Since its release on Netflix on April 11, My little reindeer jumps to the top of the most watched Netflix shows, with nothing less than 13 million views in just 15 days. However, after binge-watching the 7 episodes of the miniseries, many Netflix subscribers wanted to go further. A risk against which Richard Gadd had however taken precautions, asking not to look for the real Martha, who he accuses of having molested him for 3 years. “That’s not the point of the series » he insisted on Instagram.
But this precaution did not work. Moved by the emotional shock of this true and unhealthy story, many users on Facebook, Reddit and TikTok began searching for the real Martha. They succeeded.
Marta, victim ofinsults and death threats
The actor and showrunner of the series explicitly asked the public not to try to find his stalker. But nothing works: their investigations bear fruit and “the real Marta” is found. To the point that the latter had to speak anonymously. In the columns of Daily emailrevealed he had received insults and death threats by fans of the series. According to her, Richard Gadd “humiliated an older woman for fame and fortune” he said before continuing: “I’m the victim here, not Richard Gadd. »
The woman, who he strongly denies molesting Gaddinstead accuses him of suffering from “main character syndrome”which consists in rewrite your life as a fiction of which you are the center.
Harassment suitable for Netflix?
Who is guilty, Martha or Richard Gadd? Who is the victim? Actually, the debate is elsewhere, and neither a Netflix series nor a virtual investigation can provide an answer. As the magazine rightly asks Stunnedthe case My little reindeer asks the question of Netflix’s responsibility.
According to the American magazine, the platform did not deliberately protect “Martha” in order to do so to increase the presence of his miniseries on social networks. From TikTok to Reddit to X, getting internet users involved in the game of investigation only has one effect increase media interest for the series. In other words, “Martha” served as bait for the red N platform. Dazed summarizes:
“ This hierarchy of victimization it was avoidable. Internet users gathering clues to the identity of Gadd’s stalker and using them to harass her under the narcissistic delusion that they are arbiters of public justice is not particularly surprising, and Netflix does nothing to alleviate this harassment. The fact that people try to moralize these two individuals masks an institutional failure in terms of protection.
This isn’t the first time Netflix has caused trouble over a show based on a true story. In September 2022, the series Dahmer era a chilling example of the platform’s exploitation of sordid news.
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