Women online have taken to filming ghoulish murder-fantasy videos in which they romanticize lacing men’s beverages with deadly poison as a justifiable response to fears about abortion rights under a second Trump presidency.
Many of the videos have been
viewed millions of times on X or TikTok and feature young women fiendishly grinning as they adulterate a cup of tea or other drink with an unknown substance.
Some of the women have dubbed the videos part of a “Make Aqua Tofana Great Again” — or “MATGA” — movement, a nod both to President-elect Donald Trump’s MAGA campaign slogan and ancient killer Giulia Tofana, who has been adopted as the disturbed group’s heroine.
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Many of the videos include a portion of the Eminem song “Venom” in the background featuring the lyrics, “This f–king world better prepare to get laced because they’re gonna taste my venom.”
Some of the women don’t mention Aqua Tofana specifically but instead show off their “poison rings,” wearable baubles with a hidden compartment supposedly made to hold a lethal dose of a toxin.
“My advice for American women,” reads the text in a video of a woman standing by a body-length mirror.
“I know you will understand this. They asked for it,” the text reads before she flips open her poison ring and gives the camera a sinister smile.