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Wait, there are people who genuinely believe she's the one behind it?
I thought it was pretty obvious that she's the target of harassment. Some people must be new to the Internet
Yeah, I've been targeted by enough romance spam that I just assume any photo of a woman I don't know was probably stolen from some random Tumblr or Instagram.
Everyone is 1 of the 10000. Even the people who have to look up what being 1 of the 10000 means
I had to look it up, and after reading a lengthily Wikipedia page on Greek mercenaries, I tried the second result: an XKCD comic Iβve seen before but had forgotten. So today, Iβm one of the lucky 10,000 again.
I've seen internet harassment campaigns, none have looked like this. She doesn't feel like the target here. If you wanted to use the internet to harass a girl, is this how you would implement it?
Yeah. This is older than the internet. It's like writing "For a good time call Nicole" and writing someone you don't like's number in a truck stop bathroom.
...actually...
Speaking of new to the internet, it's clearly not a harassment campaign against her. This is waaaay too much effort. There's only 3 things that would engender this level of effort. Money, government spying, or mental illness.
If you are willing and able to do a bit of scripting, it's not that hard to generate and send a bunch of messages on the Threadiverse.
And there are people who will go to pretty extreme lengths to harass people who they are really upset with. An ugly breakup or something and...
mentally ill people can have plenty of time on their hands to invest this much effort in harassing others. people claiming that this can't be harassment are effectively supporting the harassment, as that tries to further blame the likely victim of this. obviously this is just speculation, as we don't know the full truth.
I don't think anyone seriously thinks the woman in the pictures is behind this.
I'm sorry, sometimes it's hard to tell whether people actually mean it. I can totally see people commenting that and being serious.
things can be multiple things and once
True.
It's a crypto scam. That's all it ever was