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Florence, Kentucky – I love Audree Heine singing Taylor Swift songs. She had crushing celebrities on Emineem. She was wearing a bright pink cowboy hat for her thirteenth birthday party last year.
A week after she reached December 13, she died in suicide. That is when her mother, Jaimee Seitz, learned that Audree was also part of an online sub-culture-which crosses between adolescents who wore a black rotation who killed 13 people at Columbin High School in 1999.
“I am her mother. I am her best friend. She is the best friend of mine,” Ceitsz told the “Ancwerler” newspaper, part of the United States of America today. “What did I miss and how did I not know that it was part of this group?”
Citz learned this when she read her daughter magazine, which she kept in the middle school wardrobe. Among the pages of writing about its magic with Columbin’s archers, she wrote about the deterioration of mental health and bullying.
“I am tired of this, I am no longer fighting anymore. I just accept it,” wrote the seventh grade student in the fall of 2024.
Her magazine revealed her feelings that she is pariah and her choice of a sub -culture known as the real crime community, as a lie about the archers who launched the modern era on the Internet to shoot schools.
Audree Heine, 13, was a student at Ockerman Intermediate School and enjoyed playing basketball and drawing. She died in suicide in December. Her mother, Jimmy Cites, and other parents who recently lost children in front of suicide, want to see change in Bonn County schools.
This teenager tried to hide autism. His parents believe he pushed him to commit suicide.
Florence Tin Aruri Hain died due to suicide on December 3. Her mother, Jimmy Citz, discovered the charm of her daughter with Columbin’s archers.
What is the effect of Columbin?
Columbin expert Dave Collin addressed the sub -culture, known as TCC or TeeceECEE online.
In a recent article he wrote on The Atlantic, he said that TCC followers are taking in legend that Columbin’s archers were teenagers who took revenge on their intimidation.
“TCC turns the story to reformulate the killers as victims; the dead, the injured, and they were shocked as wicked,” he wrote. “But the killers have never mentioned them in a large group of magazines, online posts and videos they left to explain themselves.”
At least 50 collective archers over the past 25 years have been inspired or influenced by Columbin. Hundreds were killed or wounded as a result, as he wrote.
Colin is called “Columbin’s effect”.
Seitsz is familiar with the extent of that sub -culture about two weeks after her daughter’s death. And that is when two people were killed and six were injured during the school shooting in Madison and Wisconsin.
The shooter seemed to participate in the same sub-culture of TCC, like her daughter-something she got to know when she saw pictures of divorced women wearing the same type of shirts that her mother asked her to make.
“This is not normal. Why is all this allowed?” Cemez says. “This is a completely different world.”
She could not think that without TCC and her focus on mass violence and self -harm, Audree may still be alive. Since then, Seitz has spent hours on Tiktok in reporting TCC videos and her accounts to violate community standards.
More videos emanate daily.
Her daughter committed suicide. Now, it raises awareness.
How to pull tiktok youth like Audree
The Audree’s Tiktok account was banned on the same night that she died.
Perhaps Seitz Audree tried to try to live or post a video of her actions to Tiktok. The teenager found accounts glorifying self -harm and suicide.
The researcher Lisa Dieter, from Amnesty International, told Enquirer that the Tiktok algorithm gives priority and inflated videos that appear to young people who publish mental health problems. This can include teenagers crying, thinking about self -harm, and even harm to themselves or others.
She participated in composing the 2023 study to prove this.
During the study, dozens of accounts were created to imitate the 13 -year -old Tiktok file. Some accounts were run by artificial intelligence. Others were operated by researchers.
Any Tiktok videos are watched by mental health terms twice.
“In our investigation around Tijook, we found that within 20 minutes, 50 % of the content was about depression, sadness, pain and suicide,” says Dieter.
She added that some of these videos explicitly encouraged self -abuse and discussed deaths by suicide.
Some countries have noticed the harmful effects of Tiktok and other social media sites.
In the European Union, a law called the Digital Services Law entered into force last summer. It requires companies with digital operations that bear more responsibility for what is published on web sites and social media.
According to The Guardian, the law forces companies to be “a law responsible for everything from fake news to manipulation of shoppers, Russian propaganda and criminal activity, including child abuse.”
One part of the new law prohibits companies from targeting children with ads based on cookies or personal data. Social media companies also require an increase in privacy and safety for minors and reduce the risk of safety for children.
This is the type of change that Seitz wants to see in the United States – more accountability from social media companies.
“Feeding each other”
Sitz to learn from the police has destroyed that Audre Audree was talking to them online, their colleagues from TCC followers, knew that she was planning to die by suicide and did nothing to discourage her.
According to a report issued by the Florence Police Department, Audree’s attention was found in TCC and chats with other teenagers after a teenager’s digital examination when she died.
Citiz said that this is soon from Audree’s Chasity Wisean who insisted on the FBI’s request to investigate.
The FBI did not answer e -mail questions from Enquirer, but confirmed that the agency was in contact with the Seitz family.
Florence Audree HEINE wrote in her memoirs that she was intimidated at school and her mental health has deteriorated.
The FBI has wiped the Audree phone again and led them to interfere in a possible terrorist attack in Indiana. Sitz says that two teenagers were talking to them who were planning to bomb their school, located less than 150 miles away.
The Florence Police Administration report confirms that the information has been shared with an Indiana -based police agency due to the Audree phone examination.
“It was as if they were feeding on each other, and none of them stopped,” says Citz.
Sites cannot know if Audree knows that the threat is reliable. But she also cannot imagine that Audree will harm anyone.
Now, Sitz said, it is clear to her that Audree should have unimaginable mental health problems.
At that time, she thought her daughter was still discovering her life. It was only 13.
The 13 -year -old Audree Heine became Florence, part of a sub -culture online that the Columbin High School was revered. Her mother Jaimee Seitz shared pictures of Jaimee’s notes with Enquirer.
Audree will one day wear cowboy shoes. After that, she was wearing a Hot Topic favorite shirts with loose jeans and a thin tail connected to him. The next day, she was wearing clothes or insisting on bombing music by rapper in the 1990s.
Less than three months before Audree’s death due to suicide, she wrote in her magazine about the help of a friend who was harming herself.
“It is clear that I told someone (it’s already terrifying) and I hope it would improve,” she wrote about her friend.
Sitz gave some condolences – that her daughter might prevent a friend from death by suicide. It also finds comfort in something that the FBI agent told. Adolescents who planned to bomb their school in Indiana to provide advice now and lives have been rescued because of this.
This is why she is determined to share the Audree story.
If one of the parents is able to realize their teenager’s interest in shooting Columbin or the TCC sub -culture, CEST says, more people can save.
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This article was originally appeared on Cincinnati Ankoirer: Mamma blames Columbin’s effect on her teenage daughter’s suicide
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