As the Cornell University rape case continues to dominate headlines — with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointing the state attorney general, Letitia James, to oversee the investigation — social media remains abuzz with anger. And now a trend is taking off around the hashtag #iamjanedoe, prompted by political commentator Michael Tracey putting out a public request for information identifying the plaintiff in the Cornell case who filed her civil lawsuit under a pseudonym.

“Let’s see if anyone has the ‘balls’ to name this Jane Doe so we can all evaluate her veracity, and that of her lawyers, since her lawsuit didn’t hesitate to name & shame 7 of her peers as gang-rapists,” he wrote on X.

That’s unleashed a new wave of anger, with women posting videos to throw him and others off the track and stand in solidarity with the former student as they claim, “I am Jane Doe.”

From there, though, the trend becomes like a chilling new version of #MeToo, with the women posting the videos sharing harrowing details of their own similar experience with sexual assault.

The trend gaining traction on other platforms, too, including on X, with posters making claims like, “It’s me. I’m Jane Doe. You can stop looking now,” and on Instagram, with folks simply posting themselves in a video with the caption, “I am Jane Doe.”

The trend aims to show solidarity, make searches for the woman’s identity less fruitful, and, powerfully, to show how just how common sexual assault is for women.