Moral panic over Bonnie Blue's Bang Bus comes across as political virtue signalling, writes Herald columnist Marissa MacWhirter. It is better to treat the source of the rot than fall into the rage bait trap

If I had a pound for every time I read that Rangers were not the only ones who got pumped at Ibrox over the weekend, I might have made more than Bonnie Blue this month.

The controversial Gen Z porn star parked her self-titled Bonnie Blue Bang Bus outside of the football stadium to meet fans and hand out T-shirts before watching Hearts beat the Gers 2-0. It was the first day of her deplorable Freshers Week tour of the UK, and predictably, moral panic ensued.

Bonnie Blue, real name Tia Billinger, is a controversial internet personality mostly known for claiming to have had sex with 1,057 men within a 12-hour period. The 26-year-old was the subject of a clickbait Channel 4 documentary released earlier this summer called ‘1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story’, which thrust her into the mainstream. Without really challenging her, the documentary “goes behind the headlines, clickbait and ragebait to discover what life's really like in Bonnie's wild orbit”.

I watched it this week, so you don’t have to (an hour of my life I will never get back). Billinger is like a character out of a Chuck Palahniuk novel with dead blue eyes and glossy white veneers. To summarise, she engages in provocative porn stunts aimed at young adults and promotes misogynistic ideas similar to those of figures like Andrew Tate.

As the fable goes, she had to keep upping the ante of what she was doing to stay on top........

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