What is 'the hunt for the posh' and why does it concern young Spaniards?

Social networks are already part of our life. The influence they have on our day to day is increasing, and especially when we talk about the youngest. In recent years it is normal to know how these adolescents begin to face challenges that come virally to our country. The last one, known as ‘the hunt for the posh’. It is a challenge born in the new fashion social network, TikTok and that is beginning to worry young people and the Spanish authorities. This challenge born in social networks has been viral for a few months and in recent weeks it has become much more visible after the police detected several cases with the same procedure.A recent case The alarms regarding the challenge of ‘hunting the posh’ jumped last Tuesday when the authorities arrested a 14-year-old girl for assaulting two girls doing this challenge. Apparently, the younger girl used the same method to attack several more girls that same afternoon and upload the content to the social network, the modus operandi is always the same. They are usually girls. These, who never go alone, focus on other young girls apparently with a ‘posh’ aesthetic and provoke them until they end up beating them in the middle of the street. “Do you know me?” This is how the conversation begins before the girl starts beating her victims. These images have caused a stir, especially when the police assured that this same girl had been carrying out the challenge throughout the month of March in different neighborhoods of the capital. Increase in cases Concern among young people is growing since these have intensified attacks in cities like Madrid or Seville.In the Andalusian capital, the police assure that these attacks in neighborhoods considered ‘posh’ have doubled in recent weeks, especially when measures against the coronavirus have been relaxed. In Seville, several young people have already ended up in the hospital. cause of these beatings that have occurred in recent weeks. The authorities are trying to confront this system of beatings that young people are using for fun and to gain influence on social networks, because these types of attacks occur with a single objective: to be recorded to spread the challenge through from TikTok.