The 16-year-old had been receiving anonymous messages for months, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday in California, through a popular Snapchat app called YOLO. If he replied to the taunts, YOLO would automatically make the original message public, revealing his humiliation to the world. The history on his phone showed that he had been searching for “Reveal YOLO Username Online” earlier that morning. AdvertisementNow Kristin Bride, Carson’s mother, is leading a lawsuit against Snap, YOLO and LMK, another anonymous messaging app built for Snapchat that the teenager used before his death. But after discovering the bullying YOLO messages and search history on her son’s phone, Bride contacted the company through its website, sending a message about her son’s cyberbullying and resulting death.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 10, 2021 18:13 UTC