Everything you’ve said here reminds me of my analysis here: Review of Shut Up and Dance - #10 by Giacobbe
The final scene where our tortured and traumatized main protagonist’s life is completely and totally ruined is haunting. The entire sequence (the whole episode, really) lives rent-free in my head:
What did you do, Kenny?! They’re saying it’s kids! That you’ve been looking at kids! And Lindsey saw it, there’s a video of you, all of her friends have got it! KIDS, Kenny! Tell me it’s not…
There’s also this great summary edit of the episode that earns its 9.9m views!:
This and White Bear are perfect examples of why vigilante justice and overly-cruel punishments are barbaric. Torturing criminals serves no other purpose than to satisfy our own need for “righteous vengeance”. That’s not justice, that’s vigilante mob savagery best left in the days of Hammurabi…