Many images, after being published, become indestructible, even if the author's wish is to delete them forever. They seem almost immortal, especially if they go viral. Users re-upload them, search engines keep them in their databases, and in the most extreme cases, not even the search engines keep them in their databases, and in extreme cases not even the postal police can remove them completely. 8STABS was born out of the desire to destroy this agglomeration of photographs, to remove them from screens through a process that directly involves them.