In April 2018, a high school student from Prince George, British Columbia, went into the girl's bathroom and found her own name scribbled on the wall. Someone had scrawled the words "Kailey Kukkola is a disgusting flat, ugly slut."
Kailey didn't know who wrote the hateful message, but she was no stranger to bullying. She'd been targeted by cruel students ever since elementary school. At first, her feelings were hurt, and the words stung. But then she actually found humor in the childish "prank" and ultimately decided she couldn't just sit back and do nothing in response.
Kailey wanted to do something that would show she'd risen above the bullying — something that would make its way back to whoever wrote the mean message.
The next day at school, Kailey had come up with a plan that turned the tables on the anonymous author. "If you have something happen to you, tell someone and just wear it on your sleeve because those words don’t define you," she told Global News.
Kailey assumed her response — which was literally printed on her pink T-shirt — would get her in trouble with the teachers and principal.
She was about to learn it would have the opposite effect.
