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[–]beholdyourheart 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yep, although not that seriously and it didn't impact me irl. When I was a teen I used to make some internet content and while I was definitely nothing close to popular I still managed to get some creeps. Some guy around my age who had become an acquaintance through that asked me out, and I said no because I was a lesbian (I'd even mentioned being a lesbian to him before specifically to avoid that situation). He threw a tantrum and over the next 6 or so months he attempted to dox me (he got my address wrong lol but he did find a lot of stuff I'd posted on the internet before), DDOSed me, and kept spamming me with alternating violent death threats towards me and suicide threats towards himself. Since I just kept blocking him and not responding he kept making new accounts for months. Eventually I just stopped checking and he must have gotten bored at some point and given up. While it was a bit scary at times with the death threats, I was lucky he was so incompetent - he came across as very desperate to seem like a cool edgy hacker but he couldn't do more than the basics which I quickly learned to deal with, and it had no effect on my real life. The amount of women I've heard that have had similar experiences (and often way worse ones that had to get actual police involvement) is just insane and depressing.

[–]IamWomanHearMeRoar[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That’s really creepy. Did you tell anyone about this or think about contacting authorities? Even creepier is that you were a teen. I’ve noticed that most of the time I’m being cyber stalked/cyber harassed/cyber bully by men and transwomen. Occasionally transmen, and rarely women.