Breaking The Internet
It only took a couple of weeks for the photos of Allison Stokke to turn her into a global phenomenon. Her story was published in newspapers and magazines around the world, from The Washington Post to the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, the BBC, The Sydney Morning Herald and German magazine Der Spiegel.
CBS also covered the story on television, warning people about the dangers of the internet being used to publicly sexualize young people. Allison had gone from a celebrated pole vaulter to a poster child for the terrible things that could go wrong in the life of a high schooler. Worst of all, the controversy didn’t even stop there.