--- description: A woman featured in a video that showed her being harassed as walked the streets of New York City has received at least 10 death and rape threats title: Woman From Viral Harassment Video Is Now Receiving Death, Rape Threats image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7cf5b66fec698ab/6987631e55a85941d0a83797/new-york-walking.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Living](/tag/time-section-living/) ## Living Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The Woman in That Viral Street Harassment Video Got Death and Rape Threats by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 29, 2014 8:59 PM CUT  Hollaback! by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 29, 2014 8:59 PM CUT A woman featured in a video that showed her [being harassed](https://time.com/3543632/street-harassment-hollaback-video/ "undefined") as walked the streets of New York City has [received at least 10 death and rape threats](http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2014/10/29/video-of-woman-harassed-catcalled-on-street-hits-nerve/?mod=e2tw "undefined") since the video went viral. Some of the threats have gone directly to Shoshanna Roberts’ personal email accounts, the _Wall Street Journal_ reports. The video, “[10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A "undefined"),” had over 8.1 million views on YouTube as of late Wednesday afternoon, and many derogatory comments—including one that says “this is exactly why women aren’t supposed to leave the kitchen.” Despite the backlash, the video, which was created by the anti-street harassment organization “Hollaback!”, has become the latest fodder in an ongoing conversation about street harassment. You can see the video below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3546851/street-harassment-video-death-threats/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3546851/street-harassment-video-death-threats/"},"headline":"The Woman in That Viral Street Harassment Video Got Death and Rape Threats","datePublished":"2014-10-29T20:59:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:14.113Z","description":"The video has more than 8.1 million views on YouTube and over 42,000 comments","url":"https://time.com/3546851/street-harassment-video-death-threats/","keywords":["Living","women","viral","harassment","sexism"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7cf5b66fec698ab/6987631e55a85941d0a83797/new-york-walking.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7cf5b66fec698ab/6987631e55a85941d0a83797/new-york-walking.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"new-york-walking","caption":"","creditText":"Hollaback!","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3546851/street-harassment-video-death-threats/","name":"The Woman in That Viral Street Harassment Video Got Death and Rape Threats"}}]}] ```