NETIZEN: The Backchannel EP03 Receipts
Cover of NETIZEN: The Backchannel, Episode 3: Receipts. Inside front cover. NETIZEN NETIZEN THE BACKCHANNEL EPISODE 3: RECEIPTS PREVIOUSLY Someone used Juni's account to ask Jawu for her dad's door code. The crew locked him out. Then the member with no name sent an old photo of Jawu, and wrote: she has been the... A forwarded image on a phone. Three laughing faces fill the foreground. On screen: Forwarded image · 41 likes Sudde's hand holding his phone, the same image on it. His other hand has stopped halfway through zipping his bag. Monday. Sudde standing straight in a busy corridor. Caption: Jawu deleted it nine minutes after she posted it. Caption: Nine minutes was enough. Earlier. Jawu at lunch at her best: leaning so far back to fit three classmates into the shot that she nearly tips off the bench. Caption: Jawu posts about four times a day. Tall close-up: the photo she just took. Faces perfect in the middle. Jawu (off): Perfect. Sound: plop Jawu's room. The four crowded around her phone, looking at the photo of her at eleven in the red coat. Jawu: I was eleven. I didn't even have a phone. Close on Jawu's phone: her public profile, a post from a family album. The red-coat photo sits among old family pictures. On screen: Public. 1,204 posts. On screen: Old family album! Me at 11 · Posted 6 months ago Juni holds the sent photo beside the album photo. Same coat, same crooked road sign. Juni: He didn't follow you. Juni, closer. Juni: He read you. Jawu folds her arms. Sudde sits beside her, leaving the phone room between them. Jawu: Posting it doesn't mean he gets to use it against me. Sudde: No. It doesn't. Jawu, chin up. Juni. Jawu: It's my life. I'm allowed to put my own life up. Juni: You are. Wide across the bed. Bille points at three different photos on the profile, all with the same shop doorway in them. Bille: Your diary has a door. You keep photographing it. Jawu: You could have stopped at diary. Juni: Put the pictures together. It's a map. Phone insert: the group chat that night. Jawu has posted a photo of a plain notebook cover. On screen: Juni, Bille, Sudde +1 Chat, jawu: this diary has no door Chat, bille: much safer Next day at lunch. Jawu sticks her tongue out at Bille. Sudde: I'm busy Saturday morning. Till twelve. Jawu: Busy doing what? Sudde: Things. Jawu, already organising, a market leaflet under her elbow. Bille's finger on a picture of a burger; Juni moves it onto the printed time. Jawu: Saturday. Riverside Market. Twelve. Bille: Twelve-fifteen. Juni: Twelve. Big ensemble. Saturday, a sunny market square full of stalls. Time: Saturday, 11:40. Jawu: Everyone look normal. Jawu: Bille, that is not normal. Corner inset: Bille's idea of a normal face. Corner inset: Juni's deadpan peace sign. Twenty minutes later, a market clock behind them. Jawu holds her phone up for a selfie, the three squeezed in, Bille's elbow nearly in Juni's nose. Time: 12:00. Close on Jawu's eyes on the screen. Close on her thumb, hovering over Post. Open strip above the frame, no border: Jawu grinning down at her phone. The big panel: the photo as it would be posted, full frame, in a post layout. Three laughing faces in front. On screen: Riverside Market On screen: COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY (sign, in the photo) Your call: Would you post this? On screen: YOUR CALL Jawu's thumb taps Post. Sound: fwip Caption: One point eight seconds. Phone insert: the post is live. On screen: Public · Riverside Market · 12:00 · 3 likes The three wander the market. Jawu is already photographing a churro. Bille glances at his phone, mid-bite. A market clock behind him: 12:09. Bille's screen, zoomed in on the background of the post: Sudde and his brother, the sign. A smear of mustard near his thumb. Bille puts the burger down and goes straight to Jawu. The rude one is the first one angry on somebody else's behalf. Bille: Take it down. Jawu: What? Bille: Take it down now. Jawu looks at her screen. Her fingers pinch-zoom the background. Sudde, his brother, the sign. Jawu's face. Jawu deleting with a shaky thumb, the screen small but readable. Across the square, Sudde in the queue hasn't seen them. On screen: Post deleted · 12:09 A moment later, at the edge of the square. Jawu has walked over to tell Sudde herself. Jawu: You and Ravi were in my post. I deleted it. Someone might have a copy. Sudde: You should have asked. A different phone: someone else's group chat. A screenshot of the post, saved before it was deleted. On screen: year 9 lol On screen: saved 12:04 Chat, tomas: is that sudde Monday corridor. People glance at Sudde, then look away. Time: Monday. A classmate holds out half a sandwich to Sudde, unasked. Sudde closes his own lunchbox, which has food in it. Classmate: Do you want half? Sudde: No, thanks. Close on Sudde's hand tightening on his bag strap. Sudde and Jawu face to face by the lockers. Her phone is away. Sudde: I wasn't hiding it. Sudde: I just hadn't decided who to tell. Close on Jawu. Jawu, then Sudde. Jawu: What can I say to people sharing it? Sudde: Ask them to delete it. Don't explain me. Phone insert: Jawu's message to someone who has the screenshot. Sudde can see exactly what she sends. Chat, jawu: please delete the screenshot of my post and stop sharing it Chat, jawu: the people in it didnt agree to be in it Chat, tomas: deleted Jawu and Sudde on a bench. Short, honest, nobody let off. Jawu: I'm sorry. Sudde: It's fine. Jawu: It's not. Bille, arms folded, gives Jawu one small nod. Split half: Jawu's profile review. Fewer posts, the shop-door photos gone, settings changed. On screen: Private. Location OFF. Tag review ON. Caption: She deleted the post. Then four hundred more. Split half: another chat, a stranger's phone. The same market photo, labelled Forwarded, still travelling. On screen: Forwarded image Caption: It got smaller. It did not go anywhere. Sudde, to the crew, in his own words. Ravi's paper shopping list sticks out of his bag. Sudde: Saturday mornings, Mum works. I take Ravi to the pantry. Sudde: Now you know because I told you. Bille, gruff. Sudde, a small real smile. Bille: Can I come next Saturday? Sudde: If you carry the rice. Ravi's in charge. Days later, lunch. Jawu holds up her phone for a photo of the four, then holds it away to check every corner of the screen, not just the faces. Jawu shows them the picture instead of posting it. Bille answers. Jawu: Everyone's in this. Can I post it? Bille: No. Jawu: Fair. Juni points past their shoulders: a lone bin against a blank wall. Sudde's mouth curls at one corner. Juni: Background? Jawu: Checked. Just a bin. Sudde: Post the bin. Late afternoon. The four walking home, Jawu's phone in her pocket. Night. Jawu lying on her bed, sketching the world's most glamorous bin in a notebook, phone face down beside her for once. Time: 21:30. Small inset: the face-down phone lights up at the edges. Sound: bzz Jawu's phone: the group chat. Two messages from a member with no name. On screen: Juni, Bille, Sudde +1 Chat, no name: i keep everything. Chat, no name: it is the only thing i am good at. Two attachments. Left: a screenshot of the market post Jawu deleted, saved at 12:04. On screen: saved 12:04 On screen: Public · Today, 17:10 Next: He stops watching, and starts talking. What do you do next? WHAT DO YOU DO NEXT? JAWU WOULD HAVE PICKED A. FOUR TIMES A DAY. 1. A friend is easy to recognise in the background of a photo you want to post. You can't ask them right now. What do you do? A Post it to a private account. That's...

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Season page. NETIZEN NETIZEN THE BACKCHANNEL Season 1: WHO ADDED US Juni Jawu Bille Sudde 01 FREE MONEY A prize opens a door. 02 BORROWED One password opens too many. 03 RECEIPTS Who else is in your picture? 04 ONE MORE He was only going to check one...
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EP03 Receipts, as text

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Page 1

EP 03

SEASON 1

A HAMCODES COMIC

NETIZEN

NETIZEN

THE BACKCHANNEL

Who else is in your picture?

RECEIPTS

Created by Hamcodes

Page 2

NETIZEN

NETIZEN

THE BACKCHANNEL

EPISODE 3: RECEIPTS

PREVIOUSLY

Someone used Juni's account to ask Jawu for her dad's

door code. The crew locked him out. Then the member with

no name sent an old photo of Jawu, and wrote: she has been

the easy one all along.

When you reach YOUR CALL, look at the whole picture before you turn the

page.

Season 1: WHO ADDED US

Juni · Jawu · Bille · Sudde

Created by Hamcodes

netizen.hamcodes.com

Page 3

On screen: Forwarded image · 41 likes

Caption: Jawu deleted it nine minutes after she posted it.

Caption: Nine minutes was enough.

Caption: Jawu posts about four times a day.

Jawu (off): Perfect.

Sound: plop

Page 4

Jawu: I was eleven. I didn't even have a phone.

On screen: Public. 1,204 posts.

On screen: Old family album! Me at 11 · Posted 6 months ago

Juni: He didn't follow you.

Juni: He read you.

Jawu: Posting it doesn't mean he gets to use it against me.

Sudde: No. It doesn't.

Jawu: It's my life. I'm allowed to put my own life up.

Juni: You are.

Page 5

Bille: Your diary has a door. You keep photographing it.

Jawu: You could have stopped at diary.

Juni: Put the pictures together. It's a map.

On screen: Juni, Bille, Sudde +1

Chat, jawu: this diary has no door

Chat, bille: much safer

Sudde: I'm busy Saturday morning. Till twelve.

Jawu: Busy doing what?

Sudde: Things.

Jawu: Saturday. Riverside Market. Twelve.

Bille: Twelve-fifteen.

Juni: Twelve.

Page 6

Time: Saturday, 11:40.

Jawu: Everyone look normal.

Jawu: Bille, that is not normal.

Time: 12:00.

Page 7

On screen: Riverside Market

On screen: COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY (sign, in the photo)

Your call: Would you post this?

On screen: YOUR CALL

Page 8

Sound: fwip

Caption: One point eight seconds.

On screen: Public · Riverside Market · 12:00 · 3 likes

Bille: Take it down.

Jawu: What?

Bille: Take it down now.

Page 9

On screen: Post deleted · 12:09

Jawu: You and Ravi were in my post. I deleted it. Someone might have a copy.

Sudde: You should have asked.

On screen: year 9 lol

On screen: saved 12:04

Chat, tomas: is that sudde

Page 10

Time: Monday.

Classmate: Do you want half?

Sudde: No, thanks.

Sudde: I wasn't hiding it.

Sudde: I just hadn't decided who to tell.

Jawu: What can I say to people sharing it?

Sudde: Ask them to delete it. Don't explain me.

Page 11

Chat, jawu: please delete the screenshot of my post and stop sharing it

Chat, jawu: the people in it didnt agree to be in it

Chat, tomas: deleted

Jawu: I'm sorry.

Sudde: It's fine.

Jawu: It's not.

On screen: Private. Location OFF. Tag review ON.

Caption: She deleted the post. Then four hundred more.

On screen: Forwarded image

Caption: It got smaller. It did not go anywhere.

Sudde: Saturday mornings, Mum works. I take Ravi to the pantry.

Sudde: Now you know because I told you.

Bille: Can I come next Saturday?

Sudde: If you carry the rice. Ravi's in charge.

Page 12

Jawu: Everyone's in this. Can I post it?

Bille: No.

Jawu: Fair.

Juni: Background?

Jawu: Checked. Just a bin.

Sudde: Post the bin.

Page 13

Time: 21:30.

Sound: bzz

On screen: Juni, Bille, Sudde +1

Chat, no name: i keep everything.

Chat, no name: it is the only thing i am good at.

On screen: saved 12:04

On screen: Public · Today, 17:10

Next: He stops watching, and starts talking.

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WHAT DO YOU DO NEXT?

JAWU WOULD HAVE PICKED A. FOUR

TIMES A DAY.

1.

A friend is easy to recognise in the background of a photo you want to post. You can't

ask them right now. What do you do?

A

Post it to a private account. That's permission enough.

B

Post it now and ask when they notice.

C

Wait until you can ask, or crop them out first.

2.

You posted a friend's photo by mistake, and someone has already shared a screenshot.

What next?

A

Leave it up. A copy exists anyway.

B

Delete yours and say nothing.

C

Delete yours, tell your friend, and ask people to delete the copies.

AND: look at page 4. When was the red-coat photo taken, and when was it

posted?

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Show answers

Both answers are C. Being in your photo is not the same as choosing to be in your post. Check the background, the

location tag and anyone in it, then ask. A private account still has people who can save and share.

Deleting removes your copy, not the screenshots. Let your friend decide what gets said about them. Report copies that

stay up, and tell a trusted adult if it keeps spreading.

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NETIZEN

NETIZEN

THE BACKCHANNEL

Season 1: WHO ADDED US

Juni

Jawu

Bille

Sudde

01 FREE MONEY

A prize opens a door.

02 BORROWED

One password opens too many.

03 RECEIPTS

Who else is in your picture?

04 ONE MORE

He was only going to check one timestamp.

NEXT: ONE MORE. He was only going to check one

timestamp.

Created by Hamcodes

netizen.hamcodes.com

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NETIZEN

NETIZEN

THE BACKCHANNEL

Jawu knows how to make a picture worth sharing. Then

someone in its background loses the choice to stay out of it.

Taking the post down is a start. What happens to the

copies?

Before you post, check the whole frame. Ask the people others can

recognise.

Created by Hamcodes

Season 1: WHO ADDED US

netizen.hamcodes.com

NETIZEN: THE BACKCHANNEL · EPISODE 3 · RECEIPTS

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