said what I was thinking....!?

On twitter there loads of Lexi Bonner stuff all clearly ai generated and linked to porn videos. This is some weird ai generated thing.

Why on earth are so many children allowed on tik tok and other social media platforms it’s scary the stuff they have access to! My 12 year old isn’t allowed tik tok or Snapchat etc yet but all her friends tell and show her stuff and she came home asking if that story had been on the news as she was really worried by it. It’s out of control really the access young kids have got and the influence it has over them.