I'm going to try and be as objective as possible about all of this.
I'm going to have to agree with blix on what he wrote - this is an 18+ game and at the end of the day, everyone seemingly forgets about that one most important fact of them all.
this game (and the additional multiplayer community that eventually came to be) are direct and merciless reflections of what happens in the real world. the game serves to show that people deal drugs, fuck prostitutes, do drugs, kill, get killed, rob, get robbed, run over, get run over, get mobbed and so on and so forth. of course the real world can be much more peaceful but this game chose to emphasize the darker realities.
the community serves to show the world of social media to a much lesser and, to be frank, much safer extent. people have their pictures leaked over the internet almost, if not every single fucking day of the week. I've had very shameful material of myself shared over the internet and I've had very shameful material of other people leaked to me over the internet. people express themselves openly on social media. some more aggressively than others. (not me definitely)
honestly? I am in support of what WK does. the more I analyze it, the more I get the impression that this is an awareness campaign. a very effective awareness campaign, and these kids are lucky they're not being blackmailed with these pictures and that they are just pictures of nothing but their faces to begin with. I have received death threats for things I used to do on social media, so this is nothing to make an elephant out of whatsoever. it is a good lesson to take up for anyone else with the thoughts of sharing their pictures on the internet.
the moment you share something on the internet, it is not your property anymore. forget about the word personal when you're dealing with the internet.
Charley, you've gone as far as sharing your first (and at some point in time your last) name on this community. you were as naive as them at some point, and you got your fair dose of reality for it too.
before anyone will want to try to blow things out of proportion here, as it usually happens with whatever I write, mind you I'm just being real here. this is what the real adult life is about and if kids want to hurry up with mentally becoming adults then 1) thank their parents 2) it's their choice