Explicit Deepfakes: Schoolboys “Nudifying” Schoolgirls and Teachers!

Illustration by Mitchel Hunt for 404 Media

Samantha Cole posted on 404 Media about “How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart” (May 23, 2026). In the post, Cole wrote about Radnor Township High School, one of the top-ranked high schools in Pennsylvania, where “five ninth grade girls, all 14 or 15 years old” were “targeted” by a Radnor freshman whom created AI-generated explicit deepfakes of the schoolgirls. The freshman used Movely “to put five of his female classmates’ faces onto nude bodies and make sexual images of them”.

In a Snapchat message to a classmate, the schoolboy, who purchased Movely for a whopping $250 in Apple’s App Store, confessed:

I dropped 250 on that hoe

Worth every penny. 

As for the deepfakes, Cole wrote that schoolboys “were showing them off at lunch tables at Radnor,” and “kids started sharing and talking about them”. Consequently: “School administrators offered a series of “supportive measures” for the victims”: 

• permission to leave class early for a few weeks following the incident, 
• access to the student counselor and social worker, and 
• an open door policy from Assistant Principal Gabriel Presley

As for the schoolboy deepfake creator, Cole wrote that the Radnor Township police charged him with “summary harassment”, because, per the Radnor Township School District Superintendent, “no crime was committed”. Cole wrote:

On January 14, Radnor Township police informed parents of the victims that the boy who made the images was charged with “summary harassment.” Two days later, on January 16, the Radnor community received an email signed by Radnor Township School District Superintendent Kenneth Batchelor, Flanagan, and MacNamara that claims no crime was committed and during an investigation, no images were found.

Cole wrote that the “[p]arents of the girls were shocked”, while their daughters “watched their harasser high five his friends in the hallways.”

However, a week later, the Radnor Township Police Department charged the schoolboy deepfake creator with the crime of harassment. Cole wrote:

On January 23, a week after Radnor administrators and the superintendent of police sent the email claiming no crimes were committed, the Radnor Township Police Department posted a notice to its Facebook page noting that a crime had indeed happened:

As a result of the investigation, a juvenile offender was charged with the crime of harassment for their conduct.

For his crime, the schoolboy deepfake creator had to attend an internet safety class. In addition, he was “advised” that “it is his responsibility to remove himself if he finds himself in the presence of one of the girls”, and he was advised “[...] to use common sense and remove himself if he finds himself in the vicinity of the girls.” Cole wrote:

The juvenile will have to attend the internet safety class and, effective immediately, there is a stay away requirement until March 27, 2026. He was advised that on school grounds it is his responsibility to remove himself if he finds himself in the presence of one of the girls. To be clear, this is not a protection from abuse order but rather a resolution crafted to allow all parties to be as comfortable as possible during the school day [...] he was advised to use common sense and remove himself if he finds himself in the vicinity of the girls.

Conversely, Cole related that in 2025, a man was charged with over 30 felonies for possessing AI-generated deepfakes of minors; however, Cole did not relate if the deepfakes the man possessed were created by schoolboys.

Of course, Radnor High isn’t the only school where explicit deepfakes of schoolgirls were distributed. For example, Cole shared that, per a 2024 report by the Center for Democracy and Technology, “40 percent of students [...] said they knew of an explicit deepfake shared in the past school year”. In other words, thousands of students shared explicit deepfakes, presumably of their classmates.

And, unsurprising to us, the sharing of explicit deepfakes isn’t restricted to high school teens. For example, Cole related that: “in the Council Rock School District, also in Pennsylvania, middle school girls ‘reported that classmates had created explicit AI-generated images’.

And just as unsurprising to us, Cole wrote that the “nudify” apps are easy to download, and that they’re aggressively marketed to boys on social media. Cole wrote:

The apps used to create these images are so easily available, and [...] are advertised on TikTok and Instagram, pushed onto teenagers’ screens and algorithmically offered to appeal to young men and boys. 

Furthermore, we were not surprised by Caroline Haskin’s Wired post “They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started”. (August 24, 2026) The post’s subtitle is more telling: 

“The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.”

That’s correct. (Some) students make explicit deepfakes of their teachers. For example, Luis Desantiago had a deepfake made of him by a Los Banos, California middle school student. Mr. Desantiago’s deepfake was posted on TikTok and Snapchat, and it was shared among students at his Los Banos high school too. Haskin wrote that the student: “who admitted to creating the image [of Mr. Desantiago], was disciplined with an in-school suspension.” [Emphasis added]

A middle school teacher, “in her mid-twenties”, shared with Wired that she has seen a “wave” of “AI-generated content used to harass teachers”. For example, students at her middle school:

[...] found public photos of a teacher in her sixties, manipulated them to make it appear that she was committing sex acts, and shared them with each other in a Snapchat group chat.

On top of that, students of the middle school teacher “in her mid-twenties” created a “TikTok account impersonating her”, where some of the deepfake TikToks “depicted her talking about sexual acts she performed and enjoyed.”

And a middle school student made a deepfake of Luke Red, an “Arizona-based sixth-grade teacher”, kissing another teacher, which was posted on Mr. Red’s TikTok account. Subsequently, the student confessed to “creating and sharing the image”, and the student received the maximum punishment; a whopping three-day suspension. Haskin wrote:

[...] the school immediately launched an investigation and quickly identified the student, who admitted to creating and sharing the image. The student received a three-day suspension—the most severe punishment kids their age can receive for a first-time sexual harassment offense, according to the school district handbook. 

In the end, we were surprised by the Op-Ed posted on the San Francisco Chronicle: “AI deepfakes of girls are flooding schools. Teachers need more training to help stop it”. In the Op-Ed, Emma Le and Stephanie Choi opined that the “burden” of stopping the flood of deepfakes of schoolgirls should not be on the schoolboys whom are “nudifying” their classmates, but the burden should be on teachers and administrators. In addition, Le and Choi opined that, instead of speaking to their sons about the harms of creating and sharing explicit deepfakes of their middle school classmates, parents should ask their “[...] child’s school whether or not it has an explicit deepfakes policy.” Pun intended?