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Tickled
Documentary · 2016
Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
The sides of Tickled
- A New Zealand journalist and a strange online tickling contest
- A secretive company that hits back with lawyers
- Young men harassed after taking part
Tickled is good for you if…
- you like following a reporter who keeps digging when he is told to stop.
- you like a story that starts as a joke and turns into something else.
- you like true stories stranger than anything made up.
Tickled is bad for you if…
- you can't sit through people being bullied and threatened online.
- you want a light, silly documentary and the laughs stop early.
About: online harassment · power and money · shame · journalism
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