Going Viral
That year, while Allison Stokke was at a competition in New York, a journalist for a California track and field website took a photo of her and posted it online. It was something the photographer had done plenty of times before — but this time, it was different. The photographer captured an innocent photo of the superstar athlete in the midst of a competition.
This photograph didn’t seem to be anything out of the ordinary. But the picture would eventually circulate to the wrong people, and Allison Stokke — who had just turned 18 years old — would begin to get attention from a dark and disturbing place.