"I think over the years as the women's game has grown, it's opened up more of a platform for people to have their opinion and share their voices. I think unfortunately social media has become a place where people can say whatever they want whether it's good, bad, ugly and sometimes the ugly is really ugly."
"During that time I think that we weren't playing badly at a club and I wasn't playing badly but certain people decided to just send abusive messages after pretty much every game and it got to a point where I thought this is not OK. It didn't matter what I did on the pitch and it does affect you at some point."
"You see so much of it you start thinking, are they right? Obviously you know that they're not but I think it was becoming so much that sometimes you have to speak out."
Hannah Cain, a Leicester City forward and Wales international, highlights how social media abuse negatively affects the mental health of female players. She received abusive messages after nearly every game during Leicester's difficult season, particularly following heavy defeats. Cain emphasizes that while the women's game has grown and provided platforms for opinions, social media has become a space where people share harmful content without accountability. The abuse affected her despite performing well, causing her to question herself. Cain stresses that footballers are human beings whose lives and families are impacted by online harassment, advocating for using her platform to address this issue.
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