History Headscratchers / Unfriended

*** To be fair though, Val can be heard snidely [[SlutShaming 'warning' the guy who was on top of Laura that he should use condemns with Laura.]]

** Okay, just how in the heck did Blaire, Laura's ''best friend'', not know Laura's Skype username?! You can see pictures of them together on Facebook, so clearly they didn't just avoid each other on social media for some reason.

** The meta explanation is that all of these things play better for the audience--using the cursor shows up on screen, while keyboard shortcuts like command+A and pressing enter don't, and they needed a way to work in exposition for audience members who aren't familiar with the programs the characters are using. In-universe, well, just being a teenager with a laptop doesn't automatically make someone tech-savvy, and even skilled computer users don't necessarily use torrents or keyboard shortcuts.

*** Laura was a pretty mean and spiteful person. She justification for bullying people was something to do with home life.

* Why is Blair so bad with technology/so stupid? Think about this for a second. She's a 17 year old girl in 2014 with a laptop in a middle class family. She's a millennial & yet she has such a bad handle on technology that she, for some reason, keeps seeding a torrent of an SNL episode, has to be told how to do things, keeps having to press the "send" button on the Facebook chat (& moves the mouse away & back & doesn't have the "press enter to send" box checked to pad the runtime even further than necessary), keeps manually highlighting text to replace it rather than hitting "command A" & then "delete", etc. I find this very hard to believe for someone in her situation.

** Laura is something of a hypocrite. There's a loose betrayl theme between Blair and Laura, since Blair filmed Laura passed out; but during the drinking game it is revealed that Laura tried to have sex with Blair's boyfriend Mitch a year before, but he rejected her.

*** That would likely not do anything useful in the long run, either. For heaven's sak, Laura had the ability to literally make functions inside the internet disappear. She would probably just message Blaire like normal with her ghost powers.

** Ken said that Laura deserved all the flack she got from the video, not that she deserved to die. Laura killed him because his computer skills were on par with her...demon skills?...and was a threat to her plan. Blair does say "everyone was posting" but Blair is a liar. A Blair-liar. A Bliar.

** So it could be more visible on camera I guess.

** The film makers were likely trying to steer the viewer into thinking there was another possessing spirit controlling her, instead of her being an actual suicide.

* Why the HELL did Laura shoot herself at arm's length?

*** Laura was a pretty mean person, so likely she was spiteful.

** None of the teens arguably were good suicide counselors. Also, bullied teen with gun can easily go off on one of them. They weren't going to get shot to try to stop her.

* How did Laura manage to shoot herself at school? She didn't seem to have anything to carry the gun in to hide it, and the video recording of her suicide on that [=LiveLeak=] article shows that someone at the school saw her with the gun before she shot herself. How did she get the gun onto the school grounds successfully, and how/why did no one (staff or student) try to intervene?

* How did Laura manage to shoot herself at school? She didn't seem to have anything to carry the gun in to hide it, and the video recording of her suicide on that LiveLeak article shows that someone at the school saw her with the gun before she shot herself. How did she get the gun onto the school grounds successfully, and how/why did no one (staff or student) try to intervene?

* Near the beginning we see Blair or somebody has bruises and it's never brought up, so i have to ask what were those all about?

* Why them specifically? I mean, Blaire and Val make sense, as they personally slighted Laura, but the film implies that the others were targeted because they posted on the Laura Barns Hate Wall or whatever that was. But it's explicitly mentioned that a lot of people did that, so why go after these specific posters? [[FridgeHorror Did she go after everyone else who posted too?]] Or did she just pick them because they were Blaire's friends?

* Why them specifically? I mean, Blaire and Val make sense, as they personally slighted Laura, but the film implies that the others were targeted because they posted on the Laura Barns Hate Wall or whatever that was. But it's explicitly mentioned that a lot of people did that, so why go after these specific posters. [[FridgeHorror Did she go after everyone else who posted too?]] Or did she just pick them because they were Blaire's friends?

* Why them specifically? I mean, Blaire and Val make sense, as they personally slighted Laura, but the film implies that the others were targeted because they posted on the Laura Barns Hate Wall or whatever that was? But it's explicitly mentioned that a lot of people did that, so why go after these specific posters. [[FridgeHorror Did she go after everyone else who posted too?]] Or did she just pick them because they were Blaire's friends?

** She wants to kill them by using [[DeathByIrony precisely the same methods that led to her suicide]], namely bullying, spreading rumours, revealing their secrets and turning them against one another.