Star Wars Kid
A video a fifteen-year-old in Quebec recorded of himself in 2002 and never meant to show anyone. Others posted it the following year, making it the internet's clearest case of spreading without consent.
Ghyslain Raza filmed himself in his school's media room swinging a golf ball retriever as though it were a lightsaber. The tape stayed behind, was found by classmates and ended up online, where within months it had been watched millions of times and become raw material for hundreds of remixes with added sound and visual effects. For him personally it ended in interrupted schooling and treatment; the family sued the classmates' families and reached a settlement in 2006. The case has since been cited in practically every discussion of cyberbullying and the right to one's own image. Raza broke his silence in 2013, then a law student, and has since spoken publicly about what online exposure does to a person — not as a meme but as an advocate.