Beauty ranking

“There was a reversal of perpetrators and victims in class”

16-year-old Daria Danner is a spokesperson for the Green Youth Linz, attends the Europagymnasium Auhof and was herself subjected to an assessment in the ranking. She was very annoyed about it.

(Bild: Harald Dostal. Grüne Jugend Linz, Krone KREATIV)

A 16-year-old confessed to creating the popularity ranking at a high school in Linz. However, there is still room for improvement. In ethics lessons, for example, the first question asked was what the girls could do to prevent this from happening again. . .

"Who's hotter?", in English "Who's hotter?". This question was asked shortly after 9 p.m. on February 25 on a banned website that went online. School photos of the 223 female pupils at the Europagymnasium Auhof in Linz were juxtaposed in pairs. This understandably caused a huge uproar at the school - the "Krone" was the first media outlet to report at the time.

16-year-old confessed
Two months later, the unusual case was solved. A 16-year-old who had been attending the school in Auhof for two years was traced by the police using the IP address. He confessed to having programmed the popularity ranking based on the model of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. As a 19-year-old, Zuckerberg had hacked the Harvard University server and downloaded unauthorized photos of his fellow students. Two photos were then displayed on the FaceMash website and users had to decide which person was more attractive - just like in Linz.

Girls were annoyed
Like many other schoolgirls, Daria Danner (16), spokesperson for the Green Youth Linz and a victim herself, did not find the ranking funny at all. The girl criticized the fact that the school administration wanted to ignore the incident. It was then discussed in ethics lessons.

Daria Danner: "However, the first question asked was what we girls could do to stop this from happening again" - a classic perpetrator-victim reversal. Daria: "But it's a social problem, and we clearly pointed that out in class."

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Zu dünnhäutig? Leicht gesagt.

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(Bild: Krone KREATIV, Alexander Schwarzl, Markus Wenzel)

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