Female influencers

女性网红

The Documentary Podcast

2025-06-14

23 分钟
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After the fatal shooting in Pakistan of a teenage social media influencer, Sana Yousaf, we bring together female influencers around the world to share their experiences. Sana’s death has ignited a fierce debate about women on social media and the safety of influencers. We hear from three women in Pakistan. Between them, they have hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube but face abuse every day. Zenith Irfan is the first woman to ride a motorbike solo across Pakistan, Mahnoor Rahim is a fashion influencer, and Sabah Malik is a comedian and cultural commentator in the country. We speak to female influencers in the US, Mexico City and Peru who share advice on how they stay safe. This episode of The Documentary, comes to you from BBC OS Conversations, bringing together people from around the world to discuss how major news stories are affecting their lives
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  • Hello, I'm Mark Lowen.

  • Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

  • This time in BBC OS Conversations, we bring together female influencers.

  • Sana Yousaf was a rising social media star.

  • Still only a teenager,

  • her last video showed her surrounded by balloons and cutting a cake for her 17th birthday.

  • But two weeks ago, she was shot dead at her home in Islamabad.

  • Police made a swift arrest,

  • but her death has ignited a fierce debate about women on social media and the safety of influencers in Pakistan and beyond.

  • In our conversations this week,

  • three female influencers in Pakistan discuss their experiences and how they deal with the daily abuse.

  • We also bring together women in Peru,

  • Mexico and the United States to hear their perspective.

  • You have to let people hate you.

  • You know, you're putting yourself in a position to make change.

  • You have to deal with negativity.

  • Between them, our first guests have hundreds of thousands of social media followers.

  • My colleague Luke Jones brought together Mahnoor Rahim,