Yeti Campus Stories App Posts Rape Video? Hedonistic Image Earned By Platformed!
Yeti Campus Stories, an app similar to Snapchat or Yik Yak, is under the spotlight for a posted video that showed a possible sexual assault, according to BBC.
The app is used by students at Florida A&M University and the footage which was posted Thursday, was investigated by Police in Tallahassee, Fla.
The video reportedly showed a man facing away from the camera, and was sexually assaulting an unconscious woman who was naked from the waist down. The man was wearing boxers, jeans, black shirt and a cap while a third person filmed the encounter, revealed the Daily News.
The clip was taken in a room with only a television and a few items on the floor, reported Jezebel.
The social media platform, Yeti Campus Stories features videos and pictures uploaded by people in the campus community.
College students are the app's target market and has an age rating of 17 years old and above. The social media platform has also earned a hedonistic reputation because users are known to post images showing drugs and or nudity.
The video was uploaded and approved by the app's administrators. Yeti's director of communications is Ben Kaplan and he said that the as soon as the story broke, the company responded swiftly by taking the video down.
Divided into a number of campus-based networks, the sexual assault video uploaded on Yeti appeared on a network devoted to Florida A&M University.
Yeti Campus Stories cooperated with the police and provided them with information as to when and where the video was uploaded. Along with other information, the police was able to find the person behind the camera of the notorious video.
"If something makes it on to the network and it's brought to our attention, we can be proactive in the rare instance like this Florida A&M University case," said Kaplan. "It was universal, ubiquitous outrage. People were very upset by what they saw."
The victim of the alleged assault has been found and the third person who was behind the camera was questioned by police but no arrests have been made.
