 On March 18, 2013, Wetzel authored a piece on the Steubenville High School rape verdict that quickly went viral.The article differed starkly in tone from other coverage of the case, eschewing sympathy for the rapists' "ruined lives" and instead emphasizing the pervasive rape culture that permitted the rape to go forward, including the potential culpability of witnesses to the rape.On February 22, 2014 Dan Wetzel posted an article on Yahoo entitled