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On the day of the climate strike last year, my mother proudly shared a photo of my sister and me holding our picket sign on her public Instagram account with a couple of hundred followers. We didn't think much else of it, until my Facebook feed began to blow up with notifications: SBS News had picked up the photo and posted it to its Facebook, with more than a million followers. It was soon inundated with comments labelling my sister and me everything from "uneducated" to "virtue signalling little turds". 去年，在为气候变化而罢课的当天，我的母亲骄傲地在Ins上发了一张我和姐姐举着罢课牌的照片（她有几百名粉丝）。我们没有想太多，直到我的脸书账号开始不停地发出通知：SBS资讯挑中了这张照片，并在其脸书账号上公开发布（拥有百万名粉丝）。没过多久，铺天盖地的评论席卷而来，给我和姐姐贴上了各式各样的标签："没文化""释放道德信号的小崽子"。 It was a social media blow-up that we had never asked for, and could never have imagined. But mum had asked for our OK to post the photo, so while it was far from pleasant, we were able to withstand the abuse because we both felt confident in the way we were portrayed. I couldn't imagine how the same situation would have gone if I hadn't given permission for mum to post that photo, and watch it subsequently be plastered across the internet. 这是一场不找自来的社交媒体刷屏，难以想象。但发布这张照片前，母亲的确征得了我们同意。所以，尽管事情不尽如人意，我们仍经受住了网络谩骂，因为我们对自己的塑造方式十分自信。我难以想象，如果当初没有同意母亲发照片，没有放任这张照片在网络上流传，事情又会变成什么样子。 | 
