I had to ask my mother to calm me down, it lasted a few hours.” “I had to pause the videos to keep myself together and not burst out crying. “It felt like every wall came towards me and I couldn’t get out,” says Usha Vandermaelen, a 19-year-old student from Belgium, who suffered a panic attack while following the hashtag and watching Marina’s videos. ‘The more I believed she was being abused, the more I got anxious’ More than 60 people tweeted that it had caused them to have an anxiety or panic attack. Thousands of teenagers revealed that they couldn’t sleep and were shaking from their belief that Marina had been kidnapped or was being held hostage. When Marina then tried to arrange a 6:30am meet up with her fans, some speculated she was involved in a trap set by Isis. After a fan compiled a list of their concerns on – a site dedicated to sharing blocks of text easily – the hashtag #SaveMarinaJoyce became the number one trending topic worldwide. It took four days for the wider internet to fall into a frenzy. Two weeks later, another video contained elements that worried commenters