Viral Mugshot Accounts Are Ruining Women’s Lives
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Hope CorriganCultureAug 5, 2026 6:30 AMViral Mugshot Accounts Are Ruining Women’s LivesMugshawtys and similar pages often frame mugshots as thirst traps. Security at the bar kicked Davis out and called the police, who charged her with public intoxication, resulting in an overnight jail stay and a $450 fine.“Right before my mugshot was taken, I had a panic attack,” says Davis, who was 23 at the time. “I knew I made a big mistake.” After being released the next morning, she set up a payment plan for the fine, and put the incident behind her.Beginning the day of her arrest, on August 21, 2025, Davis' mugshot started going viral.
- ▪Hope CorriganCultureAug 5, 2026 6:30 AMViral Mugshot Accounts Are Ruining Women’s LivesMugshawtys and similar pages often frame mugshots as thirst traps.
- ▪Security at the bar kicked Davis out and called the police, who charged her with public intoxication, resulting in an overnight jail stay and a $450 fine.“Right before my mugshot was taken, I had a panic attack,” says Davis, who was 23 at t
- ▪“I knew I made a big mistake.” After being released the next morning, she set up a payment plan for the fine, and put the incident behind her.Beginning the day of her arrest, on August 21, 2025, Davis' mugshot started going viral.
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Hope CorriganCultureAug 5, 2026 6:30 AMViral Mugshot Accounts Are Ruining Women’s LivesMugshawtys and similar pages often frame mugshots as thirst traps. The women featured are humiliated and are sometimes harassed for months and years after their arrests.Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyAbout a month after Megan Davis’ biological mother died of a drug overdose in July 2025, she went out for drinks with a friend in Northgate, a cluster of bars in College Station, Texas.She downed a couple of shots and got into an altercation with another group of patrons after bumping into them, according to Davis and body camera footage.
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