Belfast: Lux nightclub removes online videos after backlash

Tegan Nesbitt, who is involved in a number of campaigns affecting young women, said the videos use young people as “marketing probes” for the nightclub.

She also said they raise an important issue around libel and slander.

Often in the videos full names are used with zero discretion.

“It’s beyond damaging,” she said.

“You’re not in school anymore, you can be trialled as an adult if you’re participating or even sharing these videos so it’s extremely, extremely damaging both for the community and personally.”

Koulla Yiasouma, chief executive of non-profit organisation Parenting Focus, said she felt Lux had a “huge lapse of judgement” in this instance.

“I think in 2024, we expect companies to have a greater sense of social responsibility,” she told Evening Extra.

“I would be fairly confident that most of those young people, in the cold light of day, in sobriety watching those videos will be mortified.”