The Image Was Shared: Act, Report, Support

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What this lesson is about

If a private image has been shared, it can feel like everything is out of control. But there are still clear steps you can take. First: it is not your fault, even if you sent the image in the first place. Nobody had permission to share it. This lesson gives you the action map: Tell. Document. Report. Limit the spread. Stay supported. It also shows how to help when it happens to someone else.

By the end, you will be able to

• Explain why sharing without consent is never the fault of the person in the image.
• Follow the action map: tell, document, report, limit the spread, stay supported.
• Save the context (not the image), and know how Take It Down works.
• Support a friend, and refuse to forward or gossip.

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Key words

Try to define each word in your head, then tap the card to check.

Think of any time someone made a mistake: a lost phone, a failed test, a message they regretted.
This lesson never asks about your own experiences.

The action map: Tell. Document. Report. Limit the spread. Stay supported. Sharing an image without consent is never the fault of the person in it. Forwarding, gossiping, blaming, asking to see it, or reposting it “to prove it’s fake” all make the harm worse. Even a fake image can do real harm.

Where does it go?

Pick a zone for each behavior.

Read each situation, decide whether it shows a helpful move, something that makes it worse, or a moment to get help now, and think about the most helpful next move. Then check your thinking.

You don’t have to solve it alone. Pick a scenario, write the first thing the character should do, then how they would report it and limit the spread.

Five questions. Pick an answer to see whether it's right and why.

The action map

Start by telling someone. You can say: “Something private was shared. I need help getting it taken down.” Save usernames, links, the app, the date and time and the messages, but never the image. Report it where it appeared and through your school. If the image was taken before you were 18 and is already on your device, Take It Down can help stop it spreading without uploading it. You are not the image, you are not the mistake, and you are not alone.

Teaching this in class?

Everything you need to run this lesson with a group of students in about 50 minutes. All files are A4 PDFs, ready to print.