They wanted to show their greatest pride on Instagram.
Shortly afterwards, they were hurt and shocked: The pictures of their babies earned hateful comments.
Many users of Facebook *, Instagram and Co. know the problem: Anonymous bullies are up to mischief online, insulting total strangers and relieving frustration with nasty comments.
But some cases from Great Britain are a new level of bad taste: Two mothers from the island posted nice family photos with their babies.
And suddenly the innocent little ones were insulted - the so-called "hate speech" shocked the women.
Instagram bullying: "Your baby is fat and ugly" - mothers are victims of nasty attacks
Rebecca Taylor from Great Britain has three children.
A few days ago their youngest son was born.
The mother of three was proud of the cute little one, she took many photos of the youngest of the family.
And because she wanted to share her joy with her friends, she posted the pictures on social networks.
When she stopped by the Instagram * platform after a few hours, the mother could not believe her eyes.
And immediately deleted the photos.
Instagram: "Fat and ugly", "Glubschäugig" - mothers shocked by hate attacks
What she saw: Countless comments from complete strangers who scoffed at their child.
Kody was called "fat" and "ugly".
The little son of Rebecca Taylor was only a few days old.
"He was not even a week old and was already insulted," complained the mother of three to the
Sun
, the largest British tabloid newspaper.
Taylor responded - she reported all hate comments and deleted them from her photos.
“But for everyone I removed, there were new ones,” she says.
She took a radical route and deleted all photos of her children from the respective platforms.
UK: Baby goes viral - and an object of hate
Other mothers in Great Britain report what Rebecca Taylor experienced.
The 20-year-old Amarah Bryan-Brown, for example.
The young woman from Nottingham posted a video doing her seven-month-old daughter's hair.
The video became a hit on social media.
“It was viewed more than 2.3 million times,” the young mother recalls.
At first there were a lot of nice reactions.
"But the more people saw it, the more cruel the comments became." According to comments, the toddler looked "like a sumo wrestler."
"Fat", "Ugly", "Bulky Eyes".
The abuse the mother heard about her Little Mia-Rae came “from people all over the world.
They don't know me and my daughter, ”she says.
Instagram: Baby pictures are mocked - "I was hurt," says the mother
Amarah Bryan-Brown doesn't want to let the strangers get her down.
Even if they were shocked by the many ugly comments.
"I was hurt," she says, "but then I asked myself, what gives anyone the right to comment about my family," she says of the
Sun
.
“My daughter is healthy and well.
We are happy.
The trolls can say what they want about us - that won't change that. "
Hate on the net: A common problem, especially on Instagram - stars are often victims
Unfortunately, the ugly side of social media is showing up more and more often.
Internet trolls often target celebrities.
Markus Söder's daughter, Gloria, doesn't just get positive comments with her posts.
The candidate of Germanys next top model * Anna Wilken takes legal action against hate comments.
One problem with hate messages: It is often not clear whether the trolls' profiles are actually real - or fake accounts *.
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