After the release of the Trump Tapes where Donald Trump was caught having a lewd conversation with Billy Bush of Access Hollywood about sexually assaulting women, a wave of outrage hit social media.
On Twitter, women took to social media to share their first experiences with sexual assault. Kelly Oxford, a New York Times best-selling author of Everything is Perfect When You’re a Liar, put out a tweet calling upon women to share their first experience with sexual abuse on Twitter by sharing her first assault. Oxford told Twitter about the man who groped her on a city bus at age 12. In response to her vulnerability, she received a flood of stories from women, detailing their disturbing and heartbreaking experiences with sexual assault.
This post sparked over 9,000 retweets and developing the hashtag #NotOk shedding light on the sexual assault and abuse that women have faced throughout their lives. The responders supported each other by standing firmly behind the fact that sexual assault is not ok.
Over 9.7 million people responded to her tweet in less than 24 hours as the image she posted shows the spiked an interaction on her page. Oxford urged people to look at these stories and to not ignore the unfortunate evidence detailing the prevalence of sexual assault the that lies in front of them.
Unfortunately, Trump supporters and crude men tweeted at her calling her names and dismissing the severity and inappropriateness of Trump and Bush’s statements from the tape. Oxford proceeds by responding to the tweets by taking her stand against their arguments and blocking them. 
The conversation clouds below show a trend of key words that were used in relation to this topic. The cloud with the hashtag #TrumpTapes shows to have a common theme of including the word ‘Hillary’ in which many Twitter users used the #TrumpTapes as a platform to attack the Clinton Campaign, Bill Clinton’s infidelity, and to make a case in support of Trump and oppose Hillary.
In the use of the trending hashtag #NotOK, the key words include words like harrowing, straight, hours, and tweeted which are all words included in Oxford’s tweet that urges followers to not ignore the situation and to be aware of the women who are bravely sharing their stories on Twitter and to join the greater conversation. These words are probably appearing as frequently used words because 5.7 thousand people retweeted her initial tweet depicted below.
Other words in the cloud include rape, sexual assault, sharing, survivors, and shame. This feed involves highly sensitive information where stories were shared with a greater audience to bring light to the negative, sexual, and objectifying way that men causally speak, harass, and sexually assault women. This is an effort to create social change by presenting evidence of thousands of disturbing assaults in which women became victims of crimes that were dismissed or never admitted. The feed also gave way for women to share while feeling encircled within a safety net of thousands of women to turn to for support and back-up when a negative comment arose.
The trend line shows that there was a major spike of the hashtag #NotOk at around 1 a.m. and then another at around 2 p.m. One possibility for explaining this would be that the veil of the evening allowed users to feel more vulnerable and willing to share sensitive information online during a time when less users would be looking at Twitter.
A series of unfortunate events began to unfold for Trump when key republican figures began withdrawing their support. John McCain and other important republican figures have pulled support from Trump and put out statements on social media condemning such behavior. McCain put out a statement on Facebook urging republican voters to stand against both Trump and Hillary and write in a suitable republican candidate.
Trump also put out a video apology in which he attempted to reconcile his vitriol. The question is, has this changed the minds of undecided voters?
On Sunday at the second presidential debates, moderator, Anderson Cooper asked Trump directly about the tapes. Trump responded with, “No, I didn’t say that at all.” His exact words were heard across digital lines in which he depicted his desires to sexually assault a woman. After beating around the bush and distracting viewers from the question, he claimed that no one is more respectful of women than he is. Has he lost the women’s vote? Is this the end of Donald Trump as a probable presidential nominee?
