Many years ago male musicians were tagged in a growing list of purportedly sexually abusive behaviour with fans during gigs. It started with actual first hand experience of the one doing the tweeting. But then as is wont to happen, more people chimed in with the same experiences.
The names of these musicians were released on Twitter, prompting articles on mainstream media, with sensational headlines. Complaints spanned everything from actual sexual violence to "malandi siya" and "pa-close mag-selfie" and "nang-aakbay."
There were also insinuations of being "pinaasa" by these musikeros. All those tagged, whether guilty or innocent, would lose their jobs. And not just their musikero-gigs, but also their day jobs.
As far as I know, no actual cases were filed against those musikeros, so there was no way for them to defend themselves against the accusations, and no way for us to get to the truth, as a public that was made spectator to this call-out.
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