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Happy slapping is a fad in which someone assaults a sometimes unsuspecting victim while an accomplice records the assault (commonly with a camera phone or a smartphone). Several incidents are extremely violent, and some victims of "happy-slapping" have even been killed. Though the name will usually refer to minor acts of violence such as hitting (slapping) or jumping on the victim, more serious crimes such as rape and sexual assaults have been "classified as happy slapping" by the media.

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An advertisement was banned in 1992. The advert was of Tango, with a punch-line which involved people being hit on the ears, or being “Tango’d”.

It was banned because it encouraged teenagers to copy it, as it was popular with high school teens.

It received widespread condemnation after a craze for "Tangoing" people swept the nation's playgrounds, and there were reports of children receiving serious injuries or even being deafened by being slapped on the ears.

In March 2008, a teenage girl who filmed the fatal beating of a man on her mobile phone was sentenced to two years' detention in the first prosecution of its kind in the United Kingdom. She had pleaded guilty at Leeds Crown Court in February 2008 to aiding and abetting the manslaughter of Gavin Waterhouse, 29, from Keighley, West Yorkshire.

Mark Masters, 19, from Keighley, and Sean Thompson, 17, from Bradford were sentenced to seven and six years respectively after admitting to Mr Waterhouse's manslaughter. He died from a ruptured spleen after being beaten by the two youths in September 2007.

Just before the attack, the girl was handed a mobile phone by one of the attackers and told to "video this", prosecutors said. She then approached Mr Waterhouse, asked for money, and recorded the subsequent attack. She was sentenced to serve a two-year detention training order.

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The convicted killers, Mark Masters and Sean Thompson.

The victim, Gavin Waterhouse.

There are many ways that the people can get support. As Happy Slapping is a form of bullying, services such as BullyingUK is set up to help bullied victims, and to also try to end bullying. The website is set up to help kids and adults who have been bullied by Happy Slapping, on Facebook, at schools, in the work place and many other ways.

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There has been much controversy over Happy Slapping being on Youtube. As it is a website where anyone can upload a video, it means that people have uploaded their videos of Happy Slapping. Although Youtube do not stop people uploading these videos, they introduced a ‘Report’ button, also known as flagging. This means that if there is any material which shouldn’t be on, it can be reported by a viewer, and it will be removed if it is breaking the Terms and Conditions.

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